RED 2 takes place three years after the
events of RED 1 opening up with a sweet comic stylized intro. (Which is a
pretty cool homage to the RED comic book series which this movie and its
predecessor is loosely based on.) Frank is trying his hardest to live out his
retirement in a quiet life with his girlfriend Sarah Ross (Mary-Louise Parker),
who disagrees completely and wishes to go out on missions again similar to the
first movie. While shopping at a local Costco they run into Marvin suddenly who
comes to Frank claiming people are still after them even after all these years.
With Frank shrugging him off as being paranoid (Well, he is. That's what
happens when the government has you on LSD for more then a decade.) Marvin
drives off only to, be blown up? Well that was out of the blue, they really
were being targeted still. Is Marvin truly dead? Oh come on we should know this
guy's crazy tactics by now of course he's not and Frank believes so too, which
is why he hilariously stabs poor Marvin's hand with a pin during the funeral.
Shortly after this funeral Frank runs
into some agents, flagged Retired Extremely Dangerous once again and is brought
in to a Yankee White facility for interrogation. Apparently Frank and Marvin
were listed as participants in a clandestine operation codenamed
"Nightshade." which was conducted during the Cold War to smuggle a
dangerous nuclear weapon into the heart of Russia. Despite being completely
unaware of this Frank is soon ambushed by Damien Da, I MEAN Jack Horton (Both
played by Neal McDonough.) and his SWAT team. Jack Horton is apparently hired
by the government to extract information from Frank regarding Nightshade and
convinces the entire world that Frank and Marvin are international terrorists,
so yeah that's a thing now. Oh yeah Marvin is actually alive! Luckily so Frank
is going to need all the help he can get to crack down on what's possibly his
greatest adventure and mission yet especially when he's being targeted by Jack
Horton, a top contract killer/hitman from Frank's past named Han (Byung-Hun Lee) and
surprisingly Victoria (Helen Mirren) contracted by Mi6 to kill him, Marvin and
Sarah. Victoria is a long time friend of Frank and ally during the events of
the first movie.
Uhh... Nice pants, Frank.
With these events set they take off from
America and head to Paris to track down a man who goes by the name of "The
Frog" in order to obtain more information regarding Nightshade. RED 2 is
just as awesome as it's predecessor and perhaps has a more action packed
storyline then it's predecessor. While handling the whole nuclear threat
another threat comes into play, Frank and Sarah's relationship which gets a
little rocky due to Frank not being so keen on Sarah being involved with
everything, which isn't helped when Marvin is constantly teaching Sarah tactics
and even giving her a gun. Another bump in the road is Katja, a Russian secret
agent and apparently Frank's ex-girlfriend (Frank sure has one crazy history,
doesn't he?). Marvin sure has his hands full. This movie also features Anthony
Hopkins as Dr. Edward Bailey a supposedly killed (Not so much) physicist
responsible for creating the Nightshade bomb.
While it's hard to pick a favorite
between the first and second movie this movie is an awesome thrill ride while
still having some nice low down moments and some hilarious comedy that ends in a
pretty suspenseful close call for our protagonists. I especially love this
movie over the first for having a more comic book movie feel which is very
prominent in the movie's sweet transitions which sees our heroes shortly
transform into a 2D comic art style. Oh yeah and Mary absolutely kills it as
Sarah this movie and maybe one of the coolest characters of this flick,
especially in the end credits scene which I found pretty hilarious. With the
addition of the character Han comes some pretty sweet hand to hand combat
action and some sweet car action. Who knew you could shoot guns and drive a car
at the same time? (Please do not actually do this.)
If you're looking for a awesome Bruce
Willis movie to watch or have seen the first but not the second check out this
movie on iTunes! It's currently $12.99 USD for HD and $9.99 for SD. Like I said
previously while a third iteration could be pretty awesome and I doubt it would
be stretching the franchise out too far (Die Hard was still great up until the
5th movie) there has been absolutely no news. It was greenlit and the writers
already set in stone as well as a December 2016 release date but no news has
been said since. However I do find it odd how the RED Facebook page has
suddenly become active again so maybe we'll be hearing news about RED 3 soon?
Coming off from RED 2 I've finally been playing some Video Games again lately after not really touching them much for the past month due to other things happening (Like watching movies and knitting, okay I do a lot more then that.) and practicing my watercolor. I've been eager to start playing this game again after all these years so I've finally begun a new journey in familiar lands. I haven't been able to play this game in years due to it's internal battery being drained but finally I'm playing Pokemon Gold again after all these years.
This is my very first main series Pokemon game, I'm not kidding. I didn't start off with Pokemon Red and Blue like most my first Pokemon games were Gold and Silver which takes place in the region of Kanto's next door neighbor, Johto. Over 100 new Pokemon were added into this game as well as two new Pokemon types, Steel and Dark. Before obtaining these games I grew up watching the Indigo League season of Pokemon so you bet your bottom dollar younger me was excited to get a hold of his first Pokemon games and start his own journey. Of course the gyms in this game were completely different from the show (The show did however take Ash into the Johto League a bit later.) but as you all know after beating the Elite Four you're able to cross the border and take on Kanto in all it's glory. Two regions in one game! It was an incredible achievement for the Gamefreak crew (Thanks Satoru Iwata this wouldn't of been possible without your awesome programming techniques.) but I have to admit I had absolutely no idea Kanto was in this game until quite a few years later. Yeah I've always been a Pokemon fan but I never said I was good at the game. It took me years to finally beat the Elite Four but it was worth it and traveling through Kanto was a prize worth the struggle.
Anyway I'm not very far in my new
playthrough, I've begun my journey at home in the laid back New Bark Town and
after accepting a request to meet Mr. Pokemon from the local Professor Elm I
have picked Cyndaquil as my starter. Cyndaquil is hands down my favorite Gold
and Silver starter and was my first ever Pokemon in my original Gold
playthrough.
To my surprise I've actually gotten a female Cyndaquil, which is quite rare. I was going to get a male Cyndaquil and name it Cynda after my original Cyndaquil but as this is a female I've named this cutie Ember. (Okay I'm not the greatest at nicknames forgive me.)
To my surprise I've actually gotten a female Cyndaquil, which is quite rare. I was going to get a male Cyndaquil and name it Cynda after my original Cyndaquil but as this is a female I've named this cutie Ember. (Okay I'm not the greatest at nicknames forgive me.)
It's actually really difficult to take
screenshots of this game, I don't have any fancy screenshot device so I'm
having to rely on my Gameboy Advance SP which comes up a bit blue on photos but
its the best I can do. Anyway I need to organize my time more so I can play
some more video games again, I mean it's supposed to be one of my big three
topics here on ZAK Entertainment. If you guys are eager to dive into your
Pokemon Gold, Silver and Crystal versions but can't due to your battery being
drained I wrote up a blog a month ago which explains how! It's not expensive by
any means and with some knowledge and perhaps some assistance is actually not
rocket science. You can check out that blog by following this link: http://zakentertainment.blogspot.com/2017/04/how-to-get-pokemon-gold-silver-saving.html.
Before I leave I actually have a
significant amount of knitting down on my afterthought heel sock project, which
I featured in my recent ZAK Knits Episode!
As you can see I'm already moving along
on the body and I'm just about at the point of adding in the scrap yarn for the
later heel. I really should of gotten that video filmed sooner because this
sock might even be done by now. Give me some stockinette to knit and I turn
into the fastest knitter alive. Anyway I'm really in a knitting mood again so
let's see if I can get this sock done soon! Until then however...
That's a wrap folks!
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