Batman vs Superman

Zachary

Scarpetti

Period F

Mr.Kefor

Will having two main superheroes ruin a movie or make it better? Will changing the actor of who plays batman ruin the movie or make it better? We will not know for sure until the movie comes out but I have a few ideas. Batman and Superman two of the most popular superheroes, now in one movie together called batman vs superman. This movie is going to be a prequel to a superman movie called man of steel. Critics rated man of steel a 5.5 out of 10. The audience rated the movie 7.6 out of 10. The critics rated the dark knight rises witch is a Batman movie an 8.8 out of 10. The audience rated it a 9 out of 10. This shows that critics and the audience liked the batman movie more than the superman movie. Since this movie is a prequel to man of steel having batman in it may boost the superman movies ratings. If this was a prequel to the batman movie then it may have made the ratings go down. If I had to take a guess the critics would give the new movie a 6.5 out of 10 because that rate is in between there rate for man of steel and the dark knight rises. I then asked someone named Leo who loves superheroes and movies, who he likes better batman or superman and he voted for batman. He said that the movies are a lot better because he likes how the batman movies are more realistic than superman. Superman is being played by Henry Cavill and Batman is being played by Ben Affleck. Originally Batman was going to be played by Christian Bale but he chose not to because he did not want to have two superheroes. After accepting this role Ben got a lot of criticism because people thought that changing the actor could ruin the movie. Ben responded to all the hate; he said, "I'm a big boy. If I can handle an Emmy Snub, I can handle anything." He also said, "The new Batman is to redefine him in a way that doesn't compete with Bale and Christopher Nolan's Batman." I like all the stuff that he stated because it shows how determined he is to make this movie good so I think that changing the actor will make the movie better. Even though Christan Bale is not in the movie he still thinks that it is a good idea to have Ben as batman. Christan saids, "I wish him all the best. He's a very experienced actor and filmmaker and he'll make it his own." I then asked Leo what he thinks about changing the actor and he said, "For me, changing the actor of batman will depend on what the new actor brings to the table. Michael Keaton will still always be Batman to me, I believe he did an excellent job with the character. Ben is also an amazing actor so I say we give him a chance ." Leo had some good points about actors before the dark knight even came out. Christian Bale, he was tremendous as the new Batman and everyone loved him as batman until he quit. Val Kilmer and George Clooney, not quite the best Batman character portrayals, but they did their best and they tried hard. I think the general public and comic fans had the reaction they did about Ben Affleck being chosen as the new Batman because they were not happy with his portrayal of the superhero Daredevil, his Boston accent, and his ability to direct, over acting. But let's not forget how everyone reacted to Heath Ledger being cast as The Joker. The internet had the same reaction that Ben Affleck is receiving, and look how Ledgers The Joker turned out, simply amazing. Only time will tell whether or not Ben Affleck will make a good Batman. Thus, Ben playing batman may make the movie better. I then ask my cousin Ryan if he like the batman or superman movies better and he said, "I like the batman movies better and I think it will be interesting having them in a movie with each other." I asked my friend Alex if he likes the Batman or Superman movies better and he said, "Batman movies are better because it's better acting and they cast better actors whereas superman casts unknown actors and tries to make them famous." Then I asked him if he thinks they will be good in a movie together and he said, "It might end bad because there powers are so different and I don't know how they are going to make them blend." Ryan said, "Superman is invincible where superman can die easier, so they might not be good in a movie together." Then I asked Leo and he had a different opinion he said, "It will make it better because having two main superheroes with two different backgrounds will add depth to the story." I agree with Leo's opinion. Superman, being born on an alien planet with god-like powers (flight, strength, heat vision, etc) and raised in the Midwest believes in fighting for truth, justice, and the American way. Batman has no super powers, uses no guns, he's just a normal human being that vowed to become the greatest crime fighter. He combines great detective skills, theatricality, and great fighting skills to strike fear into his enemies. Superman belongs with the everyday people where Batman prefers to stay in the shadows and dark streets. Thus having two superheroes may ruin the movie or make it amazing.

Research Questions: Will having two main superheroes ruin a movie or make it better? Will changing the actor of who plays batman ruin the movie or make it better?

Sources: Ryan Brown, Alex, and Leo

Dada Types: Superman 5.5 out of 10 from Critics and Batman 8.8 out if 10 from Critics

               Batman shirts

                  Batman movies

             Left one is an older one

       Right one is one of the new ones

                   Bane mask. 

(Bane is a villain in a batman movie)

my pet peeve

My Pet Peeve

By: Zachary Scarpetti

1.                 My main pet peeve is when somebody takes a sip from my drink it is truly annoying. I won’t even share a drink with my mother. Whenever it happens I just want to pour it all over them but I don’t. A few days ago at lunch I was saving my chocolate milk for after I am done eating my food. I like to do this because when I am done eating I am always get very thirsty. Right before I was done eating a friend of mine decided he was thirsty so he opened my milk and took a sip. It was not a big sip but I still do not care. I am a germ freak and I don’t know where his nasty lip have been. I wanted to take his head and slam it through the table. Since that was too much of aggressive solution I decided to take the nicer route and I gave him the rest of the milk.

2.                 A tiny pet peeve that I have is peeling oranges. When I grab an orange it is because I want to enjoy a refreshing snack. I don’t want to sit down for 5 minutes and peel off this nasty covering. I have no nails so it is hard for me to peel off the skin. I can’t use my teeth because the skin is so gross. Most of the time I end up cutting my oranges into slices but I can’t do this if I eat a clementine. I would rather pay more for already peeled oranges.

3.                 Another pet peeve that I have is people who want to constantly touch, punch, or pinch you. It is so annoying and they think that they are so funny and cool. They try to make you laugh by hitting you… Like no you are not funny leave me alone and go away. When I am stretching and getting ready for a match I don’t want you to hit or poke me like just let me do what I need to do and don’t bother me. It is not that I get angry when this happens it is just that I get really annoyed. This happens every day and I just want to drop kick whoever does this.

4.                 My final pet peeve is when every day I go onto snapchat I see the same boy posting a shirtless picture flexing. It is annoying because it is the same looking picture each day but with a different stupid caption. If you get a new hat or you applied to Hollister you can tell me with your shirt on I don’t want to see you shirtless. He will post a shirtless picture for every little thing that he does that is good. I am 2 seconds away from deleting you please stop!

Summer vacation

My opinion is that summer vacation has it's advantages and it's disadvantages. The advantage is that it gives kids a break from school. The disadvantage is that some kids get closed off from what's going on around them during this time. Kids with family's that have a lower income get a disadvantage from kids with a richer family. The kids with less money can't go to places that keeps there brain active or have tutors. The break between the last day of school and the first day of school is a long time. Maybe the break should be shortened a month. This solution would give kids a nice vacation but it wouldn't be to long so they forget what they have learned. Summer vacation is also important so kids are not in a classroom that is super hot. They get to be outside with friends instead. Summer reading also help kids not forget what they learned because there brain is active. Thus, summer vacation should stay!

My album review

Long live A$AP is by A$SAP Rocky

A$AP's real name is Rakim Mayers. He was born on October 3, 1988 in Harlem New York. The album has a total of 16 songs. The album is 62 minutes long. The flow of this album is great. He starts it off slow and then in the middle it gets faster and more exciting. After the 10th song it starts to slow down again. There was bunch of amazing songs but the were 3 songs that were just awful and shouldn't have been in this album. This album started his career. It was a mixtape in 2011 to critical acclaim. This success led to record deals for A$AP. 

Rateing: 4/5

Album reviews

The Marshall Mathers LP 2 is the kind of sequel that gets people shouting at the screen in disbelief before their seats are warmed up. The first song, "Bad Guy," is seven white-knuckled minutes of psycho-rap insanity in which Stan's little brother comes back to chop Slim Shady into Slim Jims, tossing him into the trunk and driving around Detroit – listening to The Marshall Mathers LP, of course. "How's this for publicity stunt? This should be fun/Last album now, 'cause after this you'll be officially done," Em raps, playing his own killer.

Eminem could use a publicity stunt, and The Marshall Mathers LP 2 is just what the therapist ordered. During the 13 years since The Marshall Mathers LP, he's never lost his acrobat-gremlin skills on the mic. But some subsequent albums felt hermetic, perverting rage into rock-star griping on 2004's Encore, horror-show shock tactics on 2009's Relapse and 12-step purging on 2010's Recovery. The Marshall Mathers LP 2 is about reclaiming a certain freewheeling buoyancy, about pissing off the world from a more open, less cynical place; he even says sorry to his mom on "Headlights," where he's joined by Nate Ruess of fun.

Nostalgia is everywhere. Em surrounds himself in allusions to classic hip-hop, like the Beastie Boys samples producer Rick Rubin laces together on "Berzerk." It's telling that the only guest MC is Kendrick Lamar on "Love Game," probably because his slippery syllable-juggling owes a lot to Eminem.

Yet Em's former obsession – his own media image – has been replaced with a 41-year-old's cranky concerns. He's still a solipsistic cretin, but in a more general, everyday sort of way. He raps about how he can't figure out how to download Luda on his computer and waves the Nineties-geek flag with references to Jeffrey Dahmer and the Unabomber. He's playing his best character: the demon spawn of Trailer Hell, America, hitting middle age with his middle finger up his nose while he cleans off the Kool-Aid his kids spilled on the couch.

Much of the album hews to the stark beats and melodies he loves rapping over. But the tracks that lean on classic rock are loopy and hilarious. "Rhyme or Reason" brilliantly flips a sample of the Zombies' "Time of the Season"; when the song asks, "Who's your daddy," Em answers, "I don't have one/My mother reproduced like a Komodo dragon." "So Far . . ." shows some love for a Rust Belt homey by rhyming over Joe Walsh's "Life's Been Good": "Jed Clampett, Fred Sanford, welfare mentality helps to/Keep me grounded, that's why I never take full advantage of wealth/I managed to dwell within these perimeters/Still cramming the shelves full of Hamburger Helper/I can't even help it, this is the hand I was dealt to."

MM LP 2 fits in well in the year of Yeezus and Magna Carta . . . Holy Grail, records by aging geniuses trying to figure out what the hell to do with their dad-ass selves. (It's like hip-hop is the new Wilco or something.) Since Em has always been a mess, he'll probably still be able to give us pause when he's rhyming about retirement ventures through dentures and cleaning out the colostomy bag he wears up inside his saggy drawers. MM LP 3, 2026. Let's do this.

  

Rateing: 4/5

Katy Perry's 2010 album, Teenage Dream, was such a massive blockbuster that we've had to wait three years for the follow-up where she reveals the multifaceted artist behind the fun pop sheen. And Prism is as prismatic as all get-out: There's the Blakean feline of "Roar," the trap-rap interlocutor of "Dark Horse" (featuring Juicy J of Three 6 Mafia), the jet-set gal pal of "International Smile." On "Ghost," she lances the boil on her soul that is Russell Brand. On "This Is How We Do," she's a liberated weekday warrior, going from all-night parties with the boys to "Japaneezy" nail appointments to kamikaze Mariah karaoke. It's amazing she was able to cram all this Katy onto one album.

Some of Teenage Dream's sunny effervescence remains intact here ("Time to bring out the big balloons," she promises on the lush disco shwanger "Birthday"). But Perry and her longtime collaborators Dr. Luke and Max Martin often go for a darker, moodier intimacy à la high-end Swedish divas Robyn and Lykke Li. Songs like "Legendary Lovers" and "Unconditionally" set stark revelations to torrential Euro splendor. Perry has always done a great job of letting us know she's in on the joke of pop stardom. Sadly, she doesn't always bring that same sense of humor and self-awareness to the joke of pop-star introspection. The album's raft of ripe-lotus ballads is larded with Alanis-ian poesy she can't pull off: "I thank my sister for keeping my head above the water/When the truth was like swallowing sand," she sings on "By the Grace of God." A California girl should know that there are better things to do at the beach.

  Rateing: 3/5

"From Here to the Moon and Back," the pledge of eternal devotion (with Dolly Parton) that opens Willie Nelson's conceptual collection of duets with women, has major wedding-dance potential. But several of the pairings that follow lament unions that couldn't work. Nelson's partners, sometimes updating songs he cut years ago, span the country spectrum from folk to pop. Weepers and waltzes prevail, but standouts push beyond that: Shelby Lynne's Western swing, Alison Krauss' dark Latin tinge, Wynonna Judd's husky honky-tonk blues, Mavis Staples' Bill Withers soul cover. And Nelson holds his unmistakable own throughout, like no other 80-year-old could.

Rateing: 3/5

This was social media in Great Britain in 1963, during the first flash flood of Beatlemania: George Harrison singing "Do You Want to Know a Secret" for Deanne and Jenny in Bedford;Paul McCartney belting "The Hippy Hippy Shake" for a student at the bassist's old grammar school in Liverpool; Ringo Starr stumbling over names on a request card from Yorkshire. That year, the Beatles ran riot over the BBC, even landing a weekly radio series of studio performances, dedications and wisecracks, Pop Go the Beatles – a vigorous innocence and outreach that propels this second culling of the group's Beeb work. The Beatles are enjoying the speed and lunacy of stardom here: tugging their roots forward in Little Richard's"Lucille" and a sparkling cover of Buddy Holly's "Words of Love" a year before they cut it for a record; going deep into their Cavern-era song bag for Chuck Berry's "I'm Talking About You" and Carl Perkins'"Glad All Over." The mounting hysteria of concerts seeps into "Misery," taped at a BBC theater in March 1963; the live audience can barely contain its screams in the middle. You also hear the distance growing: "It's amazing that you can hear us as we're in America now," Lennon cracks in a pretaped chat in early '64. There would be no more dedications to schoolgirls in Liverpool. The Beatles now belonged to the world.

Rateing: 4/5

Seven years after he placed on American Idol, Chris Daughtry and his band are opening up their would-be grunge to more nuance: folk instruments and synths, smoother high notes tempering Daughtry's bellow, "boom-b'boom" vocal-bass hook lightening the gender war in "Battleships." The sound on Baptized somehow links U2 to Rascal Flatts, adding Springsteenstances in "Wild Heart." More unexpectedly, there's also a banjo shuffle where Daughtry chooses Van Halen over Van Hagar, catalogs some of his other heroes and wonders who wrote Hole's songs. "Long Live Rock & Roll," it's called – a defense, perhaps, against anybody claiming guys like him helped kill it.

Rateing: 2.5/5

Assisted on nearly every track by new husband Chad Kroeger of Nickelback, Avril Lavigne starts her fifth LP shouting out her own rocker credentials: On "Rock N Roll," all the Auto-Tune in Sweden can't keep her bad reputation from battling "hipster bullshit," and "Here's to Never Growing Up" advocates "singing Radiohead at the top of our lungs" even if Radiohead's fans never would. In "Bad Girl," she and Marilyn Manson get their industrial-glam cartoon kink on. More often, she opts for soggy ballads, sometimes vaguely goth or R&B, and tries in vain to keep up with Taylor Swift. Only the J-pop-via-Ke$ha "Hello Kitty" feels truly playful.

Rateing: 5/5

Holiday spending

In 2010 the total holiday spending was $228.36 billion. This money could be used for something more useful. As a country we could maybe give some of our holiday spending money to the government. This money could go to the debt so we could have less taxes or go to schools. Just skipping holidays 1 year could save our debt witch would cause taxes to drop down to nearly nothing. What would you rather have no taxes and skipping 1 year of holidays or not skip the 1 year and have taxes?

real or fake

News stories

                Rooster stabs man to death at a cock fight. He got stabbed by a sharp blade attached to the rooster. Jose Luis Ochoa was only 35 years old when he died. He was declared dead 2 hours after the incident. Reports KTLA "an autopsy concluded Ochoa died of an accidental 'sharp force injury' to his right calf." According to the Bakersfield Californian, Jose Luis Ochoa was fined $370 for cock fighting the year before his death.

            Man impersonates a sheriff to get a discount on doughnuts. Charles T. "Chuck" Barry was seen on surveillance video displaying his fake badge and firearm, Pasco Sheriff's Office said. When Barry was not allowed to get this discount he said “See I am a cop!” and then he held up his firearms. According to a jail official, he was released on a $5,150 bond.

            Colombian man Sergio Estevez sets world record for most coffee beans eaten in one hour. On November 6^th the Guinness World council recorded Sergio’s amazing record. He ate 14.3 pounds of Colombian coffee beans. Sergio has been features on Colombian talk show “La gente hablar en voz alta.” He’s being honored locally and was awarded a prize of 10,000 Pesos. Equivalent to about $800. He will be featured in the 2014 issue of the Guinness World record book.

            A burglar was scared off by a skilled ax-thrower she grabbed the axe she keeps next to her bed when she felt a man trying to take he watch off in her sleep. She chased the man out of her house and off her property. "I would’ve gotten him right in the spine or the back of his head," she said. "I hit what I aim for." 22 year old Nicholas Illoa, was arrested for burglary.