X-Men: Dark Phoenix

Der Readers, I finally had some time to go to the cinema again and watched X-Men: Dark Phoenix before it gets taken out of projection.
If you want to hear my honest opinion, I wouldn't say it is totally worth it and a must-watch movie. It has his interesting sides but it can't compete with a few more movies that came out around the same time. That doesn't make it a B-movie, but sure is if you can choose among a wide range of options, you will pick another movie instead of this.
Additional information about myself is that I am not too fond of the X-Men world. For this reason might be that some details have not been recognized by me while watching the movie as I don't know the whole background story.
The plot is simple:
X-Men troup goes out in space to save a human spaceship which lost control orbiting around some energy field. Hearing what the X-Men say, this is the first time they go out in space, and nonetheless they go to save some humans before even having done tests if they and their technology are able to survive out there.
Trying to save everyone, Jean gets exposed to the energy, absorbing it in herself to avoid the explosion.
Mission complete. Everyone safe.
But, is it really safe for Jean to have all that new unknown energy in herself? Can she control it?
Answered soon enough: no. She can't really control this much power, gets scared and runs away. Meanwhile, an unidentified number of aliens reaches Earth and plans to get rid of all humans and inherit the planet. They felt the presence of the most powerful creature of Earth and plan to convince her to help them get rid of the humans, or maybe just absorb the power from her.
Jean is scared as she by accident hurts her friends, even killing one of the X-Men by accident. And this leads to a break between the X-Men themselves. Some want to take her down and get revenge, labeling her as dangerous and uncontrolled. The other half wants to take her back, bringing her back to the family accepting the powers or eventually find a way to get rid of them for good.
The two groups clash but eventually come back together when they discover the aliens' plan. They somehow avoid that the alien leader absorbs all Jean's power, fighting them untill Jean herself finds the best way to win and leave heart and its inhabitants in peace. An heroic move, but it brings sadness to the whole group of X-Men, especially Xavier and moreover Scott.

If it weren't the X-Men, but any random group of unknown superheroes created just for the movie, the movie would still be enjoyable. Maybe more enjoyable as you don't expect anything too great from that than entertainment.
I was probably expecting too much. It is a Marvel branded movie, automatically lots of other productions involved.
The plot is simple enough that anyone can enjoy the movie without any previous knowledge. Which is a good thing.
I found it lacking of introspection and development for the characters. The only character that has some kind of development is Xavier, who realizes how selfish he has actually been while convincing himself he is doing what he is doing for the others. The idea of what is right or wrong is very subjective. And lies told with good intentions might have to be revealed eventually before it is too late or they get uncovered by accident.
He probably was right at the beginning of his journey, but his school and programs got so big that he has to revise his doings and his way of thinking. What he drastically does in the end of the movie.
I watched the movie in "standard", which is how German theaters label the non 3D movies. I just don't enjoy the 3D part, it makes the images in front of my eyes loud and distracting. I want to concentrate on the photography and acting skills.
Since I lack the comparison with the 3D version, I am just hoping the cheap sfx of the 2D version are because they invested more money to make the 3D version look decent. Especially the thunders coming out from Storm's hands looked very cheap made in my opinion. Many computer effects, post effects and little details looked less impressive than what I am used to. All those big names on the screen before it starts, and low investing into production. Interesting.
I have been questioning myself about the death of some charachters, and also got curious if the movie storyline alignes with the comicbooks or has its own storyline growing parallel.

To know more about what I found out with my researches and my opinions on the other aspects if the movie, consider joining my Patreon for further articles and a longer review of the movies I watched. Thank you!

A nerdy selfcelebration

Not sure if I was what you would call “nerdy” during school time. Sure thing is, I had interests that were popular among a number of students but not among everyone. And I kept myself a bit out of the big lights, enjoying my freetime to do stuff I liked more.
I had average marks in all subjects, and a few top marks in subjects like Arts, English, Informatics and History. I even got top marks in Italian and Literature every now and then.
I really enjoyed learning how to analyse and compare with each other different works. Art pieces as well as literature pieces. And I started pretty young making my own websites and stuff like that.
My nerdy side was reading comics and playing boardgames, cardgames, videogames... Nothing too original, most teenagers do that don’t they?
Being so enthusiastic about that, I attended a comic art drawing school, applied for a study program in Japan and after high school enrolled in the Academy of Fine Arts.
Here is where I got to learn a lot of different things, or don’t learn things you were supposed to (Thank you, professors, for not showing up for classes. Really, this changed the life of all your students. Really helped us a lot in our future careers. T_T). And when and where I started to have discussions about comics systematically.
To the point, I presented a comic’s analysis as my final work paper for my Bachelor.
I already was famous for picking comics as a theme for every exam I had to make papers or presentations, so nothing unexpected.
I applied what I learnt in high school during art class and literature class. You know. You can “read a picture” or “comment an artwork” and you can analyse a text or poetry. So I did all these things to comic books and related them to the historical time they have been published and even interviewed the authors if it was possible (for contemporary titles, of course).
It has been a real productive time, I got invitations for lots of local comics related events and asked to be a speaker or a moderator in conferences or discussions about comics. I wrote articles and updated a few blogs. And I was barely 20.
A few times I got people stop me on the streets to greet me because they saw me at a conference speaking or they followed my blogs. That was so cute!

I feel a bit nostalgic. And I feel I need to state this as a curriculum so that people know why am I so friendly and give opinions about things. It is not just because I can’t keep my mouth shut but.....it is because my opinions and point-outs can be really helpful for artists or for readers.

This is why I leave comments on webcomic platforms or make a few posts on this blog or facebook or instagram or twitter. I need to share that bit of knowledge I have and am able to combine and apply in different fields and new titles, I so want to share it and just can´t keep mouth shut.
So dear readers, happy readings! And please always try to see what is behind the “check out this story” or “look how beautyful the art is”. There are so many things playing together in a comic or in any other piece. You maybe just need to adjust your point of view or maybe need a few hints. And here I come with all my suggestions and relationships between titles that apparently have nothing in common!
I will be making a guide for my readers. Join me in this amazing trip!

Keep sell your soul and time to those soul eaters

It´s been a while. Have you been following me on instagram? Nice stuff hu?
So today I am announcing that I sould my soul to another social media and created my account on snapchat. Of course you can find me there as siemgirl and add me to follow what I will be sharing on there. Don´t be shy, I know everyone had a snapchat account before me. I was trying to avoid it because my phone is not holding all apps (lack of memory device and I keep being lazy on looking for a memory card).
How to add me on your snapchat? Just click this link:
https://www.snapchat.com/add/siemgirl
And I guess you should be able to find and add me.
Thanks!

Are you having a nice time?

Hey, hello and welcome on Siemgirl´s blog. Again.
I have been wondering since a few days how come that I still have to read lots of chapters of webtoons that have been released during September!?
HOW COME!!??!!
It seems like I don´t have much time for reading. And I still haven´t had time to write reviews about the comics and webtoons I read recently. Shame on me!
August was such a nice month, dispite of how busy I was at work, I was able to read so many webtoon series and even a few paper comics.

If you check my instagram account you will notice that I really had lot to do at work, tried to take part into drawing meetings such as the Munich´s Drink and Draw and I also had a bit of social life meeting friends.

Having a nice time, somehow. Still busy but able to focus on different things than just work. Work is a lot of fun. Too.
What I have been missing is blabbering about things I read o saw and expressing my opinion about random stuff. So I will try to do my best to write at least some short articles soon. Or that`s the plan right now. Trying to stick to it.

It will be my birthday soon. I already know I won`t even have proper time to celebrate but.....I hope I will at least have a few drinks with friends and maybe eat a cake. Finger crossed! If you want to give me a birthday present check my instagram account. I will be posting suggestions about that starting today!

Fifty shades of laugh about the worst movie.

I really wanted to share this video with everyone. The movie 50 shades of Grey is not worth being watched at all. But this 18 minutes short video is totally worth watching and laughing along.

The movie is so absurd and I can´t get why people are still crazy about it. I keep hearing colleagues at work talking about it and a bunch of aquaitances can´t wait to watch the follow movies. I don´t think I will watch the other two movies, and I already feel ashamed I agreed with a friend to watch the first part that day I did. I expected it to be bad. But I didn´t expect it to be it to that extent.

Worst movie I ever watched? Guess so.



Now please enjoy this video:

Everything Wrong With Fifty Shades Of Grey In 18 Minutes Or Less






If you still feel like wanting to watch it, here is a link to grab it on amazon.