Black Widow – It’s a Marvel movie, I want to see it. Now, I feel like Black Widow is probably coming out too late and the first trailer looked cool but didn’t tell me any story. But it’s the first movie in Phase 4, and I’m itching for more Marvel. I was wondering after Endgame if I wanted a ton more Marvel movies (the answer was always yes) but now with the time between Black Widow and Spider-Man: Far From Home, I’m so ready.

Eternals – What, the other Marvel movie made my list, who would have thought. I’m looking forward to Eternals even more than I am Black Widow and I have even less of an idea of what sort of story they are going to tell. The cast looks cool and the Neil Gaiman trade that I’ve read was really interesting. I’m wondering if this is going to set-up something more cosmic or earth focused, and will we get a trilogy of Eternals movies? There’s so little that I know, but I know I’m really excited for this movie.

Sonic The Hedgehog – I don’t know why, but I really am interested in this movie. Some of it was because the first trailer the Sonic looked like a trainwreck with teeth, and the new Sonic looks fun. I think this is going to be a dumb silly movie, and knowing that, I think it’s one that I might enjoy. Now, I won’t go see this in theaters, I just don’t have time, but when it comes out, I’m renting it. Jim Carrey looks over the top, and in a movie about a Sonic Hedgehog, that’s perfect. There’s something just really interesting about this movie for me.

Artemis Fowl – This movie was pushed back, it’s a bad sign. But the first book, which I read for the first time this year, was a lot of fun. I like the evil genius kid character. I like the magical world that is set-up as well. It’s not too serious, but it does a good job of also not dumbing down the plot so that it’s just a dumb kids book. With the movie, I don’t have a ton of faith that they won’t have dumbed it down, but if they keep it simply to what’s done in the book, it could be a really cool movie. Maybe if it gets glowing reviews I’d go see it in the theaters, but probably one that I’ll watch when I can rent it.

Bill & Ted Face The Music – Keanu Reeves.

Okay, I’ll give more of a reason than that, I guess. But really it’s because of him and his resurgence in the movie world. I think that the rest of the stories in the Bill & Ted world have been a lot of fun, and this looks like a silly dumb movie, like the originals, and I’m all for that. I’m hoping that they don’t change up the formula that has worked well for them, and beyond that, don’t know or care to know much more about the film. I’ll just enjoy in the fun that it has.

Godzilla vs Kong – Now, this one might have been pushed back into 2021, but the list I’m looking at still has it in 2020. But Godzilla fighting King Kong, may the best monster win, and I’m assuming they are going to team up to take down some other monster. I haven’t seen Godzilla: King of the Monsters yet, but that’s high on my list of movies to watch, and I don’t care if it’s great, and same with this movie, I don’t care if it’s great, I just want to see it. Give me monsters fighting, and I’ll be happy enough.

Dune – I feel like this is either going to be good or a train wreck, I don’t know with the story that happens in the book if it’s going to be possible to make an amazing movie from it. But I’m so curious about it. This is a movie that I might make it to the theaters to see, just because, even with my projector set-up at home, Dune feels like a big enough story that I might want to hear it with the best sound possible.

So, what films are you looking forward to. I skipped over James Bond, just am not as interested in that, and Wonder Woman 1984 is definitely interesting and I love Max Lord as a character, but DC has to prove they can turn out several good movies, and with Birds of Prey looking bad, I doubt I’ll care that much about Wonder Woman 1984.

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Artemis Fowl follows the main character as he, as a child tries to bring his family back into the good graces of the criminal world and show that they are still a force to be reckoned with. To do this, however, he has to find a faerie and get their gold. Thankfully, he’s a genius and no one suspects that he knows about the faeries. Of course, things don’t go as easily as he’d hope or as easily as the faeries would hope.

This was a really fun book to read. All of the characters were interesting and enjoyable to read about. The main character wasn’t someone you were supposed to just imagine yourself as, so he was fleshed out quite well. And while I would say that possibly some of the secondary characters were just as interesting as the main characters, they didn’t overshadow them. It’s really a pet peeve of mine when the main character is just a blank slate that stuff happens to and around and you’re supposed to feel like you could be the main character, but really the author just wrote a boring character. Eoin Colfer doesn’t do this, and that actually makes the main character more relatable because they seem more like an actual person, at least for me, reading it at an older age than the target audience.

I like the twist that Colfer puts on the faerie world as well. While there are a bits and pieces that are clearly taken from more traditional fae lore, we get to see a developed world, but one that is in such a way that it changes things up a lot. I don’t want to go into it too much because it is a bit of spoiler as how it works, but you do get a nice and diverse cast of fae creatures. And I think that the take on dwarves, while maybe not my favorite, is really unique and fun to see it handled it in such a different way. Now, there are bits and pieces of how it is shown that is a bit juvenile, but I didn’t expect it to handle dwarves the way that they did. And, yes, I realize dwarves are technically not faeries, but they get lumped into that world in this book.

I really don’t have a point in the book where I don’t enjoy it. Maybe the dwarves, but again, it wasn’t what I expected, so that was interesting to see the twist. It also drew me into the world so it was easier to overlook something that might not be my favorite. I do think the the book is pretty simply written. Yes, there are a few twists to it along the way, but you generally expect things to end up the way that they do. And when all is said and done, they do, but again, it’s a book for young and middle age readers, so you kind of expect the story to be a bit more simplified. Probably another topic for later, if books need to be simplified as much as they are for that age of reader, probably not, but I do think that Artemis Fowl doesn’t drop down to the level that a lot of young adult and middle age books do.

So, there are more books in this series, do I want to read them? That’s a great question, and one that I’m not sure I know the answer to yet. Like I said, I did this for a reading challenge, while I enjoyed the story a lot, I’m not sure I need to read more of them. Some of it is that simplified story, and because I’m reading another series that is heavily fae focused in the Dresden Files. Now, obviously the level or reader they are written for is massively different, so probably not a fair comparison. I think that I’d go back to the series, and I think that it’s a good series for the age range it targets. However, I’d probably go back when I just want to read through some quick and short things, it won’t be a series that I’m actively seeking out.

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