My Review of The A-Team

I saw the A Team on the opening day, and i have to say that i was very pleasantly surprised by it. When i first saw the poster, i saw all the people playing the characters, i thought that it looked like absolute shit. Now, I myself have only watched a few episodes of the original A-Team, i wasn't a huge fan of it. Now when i saw the movie, I walked out thinking it was a good movie. To start off, Liam Neeson is playing Hannibal, Bradley Cooper is playing Face, Quinton "Rampage" Jackson is playing B.A. Baracus, and Sharlito Copley is playing Murdock. Now besides Sharlito Copley i've seen all of the other actors in other movies or fights in Jackson's case. Now to the movie, it starts off in the Mexican desert and you see Hannibal in a chair being beaten by Mexican men. I'll try not to ruin the plot but he breaks out and goes off to save Face, on the way we see B.A. going to get his baby back. By baby, i mean his van. He beats some guys up and gets it back. Then he meets up with Hannibal and they go off to save Face. After all of the team meet up, it skips ahead a few years and the team has been proven to be a great undercover team for the US government. Now i won't keep going with the plot because that would take up way too much space, so i'll go straight to the review. The actors performances were all great. The real highlight is Copley's performance as Murdock. He does the crazy and wild actions of Murdock perfectly. The weakest performance in my opinion was of Jackson as B.A. . But really, trying to do as good of a job as Mr. T is very hard. Now i'm not saying that it was a bad performance, but in comparison to the other actors, it was the weakest. The best thing about the movie, is that it doesn't take itself seriously, from the team flying a tank, to the whole ending of the movie. It was a great summer movie, that won't give you any information, but it will excite the hell out of you.


Letter Grade: B+

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Review of Powerslave

The album Powerslave, by Iron Maiden was released in 1984. I believe this album to be one of Maiden's best. Starting off with one of their most classic songs, Aces High. This song starts off with the thundering guitar riff and you really hear the great guitar playing of Dave Murray and Adrian Smith with this song. The song itself is about the battle of Britain during World War 2. This song is a perfect opening track. The 2nd song on the album is 2 Minutes to Midnight. This song is one of my favorite songs by Iron Maiden and is one of the best they have written. It's about the doomsday clock and how in 1953 it almost reached midnight(total global disaster), it was at 2 minutes because of the testing of nuclear missiles within 9 months of each other by the US and USSR. The song itself is a masterpiece which is written by Bruce Dickinson and Adrian Smith. The solo's are also great showcases of Dave Murray and Adrian Smith's guitar abilities. The next song is Losfer Words(Big 'Orra). This song i don't really have much to say about it other than it is an instrumental(which means it doesn't feature vocals). It's ending perfectly sets up the beginning to the next song which is Flash of the Blade. This song i like the first riff and other than that it's an average song that some might like, but i find the vocals to be kind of silly and the solo's are nothing to write home about. The next song is Duelists, i find this to be the weakest song on the album, it's subject matter is right in the title of the song, it's about fencing, which was and still is one of Bruce Dickinson's passions in life(other than flying, singing, and writing). This song is the weakest song on the album and it is kind of boring to listen to and i usually skip it when listening to the album. Our next song is called Back in the Village. This song completely makes up for the Duelists being on the album. The opening riff is very complex and fun to listen to and Bruce's vocals on the song are amazing. It's about the British show The Prisoner, and how the main character of the show always ends up "Back in the Village" with the village being the place that the main character always ends back up in. The next song on the album, the title track, Powerslave, is probably the 4th best song of the album. The subject of the song is about a Egyptian Pharaoh who is dying and then comes back as a ghost when he is buried. This song is also the subject matter of the album cover, which brings Eddie to Egyptian times and he is a Pharaoh. The song itself is a very strong song and I like the chorus a lot. It's so catchy. The solo for this song is one of Maiden's best, starts off slow and gets faster with time. It's very epic. Now for the final song, the most epic song i think ever exists. Rime of the Ancient Mariner. It clocks in at a whopping thirteen minutes and thirty four seconds. It is the best song on the album. It's about the poem by Samuel Taylor Coloridge's poem of the same name. The song itself is very Maiden, it has the galloping riffs that Maiden always has and Bruce Dickinson's vocals are top notch here in this monster. During the middle of the song it gets very slow and it actually recites verses from the poem, then it switches to more classic Maiden. The solo is very good and i find this song to be the best on the album and in the top ten for Iron Maiden.


Now for the letter grade:
Vocals: A- The Duelists and Flash of the Blade bring this down a little bit
Guitar: A+ Dave Murray and Adrian Smith are at the top of their game here and this album proves that
Drums: A Nicko McBrain is one of the best metal drummers and this album does nothing to hurt that
Bass: A+ Steve Harris really shows that he is one of the best at playing Bass on this album
Overall: A This album is one of Iron Maiden's best and it deserves an A