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I think Marvel deserve credit for taking risks with their
movie, apparently they had to take out a very large loan to finance the Iron Man and The Incredible Hulk movies which
started the movie universe, a risk that has certainly paid off. Iron Man was
risky prospect as he wasn't exactly a well-known character before and he wasn't
even that popular a character in the comics and now he’s probably a lot of
people's favourite (though that is probably due to Robert Downey Junior). With
all their success Marvel now have the confidence to release a Guardians of the
Galaxy movie, characters who aren't
exactly well known even among comics fans and are pretty out there with a
talking racoon and a tree dude as well as planning to release an ant man movie
which sounds pretty ridiculous. This is in contrast to DC who have only
released Batman and Superman movies (not exactly a risk due to the popularity
of the characters) as well as the one Green Lantern movie which was a disaster
and of course the awful Catwoman movie. The Man of Steel sequel featuring
Batman has been pushed back to 2016 so to put things in perspective we are
getting a Guardians of the Galaxy movie before a movie featuring both Superman
and Batman, before a Wonder Woman movie, before a Flash movie and before a
Justice League movie which is pretty crazy. DC/Warner Brothers seem to be
trying to add as many heroes as possible to the Batman and Superman movie, as
well as Superman, Batman and Wonder Woman they've announced that Cyborg or at
least Victor Stone before he becomes Cyborg will be in the movie. They've now
officially announced that it is called Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, making
it sound like it is definitely going to be a Justice League prequel/set-up. I
hope they know what they are doing.
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Ben Affleck does look pretty awesome as Batman, I like the
new suit based on the Dark Knight
Returns.
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Now those who have read my previous posts will know that I wasn't that fussed on The Amazing Spider-man. Thankfully TASM 2 improves on many of the things that were wrong with the first movie. I liked Andrew Garfield more in this one, he is less annoyingly awkward, and when he is Spidey he is actually funny rather than coming off as a douche as he did in the first film (he also has some funny moments as Peter). He is also much more of a hero in this movie who inspires people rather than a vigilante. The web swinging and acrobatics in this movie are much better as well, they tried to make it too grounded in the first film but I had a big grin on my face during the first scene with him as Spider-man swinging through New York. One of the best things about the movie is the Peter and Gwen relationship due to the great chemistry they have (probably helped by Andrew and Emma dating in real life) and its nice that Gwen isn't just a damsel in distress. Overall the movie was a bit different than I expected from the trailers and in some parts scenes from the trailers weren't even in the movie which was pretty strange. Whilst it doesn't suffer like spider-man 3 from too many villains it does seem a bit rushed at times and I found the scene changes to be a bit choppy. I think I would actually remove some things from the movie to improve it as well as adding some things that were missing namely Peter's juggling act of being Spider-man with his other responsibilities that was done so well in the original Spider-man trilogy. It does seem to be setting up future movies and in some cases things didn't get as much time as they maybe needed to. I do still wonder how Marvel would have done Spider-man if they had the rights and it makes me sad that in all likelihood we will never see him interact with Tony Stark or the other Avengers.
Evian have made a pretty cool advert to tie in to the movie, better than the American adverts I've seen which have various X-men advertising fast -food:
Most recently I watched X-men Days of Future Past, the
seventh film in the X-men franchise, I’ve seen all of them apart from X-men
Origins-Wolverine which is meant to be awful and doesn’t seem to be part of
continuity any more. This movie uses
time travel to tie together the First Class prequel with the old X-men
trilogy. It’s pretty cool seeing the old
and new cast in the same movie. It’s well-acted, it’s visually stunning, we get
to see a wide range of mutant powers in great fight scenes and it manages to
fix the mistakes made mainly in X-men 3.
Fox should be praised that they have stuck with the franchise rather
than go down the reboot route even if the continuity is a bit unclear now. They made the bold choice of including Quicksilver a
character who is also going to be appearing in Avengers: Age of Ultron , a
different version played by a different actor (movie rights belong to both Fox
and Marvel since he is both a mutant and a member of the Avengers). Despite his
goofy outfit he is one of the highlights of the movie, it’s just a shame he
doesn't get more screen time. Overall it
is a great movie despite some small niggles (one character having a new power
that is never explained, the fact that another character simply being alive is
never explained either and as I have mentioned the sometimes confusing
continuity). It is definitely worth checking it out although if you haven’t seen
the other films you may be a bit confused.
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| Apparently showing fictional characters eating food makes it more desirable |
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