My top 5 action movies!

by Reydi Ventura

I’ve seen a lot of cool posts on the Eagle Express, but rarely any movie related post. Here’s a movie article that I hope people can enjoy and relate to. Some people might not agree with the movies I like, but these are the movies that I love. I hope whoever reads this can watch some of the movies I listed here and love them just like I did.

5: Pixels is a really cool movie that is funny and action packed. I think it’s a good movie because it teaches kids to not give up, because Adam Sandler didn’t give up in Donkey Kong. The reason I like this movie is because it shows classic games that I would love to play. I also like this movie because video games were finally brought to the big screen.

4: X-Men days of future past is one of the best movies of 2014, because it shows both the future and the past of the X-Men story. The movie also shows kids that you can change the way you are. It was also very good because we learned more about their origins. The last reason why I like this movie is because we got to see what will happen if villains like Magneto, Mystique, Quicksilver,
and many more, but Magneto turned bad again.

3: Batman vs Superman is one of the best DC Comics movies ever. The reason why it is so good is because it shows the DC heroes that were originally in the Justice League. It also shows the heroes who will have other movies by themselves, like Wonder Woman, Cyborg, Flash, and Aqua Man. The movie was mostly good because we get to see who would win in a fight, Batman or Superman, and it seems like Batman won because Doomsday killed Superman.

2: Star Wars: The Force Awakens is the is the best Star Wars movie I’ve ever seen. They added new characters, and made new story lines. They made Rey the main hero and killed off Han Solo. I think The Force Awakens has the best story line in any Star Wars movie ever. My favorite characters are Fin, Rey, Han Solo, and Kylo Ren.

1: Suicide Squad did not come out yet, but I have some theories about it and I know it will be my favorite movie. One of my theories is based on the trailer, and is about Batman, Harley, and the Joker (played by Jared Leto). I think Harley and the Joker will drive a car away from Batman because they did something bad, then Batman will make the car land in water. The reason I will love this movie is because it will have most of my favorite villains, like Slip Shot, El Diablo, Harley, Killer Croc, and more.

MY TOP FIVE SUPERHEROES!!!!!

By Reydi  Ventura

Right now, the Eagle Express has a top five villains post, written by Miles Graham; but there can’t be a top 5 villains post without a top five heroes post!

5: Batman Batman is the best detective ever known. His parents died right in front of his eyes, and he wanted that to never happen to anyone again. He became Batman to save people, and swore to never kill when he fights crime. Batman’s arch enemy, the Joker, is on Miles’ page, too. Joker has taken Batman to his limit were he almost killed Joker because he brutally tortured Barbra Gordan AKA Batgirl, and made her paralyzed because he shot her in the spine. Batman has defeated the justice league several times that’s why he’s here on my list.

4:Sentry Sentry is the most powerful superhero you could ever know. He ripped Ares in two, and didn’t need any effort to do it. Sentry was once a part of the Avengers, and saved them from a man named Michael Korvac who was mind-controlled by a mysterious man. Sentry’s real name is Bob, and his arch-enemy is the Void, who tries to take control of Sentry to make him fifty times powerful than usual. He ripped Ares apart, so imagine how powerful he is!

3:Spider Man Spider Man is one of the first superheroes created by Stan lee. Spider Man’s real name is Peter Parker, and his parents died in a plane crash with a doctor named Curt Conners, who becomes The Lizard and tries to kill Peter many times. Peter has lived with his uncle Ben and aunt May; they took good care of him, but Ben got shot by a man named Flint Marco who later became Sandman. If you want to know more about Spider Man, read Robert Brown’s post The Lessons of the Spiderverse.

2:Arrow Arrow, aka Oliver Queen, protects Star City with Black Canary aka Laurel Lance, White Canary aka Sara Lance, and John Dingle. Olly (which is his nickname on the Arrow TV show) saves the world from numerous villains like Damien Dark who tried to kill Laurel but failed many times. Olly has also tried to defeat a villain (he’s a villain on the TV show, but in the comic he’s a villain who sometimes acts like a hero) named Death Stroke, but has failed at that, too. Oliver was once stranded on an island, an experience which taught him to become a superhero.

1:Flash The Flash, aka Barry Allen, is a forensic scientist in Central City who was struck by dark matter in lightning form. The next day he found out he had super speed, and he went to the place that caused this: Star Labs, where there was a particle accelerator explosion. Barry fought many meta humans (humans with special powers), like Zoom and Reverse Flash, and he fights them to this day. To learn more about Flash, check out my other post, The History of the Flash, in a flash.

Games that involve difficult decisions

by Jahiem McCoy

There are some video games where you make decisions that involve real life situations. Some of these are really hard situations, which will be discussed in this article.

One example is a game called One Chance, which is about a scientist who made the world think he cured cancer but he really created a deadly gas which destroys every living cell, including plant cells. You have the decision to try to fix the problem, even though it might not work, or spend time with your family. You can only choose one option, and you can’t undo it, so deciding is hard to do.

There are also decisions in video games that aren’t really about real life, but still involve hard decisions. For example, there is a game called Splatoon. Splatoon is a game where you fight for your turf and regularly the teams are random but with a thing called Splatfest, which is something that asks you a question which gives you two options. These options determine which team you’re going to be on, and which team you’re going to be fighting. The questions update frequently, and you only get to come across them once. One time, the options were love or money, which is a hard decision in real life.

There are also other games, like Bioshock, In Bioshock, the game starts when player-character Jack is a passenger on a plane that goes down in the Atlantic Ocean. As the only survivor, Jack makes his way to a nearby lighthouse that houses a bathysphere (a chamber for deep sea observations) terminal which takes him to Rapture. Jack is contacted via radio by a character named Atlas, and is guided to safety from the Splicers and the perils of the nearby city, which is rundown and dangerous. Atlas requests Jack’s help in stopping Ryan, who he claims has trapped his family in a docked bathysphere. When Jack encounters a wandering Little Sister and its fallen Big Daddy, Atlas urges Jack to kill the Little Sister to harvest her Adam for himself which makes you confronted with a serious choice: do you want to do the right thing and be less powerful? Or do you want to be evil and have an easier time at the game?

There is another game that has many hard decisions; the game is called Telltale. In Telltale, almost every choice you make is one where there’s no ultimate right and wrong. They put a very short timer on each decision, so that you don’t have the time to look up what decision does what, making it almost impossible to cheat like most other video game decisions–thus making them have hard choices to make in that video game.

These are games that include hard decisions, and will make you think about consequences when you play them.

Lion King Review

Miles Graham

We all know the Disney movie, the Lion King. If you do, then you probably know that it is also a Broadway show. I went to see it not that long ago, and it was good.

My favorite part of the Lion King is the costumes. In the opening, when they perform the song Circle of Life, the costumes are amazing. One particular costume that caught my eye was the cheetah. The cheetah costume was this: the hind legs of the cheetah were the actual legs of the person in the costume, and his arms had a stick attached to the front legs. So when he would put his arms up, the front legs would go up, too. The main actors (except the kids) had hat-like things on with their character’s face on it, which was cool.

My favorite characters are Zazu (the bird) and the hyenas. I liked Zazu because he has one of my favorite traits in a character: he breaks the fourth wall (which is when a fictional character says or does something in or about the real world) multiple times. I liked the hyenas, because they were just good characters and I mostly like the villain more than the hero.

Overall, The Lion King was a great movie and a great Broadway show. It is my favorite Broadway show so far, even though I haven’t seen many. The costumes were great, and it was really on point with regard to the movie.

Rating: 5/5 stars

 

 

 

 

 

 

The history of the Flash, in a flash

By: Reydi Ventura and Robert Brown

Flash and Reverse Flash: the ultimate battle!!!!!

The Justice League is a team of great heroes like Superman, Batman, and Wonder Woman but the one left behind is the Flash, which is ironic because he is the fastest man alive. Barry Allen, aka the Flash, is a  superhero and a forensic scientist. When he was 11 years old, his mother died because of a yellow blur called the Reverse Flash. Barry and the Reverse Flash, aka Eobard Thwane, went back in time to kill Barry as a child. Barry stopped him by taking him away from the house, so Eobard killed Barry’s mom instead. Barry’s father went to prison for her murder, because nobody believed the Reverse Flash existed.

Barry lived with his dad’s best friend, a cop named Joe West. Barry also lived with Joe’s daughter, Iris West. Barry had a crush on Iris, but he kept it a secret. He should have told her before he was struck by dark matter in a shape of lightning, created by a particle accelerator in Central City, built by Eobard Thwane, disguised as a man named Harrison Wells whose life he had sucked away with a machine. The accelerator went off when Barry was opening the sky light, which was connected by a metal chain; since lightning is attracted to metal, the dark matter was absorbed by the lightning and it went through the chain and hit Barry. After Barry got struck by the lightning, he was in a coma for 8 months. The day he woke up, he found out that he was the fastest man alive–or was he? The Reverse Flash was way faster than Barry.

Barry tries to save Central City

As the Flash, Barry worked with people named Caitlin Snow and Cisco Ramon, and also Harrison Wells (who was really Eboard Thwane in disguise). They fought Meta-Humans, which were other people who had been struck by dark matter and ended up with super powers of their own. Some of them were good, such as Ronnie Raymond aka Firestorm and Oliver Queen aka Arrow. On Christmas of 2014, Barry was at home and saw the Reverse Flash staring right into his eyes. Barry ran out to a football field, where they started fighting. Barry lost the fight, but he was left with the biggest decision of his life: how has he going to get faster? Barry had the help of Caitlin Snow and Cisco Ramon to find different ways to increase his speed, so he could defeat the Reverse Flash and get his father out of jail. Barry had another decision: he had to decide whether to travel back in time, save his mom and lose his powers–or keep his powers and have his mom remain dead.

One day, Iris found the man she loved. His name was Eddie, but they didn’t know he was also Eobards  great-great-grandfather. Barry decided to go back in time to save his mom, and back in the past everybody who knew Barry was the Flash was there. Barry ran as fast as he could around the area where the particle accelerator was, and a time portal opened Barry ran into it. He ended up at his old childhood home. Barry ran downstairs and saw another version of himself–it was him, fighting the Reverse Flash! They were circling around his mom while they were fighting, and his future self told his past self not to interfere. So Barry went back through the portal and started fighting the Reverse Flash in the present time. Barry was losing, but then Eddie shot himself so the Reverse Flash would never be born.  But the portal was never closed, so it created a black hole. He ran into it to stop it, and so did Firestorm. When Firestorm entered the black hole, he became as hot as a supernova, which is as hot as the sun. As he did that, the Flash ran around to spread the fire around as his suit absorbed the heat. Flash fell out of the sky and ran down a building, and Firestorm absorbed the energy and died. This caused the black hole to create breaches around the world, connecting the Earths.

The Lessons of the Spiderverse

By Robert Brown Peter Parker, aka SpiderMan, is a teenager who lives in Queens. Peter lives with his aunt May and his uncle Ben, because as a child his parents left and later on died in a plane crash. Peter’s …

Lionel Andres Messi, the best soccer player in the world

by Latifur Rahman Lionel Messi was born on June 24,1987 in Rosario, Argentina. When he was 13, a Spanish team named Barcelona saw his amazing skills and helped his parents to pay for a surgery he really needed. After they paid …

Wicked Wicked Review

wicked poster

by Miles Graham

Wicked is a Broadway play based on the 1995 book Wicked: the life and times of the Wicked Witch of the West. It’s about how the Wicked Witch of the West and the Good Witch, both from the Wizard of Oz, came to be.

Wicked is really good overall, but there were some things that are scary, disturbing, and creepy. There are three things in particular that I’m talking about. The first one thing is the dragon, and I bet you’re saying ‘there’s no dragon in the Wizard of Oz!’ Well, this isn’t the Wizard of Oz, it’s what happened before Dorothy literally dropped into the land of Oz. The dragon is perched above the stage, and every time magic is performed or something really major happens, smoke comes out of its nose and it moves around like a lunatic. Another creepy thing in the play is the wizard, and I bet you’re thinking ‘what’s so scary about a wizard?’ Well, what if I told you the wizard was a giant floating head with a loud voice and multicolored light-up eyes? If you saw it, I bet you would be at least a little on edge. The last creepy thing I’m talking about is when the Wicked Witch uses magic for the first time in the play. It’s freaky–the whole stage flashes with lights, the banners on the stage turn black then white over and over and fast, and everything on stage moves around. Now I bet you’re thinking, ‘oh, I don’t want to see it now’…well you should, its great. If you can’t see the play, read the book because it’s great also. I would suggest it to almost anyone.

Game review: Grand Theft Auto V

by Justin Ulloa

Grand Theft Auto V is the latest game in the Grand Theft Auto (GTA) series. It came out in September of 2013, and it’s the first GTA game, besides San Andreas, where you can customize cars and weapons. This is also the first GTA game where you can play as more than one character, and you can customize your character online.

The three main characters of GTA 5.

Grand Theft Auto V is about three people: Michael, Franklin, and Trevor. They have to take high paying jobs that put their lives at risk,  but if done right, can make them multi-millionaires. At first, they were not always friends. The story begins with Michael robbing a bank with Trevor, but Michael fakes his death after the robbery. After faking his death, Micheal finally meets Franklin and they continue the storyline of robbing banks and pulling off scores. This is the beginning of the story of the game.

GTA V is great because at the end of the game you get to do a big heist. There are two ways to pull off this heist: the loud way and the stealthy way. The stealthy way is you rob a truck to get inside the building, and eventually you wind up with 201 million dollars. The loud way is drilling into the actual bank where the gold is, and you eventually come out with the same $201 million, but you make more noise and go to different locations when the heist is over. After the heist a man name Devin Weston asked you to kill Micheal.You get the choice to kill Micheal. You can kill Devin and a lot of people that you have problems with.That is all to know about Grand theft auto V.

I like this game because this is the first Grand theft auto besides San Andereas that you can make  custom cars that have hydrolics.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Lake Compounce

by Kesean Cooper

Lake Compounce is a water park and amusement park all together, like Six Flags Great Adventure. Lake Compounce is located in Bristol, Connecticut. I like Lake Compounce because it is very big and has a lot of things to do such as:

Water Rides

The Lake Compounce water park has a lot of little water slides, called Tunnel Twisters, that twist around. They also have big water slides called Riptide Racers. The water park has a lazy river called Croc-O-Nile, where you can float around and wait for the water slide at the end. When you first walk in the water park, you will see a little water park called Clipper Cove. It has a pirate ship with little water slides and sprinklers, and it also has a big bucket at the top like every other water park. Bayou Bay is the name of the wave pool in the water park, but it’s the one for the big kids and adults. They also have another wave pool called Anchor Bay, for the littler kids; this is one of my favorite water park contraptions. Anchor Bay is also connected to the pirate ship. There is a huge water slide called Mammoth Falls, where you can get in a big raft that can fit 5 people.

Roller Coasters & Thrill Rides

Boulder Dash is a roller coaster that was voted the world’s #1 wooden roller coaster. Down Time is sort of like a Drop of Doom type of thing, but it is shorter and slower, it is a 185-foot drop that goes 60 miles per hour. Enterprise is like a ferris wheel but scarier, it spins very fast in every direction. The Pirate Ship is just a pirate ship you sit in and it rocks back and forth fast. Rev-O-Lution is a platform that you sit on, that spins around in a circle. Sky Coaster is like a slingshot you sit in and it takes you through the sky. The Wave Swinger has swings hanging from a platform that you sit in, then it raises up and takes you for a fling. The Wild Cat is a giant roller coaster that goes 44 miles per hour and has been thrilling families since 1927. Thunder And Lightning is a ride that makes you go back and forth 60 feet in the air. Thunder Rapids is both a water ride and a dry ride. It’s a raft that fits 8 people and goes around a course with rapids slashing and shaking you. Twister is a vortex that goes in the sky and you can control all the spinning. Zoomerang is a roller coaster that goes upside down and will make you barf.

Classic & Kiddie Rides

Dino Expedition is a new attraction were you can walk through the path of history and see pre historic animals. American Flyers are planes that go in  the sky and you can control which way you go. Caterpillar train is a mini train for toddlers. Drop Zone is a mini drop tower.

Coming Soon

Phobia is a new roller coaster ready for 2016. It’s the first triple launch coaster. It goes 65 miles an hour with a supernatural 180 degree vertical twist. As you rip through the maze of rails, you’ll ride upside down 150 feet in the AIR!!!