Fast and furious 6 - 2013

In the opening credits there are images of all the previous films, except "Tokyo drift" because that story comes after this, with all the characters involved. The baby is born at the Canary islands, but then Hobbs (Dwayne Johnson) comes to Dom (Vin Diesel) to ask for his help. There's a new baddie causing lots of trouble, stealing and killing a lot, and he needs Dom's team to help him. He shows Dom proof that Letty (Michelle Rodriguez) is still alive, so Dom goes with him.
He calls his whole team, Brian (Paul Walker), Roman (Tyrese Gibson), and everyone including Han (Sung Kang) who's in Tokyo with his girl Gisele (Gal Gadot) thinking about settling down with her. As he calls them they all join him. What follows is a real mess, not just car racing but also a tank destroying everything on the street and a big big plane that the bad guy Shaw (Luke Evans) is using to get away. Letty has lost her memory and is now helping Shaw, but after an amazing and even more absurd (and kind of sweet) rescue jump from Dom who saves her life, she sticks with him. Han is totally in love with Gisele, and is thinking more and more about settling down with her in Tokyo, and she seems to want it too. Of course he won't because he'll lose her at the end. This was an early call, it was obvious, I was sure of this because in the third movie he was alone. It was only a matter of how. She doesn't leave him or betray him, not at all, she liked him too, so that leaves just one other option. It was a big mess going on, with a big plane and all their cars attached to it with some sort of cables they used to keep the plane down. A bad guy grabs her and Han is afraid for her, and tries to help her. She fights and frees herself and when she's about to fall down Han grabs her: "I got you" and holds on to her. Unfortunately there's another bad guy crawling behind him without him noticing because all his attention is on saving her, so she lets go of him and while she's falling she shoots behind Han, to save him. All the others fight and run and eventually win and get out safely, only Gisele didn't make it, and poor Han is destroyed by it. Now they are free from the law, all together again at Dom's old house, with Mia (Jordana Brewster) and everyone else safe and happy, all except Han who still plans to go to Tokyo, as we well know. After a bit of credits, we see again the scene of Han's death in Tokyo, with a little difference. After Han's car crashes, we see a car stopping and Jason Statham getting out, and for a second I let myself hope that maybe they were changing things just like they did with Letty, and maybe Jason helped Han out of the car before it exploded, but he does nothing of the sort. My poor heart! Jason doesn't help him, the car explodes and Jason makes a phone call to Dom, so he'll probably be the enemy in the next film. I hated this. I wanted Han back. I liked him a lot, he was so cool, and cute, and sweet. He had style, and a nice quiet voice. I hate this. How could they do this to me?? They made me hope for nothing!That's cruel!
Anyway, this movie was kind of too much, really excessive, if you know what I mean. I still prefer movie number five.

Fast five - 2011

The fifth movie of the series, still before "Tokyo drift". They show us what we knew, that Brian (Paul Walker) and Mia (Jordana Brewster) freed Dom (Vin Diesel). Now they're all wanted, Brian is still with Mia and they're all in Brasil. They take a job proposed by Vince (Matt Schulze), but it goes bad. They're working with some other guys, and when one of them kills three agents Dom and his friends are thought responsible. Now they're in trouble, because everyone is looking for them. Federal agent Hobbs (Dwayne Johnson) and the men of the big boss who owns Rio. Mia is pregnant, and they decide that they need one last job, a big one, to disappear forever and live in peace. They decide to take on the big boss. They need help, so they call all their friends. Among them is Roman (Tyrese Gibson) and Han (Sung Kang)! Yeeeah. Han!! There is also Gisele (Gal Gadot) the girl that in the previous film was working with the drug boss, but she always liked Dom, so comes here to help. It took more than 30 minutes, but finally Han is one of them! I like Han a lot, he has style!! There's lots of action in this movie, not just car racing, but also running and shooting. A lot of everything. Dom fighting hand to hand with Hobbs, showing that they're indestructible like their cars, because their bodies break down walls but come out without a scratch. Hobbs manages to catch them, but they all get attacked by the criminals and his men are killed. He would have been too, if Dom and his friends hadn't saved him. Dom wants to do the job anyway, and Hobbs decides to help him, until he can kill the bastard who took out his men. They do a big mess, racing in the streets, pulling with their car a big big safe with all the money of the boss. The gang sticks together all the time, one for all and all for one, like a big family, and at the end Hobbs lets them go, telling them they have 24 hours to disappear before he starts searching for them again. They split the money, and split up, all of them millionnaires. Han is touring Europe with Gisele, kissing happily :-D The story should end right here, with Han happy with his girl, we could just pretend this was the end of the story, as if "Tokyo drift" never existed! I know that will be Han's end, and I don't want it!!
This movie was not bad, I'd say that with the first one they are my favourites of the whole series. This one in first place :-)

Fast and furious - 2009

This is the fourth made, but the story is placed before "Tokyo drift". How can we tell? Han's alive :-D I was happy when I saw Han (Sung Kang) right at the start, but after 10 minutes he was already gone, they part ways, in the best of terms, yes, but still we see nothing more of him here. Then Dom ( Vin Diesel) goes away alone because he says he's still wanted and is dangerous to be around him, but Letty (Michelle Rodriguez) gets murdered while he was away. After 15 minutes she's gone too. Brian O'Conner (Paul Walker) is back, and later on he replies to Mia (Jordana Brewster)'s question "why did you let my brother go that day?" five years ago, with "because at that moment I respected him more than I did myself". Brian is working for the federals to catch a dangerous drug dealer, and Dom is after him too because he killed Letty. Dom and Brian together again. There's a lot of racing, shooting and at the end they catch him. Brian is only injured but Dom doesn't go away, he's tired of running, but despite Brian's words that he helped a lot, at his trial he's still sentenced to 25 years in prison without parole, so at the end of the movie we see that Brian is back with Mia, and together with two other friends they are trying to free Dom. It ends there, but since this is before "Tokyo drift" we know that he'll be free. The end. I didn't like it much.

The fast and the furious: Tokyo drift

The third in the series. Well the third made, but not regarding the story. Anyway.
This is one of those film for boys, with lots of cars and funny drifts, but aside from that it looks pretty stupid. I'm not saying it's for boys because it is stupid, just saying that it's for boys because some boys are satisfied with lots of shiny cars. There's this guy Sean (Lucas Black) who apparently is not yet eithteen, although to me  he looks more 27 than 17. It starts with the usual lame fights between boys "you talking to my girl?" usual line of the guy who knows he has to play bully to be even noticed, aggravated by his girl that after they decide to race instead of hand-fight says "winner gets me" : really? You sell yourself cheap girl. Btw you sure they want you so badly? They simply want to beat each other, they're not doing it for you.
So, pathetic start of this teenager getting himself into trouble, and since he and his mother changed three towns in two years, it seems getting into trouble is what he knows best. This time mom sends him off to Japan. In Tokyo there's his father, but his rules of coming back home right after school and never going anywhere near a car don't really agree with Sean. His uniform is pretty cool, but he didn't even know not to enter the class before changing his shoes! Come on, he's never read a manga, has he? Probably only cars-magazine, if he reads at all. (Of course the shoes shouldn't be right out the class door, but it was probably convenient to shoot that way). He meets an 'army brat' right away, and Twinkie shows him his car, and doing that brings him into that world of cars and riders "boy, all they care about is who's got the biggest engine" yep girl, it'd seem so. Anyway, Sean meets DK (Brian Tee) whose uncle is Yakuza, and immediately they hate each other because obviously Sean like's Dk's girlfriend Neela (Nathalie Kelley), and he considers her his property. Dk works with Han (Sung Kang), and he's the only good thing of this movie. I like Han a lot, very cool and nice.
Han lends Sean a car, but Sean can't drift and wrecks it. Han is not concerned about that, he says he already has money, it's other things he's interested in. Han gives Sean another car and teaches him how to drift, and it's all going well until Dk's uncle comes in angry because Dk didn't even notice that Han was making money on his own. When Dk arrives at Han's place, at first they think it's because Sean is there with Neela, but soon the truth is clear when Dk attacks Han and even takes out a gun. They manage to escape, and a big race starts. Unfortunately, Han is hit, his car crashes and I had hopes only for a fraction of a second because I saw what was going to happen, then the car exploded and Han died.
God, what's the sense in watching the rest of the movie is Han is not there anymore? He was the only good thing here. For me I mean, because I don't care about watching lots of girls in mini-skirts, and after saying yeah, nice cars! they become boring. After all I can't drive them, right? So.. boring. I don't like Sean, and Neela is kind of plain, what's left? Oh yeah, the final race, of course. Sean goes to the yakuza uncle with some money apologising and proposing a race to settle things between him and Dk. I don't have to tell you that Sean wins the race, now that he's actually learned how to drive and drift. At the end, Sean meets Dominic Toretto (Vin Diesel) who wants to race with him, saying Han was a friend, that he was family.
You know aside from Han what was the other thing I liked of this film? The credits at the end, they were funny: the guy that started the race (by saying GO) between Dk and Sean at the beginning, is listed as "exceedingly handsome guy" :lol:
That's it. I miss Han. I should make a compilation with only Han's scenes...

The Expendables 2

This is not bad either, but they made a big mistake, which is why I much prefer the first one.
The team of the first movie is back. Barney (Silvester Stallone) is the leader of the team, and with him are Christmas (Jason Statham), Yang (Jet Li) whose battle skills using a frying pan made me think of Terence Hill, because he always used funny things like these. Gunner (Dolph Lundgren) is with them again, and they tell us that Gunner has a degree in engineering, another punchline because Lundgren has an Engineering degree, which anyway isn't any help to Gunner, I must say. Then there is also Caesar (Terry Crews) and Toll Road (Randy Couture), with the addition of Billy the kid (Liam Hemsworth). Billy was a soldier, but his commander killed his dog, well the dog he had found and kept with him! How cruel is that? No shred of humanity whatsoever?!?
At the beginning they are to free a millionnaire chinese man, and doing that also free mercenary Trench (Arnold Scharzenegger) whose first words are 'this is embarassing' :lol: A little embarassing are also all those little jokes like If you ruin I will terminate you, or stuff like that, I know Schwarzy made Terminator, everybody does, no reason to remind us :lol: I liked that the team had Bad Attitude written on their jeep, made me think of b.a. :lol: About looks, I preferred Stallone with that bit of beard he had in the first film; here he only has moustaches. I don't like that. Completed this mission, they wronged me by taking Jet Li off the movie so soon. The terrible joke "chinese take-away" while he was parachuting off the plane only made it worse. What made it much worse is that they chose to replace him in the movie with another chinese, which could have opened lots of nice, thrilling possibilities! Instead they chose Nan Yu in the role of Maggie. Why did they do this?!? Maggie's so annoying, and full of poses( I don't know the actress at all actually, but this character here is useless). She's brought in by Mr. Church (Bruce Willis) who is very angry with Barney because apparently he took 5 million dollars of his on last mission to the Vilena Island, and I suppose he's talking about the money Barney gave Sandra, but I had not realised those were Church money. I thought it was all Barney's money. Anyway, as a payment he wants Barney to escort Maggie to retrieve something, and they succeed but then comes Vilain (Jean-Claude Van Damme) who takes it from them and kills Billy. Maybe there's something wrong with my brain or with my eyes, because when he showed them his tattoo of a goat, I couldn't see any goat, honestly I saw a black star dancing happily... what can I tell you, I did, honest, I still don't know where he saw a goat in that!
Anyway, now they all go on a mission to avenge their young friend. Their plan: they'll look for him, they'll find him and they'll kill him... not too original, but still a good plan :lol:  The bit "We are Americans!" was fun: yeah, sure, apart one Swedish guy, a chinese girl, and of course a British guy.
At some point they were in real trouble, with no more weapons against many baddies and a tank, when help came unexpectedly. Booker (Chuck Norris), known lonewolf, killed them all and destroyed the tank with a missile, all by himself!! Of course, why not, that's Chuck's style :lol: Then there is the final showdown with Schwarzy : "I'm back" we know, we know... and again "I'll be back" yeah yeah seen than,  and then Bruce Willis joining in the action. Chuck Norris too, all the action heroes together "who's next?Rambo?" against Vilain's men, until Barney (let's go back to characters) has his personal face to face with him. Personally, I wouldn't have fallen for Vilain's speech. Man or sheep? Really? Well, listen, it's just you and me here, so I'll be whatever I want to be and you'll be a dead goat which by the way is what I want you to be. Bang bang, end of it. Instead they fought with their hands. I'd have shot him in his place, then I'd told him sheep=alive goat=dead!
Still, I really enjoyed Van Damme here, he was lots of fun and quite cool.
Anyway. It was fun enough, but I still prefer the first one.

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Green lantern - 2011

This is one of the few superhero films I don't like. I don't like the protagonist nor the effects.
The story is simple, and is told at the beginning : "Billions of years ago a race of immmortals harnessed the most powerful force in existence: the emerald energy of willpower. These immortals, the Guardians of the Universe, built a world from where they could watch over all of existence: The planet Oa. They divided the universe into 3600 sectors. A ring powered by the energy of will was sent to every sector to select a recruit. In order to be chosen by the ring, it was said one must be without fear. Together these 3600 recruits formed the intergalactic peacekeepers known as the Green Lantern Corps. Of all the threats the Corps ever faced the gravest was an entity of fear known as Parallax. Only the legendary Green Lantern Abin Sur was capable of capturing and imprisoning this beast, which he did on the lost planet of Ryut" where one day he woken up, saw three aliens "You are afraid. Good" then he ate the aliens and broke free. Pretty ugly he is too. Then we meet Hal Jordan (Ryan Reynolds), who looks to me like a stupid brat, not a fearless warrior. Were you scared? It's my job not to be... :-/ please!
Abin Sur protected our sector, and when he dies Hal takes his place. This was the best scene of the whole movie, the fact that he didn't freak out or asked any questions when he saw him or his spaceship, he just tried to help him, hoping he could make it. Then Hal says to his friend "he gave me this" showing him the green ring of power, and he went "he proposed?" :lol: This friend was the funniest part of the movie. About the ring being a great responsibility, he also said "well, maybe on their planet responsibility just means asshole" which made me think I wasn't the only one thinking this of him... Anyway, the immortals explains that "Will has always been our sole weapon against the forces of darkness in the universe. but as that power began to seem insufficient a great debate arose among us. should we exploit another source of power , one we had long since sworn should never be used? Fear. But the power of fear was too unpredictable. The chance of corruption too great, and so we decided against it. All of us, that is, except one. Alone, this guardian entered the forbidden chamber. He wanted to prove the light of fear could be mastered. His intentions were pure but his hopes were naive. Consumed by the yellow power of fear the guardian became the very evil he had wished to destroy. He became Parallax." and Hal being human will turn out just the right one to fight Parallax because humans know fear well, and courage doesn't mean not being afraid, but being able to face that fear and fight it.
Great morale, but still I didn't like it because I didn't like him, and the effects were kind of boring. And I didn't like the ending, with that guardian, who was supposed to be the leader of all the green lanters, or so it appeared, chooses to become the new bad guy, choosing to go to the dark side... or yellow, in this case.
I liked the oath though: In brightest day, in blackest night, no evil shall escape my sight. Let those who worship evil's might beware my power: green lantern's light.
I liked Carol (Blake Lively) enough, but the film is just useless. I don't care to watch it again.

Garfield gets real

From 2007. I don't know if this is a "real" movie or how it is classified, anyway I watched it because I always liked Garfield. Still this one is really for little kids. I admit it. I mean, I watched the whole thing, but it was too much even for me. Unfortunately I've grown past that age. Too bad. For me. Oh God, let's stop thinking about age. This is one of those stories where the cartoons live in their world that is real for them, and their job is to pose for comic strips, which can become a little boring sometimes. Garfield breaks into our world but soon changes his mind because without him his strip will be cancelled, and there are a lot of troubles to finally be able to go back home. There's obviously also Odie the dog and Jon, but the film is all computer-images, not drawings, and not nearly as cute. I liked the Garfield strips, but they were way better than this bad-looking, evil-eyed thing that's supposed to be a cat.

The expendables - 2010

I like it. It's just one of those big toys, you know, lots of action and lots of famous faces all together for 80s' action movies nostalgic. It's fun, and there's even a bit of plot ! Barney Ross is the leader of The Expendables , a team of mercenaries. He's offered a job by Mr Church (Bruce Willis) false name of a Cia man who doesn't want his real name involved . Church offers the job to another team of merceraries, but apparently their leader Trench (Arnold Schwarzenegger) is too busy at the moment, which is of course perfectly understandable if you think that he was actually busy being the governor of California...
The job consists into going to a certain island and kill the dictator there. Barney and Lee Christmas (Jason Statham) go to take a look at the situation, meet local rebel Sandra, who is the daughter of the General, the dictator, and strongly opposing him. They also realise that it's not just him, most danger comes from an ex cia man, Munroe (Eric Roberts) and after making quite a mess shooting their way out, Sandra refuses to go with them to safety and stays on the island. Worried about her, Barney decides to go back with his full team : Yang (Jet Li), Toll Road (Randy Couture) and Caesar (Terry Crews). Gunner (Dolph Lundgren) was a member of the team but is left behind because he's crazy and Barney doesn't want him, so Gunner joins Munroe against them. Barney makes his decision to go back after Tool (Mickey Rourke) tells him a story of how he once saw a woman about to commit suicide and he walked away. Toll tells him that after killing so many people mayne if he had saved that woman he might have saved a part of his soul, but he didn't and now he's like empty. Barney wants to save Sandra, and the team goes back to the island with him.
There's lots of shooting, heavy shooting, and explosions, and all the bad guys are killed.  Gunner appears to be dead, but at the very end we see he's still alive, and back with them.
They save Sandra, even when it seemed a risk to wait Barney cared mostly about saving her. Before leaving, Barney gives her money to help her island, she gives him a hug and they leave. I was so glad there was nothing romantic about him wanting to help her, no kisses, just a grateful hug that tells more , much more.
Christmas is the only one with a romantic interest, but it's home. Lacy (Charisma Carpenter) is his girlfriend, but he never told her his job, he just thinks that going to her any time he can is enough, and he's really pissed off when he shows at her door unannounced and finds another man there, but later he discovers that he beated her, so he cleared things with the guy (beating him up a bit...) and then tells her she should have waited for him. Well, maybe she didn't know there was something worth waiting, he doesn't exactly describes a normal relationship.
This is just another action movie, with the difference of different action-faces together: Stallone, Statham , Li,  Lundgren on the same team. And as I said I love the fact that there is no romantic crap at the end of it. I hate where they have characters kiss and fall in love in the middle of the shootings. That is always so not-love and completely out of place.

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Taken - 2007

Well, IMDB.com says 2008, but at the end of the movie I read 2007, so.
I like this film a lot, because this is what should always happen to all those dirty, lousy, patheticly useless scumbags trying to make or use money to compensate for their lack of anything else, who take daughters away from their fathers.
Here it happens because Kim was for years left practically alone with her stupid spoiled mother who is still so pissed off with her ex-husband that she always stands in his way and tries to make him look bad : you can't follow the rules, you should leave the present here, you should go there away from her despite the fact that you came here only to see her, you should think of her for once, you have always been invisible... please someone, anyone, give her a good kick in the ass okay? I mean, some women actually have good reasons for saying these things I'm sure, but this one doesn't. It's not as if he went his own way to have fun, or to do some kind of job important only to him, or if he spent his days drinking, or else. No, he had a serious job, and he's a good person, and really really loves his daughter. This woman raised her child constantly badmouthing her father, no doubt. Paranoid, yeah right! 

Anyway, what happens? This 17 year-old spoiled girl from California wants to go to Paris alone with her 19 year-old friend Amanda (19? So old? Of course, then, what's the problem? *rolling eyes*) and then tour the rest of Europe to follow the dates of U2 concerts, although we never once hear this girl listen to their music, and her mother tells him Don't be paranoic, what's wrong with that, let her go wherever she wants and do whatever she wants, what on earth could ever happen? It appears she has never watched a news program in her life! She's not in the least concerned, her life is all shiny and golden.
Amanda is the kind of girl ready to follow a guy she's never met everywhere simply because she thinks he's cute, ready to show him where she lives, to tell him she and her friend are all alone in the house, with all their relatives countries away. Smart, really smart.
The only person who is concerned is him, Brian the father (Liam Neeson) who learns while he's on the phone with his daughter that some men have entered the house and taken Amanda, and now they're coming to get her. Brian is well trained, and loves his daughter, so he tells those men that if they don't let her go "I will look for you, I will find you and I will kill you" then guess what he does? He immediately flies to Paris and looks for her. He leaves a trail of dead bodies. The guy that lured the pretty girl alone away from home, the guys that drugged the girls, the guys that turned them into prostitutes: all dead. He finds Amanda dead, and learns that Kim is not there because being a virgin she was more valuable and will be sold for much much more. (...she didn't act like a virgin, for sure, how did they find out? simply asking? or they had all the girls they took tested?)

He tracks down and kills the men that sold her, the man who bought her and all the men protecting the disgusting man. Good.
He finally finds her girl and takes her back home. Good.
Now, I know this is just an action movie, it's not a brain thing, there's nothing to follow, and in a way the things he finds out in no time seem excessive, but this is that kind of film, just action, nothing more. Not funny, not brainy, just action. He simply stated he worked years with the government preventing bad things from happening, and one of his friends simply listening at a few words is able to tell him such a lot about the guy who took her... well it seems stretched but after all what do I know about what they can actually do? Maybe they really can, how can I say they can't? I just like the action, and the bit of story because I like stories of father-daughter love. And Liam Neeson too.

Percy Jackson and the Olympians-the Lightning Thief

This movie has great effects, true, but the story is very different from the book, practicallly it doesn't make any sense anymore :-/ It starts with Poseidon (Kevin McKidd) and Zeus (Sean Bean) fighting because Zeus accuses him of using his son to steal his Lightning. "don't steal my thunder!" :lol: okay he didn't say that! :lol: Poseidon says he hasn't seen his son since he was born, and it's Zeus' fault for forbidding it. Then we meet Percy Jackson, who likes to be in the water, and can stay at the bottom of the pool for seven minutes no problem, which is quite a stupid thing, actually, because he can't hold his breath for so long. In the book Percy could breath under water (not hold his breath forever) but here Percy doesn't do that because he doesn't know that he can!!  From time to time Percy hears his father's voice in his head, helping him. At a museum, Percy is attacked by his teacher Mrs Doods, who trasforms into a fury, but goes away simply after teacher Mr Brunner alias Chiron (Pierce Brosnan) threatens her, which is very simple, right? Go away! and she goes away... wow. easy! Percy is played by Logan Lerman, who was already 18 and although he can pass for 16, they never say clearly his age, but for sure it's not 12 like in the book!
Anyway, like in the book, we meet his mother Sally (Catherine Keener) and Gabe (Joe Pantoliano), then Grover (Brandon T. Jackson) tells them they have to go. Sally Jackson leaves immediately and drives them , but they are attacked by a Minotaur. They run away, but she can't enter the Camp HalfBlood because she isn't one, she's completely mortal: she seemed to know so much and yet she didn't know this?
The minotaur gets her, but she disappears in light, and Percy goes back out of the camp to fight him.
Once back inside, he watches Annabeth (Alexandra Daddario) fighting, and that was just embarassing :lol: she was very pretty for sure, but couldn't even pretend to fight :lol: That won't be much of a problem though, since it appears that in this film Percy can also cure others, not just himself, with water, even pool water!
At the camp, they all already know who he is , a demigod, son of a mortal and a God. During a campfire, Hades appears among the flames because more special effects can do no damage in a film like this, specially if you consider that they are the best thing about it.
Our trio wants to sneak out at night to go to the underworld to get his mother back, there's just a little detail: they have no idea where to go or what to do... so Annabeth gives her only contribution: let's ask Luke!!
Luke (Jake Abel) gives them a pair of flying shoes that he stole from his father Hermes, a cool shield and a map with the locations where they can find three magic pearls, the only way to get out of the underworld. Apparently Hades doesn't have a faithful wife, here, and she gives these pearls to her lovers to be able to get out afterwards. So just like in Dragonball they're off to find the pearls and collect them all! It's a pity that none of them can count, not even Annabeth daughter of the goddess of wisdom and intellectual work, could figure out that if three persons want to take someone else out of the underworld maybe three pearls might not be enough... anyway, they start their search following what the map tells them: place n.1 Auntie Em's emporium, they meet Medusa (Uma Thurman) which is a very cool monster, really cool, I mean this is the stuff that makes this film! She made stone statues out of people, but a kind of stone that can be broken with a simple crutch... Anyway, I was saying: Medusa! Their comment: maybe Luke didn't know. Okay, it's possible, let's see what is at the other places, shall we? Place n. 2: five men turn into a hydra with five heads, which soon become more when Percy cuts them off, oviously knowing nothing about hydras... doesn't he read comics??? Percy covers himself creating a wall of water, until Grover saves them all by using Medusa's head. By now, I was already annoyed as hell with these kids, because Grover is so so loud! and Annabeth does absolutely nothing!. Place n.3. the Lotus Hotel in Las Vegas, where they eat some strange but good looking thing and forget everything until Poseidon helps them again. Thank you Poseidon, the sight of Grover dancing was really too much to bear, as if listening to him yelling wasn't enough! He's so annoyingly excessive!
They still didn't think there was anything wrong with the map Luke gave them, apparently, because they go on all confident. Finally they meet Hades and Persephone (Rosario Dawson) with her "what will you do to me? I'm already in hell" although to be fair her hell isn't all that bad, all things considered. Okay she can't get out, but aside from that, she's doing pretty nicely, things could be a lot worse! Percy can hug his mother again, and Hades finds the Lightning into Percy's shield, the shield Luke gave him. Do you think they understand now ?? yeah, finally Annabeth says something right, although too late.
Persephone saves them by taking the lightning off Hades and only now they discover that three perals are not enough for four people! so Grover stays behind, with Persephone, because apparently they like this kind of jokes a lot! yeuch. The real Grover is a sweet, good guy.
They run to the Empire State Building, where the entrance of the Olympus is, and apparently Sally knows this very well, how can she know the right spot, the right buttons!!! Luke comes to fight him, and after that Percy goes to see Zeus, right at the last second, in the best of traditions. He hands him the lightning, meets his dad and makes a long speech :-/
At the end, Mom has kicked out Gabe, no longer useful now, and Percy goes back to the Camp. Grover is again so excessive and loud, and Chiron says the worst line "you disobeyed my orders, that's why you're mmy favourite student " how stupid is that? Is he saying that every kid should disobey orders? Especially kids this stupid? They were lucky! Not everyone is so lucky! What he did was stupid and wrong, but being lucky is better than being smart, for them.

Oh my, the book is so so much better, this is complete b****hit! Makes no sense from start to end! Great effects though, medusa was cool :-)

Captain America: the Winter Soldier - 2014

This was even better than the first one. They were both good, but this one is contemporary, so we have all the rest we know. Captain America (Chris Evans) is working for the Shield, which is an acronym for something I'll never remember, sorry, but doesn't matter because I can always find it written on some Shield symbol if I care to. Nick Fury (Samuel L. Jackson) uses him for mission, but Steve is a little pissed off because Fury never tells the whole story, always hides something, never trusts his people... of course he's just a soldier, so he doesn't understand the whole of Fury's work, and the fact that he has to keep secrets, because he knows you can never know who you can trust. Still, he's pretty sure he can trust Rogers, so after people try to kill him, apparently succeeding, he leaves something to him. Together with Natasha Romanoff (Scarlett Johansson), the Black Widow for reasons I don't know, they try to uncover who's behind it. They'll find out that Dr Armin Zola's mind, put into a big computer, was able to carry on Hydra's cause, that the Shield has being more than infiltrated by it. Nick Fury is still alive of course, but his friend Alexander Pierce (Robert Redford) is part of Hydra, and had him eliminated. No surprise there. What was really something was that a notorious assassin working for hydra is revealed to have Bucky's face. It would appear Bucky (Sebastian Stan) didn't die, probably because of the experiments made on him, and became their puppet. They brainwashed him, using him for their mission. Bucky doesn't remember him, and they fight. The beautiful scene was after Cap completed his mission. At that point he didn't have to fight Bucky anymore. Bucky has always been the most important person for him, always with him, and he can't fight him. At the end, Bucky saves him and then goes away, hopefully not back to be brainwashed again!
To help Cap this film there was Falcon (Anthony Mackie), Maria Hill (Cobie Smulders) loyal to Fury, and Agent 13 (Emily VanCamp). Cute.
Nice the scene when everybody decides who follow : "captain's orders" . Nice!
Here, it is stated clearly that Howard Stark was Tony's father, but come on, that was reasonable in the comics, because it was some time ago. Now, that would mean that Howard was flying planes and building weapons in the second world war, and Tony is joining the avengers in 2012...  Howard would easierly be his grandfather.
Still, doesn't matter. These films are big big toys for us to play with, and I enjoy them a lot. :-D

Captain America: the first Avenger - 2011

I like these movies :-) Here we are at the beginning of his story, how Captain America was created. Once upon a time there was a kid who really, really, really wanted to be a soldier to defend his country, but his body had another opinion, so he was always rejected :-D
 Steve Rogers (Chris Evans) doesn't want to give up , no matter what his friend Bucky (Sebastian Stan) tells him. One day he meets Dr Abraham Erskine (Stanley Tucci, with a funny german accent) sees something in him "Do you want to kill nazis?" - "I don't want to kill anyone. I don't like bullies. I don't care where they're from" and offers the little guy a chance. He sends him to Camp Lehigh (as I could read on the flag) where he meets Agent Carter (Hayley Atwell) who knows how to handle stupids, and Colonel Phillips (Tommy Lee Jones :-D ) who at the end of the week will choose one candidate for Erskine project of a super soldier. Rogers is smaller, weaker, but he is smarter and much braver, or maybe not braver, just a good noble person. The scene with the grenade, where all the others took cover while Rogers throw himself on it shouting for the others to run away was something. Of course, it was the more cool because the grenade turned out to be a fake one, which did not explode, otherwise the noble gesture would have blown him up to little bits. Rogers is chosen for the big project, assisted by brilliant Howard Stark (Dominic Cooper). The experiment is completed, but the room is infiltrated, many people including Erskine are killed, and the sierum stolen, so Rogers chase him barefoot, surprised at what his new body can do :-) I particularly liked the bit with the kid thrown in the water who tells  him "Go get him! I can swim" :-) just when you thought, will he save the kid or chase the bad guy with a secret formula in his hands that could create a horde of bad super-soldiers?? So Rogers gets him, and he kills himself because he's part of Hydra, an organisation with the obvious motto "cut off one head, two more shall take its place" which is not that original, quite obvious given the name, but still, full of crazy psycopaths. Their leader is Johann Schmidt (Hugo Weaving), the Red Skull after he tried on himself an earlier version of the formula, when the serum wan not yet ready. What it does is amplify everything that is inside, so good becomes great, and bad becomes worse, just like The Mask, to be clear :lol:  Steve becomes better, and I'm yet not sure of how they could change him so. I don't mean the body or the height, I mean the face! The face is the same and yet it is not exactly the same, it's different.
Anyway. He's just one man, so the Colonel doesn't want him, yet he's given another assignment, to become a simbol to everyone, to tour cities...he make movies, and wears a colourful uniform until one day he performs in front of soldiers, not the usual crowd of kids and mothers. These soldiers had just returned from an awful mission, where only less than 50 came back, of 200 hundred that went out. Steve learns that Bucky was one of those that didn't make it back, and wants to go looking for him. Alone, 30 miles inside enemy territory, with a little help from Carter and Stark, who fly him as far as they can. Alone, Rogers gets inside the enemy camp, frees all the american soldiers inside giving them all the chance to fight their way out. He also finds Bucky, who has been experimented upon. Steve and a lot of american soldiers make it back to Colonel Phillips base. At the ceremony for Captain America, Stan Lee's in high uniform (maybe a general's uniform?) saying "I thought he'd be taller" mistaking someone else for the captain :lol:
For the new mission, Rogers asks some of the men he saved to go with him. Agent Carter becomes jealous when a blonde throws herself at him and kisses him. Rogers chooses a new shield from Stark's stuff, a prototipe made of vibranium, completely vibration absorbent , and apparently bulletproof :lol:
They all do a lot together, Steve and Bucky always side by side until Bucky falls down to his death.
Dr Armin Zola is captured. On the last attempt to stop and possibly kill the red skull, they chase his plane with a car, and yet Carter thinks giving him a kiss it's worth the risk of losing those few seconds that might make the difference between being able to stop the car and fall down to their death...
Only colonel Phillips "I'm not kissing you" was actually worth it :lol:  Schmidt had found the Tesseract and used it for Hydra, to give their weapons more power, but now seems like the Tesseract killed the red skull when he hold it in his hand. The terreract is lost, and Steve is alone on that plane, and decides there's not much time until it reaches New York killing lots of people, so he crashes it somewhere empty. Stark recovers the tesseract and looks for him, but can't find him. When Rogers wake up, they wanted to trick him and us into believing he was found and cured, but they didn't fool him as they didn't fool me - me because I know his story, and him because they played a game from 1941, a bit too early :-) He finds himself in contemporary America, with Nick Fury that tells him he's been asleep for almost 70 years...

Notting Hill - 1999

Why is this film so famous? I mean I know it has famous actors, but why it is taken in so much consideration as if it was a wonderful love story, instead of the boring *****hit that it actually is?
Hugh Grant is will, the owner of a bookshop, and when famous actress Anna (Julia Roberts) comes in he doesn't know who she is. As fate wants, they meet again on the street and he stains her shirt, so of course she does what every famous movie star would do in her place: she goes to his house to change!! Nothing strange about this picture, right? I guess every Hollywood star wouldn't hesitate a second before going inside a stranger's house and undress. I'll tell you more, they would all be so glad about it, that they would kiss him before leave him! Sure, why not! And does it surprise anyone that afterwards she calls him? And she even goes to his sister's birthday party as their first date? Not strange at all, is it?
I guess it was his habit of saying "Whoopsidaisis" that won her over... Oh God.
She's the one that keeps calling him, and going to his house, but when she finds reporters out of the door in the morning, she's furious as if he had betrayed her. She doesn't stop for a second to think about it, or giving him a chance, and why should she? Is not like she's a thinker after all.
Apparently his room-mate talked about her, but honestly, is it so strange that  reporters  found her? I see every day pictures of stars in magazines while they walk, while they eat... it's what reporters do. They would be a real failure in their job if noone of them had known that she was spending the night at a man's house, especially since she went there after a little scandal, so all reporters were already interested in her...
The famous line about her being just a girl asking a boy to love her didn't win me over, on the contrary it seemed pretty dull to me. Exactly where is this love? She's a movie star and falls for the first man that stains her shirt? Is that all it takes? And oh, big surprise, he falls in love with the big movie star, as if this would never happen, incredible, unheard of!!
Just how many men would be indifferent if Angelina Jolie walked into their life? or Jessica Alba, Charlize Theron, or Evangeline Lilly or whoever...
I really never understood why people find this film romantic; I find it boring, absurd and silly. And worst of all, not even a bit romantic.

Eat pray love

Boring oh so boring, is what it is. I know nothing about the book, I'm just talking about the film. It should be spiritual, emotional, but it's nothing. It starts already without feelings, because all of a sudden Liz (Julia Roberts) decides she isn't happy, just like that, out of the blue, without giving us any reasons. She wants to go on a world trip to find herself: good for you. Well, at this point I expected something, but no, there were no emotions, none at all. She spends a lot of time in India, and that should give us something, but it only gave me boredom, which is unusual. India usually is interesting, spiritual, full of life and culture, but here it was plain and boring because it was all about Julia. I should say Liz, but to me it seemed all about Julia.
Her trip to Italy was boring too; I only liked Luca Argentero, the only good thing that ever came out of a big brother. Still, it fails me why she was so fascinated by the italian word attraversiamo (let's cross over) as if it was the most spiritual and interesting thing she'd ever heard. We say it every time we cross a street, and never feel enlightened by it. Also, I don't understand why she didn't book a room in a hotel, it seemed to me like she had enough money for a hotel room...
It takes her a long time to realise she's fallen in love with the character played by Javier Bardem, as if she'd gone through a life-changing process that personally I failed to see. She seemed on vacation, to me. Nothing more. She was making a great deal about it, but it just looked like a vacation.
It was supposed to look like a journey to find her inner self, but I felt nothing spiritual watching it, none at all.

The heartbreak kid - 2007

Nope, I didn't like this. Not at all.
 It started okay, and it should have been a funny / romantic movie, but it was only occasionally funny and it was not romantic. The beginning was not too bad, but it goes down quickly.
Eddie (Ben Stiller) meets a girl, they start talking and they seem perfect for each other, so he hastily proposes to her ...  but they are even arrived to  their honeymoon place that things already start to look different, because Eddie actually knows nothing about her, and now realises that everything about her annoys him. On his honeymoon he meets another woman, and is sure that this Miranda is his soul mate, but of course it'll come out the little detail of the bride and the honeymoon, and both women will leave him.
Now there's a whole business with him not being able to fly home because he doesn't have his passport anymore, so he tries to cross the border with all the other illegal immigrants, but it'll take him a lot to finally get home. He looks for Miranda and finds that she married someone else. Wow, they all make hasty decisions, don't they??? She was single when she met him, and now she's already married to an ex-boyfriend... wow, are they afraid of something???  Eddie leaves her believing her happy with her husband, and when they meet again months later she's single again, having realised she wants him after all, and he acts happy about that, only he's again married to someone else!... Do these people think that marriage is like renting a dvd? Let's try it ! It's not like it's for life, right? Well, wrong in the case of a marriage. Of course marriages can go wrong, people change, situations change, divorces happen... but if you met someone and marry them right away without knowing each other or spending some time together in the same house  then you're just looking for it!

Christmas in wonderland - 2007

It's nice, but also boring if you don't have kids or if you're not watching it at Christmas. It's a matter of atmosphere, you know, so to enjoy a Christmas movie you have to watch it at Christmas! And, it's almost commpulsory to have kids to watch this, little kids,  because after a certain age you stop believing in Santa Claus, everything becomes a little darker, magic goes away, and a movie where a little girl asks Santa in the Mall for a million dollar because her father needs it becomes  little more than a silly fairytale.
This movie is about a family that had to move away from Los Angeles because of money problems. The father Wayne (Patrick Swayze) is again without work, but his wife is having trouble getting there because the planes are all full around Christmas, so he'll have to buy the Cristmas presents for the kids. They are three: Danny who is a teenager angry becasuse he had to leave behind all his friends, but then at the mall he looks at a pretty blond with a red bikini and starts touring the mall in search for her, until he meets her and decides that all of a sudden this is not a bad place after all, and "who cares about Los Angeles if the pretty blonde with the red bikini is here talking to me" ... then there's his brother Brian who is a little smartypants, and the youngest of the family is six-years-old Mary, the only one with the Christmas spirit, because she believes in Christmas, in Santa Claus, in family, and everything: She's six after all! She's the only one in the whole family with Christmas Spirit, and where the father takes them to the mall, Mary and Brian wander off together while Danny looks for his pretty girl, until they find a bag full of money and start having fun on their own, and the little girl trying on a load of new dresses acts exactly like a six-years-old I know: same faces, same posing..
:-) Of course the money was fake, and now two criminals are after them, but also the police because as soon as shop waiters realises the kids gave them fake money they talk to the police: Inspector Gordon is played by Tim Curry!!! And he's funny. :-) "bloody stupid place for a closet" :lol:
Of course it turns out the old man in the mall is the real Santa Claus who takes an interest in the family. The police arrests Wayne, thinking he's the boss of the operation...  and of course the real bad guys are two complete idiots, and Santa keeps helping our kids :-)
So much that at the end he offers Wayne a new job, and they go to sleep exausted, but the next morning when Mom gets home, everything is neat and perfect, with a fireplace and a tree and lots of presents, and everything , even the kitchen is perfect, everything's shiny and perfect, and the turkey is there too! Mary even got a letter from Santa Claus.
I've got to say that this Santa is the best Santa a movie has ever pictured, because he got mom home for Christmas, but also got a new job for dad, an ipod for Brian and an xbox360 for Danny....

Bad boys do by Victoria Dahl

Apparently this is a sequel; there's at least another book with the same people, more or less, but I haven't read it.
This one is not bad, a nice love story, but not exactly would all those comments printed on the cover would let you imagine. Brilliant? maybe a bit Sexy? well, there's a lot of sex, no doubt about that Hilariously funny? Now come on, where's all the fun? It's a nice read, quick and enough well written, but it's not like I was rolling on the floor you know. Protagonist is Olivia, 35, divorced, trying to get her life back on the right track after living in her husband's shadow for so long. She's very serious, she's responsible, then she meets Jamie Donovan, beautiful, younger and free, and of course she falls in love with him. Eventually. This is one of those stories when they pretend they're just having fun an sex, no strings attached and all that kind of stuff, until at the end she finds herself totally in love with him. Requited, of course, it's a love story after all.
Her ex-husband is arrogant, selfish, and already has a new girlfriend, as if trying to make her jelous.
The only funny characters is Gwen, Olivia's friend. I liked her.
In a way the only problem is Olivia herself. She's supposed to be serious, precise, her husband the only man she ever had in her life, a woman who doesn't know how to have fun at all, and yet she goes from one excess to the other. She doesn't know how to have fun, okay, but still she's only 35 and she was almost shocked when he wanted to go out at night, meeting her at 9pm, because she goes to sleep at 9pm... Come on, that's a bit excessive, isn't it? I understand a working woman going to sleep early if she hasn't any dates, with men or friends, but to be shocked as if he was proposing something crazy is a bit excessive in my opinion. On the other hand not only they do it everywhere, but she almost jumps on him at a bus stop... Well, since Jamie is described as supersexy this is more understandable that her being asleep at 9pm. Every single day. She doesn't have any interest at all in anything, no books, no films, no music, nothing.
I find annoying the attitude of the women going to Jamie's club. They feel free not only to flirt with him, but to touch him, as if he was some kind of object. That attitude is annoying in men, when there's a waitress, and it's annoying done by women too, with a waiter. He's working, come on! If it was a man touching a girl, the reaction would be that he's a pig, that he should learn his manners. These women are the same.

Percy Jackson and the Olympians: book 5: The last Olympian

A great finale, I really liked it, a really good book. I don't think there's anything in it I don't approve! I liked the whole saga, it has been a while since a book, or series of books, kept me so glued to it that I kept reading while walking or eating! Yes, it is true that I don't have time to read as much as I used to, still...  I liked this one very much, and can't talk about it without risking a few spoilers...
I love the fact that we know and follow a lot of characters. Of course the protagonist is Percy, but in this case it's more that justified, it's the only right thing because he's the one narrating the story! So we follow him everywhere he goes and we see everything he does, but all the others are important, not only Annabeth and Grover, but all of them: the other kids, his parents, all the Gods... I approve the identity of the spy, I realise know that I know it that any other name would have been difficult to accept. I liked very much the scene on Nico's mother, the way she refused to leave Hades or her kids, the way she looked at him and how Hades loved her, cared about her and their children. He was the one putting them in the Lotus Hotel to save them. I liked Clarisse and Silena's friendship; I liked the battle with the dragon, how Clarisse defeated him: thinking about "Here's my girl!" makes my heart feel.  I liked Mrs O'Leary and Percy's mom and Paul and was very happy to see Rachel again, happy that she was more than a tool to use in the previous book. Really, can't think of anything wrong for now. Sure, sometimes Percy's jealousy of Luke or Annabeth's jealousy of Rachel were a bit irritating, but after all understandable for them and their age.
The whole book this time takes no more than a week of time, the last battle. Between book 4 and book 5 almost a year has passed, and if at the end of the last one he had just turned 15, now this story starts a week before he turns 16, the deadline for the prophecy. it starts with just a few pages of normal life, telling us he has spent a lot of time with his parents (well, his mother and his step-father, I mean) and with Rachel, before he goes on a mission that will be the beginning of the end. Mission accomplished, yes, but at the high cost of Beckendorf's life. I knew it. There had to be casualties in such a big war, even names we knew. From that, it's an escalation: Nico's plan to 'give' Percy the powers Achille had, the great final battle with Percy as leader of all his half-blood comrades, except the house of Ares, because at the moment Clarisse is so offended with everyone she refuses to fight! It's all very exciting, and at the end, I liked the changes and everything so much that my only problem would have been if it all ended there, just like that. End of prophecy, end of story! That would have made me angry because when you show so many new things, then you should show them well. I was almost at the end and I was thinking: I want to see the new camp, the new kids, the new Oracle, he can't just say: things are changing, and end it there! But then the new prophecy lifted my spirits: if there's a new prophecy I guess we'll get to see it, right? I want to read about it!
Anyway, in this book we see more of Paul Stockfis, we see Poseidon's 'official' family, we hear the whole prophecy, see a lot more of Nico and Hades and Poseidon and more or less everyone, and a lot of battle.
It was all very exciting, and I really can't wait to read more books of this saga :-)

Percy Jackson and the Olympians: book 4: The battle of the Labirinth

This book was even better.
It's still summer, yet Percy enters his new school just for an orientation visit; it's the school where his mother's boyfriend works. Percy is troubled because at the entrance he recognises Rachel Dare, that helped him with the skeletons the book before :-) She remembers him, and helps him again when two demonic cheerleaders attack him, ruining the date he had with Annabeth in the afternoon. At the camp he meets Quintus and Mrs O'Leary :lol: meets Tyson again, and learns that Grover is on trial for having failed in his search for Pan. Together with Annabeth, Grover and Tyson they enter the Labirinth looking for Daedalus, to prevent him from helping Luke. They meet Janus and Hera, they free giant Briares who has a hundred hands... and escape from Alcatraz, Percy kills Geryon at his ranch, and sort of make peace with Nico. Annabeth refuses to answers the sphinx quiz show so they have to fight it; they talk with Hephaestus and fight with the telkhines monsters; Percy causes the vulcano to erupt and is sent to recover to Calypso's island. Leaving her it's very difficult for him, but he has to; Percy and Annabeth asks for Rachel's help to find the way into the labirinth, she can do it just like Arianna did, because she can see the right way. Back into the labirinth, Percy kills Antaeus, son of Poseidon and Gea, and saves Ethan Nakamura's life, only to be betrayed by him. Percy doesn't trust Quintus, but now the enemies are too much so he uses the whistle Quintus gave him and summons Mrs O'Leary who helps him no trouble.
They finally meet Dedalus, and discover that he's alive, in a new body he designed himself, and they already met him as Quintus. Attacked by Minos ghost and his demons, they escape borrowing the wings made by Dedalus, and fly away. They meet Cronos inside Luke's body, and Rachel hits him with her blue comb. They finally find Pan, and he tells them to take care of the earth themselves, before dying. They go back to the camp under siege, and all the kids fight the monsters, and win only with the help of Grover, Nico, Briares and Dedalus, who came to seek amends. Dionysus cured Chris Rodriguez from his madness, and now he and Clarisse are happily singing songs together, holding hands :-D I'm happy for her. Back home, Paul asks Percy for his 'permission' to propose to his mother :-) It's his birthday party, and Tyson is there too, when Poseidon rings the door, and Paul meets Percy's father :-p The book ends with Percy inviting Nico to come in and eat some birthday cake :-)

Percy Jackson and the Olympians: book 3: The Titan's curse

Another good book. Grover has found two halfbloods in a school, and calls Percy, Annabeth and Thalia for help, but they win only because Artemis and her hunters happens to help.Yet annabeth is taken by the Manticore. Bianca Di Angelo chooses to become one of the hunters. Apollo drives them all to the camp while Artemide goes her own way, well Thalia drives, actually, but she didn't want to...she has a thing for heights... which is odd, for the daughter of Zeus...
At the camp, Percy calls Tyson with the i-phone, but doesn't tell him about Annabeth. The oracle walks towards them to tell hunter Zoe Nightshade a prophecy. After learning that Artemis is missing, the hunters want to save her, but the quest is for 5 people: two hunters plus Bianca, then Grover and Thalia. They don't want Percy because he's a boy, but he uses Annabeth's invisibility cap and goes anyway, after promising Bianca's brother Nico that he'll protect her. One of the hunters couldn't go, so with Percy they're now five, as the prophecy said. Together they fight monstrously huge lion Nemeo at a Mall , then some skeleton-soldiers that can't die when they defeat them, but die if it's Bianca the one defeating them. At the junkyard of the Gods, they fight a huge prototipe discarded by Efesto, Bianca enters it and die to save the others. At the Hoover Dam they are again attacked by skeleton-guards, and Percy is helped by a mortal girl that can see them: Rachel Elizabeth Dare. For once, Thalia's prayers to Zeus have an answer, and bronze angels statues become animated and help them, flying them out of there. Percy discovers that the half-cow-half-fish beast he saved is an ophiotaurur, the monster they are all looking for, because apparently if someone kills it and uses its intestines will have such a power to overcome the gods.. the Manticore wants Thalia to do it, and be the one the prophecy talked about, but the other kids help her, but they wouldn't have made it if Mr D hadn't helped them... yep, him. When they find themselves in need of a vehicle, being in San Francisco they ask for Annabeth's father's help. Despite what we all thought of her family, neither he or his wife seem to be bad persons, they're both worried about her and willing to help. They finally meet Atlas, free of his terrible weight. He could have never freed himself, he needed someone to take the weight off his shoulders, and Luke did it, then he begged Annabeth to help him and she did it, and Luke left her there. When Artemis saw her, she had to help a girl in trouble, and took it on herself. Now our heroes have to fight Atlas and free them both. Zoe is Atlas daughter, but helps them fight him. Percy can't fight because Ares' curse won't allow him to use his sword, so he does the only thing he can: he helps the goddess, by taking the weight of the sky off her shoulders. She can now fight with the others, and she sends Atlas back to his place, giving him back his curse, freeing Percy. They are helped also by Annabeth's father, who comes with his little old airplane, shooting the enemies. Zoe dies there, as the prophecy foretold her. When they finally reach the Olympus, Percy fights for monster Bessie's safety. Zeus is afraid of her, and would like to kill the poor beast, but Percy and Poseidon agree to keep it safe there. Thalia accepts to become a hunter and take Zoe's place.
Reading the book we learn that Zoe's life was sort of ruined because of Hercules. She helped him, even gave him the sword that now Percy is using, and he just left her, never ackknowledging what she did for him, and we also learn that Bianca and Nico have been in the Lotus Hotel for many years, not aging. Now, back at the camp, young Nico is furious with Percy because he promised to protect Bianca and now she's dead, he can feel it. Percy realises he's Hades' son, born before the three major Gods promised not to have children. Funny huh, that Hades is the only one that didn't break their promise?? Even Zeus, the one that insisted on it, had Thalia.
At the end, Percy will go back home, and Annabeth will go to his father's house in S. Francisco, while Grover is all excited because he heard Pan's voice telling him he's waiting for him...