The Sorcerer's Apprentice

Since I'm a little child, I like fantasies. Like the Grim's Fairy tales. Now, I like those stories with magical concepts like the 2010 movie, The Sorcerer's Apprentice.

Sorcerer Balthazar traps Morgana and all Morganians including Horvarth in an inescapable prison called the Grimhold. But prisoning them doesn't remove the threat of Morganians rising again and destroy the world. He needs to find the Prime Merlinian, the only one who can kill Morgana. He will travel for several years finding Dave, the Physics nerd who is the destined Prime Merlinian

Morgana,  Merlin's enemy, was trying to get the spell that will rise all the dead sorcerers. Using them,  she will destroy the world. Merlin try to stop her but unfortunately he was killed. Morgana, after stealing the spell, also try to kill Balthazar but was stopped by Veronica by putting her soul unto her. But Morgana is much more powerful triggering Balthazar to prison them in the grimhold. He traveled a very long time to almost all over the world finding the Prime Merlinian.

Dave, the prime merlinian, first doesn't want to do the job but after battling one of the Morganian, he felt like he like the job. So Balthazar trained him to kill Morgana.

This movie brings up the life of history and ancient literature. Some of you may already know that Merlin and Morgana are characters from the Arthurian legend. Morgana was known to be a sorceress but not Merlin, although in some versions he is. The movie is a combination of existing ideas combined together to form a story. That is the thing writers should avoid. For me when writing, you should write new and original. It's not bad being inspired and having the same style but having the same ideas is not that good at all. It makes the story 'second-hand'.

If we will focus on the movie, it is a very thrilling movie at the end. During the last minutes, I cannot sit properly in the theater. I felt that my nerves were acting abnormally. My nails are too short because I nibble on them when I'm thrilled, too bad. I think the story is very common. The concept of having a big responsibility then hating it then liking it is very common now. In television. movies or books. Well it is not bad but having that style but as we said, new is special

Article a Week! -- My Bad Book Habits

I am like the other who have these bad habits to books. I love books but It's hard to remove the habits that I practiced through out the time.

Judging the book by its cover is my top bad habit to books. When I go to the bookstore, I always go to the new arrivals and best selling sections. I look each cover and look if the design caught my taste. For me, when a book have a nice cover then it have a nice story; But I'm wrong. Canal dela Reina, a novel by Liwayway Arceo, have a cover design of water droplets. At first sight, there is nothing special with the cover. Required by the school, I read the  novel and find it amazing. It is full of values and family related filipino traits. Even my schoolmates are discussing how good the novel is.

I like hard bound than paperback, so this habit developed when I bought a novel in paperback type in which the pages are crumpled near the binding area. Maybe some of you are familiar of what I'm saying. The wavy look of the paper near the spine and when you turn the page, it produce sound. I hate those kind of books. That's why, as long as I have money, I buy the harbounds; But today, I realized that their is nothing wrong with paperbacks. They save money but gives you exactly what you can found on the hardbounds.

Popularity , some books, like the Twilight Saga, had gained attention due to massive advertisement. I have this habit that what's new is a must have! When I read the new arrivals section. I look for the summary of each and critics for it. The one that is more popular, I want to buy. I bought breaking Dawn as on that time, it is popular. With this bad habit, we forgot to scan the bargain section which cost less but have a very nice story. A while ago, I visit National Bookstore (because it's near to us) and look at the bargain section. I found several books that have nice covers and some are also familiar. They are forgotten. They only cost P90.00. I saw a thick book and how amazing it only costs 90.00.

I'm trying to eliminate these habits. I hope other bookworms do the same.

Happy Reading!

In My Mailbox -1-

The Hunger Game and the Lightning Thief are the books on the top of my things to buy. So a while ago, we had our project practice. Our leader said that we will buy some materials at the National Bookstore. I have some money and I'm so happy to go.

While they are selecting the materials, I go to the best selling books section and look for the two books. I first saw a harbound the hunger games, which cost 700+. I looked for the paperback one and luckily I found one. I'm also looking for catching fire but no paperback to I decided to just buy the Lightning Thief.

I'm now on nearly 600 page of Breaking Dawn and planning to make a review for it. Next, I will read the Hunger Games and expect a review of it in the next few weeks.

The Last Airbender by M.Night Shyamalan

Director: M. Night Shyamalan

Released By: Paramount Pic.

Premier: July 1, 2010

Brief Summary

The story started with Katara and Sokka discovering Aang in a block of ice with Appa. Aang as the Avatar was captured by banished prince Zuko; But immediately escaped. Katara, Aang and Sokka decided to travel to the Northern Water Tribe. In their journey, they will pass through the Earth Kingdom and help some tribe to be free from the hands of the Fire Nation. When they reached the Northern Water Tribe, here comes commander Zhao which is hungry to power and want to colonize the tribe at the same time capture the avatar. The avatar shows here power to save the tribe and they won. The story continue to the Earth Kingdom.

Review

I know that when a film was adapted from a certain source like book or animation, some scenes are edited. In animation, Iroh already know that Aang is the avatar but in the movie he needs to make a test putting the elements in front of him then if those move, he is the avatar. The scene also which is equivalent to the Imprisoned chapter of the animation, Haru was caught because the old man that he saved told the fire nation soldiers that he is an earthbender. In the movie, he was caught because Haru was throwing rocks on the soldiers and they not stated that he uses earth bending.

The acting of the characters is also a great disappointment. You will feel that how they stated their dialogs, there is no feelings. It is like just talking with a friend. In a movie acting should be the priority.

Shyamalan depended on the CGI effects which he think will encourage people to watch. The reason why many people watch it because of the advertisement but when they go out of the theater they will say the movie is a fail.

Rating: 2 good

Intro

Hi, I'm Ivan. I'm previously blogging at wordpress.com but I decided to transfer here in Blogger due to some features.

I'm located at the Philippines and Yes, I love books. The main purpose of this blog is to share my thoughts (reviews) of books that I read to other readers out there. I started blogging since August 2010 so I'm new to this community but I'm getting familiar with it.

I will transfer my post here from my wordpress account.