Last week//Transformers 2 & Ice Age 3 reviews

This week I spent it in my sister's new apartment (err...maybe that's an overstatement...) over @ Mayaguez and during my stay I watched Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen and Ice Age 3: Dawn of the Dinosaurs...

HOW AWESOME IS THIS FUCKING MOVIE?! I'll tell you with the following reasons:
1. Optimus Prime at his best along with NEST
2. Will and Epps banter (LOL)
3. Sam's mom getting high off pot brownies
4. Better dialog with the Autobots and Decepticons (I saw the original Megatron)
5. FIGHT SEQUENCES FTFW

The only complaint I have is that they tried to stuff way too much in a very constraint amount of time (No, I didn't mind the 2 1/2 hours). Overall, 5/5 stars!


The baby storyline wore thin on me so i just focused on the rest of the movie. The Scrat sequences were just as funny as ever, the rivalry between the T-Rex momma and Sid was pretty funny and Buck was a welcome addition. I'd give it 3 1/2 stars out of five.

In other news, my friend's baby was born the same day I came to Mayawest so I has a happy!!!

During my stay, my sister and her boyfriend revived my hatred of Twilight. I actually tried reading the book then stopped 'cause I needed the neurons for actual thought. I did enjoy the fact that the vampire-human baby ate thru Bella's innards then...you know what, look up the SparkNotes.

Well gotta go finish some incomplete business on my computer =D

att the penguin

This movie is BEAUTIFUL, period. Anyone who hasn't seen it is missing out on a very touching and hilarious masterpiece. I beg to differ from my sister, Up isn't better than Wall-E, they're from the same genius cloth. Both have their shining moment and they shouldn't be compared against each other. The story was enthralling, the attention to detail was incredible and overall, this one goes with the quirky robot in my 5-star list along with and March of the Penguins and The Dark Knight.

In college news, I got an 87 on Friday's test! Pulled that one out of my ass XD, now it's on for the group investigation essay and then the final test and this class is done! Whoo!

Better skedaddle before said project swamps me!

att. the penguin who knows that no amount of balloon could ever pry her house off its foundations (it's in cement LOL)

New Main Site!!!//Archie Rant//Jurassic Park

The Penguin's Literature and Art Site!

Sounds a little pretentious but hopefully I'll be able to put up this along with my devART page and others!

Besides this, I'm just a bit miffed by the newest Archie comic development...I
just want to know why Archie picked Veronica over Betty. I stopped reading the comics for a couple of years because they didn't catch my attention but this new event is just way out of whack. Why pick the nice, stable girl over the spoiled heiress? Unless something substantial developed in the last three years, Archie is reflecting the current trend of marrying into money (knowing fully well that Veronica's dad isn't his number one fan).

Anywho, this week's movie review is the one movie that scarred me for life with a crippling fear of an animal that's been dead for over 65 million years...

I watched this movie when I was four years old and I wet my pants. I still have nightmares of Tyrranosaurus rex coming into my room and eating me (and I'm hitting 20 this November). Regardless of Ornithoscelidaphobia (fear of dinosaurs), this movie is pretty good. My only irk is the "Lexi" character...no offense to Michael Critchton or Steven Spielburg, but that is one one-dimensional character. The best sequences in my opinion are the ones with the T. rex and the Velociraptor (now Utahraptor). Overall, three stars out of five but not because of my phobia XD

Well, that's it for tonight!

att. the penguin

Weekend Movie Review!

This week I saw two movies in their entirety: Session 9 and Angels & Demons...



I saw this one on YouTube (someone out there actually has this movie up in there) and you have to give it props, it is a damn good horror movie. It starts a bit on the slow side but once the film gets to Wednesday, shit goes down. The atmosphere is downright creepy to say the least but the real hook comes in when the correlation between what is happening to the guys and Mary's Session tapes begins to take place. Everyone was cast right but I especially enjoyed the last thirty minutes of the film when SPOILER ALERT: Gordon and Phil (Peter Mullen and David Caruso respectively) become completely unhinged. If you like Silent Hill, you will enjoy this movie so much more because it feels like a competent adaptation of the game in another medium. Even the music sounds like a homage to the game. Downfall of the movie is also exactly that; I half expected Pyramid Head to make a scene. I did this but I was able to switch out the movie music and sort of replace it with the Silent Hill 2 soundtrack and it was all around the same experience.

Overall, I'd give this movie a solid 4 out of five but good luck finding this little jewel in other than the Internet. Here's the playlist I watched it from and don't go telling him/her to put it down, that person's doing you a favor.


Another movie who gets a 4/5 but for entirely different reasons. In my opinion, Angels & Demons felt like a better book-to-movie adaptation than Da Vinci Code, evbecause it actually put an equal balance between running and talking. The Robert Langdon in this movie was just as snarky and acrid as he was in the book, as he should be. I was pleasantly surprised with how the Camarlengo character was played out (nice switch) but most of Vittoria's backstory was dropped, which made me a bit sad. Overall, a good action/mystery flick worth spending the cash on.

I went to see this one on Premiere Day with two of my high school friends and it was just awesome! Jenny and I had the same reaction to the scene where Vittoria ripped out the page from the Diagramma (400-year-old paper) which was horror and it was just fun from there on. Lesson learned; when in Premiere Day, ALWAYS GO TO THE 4pm AND 5pm SCREENINGS. They're never that full and the lines aren't that long to go inside.

Well, that's my rant for the day/week; gonna go back to studying for my final Intermediate Accounting test and then hope and pray I get at least a B or a C.

Movie Update!

About image...KICKASS (credit goes to adz4000, I take no credit)

Anyways, today was the national Workers' March (La Gran Marcha for those in Puerto Rico) and I STILL HAD CLASS...what the fuck? I had to wake up at 5:35 am just to haul my ass to what was summed to be an 1 1/2 hours of class. Worse off, most of the students and professors didn't even come, making my campus look like a ghost town. And top it off, I had the last CIBI test that just ruined my day until my boyfriend came over.

In other news, by some random train of thought, I thought about kids and then I remembered what three of my college friends said (all in different time frames and situations): "Whatever comes out of you will be a hellspawn". And when the time comes, I plan on it. I even had dreams (now delving into psychotic territory) on separate occasions and I predict my kid will be called into the principal's office a lot from speaking out and cursing like his/her mommy.

Can't wait until everything's done for and I can start vacation for a short break while Summer classes start.


Who dropped panties when she saw this trailer? I did! (Come on, with Hugh Jackman, Liev Schriber, Ryan Reynolds, new-guy-for-Gambit, who wouldn't?)

Who's going to go see it (hopefully) tomorrow? I will! Me and my boyfriend have been saving up money to go see movies this entire summer. The only two movies we're not going to see together is Star Trek (I'm a Star Wars girl though my interest is peaked with the new Capt. Kirk...) and Angels and Demons (because Robert Langdon is my homie and I will always prefer that book over Da Vinci Code any day).


Don't even joke about this one...I will see it. Hate to be a potty-mouth (but if you're reading this, you're kinda asking for it anyways) but doesn't this thing look like a va-yay-yay? WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU MICHAEL BAY? When you said that you'd make the Transformers 'more organic', I don't need to be reminded of a baby-hole. I think we've had this discussion before with Megatron's design (don't get me wrong, a giant robot with a small-country's worth of ammunition and a face that suggests the place man has always feared to thread is SCARY). Now, I got you thinking, huh? LOL.

I apologize for any mental trauma the last parragraph may have caused

att. the penguin

About bodies and reverse aging...//Cover post

Back to posting here. Went to The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Bodies: the Exhibition. The movie was epic and beautiful in itself, with the entire cast really outdoing themselves. It also featured a Louisiana that reminded me of Magical Realism that I really enjoy from Gabriel García Marquez.

Bodies: The Exhibit is totally worth the long-ass lines. At first, I was hesitant to go not because the bodies were actual corpses but because it seemed a little humiliating for them. The best were the nervous and reproductive system. I recommend this to anyone, you'll learn a lot and you get to handle a human brain!

Art post here; this is my latest cover for my sister's Sly Cooper comic Sly Cooper in The Last Heir. This week's cover features Constable Neyla


Funny story, I almost had this all colored up and then Photoshop froze on me...Had to redo the lineart...


Colored version! Done by my sister over her so give her a looksie!

att. the penguin