Star Wars VII? more like Star Wars IV remake

So, first of all, what's a remake? 

I won't define it from a dictionary but actually regarding the use of the word in the movie industry in the last few years. We can think of movies like Planet of the Apes, Psicosis, Clash of the Titans, etc. What they have in common is that none of the movies is just a re-make in the sense of just doing the exact same thing with better graphics (for example), but actually they usually change a bunch of stuff, keeping only the source material and the general feeling on that movie, being the story line, most events on it, etc.

So why would a completely new episode be a re-make of an old one? Well quite simple, everything happens pretty much in the same way it happened in episode IV. With the exception that this one has a slightly different context, this being the future, some characters are new, the girl is an orphan instead of living with her uncle and aunt, etc.

But let's get a bit deeper into this:

So in ep. 4 it all begins because of the message that was on R2-D2's memory which was supposed to be delivered to Obi Wan. And the hero is the one who run into the robot by change.

On ep. 7, it's exactly the same, with the robot being heard and rescued by the hero of the movie, just that this time the robot (BB8) has a map of Luke's whereabouts instead of a message to someone in particular.

So after a few events both in ep. 4 and 7, the hero(s) run into Han Solo and his ship, and the action starts, getting them to eventually work with the forces against the dark side.

And what was previously the dead star is now a much bigger one, a planet which uses the energy of a sun to destroy other planets. I have the suspicion that they've decided to use a sun in order to make it more credible considering the energy needed for some machine to destroy a planet. Nonetheless the idea is exactly the same, and how it is destroyed is extremely similar as well. Even considering the tiny battle ships flying trough little corridors surrounded by enemies and trying to penetrate the weapon.

Not to talk about the villain or his master, which resemblance is quite obvious. 

So in the end basically what ep. 7 is, is just a remake in a different time and a little different context. Which uses a lot of the nostalgia that an old Star Wars fan might feel. 

Indeed this movie will be loved and hardcore fans will never see this movie in this way, but that's all for the love for the franchise and the nostalgia, but for some other more objective fans this movie fells very short on what one could spect of a continuation on such a great saga.

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Why Hollywood sucks?

Well, actually Hollywood movies, but it is pretty much the same. 

So, lately you might have realised that hollywood movies are getting worse and worse, but worse how? Technically? no, no way, quite the opposite, the technology is best ever nowadays, even though we might discuss if CGI is usually badly used and else, but leaving that aside, the problem lies on the content itself.

I would say that one of the last few movies that were worth in hollywood were The Lord of the Rings, actually because of Tolkien's amazing story. And you would think about the Hobbit, but well, let's face the facts: Guillermo del Toro scripted for two movies, and they ended up doing three, with a book that is smaller than any of the three of TLOTR, so yeah pretty simple maths. Specially on the first movie it is quite noticeable how they did not know what to put in the movie.

After that, yes, there were some good movies, movies like Wes Anderson's which now are being more valued than before (for some reason, even though some of his older movies are way better), or Iñarritu's movies that were always great. But he didn't come from hollywood, and his first movies did mark his style.

Bill Murray on Wes Anderson's The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou

So let's use a something from someone we already named, Guillermo del Toro, he stated a few years ago that he only did movies like Pacific Rim or Hellboy because of that is what the hollywood industry demands of him, but what he really likes doing is movies like El Laberinto del Fauno, Cronos, or El Espinazo del Diablo, which are master pieces. That is why he took a little break, for working on his last movie Crimson Peak. 

Federico Luppi on Guillermo del Toro's Cronos

This leaves us with a little idea of what's going on. We see nowadays a bunch of nonsense stuff going to the big screens. Take for example Jurassic World, which is basically a movie which is just a copy of the first one, but on a different time. But the mould is basically the same. And the story is just rubbish, nothing really new, nothing interesting. Just a bunch of stunning images, some action and a love story. 

Other movies like Transformers and most of the Marvel movies are showing to be garbage, not even caring about using the stereotypical phrases that are even kitsch. Or a story which you know perfectly how is going to end just with having seeing the trailer. That same goes for the romantic or comedy movies, or pretty much every gender. Even though this movies do gather a lot of money, they are getting worse and worse.

Though there's something good which seems to be starting to happen through the whole world. There are more and more quality movies in a lot of different places, which, hopefully, will take hollywood down and the art will reign again over the industry and the economic interests of a few. 

If you want to look to a quality movie (besides of those named by del Toro, Iñarritu or Anderson) I recommend this one - ノルウェイの森 Noruwei no mori (Norwegian woods / Tokyo blues) directed by Tran Anh Hung, based on the homonymous book by 村上 春樹 (Haruki Murakami). As well as all the movies by Tran Anh Hung.

Rinko Kikuchi and Ken'ichi Matsuyama in Tran Anh Hung's ノルウェイの森

Thank you for reading!

Tom Green's Webovision

As someone who grew up in the 90's I used to love The Tom Green Show on MTV, all his crazy stuff and pranks he did all the time to all kind of people on different places and situations, the regular ones to his fathers and the not very common musical sketch he came with. It was great a very refreshing and different thing from the everyday set kind of television programme you would end up watching on TV.

After that he did some movies which weren't very popular and some were truly hated by most people, mainly his "Freddy got fingered" which was directed by him. But for his followers (myself included) that one is a master piece. I truly believe is one of the most funny and original movies of all times. Of course that you need to understand Tom Green and his humour in order to be able to enjoy the movie. It's pretty much as trying to read Nietzche if you do not know what he is into.

So basically after that he's been on and off from TV trying to continue with the Tom Green Show, on different networks, but could never get to a steady show. 

Nonetheless some weeks ago I remembered about him, for some reason, and on a new search in order to know if there was something new from him, I ended up discovering that he is working on his Youtube channel with a show that he had had for some time now, which is called "Webovision", and he's big time on it. Almost filming everyday and then uploading it to youtube and some other networks which I will post below. 

So go on and enjoy Tom's interviews and his craziness. And more importantly support him if you can. We still might get some very original stuff coming from this great humorist. 

https://www.connectpal.com/tomgreen
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUcAMH2MeZHQsVKJb8iVNUA

Something worth sharing - About vegetables regeneration

Although I would usually chose to create my own content, I think that there are some things that are worth being shared without changing them.

http://www.upsocl.com/verde/10-vegetales-que-solo-deberas-comprar-una-vez-si-aprendes-estos-trucos-para-regenerarlos

Sorry for you english readers, but the images themselves might be quite enough to understand what the post is about. That post is about vegetables that can be regenerated upon getting them from any store to be eaten. 

So if you have anywhere to put them, either you have a backyard or not, this is something that is worth knowing and trying to apply to our everyday lives. Whether you want to eat some organic vegetables or you just want to save some money, it's great to be able to do such stuff in our own houses.

First entry and wellcome

The reason of being of this new blog lies in the idea of life being much more complex of one single subject. One usually has to deal with a bunch of different stuff each day, each hour, and it is always difficult to focus on something punctual. We usually just focus our attention in something for a limited amount of time and then we move on to something else.

I'm not saying that this is something good or bad, but this is just the response to the present times we are living. Some years ago (around one hundred) people would go to concerts with classical orchestras, and these would last for around 5 or 6 hours, and after that these listeners would leave there with the melodies on their heads and would whistle them in the streets. But nowadays we leave a classical concert (or any kind of concert) we are listening for the first time, and we usually can't even remember one single melody.

Beethoven's manuscript

Though it is kind of sad, at the same time our minds are much more active on many other ways, maybe memory isn't something we are training much, since we have a lot of ways of helping it, such as smartphones, apps and google of course. With all that, it isn't really that much of a necessity to have that much of a good memory. Albeit it was something of need in the previous centuries, even more for that people that couldn't read (nor write). 

So in the end, this blog is pretty much about posting anything that comes to my mind in a particular moment. And of course share some sort of thought about it, which is the idea of the title it self. Being a blending between Everything and think, so the idea is to think about everything.

Thank you and I hope you have fun and get to think about some stuff while reading.