Category Archives: Movies
Everything Wrong With Thor: The Dark World!
I love’em, you love’em, let’s check out Everything Wrong with Thor: The Dark World!
I hope this means we’ll be getting the EWW for Captain America: The Winter Soldier soon. Probably in time for the DVD release. This was another solid, silly entry. Though if I’m being completely honest, I think the guys at Cinema Sins have really started reaching with the past few episodes. I think success is going to their head, and they feel compelled to really stretch these things out and mock as much as they can, even when its not really mockable. That “Next time, let’s start with the big one” line was just a joke from Fandrell, not a legitimate suggestion in military tactics.
It took more than 10 minutes to cover more than 100 things they thought were wrong with Thor: The Dark World. When they started, there were only a few dozen things wrong with The Avengers, and they did that under three minutes.
They’re getting too big!
I Hope Bryan Cranston Gets to Punch Godzilla in the Face
At the very least, I know he could beat up Matthew Broderick. Enjoy a new Godzilla trailer!
I still don’t know what to make of this movie. It looks like it could be awesome. But it also looks like it could be…I dunno. Each trailer seems exactly the same. And I’m not entirely sure how Bryan Cranston is going to get involved in the fight against Godzilla, or how that will differ from Matthew Broderick’s attempts to understand and fell the beast.
But I’m eager to find out!
Review: Captain America: The Winter Soldier
You can’t see it right now, what with the computers in the way, but I am saluting the flag. I feel an overwhelming swell of patriotism growing inside me, having taken in Captain America: The Winter Soldier. This is a damn fine country and it produces some damn fine movies about damn fine superheroes. How many does this make for Marvel? How many amazing action movies have they produced so far? The Avengers was one of the biggest movies of all time, and all three superhero follow-ups have been dynamite, with Captain America 2 probably the best of the bunch. This movie has everything. This movie is everything.
It makes me proud to be an American.
Movie Rating: 9/10 – Great.
Not that American patriotism is the driving factor of The Winter Soldier, I just needed a good opening. This movie is actually about SHIELD and the secrets it keeps, and how Steve Rogers may be the only honest man left who can get to the bottom of the mysteries that lie at the heart of the organization. SHIELD has been the glue that binds all of the Marvel movies so far. Heck, Marvel went ahead and based a whole TV show around them. But something inside SHIELD is starting to crack, and Captain America is just the sort of hero we need to save the day. He’s not flashy like Iron Man or Thor. He’s not at war with himself like the Hulk. Steve Rogers is just a man, for the most part. He’s determined and honest, and a lot tougher than most. But he’s a man who wants to do the right thing, and has the strength to stick with it when the odds seem overwhelming.
Plus he’s brought along a bunch of neat friends. Captain America: The Winter Soldier is almost as much of an ensemble film as The Avengers, and it works just as good.
In terms of sheer spectacle and excitement, The Avengers is still the best. But The Winter Soldier is of the same caliber and quality. The action and danger are very real, with ties to both The Avengers and Captain America’s first film. The characters are true to themselves, and grow beyond what we’ve seen before. And, as always, that signature Marvel wit just saturates the film. The dialogue is delightful, the banter is beautiful, and the film knows exactly when to sprinkle in the humor.
Captain America: The Winter Soldier is everything we’ve come to expect from the Marvel Movie Machine. Once again, Marvel raises the bar for action movies and superhero movies everywhere.
Join me after the jump for the full review. I’m going to try to keep SPOILERS to a minimum.
Everything Wrong with the Honest Trailer of Captain America: The First Avenger!
I’m going to see Captain America: The Winter Soldier at the theater tonight, so to celebrate, I cobbled together all of my favorite movie critiquing Internet videos for you to enjoy! We’ve got Honest Trailers and Everything Wrong With, both of which came out in the past week. Plus I dug out the How It Should Have Ended as well, because I love you guys.
Let’s start with EWW by Cinema Sins!
Then we’ve got the Honest Trailer by the Screen Junkies!
And finally, How It Should Have Ended!
Hopefully I”ll have my review of The Winter Soldier up tomorrow morning!
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Take Us Home, Frog!
I saved the best for last. I hope this day has been as enjoyable for the rest of you as it was for me! Tune in tomorrow for our regularly henchman schedule.
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