Summer round up(Superman vs Batman,Wolverine, Kick-Ass 2)

Yeah long time no see! What should I say? It was hot as hell here and vacation was good ;)
But I want to go back into writing more so I think I will just start with talking about things that happened in the last few weeks.

First off, at Comic Con there was this huge announcement that Man of Steel 2 will have Batman in it.
Boom and everyone went nuts. But I really couldn't get what the big deal was all about? I mean come on, the Avengers happened, it's not like this would be the first time we see 2 or more heroes on the screen together.
And don't give me that crap about how Batman could beat everyone with enough preparation! I had enough of it. Sure Batman's biggest weapon is his mind but how, without a certain green rock, could he bring the man-who-freaking-moved-a-planet to his knees?
Also it won't be Christian Bale as the Dark Knight which is a huge bummer! Overall I enjoyed Man of Steel, it was a entertaining movie, but the more I think about it the more I dislike it. Of course this all could work very well but in the end it comes down to how they create an tension packed situation where we could see Batman and Superman really go head to head. I really can't see that though. Obviously everyone who saw Man of Steel aka Disaster Porn 2.0 knows that there is no way Batman could win in a fair fight, and I'm not only talking about the Nolan Batman, generally speaking. So yeah I would bet we will see some kryptonite in the next movie but I'm not really looking forward to it. Sorry Super-Fanboys.

I also got the chance to see the Wolverine. I will say it's not as bad as X-Men:Origin but it also wasn't as good as it could have been. Two thirds of the movie I really felt like this could be the awesome Logan movie the character deserves but then came the last third arc and it took all the hopes and good feelings I had till there, threw them to the ground and stabbed them in the back. Seriously?! Seriously Wolverine couldn't fight 20 freaking Ninjas? In the comics this guy was introduced by fighting the Hulk for God's sake. They shooting him with 20 arrows in the back and he goes down, without cutting the ropes that were tied to the arrows like any other sane person would have done. And then the Silver Samurai! He's a giant adamantium Robot?! Utter Bollocks!
Ok before I'll curse more I will round this up: Overall the movie is good, but as an comic and movie fan, I just know so many ways how this movie could have been more.
The setting was good, the support characters were really good, the action wasn't all over the place just enough, even viper wasn't that bad but still the last part of the movie pissed me off. End Result: OK if you don't care about such things.

Personally I have a special place in my heart for the Kick-Ass movie, because back a few years ago when I (to my shame) had never heard of it, a good friend showed it to me and it was eyeopening.
The comedic and also brutal tone just appealed to me, as did the thoughts of Dave cause I had some of the exact same when I was younger. So I really was waiting for this flick to come out and what should I say? In my book Kick-Ass 2 is also very good. I'm really glad about a few changes from the books to the movie because the would have given the movie a much darker feeling which shouldn't in any way happen ever. Like which movie can pull it off to make their villain a comic relief plus to give him an ,for a movie, legitimate emotional journey. It's nothing worth of an oscar but still I prefer films that at least try to give their actors something to work with. Jim Carrey, I hear everybody asking? It felt like all his scenes were in the trailers and thats that. Really I liked him but he had overall not enough screen time. The real stars of this movie are Dave and Mindy aka Hit-Girl. Mindy really struggles to live a normal teenager life and the girls she is meeting are nothing short then mini versions of the Mean Girls. But it's fun and you get it, my only gripe was one Plot device to get rid, or win, their situation, but yeah you will see. I also liked how they ended the movie which is as far as I know completely different from the comics. It gave me a positive feeling for the future which is exactly what the first one did, which is probably why I like the flick that much. End Result: Awesome!    


So thats all I got for now! I will try to get more blogs out there soon, foremost about the state of Marvels X-Men and the new comic crossover Event Infinity while I also am working on my website so we will see :)

Man of Steel

It has been a while since my last post here. Long story short it's summer here and it was just way too hot to write. And festival season started, so yeah that was also a thing. Maybe in this week I will finally finish the second part of my arrow review. Ok somewhen in the next weeks to come seems more realistic. But totally before the start of the second season, I guess. So here is the deal, yesterday I was seeing the Man of Steel and it was a good flick but there were a few thing I couldn't help but to talk about, and here I'm am.

For everyone who hasn't seen the movie already, go watch it! I guess there will be spoilers duh!

So what I really liked was the way the way the movie started. It's nothing new, we all know the story of Krypton to some extend but the visuals and Russel Crows performance as Jor-El really made it worthwhile. But the moment he is riding on this flying creature somehow reminded me of Avatar and thats not a good thing. The movie in generell had some absurd amount of CGI. That's not necessary a bad thing, if handeld proper. And I think the really did a great job in the most cases. But when thinking about the movie, there is one scene in particular where I thought: ok all the money for CGI is already gone. When Clark rescues the guys on the oil rig and busts through the metal door while burning. The fire in this scene just looked awful.

We see Clark traveling around with fake names and helping people, while always getting flashbacks of his youth and how he grew to be the person he came to be. I really though that was a nice move to do but I don't get why he is on his road trip in the first place. I don't believe he is searching for this ship because he didn't knew it existed till he found it. So he just left his mother and went rouge? Doesn't sound like the Superman I know but ok plot holes. The thing that really disturbed me was the death of Jonathan Kent. Cause for this movie they changed the circumstances of his death. In the comics I know he dies cause of an Heart attack, which shows Clark that he can't save everyone. There are things not even Superman can stop. In Man of Steel he essentially dies because Clark let's him. Yeah Mr.Kent wanted it that way but seriously there had to be another way to safe him than just standing there.

Then everything happens fast, he finds this ship, gets the costume, Lois Lane discovers his identity in something about 10 freaking seconds, unimportant side characters appear, and Zod approaches the earth. When I say unimportant side characters I mean the whole Daily Planet crew or the military dude from Law and Order SVU. Cause they adding nothing to the plot and have around 3 scenes, so I don't care for them at all. I guess they are just in this movie because it's an Superman movie. And another plot hole I couldn't get my head around. Why did Zod want Lois Lane on his ship? How the hell does he even know that she is there when they took Superman? I guess just so she could tell them all how to rebuild Clarks ship into an black hole generator or bs like that.

And then it begins. The CGI battle we deserve but probably don't need. This action sequences where just huge. As predicted from a guy like Zack Snyder it's visually spectacular. After this movie you think about the battle of NY in the Avengers as an little training field. But ,and this is a big but!, if you know Superman you know his first directive is to not hurt anyone. In all the fight scenes it's seems like he gives crap about people and their properties. I mean he is throwing things through buildings and stuff like this. This is all of course normal but he probably should trie to get them away from living people to protect them first, right? But I will give him some slack because he is new in this whole hero business.

Finally there was the End. You know where Clark killed General Zod. And I saw people on the internet really getting upset about that, cause you know Superman normally don't kills. But in order to wrap the movie up what other choice did Clark or the Directors have? Really Clark was just about strong enough to hold him down? How the hell should he take a guy like that into custody? And I truly believe that Superman would kill in such an situation. All the other people didn't deserve the hate Zod had for them. The cool thing is this could somehow explain why Superman is against killing after this story. Think about it, not that he would have accidently killed civilians while flying through buildings and stuff.

Overall this movie was really entertaining and fun. No Batman Begins, Dark Knight or Avengers but really enjoyable. If you think about Superman Returns and compare it to Man of Steel, no don't do that, just don't think about Superman Returns at all okay?! No really go see the film it is good :)