The Rambler's rambles

So I already stated how I was not entirely satisfied with this movie. It's one of those movies that's perfect...but just isn't. To summarize my main points of discontent, I just said that the cliche of Kristoff as the true love was pretty bad and the idea of having Hans as the bad guy was also extremely flawed. Anyways, this movie is obviously constrained because it is a Disney movie and the bureaucrats running the show just made sure these cliches were still in place. What I would do to make this movie "perfect" is just three steps: make Kristoff female, make Hans a misguided man instead of a "bad guy," and get rid of the trolls. My reasons for doing this is that first of all Kristoff was obviously the "true" true love from the moment we saw him. We weren't sure exactly how Hans would fit into all of this but we knew that the development of Kristoff made it so that he was going to be the one. Anyways, I think there would be a more empo...

Art has a unique place in our society. For all of our emphasis on concrete ideas that is exemplified in media like books and television, we often don't care for pieces of art. The idea of art seems to abstract and we try to apply our complexity to it as if the piece of art can be deciphered through our internal processing. In fact, art has changed yet again to reflect our thinking. More often that not, art is more realist to allow the audience to get a clear picture instead of a sweeping feeling or impression. Art also has multiple interpretations by artists themselves since they identify art in a different way. Because of this, art is multi-faceted and our "rectangular" way of thinking can't fit into the "oval" that is art. Before moving on, art is defined as a diverse range of human activities and their products which means that even the definition is ambiguous. It's hard to describe art in its entirety and limiting art to just visual art still mak...

Many people have seen the whole debate with Bill Nye and Ken Ham. Many also agree that Ham's Austrailian accent was pretty awesome. In fact, I think most of his followers were attracted to Ham because of that sexy voice. Regardless, the debate was pretty laughable; Bill Nye just tried to rally a bunch of evidence to prove that evolution was true as a historical science while Ham was just saying the Bible is the source of information that was the ultimate truth. Nye realized pretty quickly that Ham was just going to say that his model was true by refuting Nye's points and by saying that the model is the "only" reliable source of historical science. I especially loved it when Nye asked Ham for specific information and Ham said we would have to take it on faith when Ham attacked Nye's evidence all this time. Nye's evidence was pretty sound and Ham could only call technicalities to hopefully trip Nye up. But Ham still had some good points that he brought up. He ...

Religion has always been a controversial topic. Many people who have a specific faith tend to believe their belief to be completely true and reject others who have different beliefs. Religion is a powerful tool and I'd argue that religion is a form of propaganda. But the question I pose is if God created man or man created God? Of course, it doesn't have to be God, it could well be Allah, the three Hindu Gods, or any other deity. So who actually created our world and does that group of individuals or person actually exist? The problem we face now is how people tend to disregard religion because of the new scientific knowledge. It's no mystery why creationists are usually misguided and plagued with misconceptions. So many scientists or well educated people tend to regard these devoted people as inferior for being so ignorant to the overwhelming mass of information. The force that attempts to connect the two beliefs are the people who try to revise Scriptures or religious...

The epic third novel in this gargantuan series delivers on its title. It's bloody and brutal with many characters dying over the politics of this realm. I think this book in particular exemplifies how brutally honest and ruthless Westeros really is as events like the Red Wedding and the death of Oberyn Martell give this sense that Westeros is a turbulent and cruel place to live in. This novel also progresses extremely quickly with new events happening all the time to ensure readers will have the same feeling of wanting to learn more about one character but forced to see through the perspective of other characters (see Daenerys, Jon, Arya, Tyrion). Martin gives another great work unto us that illustrates the world even more and progressing the plot. I also noticed that politics weren't as big of a thing as in the second book which meant that this book focused more on social issues and events occurring in a specific area. Like I said before, this novel is brutal and I like ho...

I finally decided to watch the movie that everyone loved from last year. When I was watching the trailers, I thought this movie was just one of those generic space horror movies and that everyone would disdain it like they did for "Apollo 18" or the recent Alien movies. Imagine my surprise when I found that critics and audiences alike were raving over this movie and that the Academy even gave the movie a huge number of Oscars. This movie seemed to be phenomenal and I wanted to watch it since I was interested in the concept. So I finally did it. I'll say right off the bat that Sandra Bullock was amazing in her role. I loved her character as Bullock portrayed the broken feeling the protagonist had. Our entire journey revolved (no pun intended) around her as we felt every single emotion she was going through. Most of the time all we needed to hear was her panicking to draw breath or screaming at the faulty machinery to feel what she was feeling. It also helps that Bulloc...