Predators

Director: Nimrod Antal
Writers: Alex Litvak, Michael Finch
Cast: Adrien Brody, Laurence Fishburne, Topher Grace, Alice Braga, Danny Trejo, Walton Goggins, Oleg Taktarov, Mahershalalhashbaz Ali, Louiz Ozawa

Plot:
A group of cruel and violent humans are kidnapped and brought to the Predators' planet.The members of this notorious group are:
Cuchillo , a Mexican hitman of a drug cartel who always carries a couple of "Uzis" on his back.
Isabelle, a French woman armed with a snipper rifle
Hanzo, an expert Japanese swordsman member of the Yakuza clan.
Stans, a shaved-headed prisoner from St. Quentin who is always armed with a knife.
Mombasa, an African member of Sierra Leone's death squad
Nikola, A huge Russian mobster.
Edwin, one of the FBI's most wanted.

The group will try to survive the human hunting carried out by the Predators whose leader is a "Black Super Predator". This "Super Predator" is described as a "Predator on steroids". Not only will the group have to deal with the Predators, but also with "Predator Halcons", "Predator Dogs" and some other deadly alien species.

The Boondock Saints

Directed by Troy Duffy. Sean Patrick Flanery and Norman Reedus play the Catholic Irish brothers Connor and Murphy MacManus. They live in an Irish-American neighborhood in Boston. They live a common life working at a meat packing factory.

The story gets started when the brothers are celebrating Saint Patrick's Day (Irish celebration) in a friend's pub. Suddenly, three Russian mobsters show up in the pub. Aggressively, they threaten the pub owner and order him to shut his business down. The brothers try to talk with the mobsters but it only caused a fight to break up.

The next morning, the mobsters go to the brothers' house in order to kill them. But the brothers fight back and kill them.Upon getting rid of the Russian mobsters, the brothers have a sort of "divine revelation" which makes them hunt down and eliminate mafia members, killers, rapists, pedophiles...summing up, all kind of human scum. People start calling them "The Saints" and gradually , they gain more and more supporters. As their killing spree goes on, FBI Agent Paul Smecker (Willem Dafoe) is designated to arrest "The Saints". But, Smecker can't help but wonder if "The Saints" doings are right or wrong.

The Boondock Saints was screened in US theaters for a short time (it only lasted on for about a week).Also, the film was severely criticized for being very violent. Nowadays, in spite of the aforementioned circumstances, The Boondock Saints is considered as a cult movie. A sequel to this movie entitled "The Boondock Saints II: All Saints Day" was released on DVD last year.

Durarara!

Note:It's been awhile since the last time I posted something. I hope I can keep writing regularly :)

Ryuugamine Mikado is a boy who longs for the exciting life in the big city. Upon invitation from his childhood friend Masaomi, Mikado decides to transfer to a school in Ikebukuro. On his first day in Ikebukuro, Masaomi warns Mikado about people he should not make enemies with. While still nervous because of Masaomi's stories about the dangerous people who inhabit the city, Mikado witnesses Ikebukuro's famous urban legend, "The headless Rider" on his black motorcycle. From that point on, Many more supernatural cases will arise. In addition, the appearance of a mysterious gang known as "The Yellow Turbans" will bring Ikebukuro to its breaking point.

Paranoia Agent

Paranoia Agent is an anime produced by Satoshi Kon about various problems of the Japanese society mixed together in a story through Lil' Slugger (A.K.A. Shōnen Bat). The stories that made Paranoia Agent were created by Satoshi during the time he made his movies Perfect Blue, Millennium Actress, and Tokyo Godfathers. Satoshi Kon took all the stories he had thought of and created Paranoia Agent.

Plot

Lil' Slugger is a middleschooler who at nights, wanders around in roller skates with a golden baseball bat. He knocks people with it in order to "release" them from their problems. The anime is highly influenced by the movies of David Lynch. The series was premiered in Japan in 2004. It has 13 episodes.

Metalocalypse

Metalocalypse is an animated series aired on Adult Swim. It was created by Brendan Small and Tommy Blacha. It is described as a mixture between “Spinal Tap with Scooby Doo and Norway”. Metalocalypse follows the adventures of a Metal band called “Dethklok”. Although the name of the band is usually written as "Dethklok",most of their band logos are written as "Dethkløk". Their popularity is incredible. They are known as the “twelfth largest economy in the World”. So popular are they that their fans would do anything their songs said, even if it means death. For example, if they support a commercial brand, that means that it becomes the most popular in the market. Their supernatural popularity has drawn the attention of a group known as “The Tribunal”. Each episode shows an attempt of this group to destroy the band. Deathklok’s concerts are notoriously violent. Most of the time their fans end up hurt or dead. Even their charity deeds end up with lots of deaths like when a laser beam show killed the entire London Philarmonic Orchestra. Frequently, the series has various famous musicians sharing their voice for the show such as James Hetfield and Kirk Hammett of Metallica, Jeff Loomis, Steve Smyth, and Warrel Dane of Nevermore, Arch Enemy’s guitarist Michael Amott, Canibal Corpse’s singer George “Corpsegrinder” Fisher. Besides, each episode shows various references to other metal bands in the real world. Being these references shown as places, names or the characters’ behaviour.

Welcome to the NHK

Welcome to the NHK revolves around the lives of some young adults living in the city of Tokyo. Many of the different "life styles" shown in this story are about Hikikomori, Anime, Otaku ,as well as the different and intense experiences that the main characters face, such as depression and solitude. Welcome to the NHK has Tatsuhiro Sato as its main protagonist. He is a college drop-out who has been unemployed for four years. He lives a totally reclusive life as a Hikikomori. He has even come to the bizarre conclusion that everything that happens to him is a conspiracy. On a day that seemed like nothing in his routine would change, Sato meets Misaki Nakahara a mysterious girl who will try to cure Sato's reclusiveness problem. Misaki has Sato sign a contract by which they agree to meet every night at a nearby park and have lessons on how to give up being a hikikomori. There are many topics going on in these sessions, ranging from psychology to psychoanalysis. From this point on, the plots starts to unfold. In spite of the fact that these sessions are intended to help Sato, frequently, both characters tend to lie to each other. Although Misaki is sure that with her help Sato will integrate again into society, Sato prefers to go with his neighbor and former schoolmate Kaoru Yamazaki whenever he needs support.

Welcome to the NHK started as a light novel created by japanese novelist Tatsuhiko Takimoto , illustrated by Yoshitoshi Abe (Serial Experiments Lain) and published by Kadokawa Shoten. Its release in Japan was on January 28,2002. Later, the story was adapted to manga written by the same person but Kendi Oiwa was in charge of the drawings. The anime series aired from July 9 until december 17 in 2006. It has 24 episodes.

Beck

The story revolves around a boy called Yukio Tanaka (Nicknamed “Koyuki” because when he was a child there were two “Yukios” in his class and he was the shorter, so the prefix “Ko” was added). The series starts when he was a fourteen year old middle schooler, (currently in the manga he is nineteen) and tells about the adventures of his music band called BECK (also Known as Mongolian Chop Squad in the USA because they thought that the name BECK wasn´t commercial enough). An important factor as the story progresses is the relationship between Koyuki and Ryusuke´s sister, Maho Minami. Whenever Maho attends the concerts, Koyuki gains more confidence to perform. Other important characters in the story are the rest of the band: Saku, the drummer and Koyuki´s best friend, Chiba, the singer and Taira, the bassist.

Beck Manga contains references and tributes to classic rock and pop culture in general. Sometimes well known rock stars appeared drawn in manga style. This happens in a dream that the protagonists have about one of their concerts.

In this dream various rock legends such as Eric Clapton, Kurt Cobain, Sid Vicious, John Lennon and Freddie Mercury cry when they see all the garbage left after a concert. Lots of times references to a famous musicians are made, for example when Ryusuke plays “Machine Gun” a song of Jimi Hendrix that saves his life when a hooligan shoots atsomeone near him. Ryusuke´s guitar “Lucille” and its story is based on the guitar of B.B. King.

Harold Sakuichi admits that the band is inspired on the Red Hot Chili Peppers. The author admits that it is his favorite band and their song “Under the Bridge” helped him in a bad moment in his life. Sakuishi wrote a one chapter manga called “Under the Bridge”. It tells the story about how he met the Red Hot Chili Peppers.

Beck Anime accurately follows the manga story until chapter thirty (Volumen 10 of the manga). After that, we must read the manga to know the rest of the story.