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We Are The Strange Movie Review

April 29th, 2008 by William Core 4

‘We Are the Strange’ is a rollercoaster ride of excitement. It is about a young doll boy named Emmm who always plays with his Game Box. He really wants to get some ice cream. He meets Blue, a girl who is scared and broken. They venture off to Electric Town to find the perfect ice cream shop. There, they run into two legendary heroes, Rain, who is a master fighter, and Ori, who is made of paper and can transform. They warn Emmm and Blue that it is not safe for them to be there, because HIM is about to take over. However, Emmm and Blue keep going. They find the ice cream shop, but it is empty. They go to an arcade, and they both start playing a game. As Emmm plays a dancing game, he disappears into the floor, and Blue is left to fend for herself as the city gets invaded by monsters. Rain and Ori engage in an epic battle against the monsters, who are being controlled by HIM. After the monsters are destroyed, HIM gets in his giant robot, and tries to destroy the city. Then, Emmm comes back from nowhere. Flashback to when he was a little kid: His father, a professional giant robot rider, is about to be caught and killed for his illegal business. Emmm’s robot caretaker tries to keep everything under control, and tries to keep Emmm from worrying. His father, about to run away, gives Emmm his game box, and tells him to play it every day so one day, he can become a giant robot driver, just like his father. (End of flashback). Emmm gets inside his giant robot (which appears out of nowhere), and waits. HIM is busy destroying the city, and Emmm waits. He tries to figure out what to do, as HIM spots him. Emmm has an epiphany and realizes what to do. The two giant robots fight, and Emmm wins, with Blue dealing the final blow.
I really enjoyed the movie. M Dot Strange’s new style, str8nime (a combination of strange, 8-bit, and anime), was fresh and new. I got something different out of this movie than I have out of any other. My only complaint has to be part of the beginning of the movie. It was created when M Dot was just starting to make his first film, and it shows. The dialogue in the beginning scene was cheesy, but the rest of the movie was safe. But all in all, it was one of the best movies I have ever seen.

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Book Review #4

November 2nd, 2007 by William Core 4

Book Review  #4 by William M 

The Old Man and the Sea

Ernest Hemingway 

The Old Man and the Sea is a very simple book. It takes place in
Cuba, in a small community. The setting is sometime in the eighteenth or nineteenth century. It is about an old man who loves fishing. His apprentice, a young boy known as Manolin, was forced to leave the old man by his parents, because of the old man’s bad luck. They insisted that he move to a luckier boat. After 70 days of bad luck, the old man feels that his luck is about to change. He sets out into the gulf and starts to fish. When he hooks a fish, it starts pulling out the skiff, instead of the other way around. The old man has a great battle with the fish that lasts two days and nights. He expects that it is a giant marlin, and his prediction is correct when the giant fish leaps out of the water. The old man has to do things such as bear the tension of the line in order to go to sleep without losing the fish, and ignore painful cramps that endanger his mission. Can you imagine going through pain for two days and nights just to catch a fish? The old man must have been really dedicated. 

I enjoyed this book. It was easy to read, and it was simple, but it represented many things; this book was both literal and figurative in many ways. I would recommend this book to anybody who wants to read a short story; this book is highly praised for a reason. 

One of the main themes of this book is to never give up. The old man struggled for two days straight, but still managed to catch it. I’m not going to give away the ending, but even though some may say that he lost in the end, his goal was to just catch the fish, and that’s exactly what he did.

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