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A Review of Ben 10 Alien Force by Katie McMullen

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Ben 10 Alien Force by Katie McMullen

1. Publisher- D3 Publisher
Date released- October 28, 2008
Price- $39.99
Platform- Nintendo Wii

2. Genre- Action

This game is based on the television show Ben 10. But, it is not part of a series of games.
This game was fun but some of the parts were kind of hard. For example, we did not know how unlock new aliens and at first we had a lot of trouble when it came to jumping but, we eventually got the hang of it.
I would say that children 10 and up would be good ages for this game.
Out of 1-10, 1 being the least and 10 being the greatest, I rate the difficulty level a 7.
This game enabled you to choose different kinds of aliens all with a different power. Arcade games and online games usually don’t  enable this.
I believe that this game was fun to play. My friend and I had a lot  of laughs during this game and would definitely play it again.
I would want to play this game over again. Unlike Halo3, you can continue your game the next time you play.
The graphics of this game were like a cartoon which will make it a   good seller for children.
I liked the sounds of the game and how the aliens would talk. There was no music for this game but I didn’t think there needed to be. I thought the sounds suited the game perfectly.

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A review of the movie Twilight by Jillian Powers

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Twilight the movie was definitely a big surprise for not only me, but anyone who has ever read the book. They nailed the characters perfectly, everyone that was cast did a great job at portraying their part. Kristen Stewart was great at hitting the dreary sarcastic monotone personality of Bella Swan, as well as the mature and normal look Bella was described as. Robert Pattinson did a good job at being Edward Cullen, his facial expressions were perfect and the soothingly handsome voice must have been hard to hit with his accent. So good for him. Melissa Rosenberg on the other hand, disappointed me greatly.

As a dedicated Twilight fan, I was very suprised to see the changes made to the script compared to those of the book. The story plot was mixed up, diced up, and messed up.  Some vitally adored scenes in the book, were changed around to result in something less than satisfying. For example, the meadow scene was excruciating to watch in the movie, because it was not only an insult to the book. It lacked importance it should have shown to anyone who hadn’t read the book. I read that Meyer even fought to keep the ever so famous phrase, “So the lion feel in love with the lamb” in the movie at all. Seeing it the way it was shown did not measure up to most expectations I had for the scene.

On a lighter note, the cinematography for the play was done beautifully. Kudos to Catherine Hardwicke! She did a great job at directing this movie, and for that I’m grateful. Otherwise my midnight trip to the premier would have been an utter waste. The beautiful places it was shot at were my favorite part of her work. The soundtrack could have used a few more mainstream artists aside from Paramore though. I loved “Decode”,   “I Caught Myself”  and “Leave Out All The Rest” but some of the other songs must have been hard for people to enjoy. It was an eccentric choice to feature Iron & Wine, and The Black Ghosts . “Bella’s Lullaby” was written beautifully, go Carter Burwell!

Overall this was a great movie, not as great as the book though. I hope the screenwriter for New Moon does a better job, they need to step it up with keeping things on track with the book.

Jillian Powers

Wauconda IL