What a mess.
My father asked "what was the film about?".
"I... I don't know...  I think I know as much as from the trailers."
Well, maybe with exception of huge bulky people, but, in generall, all above sums it all.

First thing I want to say is the plot. The plot, in my opinion, is a mess. Well, maybe the more actual word would be random. For no good reason stuff happens. Random thing here, random thing there etc. The basics are very simple and tolerable (and predictable), but when the movie shows "subplots" it just... kinda not logical. I mean the human beings acts not logical (cliche separation for weak reason, being lost, not going to the doctor when a worm comes out eye, no one seems to give a damn about fetus surgery (nice scene btw!) etc), the Engineer acts not logical too (He followed the woman when he could just go to another ship and fly to the Earth without being stopped. Killing her was THAT important?) and the events are not logical (what are those creatures? Where did they come from? DNA similar to our?! (though I heard a rumor they intended to do a sequel to this. I hope so because the movie created a huge mess around Aliens)).
All I know is that the Bulky People created us (I don't know why), did a base on a planet with a (probably, because I can't belive with the movie statement) biological mass destruction weapon (I'm not sure if they did it before or after the creation) and then they decided to destroy us (again I don't know why) but something gone wrong and they was killed/stayed (apparently their all ships were infected simultaneously) on the planet until our heros came. Also for no apparent reason ancient civilisations, not connected to each other, left remains that shows the constellation that the civilisations couldn't know about. How did they know about the constellation? And while knowing about it did they know that the Bulky People will come from the system and destroy us? Did the know that from Bulky People? Why would they tell them that? Were Bulky People checking the Earth life forms for those several milion years so they could conntact with the human race to tell the human race they want destroy it? Why so?) The ending makes the movie a little bit better though. (I don't mean the Alien thing (does it change anything? Better developed Alien was seen earlier on a wall relief thing. It can't be an ancestor then, espiecialy if it's alone, with no food and no way to reproduce. It's probably an early version in a chain to create the final creature: Alien. I just guess all infections ends like that.)). I have in mind the woman, alone, with the robot, going to Bulky Human planet to get answers why they wanted to kill human race after creating us. This better mean the mentioned sequel. If the point was to make me watch the next movie, than good job, I will watch, because I'm angry.

Though, it may be that I had different expectation and I'm now just dissapointed. Expectation of better plot with many explanations... Eh.

As plot was like that you would expect the movie was boring, right? Well, I have suprise. It wasn't. No seriously, I wasn't bored, I wasn't looking at watch seeking for the end, I was in the movie. Why? Because of the thing that the movie is much better than the plot: visuals. The movie is spectacular. For most time. Worth to watch in 3D actually (and I treat 3D as a cheap gimmick). And the music is awesome, I liked it very much. The last scenes are fantastic. Maybe because I like HUGE things/machines and their mass/weight. And I like when huge things are collapsing. I just think there were enough nice scenes and views to watch to keep my hungry for visuals brain entertained.

So. The movie is definitely watchable. And I actually think it is worth to watch, aside from what I said above. But worth to watch at its finest: in a good cinema and in 3D. If you don't focus on the plot that much and if you aren't nitpicking then you can have a nice evening with a nice visuals.

<sub>Hello! It's time for another drawing game journal. This time I want Xatu.
Yes, Xatu. This pokemon is beautiful, mystic and distinct. Please me with drawing of the pokemon.

What should you do?

Draw Xatu below this journal by using Muro (you can draw when you comment).

Why should you even bother?

The drawing that I will like the most shall win. Prize for winning is: coloured sketch with pokemon/fakemon of your choise and 10

Deadline: 22:00 (10PM) CET, Monday.
Have fun.
Again, I trust you guys: no trolls, drama, etc, this is for fun</sub>

First, thank you all for taking your time and participating. I got some very pretty pictures and it was a hard choise. I picked one winer and I decided to feature those few people whose drawings were the most memorable.
The winner is...
...

Her drawing had to be hard to make. Colours are quite nicely put here and the picture is generally well executed. I like the idea of the backlight (edge light).

The winner will receive 10 and sketch. If you can please contact me via note :3

18th March edit: Here's the picture:


Features:
because I liked the different take of the pokemon and general "powerful"(?) feeling it gives to me.
because I got suprised by such picture and lovely line work.
for very cartoonish look and work on colouring.
even if the picture is very simple it seems like it caught the 'essence' of the pokemon. And it is nice line work.
And I just have to feature for one damn funny picture of Xatu xD

<sub><update> I shall pick two images in next few hours/days :3 </update>

As a reply with dA Muro draw a Snivy under this journal. Impress me with your creative ideas, impress me what you will create under restriction of the Muro etc.
It doesn't need to be masterpiece, I'm looking for creativity but I would like to see experience as well.

Then I shall choose one IMO the nicest, the best, drawing and draw a pokemon of choice sketch or drawing (that depends because many of my sketches turns into drawings) and submitt it here. The drawing will be yours, you can do with the artwork whatever you want etc, but I would be glad if you give me a credit
I will also choose second picture, and the owner of the picture will receive 10 from me.

The time... Well it will be short, I think about day or two... But you are going to be informed about the end in the next update.
It suppose to be fun so...
Draw me SNIVY!
Please?</sub>

Free sketch is going to
[link] The picture looks really nice and I like the idea of rainy day.

And 10 are going to
[link] Because I like warm colours on the picture. It seems to be opposite to the previous one.
I also want to feature
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and
[link] Because there would one epic picture but it was never finished.

First of all I want to say I'm excited. They are finally trying to add something new in the franchise, thanks Arceus. Lets begin of how I see the pokemon history, with some of my own background.

Pokemon Green, Red, Blue were the first pokemon games that appeared in the world. Apparently, the idea of catching and collecting monsters and then using them in battles was something perfect for its time and it succeeded. Then anime was made.
I remeber that times. The world, people, literaly gone mad. Pokemon were everywhere. There was anime that everybody was/were watching, TCG, Tazos from Cheetos (I still have my pretty impressive collection ), stickers from Boomer bubblegum, crappy magazines that tried bite some money, movies, bootlegs, figures, plushes...
When I watched the first episode of the anime (I didn't have enough money for GB or games, duh, so I barely even knew about them) I had that dreamy feeling I saw this somewhere else, like dejavu. Like when you see something (the Charmander in the intro gave me that feeling) and you feel like you know it, like you have watched it before, but you haven't. The episode was either about Vulpix or about Magnemite. I must admit, after I just watched one episode and immediately drew my first fakemon. The cartoon that focuses mainly on monsters and those monsters could be use for good or bad was something just for me. I liked monsters before and nowadays I still prefer drawing monsters than people.
RB were games that were (and still are) good. The graphics may not be impressive for nowadays kids but it was good enough for its times. The music is still great. The monsters, well, let's not judge. The thing that makes those game good is "soul" (heart or whatever you calling that).
The games were pretty simple, but very addictive. There were mysteries and secrets around each... pixel and they kept you excited.
Those games were also probably the most creepest games from all pokemon games: people kill pokemon, hit them with whips, experiment on their fetuses, cloning them illegaly etc etc...
I consider Pokemon Yellow as a little nerdy game, but the one that, possible, began "third version" trend.

Next generation was something astonishing. However at the time when it came people around stoped being so excited about pokemon. Maybe they got bored, maybe they grew up, maybe "pokemon rip-offs" (as I call them) took place, I dunno. At the time only true fans stayed tunned. Luckily I was the one who got GS before everyone around had it (not many of us had money for GBC, duh, and I got mine accidentaly). The game was bootleg [link] and names of pokemon had 5 character limit and names of the newer ones based on their japanese names (eg: Burak for Umbreon ^{_{Burak in my language means beetroot, btw... But here, if you call a someone "burak" it is offending, it is like calling somebody a "hick". Funny, isn't it?}}). It was a poor engrish translation, damn it had parts that looked like this: ":::....::....,,,!!.." so I had no damn idea wtf is going on and wtf to do.
Because I got the game and I was playing it I saw many pokemon that other people didn't know about. It was before the Johto placed anime arrived to us, if I good recall.
While the first games were good, the 2nd generation was perfect.
I considered the second generation of pokemon games as the best games that were ever created. Untill BW came, but I will tell about this later.
GSC games are sequels, literally. GSC games have 2 regions. GSC games have 100 new pokemon, and most of them look great. They have the first generation feeling, but at the same time they have something I'm calling "eye frame", which is quite characteristic for this generation. I belive many of those pokemon were going to be in the first games (there supposed to be 190 pokemon in GRB, MissingNo. are just those deleted pokemon), and even after some redesigns they kept that "thing" the original 151 have.
Generally GSC are essence of the pokemon, perfection of the pokemon, there are sequels and they follow up RGB very well.

About that time I stoped watching anime, and kept playing my bootleg countless times.
However when I finally got GBA I went to a shop to look for a nice game for it. And since I had very good memories from GS I immediately picked Sapphire.
My first reaction was: WTF AM I SEEING? Y THOSE POKEMON LOOK LIKE CRAP? I CAN'T CHOOSE ANY STARTER need ask friend for a help D: (I picked Torchic as my first starter btw, buttface Treecko was ugly and Mudkip was weird).
But seriously. Pelipper? Zigzagoon? Illumise? Slaking? What just happend? Did they fired old designers?
Then I was like: Why those pokemon have such weird cries? Where're day/night changes?
And then: WHERE ARE PREVIOUS REGIONS???
Don't get me wrong, the game was enjoyable to play, even if it had a lot of water, and there are some few good looking pokemon... However... the game... it was not the same. The feeling of mystery disapeared, I felt forced when I was catching the monsters. Whenever I encountered anything from previous generation I was like: "oh, finally a normal pokemon to see..." And I also played Emerald, but this haven't changed anything. RSE were an average games.

After that I stop giving a damn about pokemon. I saw some weirdos on Cheetos pack and I facepalmed to them. When I created Motrahs in SPORE people were saying they are similar to Dialga. I was like wtf. Those pokemon are getting reaaalyyy weird.
Actually I'm amased if there were some fans at this time. DP anime was running, and it was crap (with dubbing it was even worse). Pokemon were (and still is actually) considered as something immature and childish. I bet being a fan at the time was very hard. (And it is hard now, when I say I'm pokemon fan people look at me like I'm retarded).

But then I got pretty bored, for curiousity I got DS emulator and Pearl so now I could see what's going on in the pokemon.
That was the worst pokemon game I have ever played in my life and I regret playing it. The same boring plot again, awful music that hurts my ears and monsters.
IV generation pokemon are crap. Most of them are just lazy "revamps" (preevos and unecessary evolutions), some new ones are even worse (Spiritomb??? Heatran as legendary???) with very, very few good looking ones (if I good recall I counted 5 or 7 decent looking designs). Moreover, there is so little diversity in wild pokemon to choose in the game that for the first time I stayed with 3 pokemon in team, where the third was forced because two pokemon team is really ghetto team. I had starter, Sonic on all four (Luxray) and... Zubat. Imagine how desperate you have to be to catch Zubat in a first cave and train it, praying that the pokemon will be good (apparently Crobat is awesomeness, but I didn't know that yet. This is the only good point for playing the game: it made me aware that Zubat can be a decent pokemon). [link]
And how about the graphics?
[link] This is GBA game, people. GameBoy Advance game.
You know what? I think such graphic (the 3D effect in DPP) could be easily done in GBA. I'm not impressed. The battles looks good though.
(I didn't finished the game btw, for the first time I gave up in pokemon game. However I have Diamond now and I enjoy the game more than Pearl. Still, awful music, weak plot, crappy pokemon and awkward interface is painful).

And then, suddenly, they announced. They announced something good. Really, really good. Heart Gold and Soul Silver. I almost pissed myself. Dear Arceus, this was the most epic game announcement I have heard in years. And, guess what? My pokemania returned and I became pokenerd. The life was wonderful.
Only thing: I had no DS and cash for games.
But with some delay I got the games.
They are good. Really, really good.

While DPP 'introduced' 2 screen interface, it wasn't perfect. I have Diamond now and I can easily say in some moments it hurts to play/use the game. HG/SS perfected touch screen interface, generaly interface. You want to do more with the second screen, it is fun and so natural.
I was also afraid about "shitty music syndrome", after playing the Pearl, but most music is good in HG/SS.

I won't say more about HG/SS, just paste the part with GSC and add some nice graphical touches, really good music remixes, few additional subplots and there. I can't even complain about this game because all bad points there aren't that bad or it is nitpicking. I consider the game as the second the best pokemon game (GSC win for nostalgia value, but just slighty )

But as you could seen, within those many years the same story repeated: use the same plot, add new characters, put it on a new system and voila, call it a new game. But remeber to do two versions of the game, with minor differences, so they will be forced to buy more games to beat the game in 100%. Next do the third version of same game (but change or add few stuff in it), and sell it for the same price. Repeat this for another gaming system.

When BW came it was a quite different game. Sure, most pokemon designs looks crappy, but designers were at least more creative this time. Sure, you are still a kid who starts journey from a small town and then kicks ass of an evil team. But this time it is more aspiring. This time pokemon feels like a game. No, seriously, for the first time, since GSC (I remind you I didn't have RB first), I felt that I'm playing a game. A real game. And I wanted repeat my adventure (that's why I got Black rencently btw). This game, with GSC, is the best pokemon game that was made so far. It is different, it is more creative, it is good.
I have problem with graphics... the games aren't that colourful like DPP, sometimes graphics is ugly. I don't like "3Dish" moves animations (I mean moves themself, not animation in battle overal) and there is a little step back from HG/SS in touch screen interface. And it is painful to not having "A" assigned to "L". The menus are clustered and the pokedex is really awkward to use. But in other hand "X" button for cancelling everything at once is a really good idea. As well as "Y" menu. Oh, and the text box doesn't pops out of nowhere when you accidentally "hump" a sign, which is good too. The bike is quite... wild. It was better in HG/SS or DPP. But those things aren't that important. The important is: they finally tried to do something new in the franchise.
What would you like to get:
The same game over and over, with crappier characters but better graphics or something new? While new not always is good, this kind of new I see in BW I consider as good.

After a while veryone began talking about the possible Gray version. Me? I tried not thinking about this thread. I really disliked Gray idea. Hell, I had a small argue with someone where I said I know they do the third version each time but I have hope they will not do this again. And it kept annoying me that people were talking about Gray like it something obviously obvious. I would like to wait for facts.
I really hoped they will not do the Gray version. There were argues about Black Zekrom, White Reshiram and Gray Kyurem but it didn't have any sense to me.
I decided to wait.
I watched the Pokemon Smash, streamed online, waiting for news. I knew that something is comming.
And I cannot say how happy I was when they announced BW2. It was like all my hopes came true.
Still, I don't know how the game will look like but I know they are trying and I think it is a hight possibility it will not another revamp of previous 2 games.

What does BW2 possible mean?

That mean:
-We will not get the same game for the third time.
I don't understand why people are complaining here. If you want play the game again, buy the version you don't have. Do you have White? Buy Black. You have minor changes as well. Just as you would have in Gray.

-The story may be more complicated that we see now. Which is good. BW themself are good games. But who knows, maybe the sequels will make them ever better?

-Tehee, finished Route 4?
I have thoughts that they will bring back pokemon companion walking with you. Can you see all those pokemon from Dream World in the forest? There are overworld sprites for pokemon. I know this is quite a stupid hope but I treat this as a clue. But in other hand as a sequel, why BW2 would add this? hmm.

-The new games will be done more quickly. We know that already.
I bet they have been planing the sequel since BW announcement came.

-We are finally seeing how the franchise is changing. At least I hope so.

-RSE for 3DS?
Yes, that's what I think. People. Why did you want RSE remakes so badly? Sure, you may liked RSE but look from my view:
RB got remakes because they weren't compatibile with newer games and, what not nerdy kid will play GB anyways?
GSC were originaly for GBC. Yet, they are still 8-bit games. Thankfully they remade them on DS, there was actually a quite good reason to do it. It's a huge improvement between systems. And still, GSC aren't compatibile with newer games.
RSE? They are quite new games. 16-bit games. And somewhat compatiblile. But look at the graphics. I said I belive it is possible to make DS-ish graphics on GBA. Between GBA and DS is not a huge impovement. In fact PSP is a system where impovement would be seen. DS is a crap. Yes, I said that. I have DSi, I like it but I can see that is 1) revamped NDS (almost nothing new, the same game system, only more expensive), 2) it is inferior, especially in my country, to PSP. 3DS in other hand is a dfferent story. I think this system has potential. However it is expensive and it kinda lacks in games. But enough of gaming systems offtopic.

The possible remakes made now wouldn't be as different as the originals.
However. Remakes on 3DS is a deal. A good deal.
For now I feel like everyone wanted to "force" Nintendo/Pokemon Company/GameFreak/whoelse is running this thing to make RSE remakes because they did that to previous games. Just because of that.
I'm quite sure they will do the remakes, they know that people wants the remakes. They know they can earn money for that. They will do it. No need to be hurry.

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