In a movie that draws heavily from Oriental philosophy/ideology, and in fact has multiple parallels to the Dreamworks panda story, it's only appropriate to use Master Oogway's icon to represent it ( Read more... )

Starring the amazing Spiderman...as opposed to The Amazing Spiderman ( Read more... )

Probably nothing speaks louder (at least to the studios) than money, so you can see how the movies have ranked in terms of grosses at Box Office MojoInitially this was a MCU only ranking, but as the DCEU franchise grows, I've also added that in. Rottentomatoes and Metacritic are both critic-based scores. IMDB and Cinemascore are indicative of ( Read more... )

Of course I've watched Age of Ultron a while ago (twice, in fact, cos Dad wanted to watch it too haha) but the movie was a bit like a bowl of ice-cream in summer - felt delicious while eating, but afterwards felt like you had a lot of nothing.

Antman is a bit like Guardians of the Galaxy. I think canonically he's actually a fairly big presence, ( Read more... )

The title is an example of abbreviations gone wild, but also of my increasingly short memory span. I completely forgot I watched How to Train Your Dragon 2, so I thought I'd bring it up while discussing Guardians of the Galaxy.

HTTYD 2 was nice, in the same way that Iron Man 3 was nice. A sense of a job well-done but not really as amazing as you'd ( Read more... )

I actually garbled a lot about this after watching it yesterday, so I'm in a bit of a word-drought regarding it.

I think people are fairly divided as to which was the best Marvel "Phase One" pre-Avengers movies - while the majority seem to favour Iron Man, a large number are divided between Captain America and Thor - which is a good thing, really ( Read more... )

8 ICU admissions, 2 trauma calls and 1 cardiac arrest...it was All Hallow's Eve and clearly something was on the rove ( Read more... )

BEWARE OF SPOILERS BELOW

Watched Iron Man 3 a couple of days ago, and in some ways it's better than I expected. It's somewhat like the feel of The Avengers, in that despite its multiple imperfections, it's a far more enjoyable product than the sum of its parts.

There's no arguing that the Iron Man franchise is the international money horse of ( Read more... )

Yes, you did read "the amazing" twice (well, thrice, now).

The great thing about having low expectations for something is that the probability of being pleasant surprised increases.

Does The Amazing Spiderman rank up there with the two behemoths of superhero movies released on either side of it? Of course not, but I don't think it ever tries to ( Read more... )

Things you need to know before watching The Avengers (film universe events)

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Captain America, or Steve Rogers, is a war hero from WWII. He was given the super soldier serum by Tony Stark's father which enhanced all his human capacities without giving him any superpowers. The Captain's shield ( Read more... )