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For Your Viewing Pleasure: Electro!
San Diego Comic-Con (Or is it Comic-Con International?) has surprised us again with a short, sweet little teaser for the new Electro from Amazing Spider-Man 2. It’s not much, but it’s still neat.
It’s not that great of a look at him, but it’s still something. And knowing Comic-Con, I doubt the actual footage from the presentation will make it online in any quality fashion. I’m still waiting on a quality version of that Ant-Man teaser reel from a few years ago. So for now, just enjoy this tiny little tease of a villain. I’m still think Electro looks good.
Review: Pacific Rim
Imagine a tank. Now imagine that tank is shaped like a human being. Now imagine that tank is as tall as a skyscraper, and it’s used to beat down giant monsters in the kind of fights that shake the streets, shatter buildings and use oceanliners as baseball bats. That is Pacific Rim, the ultimate ode to giant robots and monster movies of old. And considering my childhood love of the Mighty Morphin’ Power Rangers, and my own desire to someday pilot a Megazord, I was definitely looking forward to Pacific Rim – and I was not disappointed.
Pacific Rim is the kind of summer spectacle movie that people should be lining up to see. It’s the kind of movie that demands a bigger IMAX screen, because the action is both huge and hugely entertaining. The human characters could have used a little more fleshing out, but the size and scope of the film do not disappoint.
Movie Rating: 8/10 – Very Good.
Sadly, the Adam Sandler film Grown Ups 2 somehow captivated audiences more this past weekend than Pacific Rim. This is the world we live in. A crappy, crummy, by-the-numbers, lazy Sandler fart-joke-fest made more money than an original, high-octane movie about giant robots fighting giant monsters. Do I need to repeat that? Giant robots fighting giant monsters. In big, bombastic slugfests! It’s the Megazord fighting Godzilla! It’s every childhood joy of mine coming to fun, exciting life on the big screen. What more could humanity possibly want from its movies?
That little children around the world aren’t bugging their parents for Gipsy Danger toys right now is a crime against humanity.
Take it from a big geek like me, the robot/monster fights in Pacific Rim are exactly what we hoped they would be – though they almost all take place at night…in the rain…and while standing waist-deep in the water. I guess sometimes filmmakers have to do what they can to hide the CGI. But I won’t hold it against them. The fights are big, brutal and highly entertaining. And unlike Man of Steel, the CGI was not just a big mess of explosions and mindless destruction. These were unique, cool-looking beings, and their actions were easy to follow and understand. Pacific Rim is big CGI done right.
If only the human characters were as awesome as the giant, asskicking robots.
Join me after the jump for my full review of Pacific Rim. And beware, there will be some SPOILERS.
How Man of Steel Should Have Ended
I expected to see a lot more Internet videos mocking Man of Steel by this point.
Fortunately, the How It Should Have Ended team is picking up the slack with a fun video poking at a major plot hole. It’s good for a few laughs, and those cats are definitely spot on. But then there are a ton of plot holes in Man of Steel. I demand more funny videos mocking Man of Steel!
Posters, Posters Everywhere!
Comic-Con is coming up this weekend, and to prepare, Marvel has put out a couple of posters for the upcoming Thor and Captain America sequels. I’m down with that. I’m also a little hard-up for good posts after a weekend filled with a bachelor party and a visit with my family. Good times, but little access to a computer. I also saw Pacific Rim (which I enjoyed), so I’m hoping to get a review up soon.
But until then, enjoy some sweet artistic teaser posters!
Captain America: The Winter Soldier
Thor: The Dark World
And just because I like you, here’s an extra one:
Godzilla
And, of course, stay tuned this weekend for all the news coming out of Comic-Con!
If ‘Finding Neverland’ Was About Mary Poppins Instead
There’s a big new prestige movie coming out in December starring Tom Hanks as Walt Disney. That is some inspired casting. The movie is about Walt Disney trying to convince author P.L. Travers to let him make a movie about Mary Poppins. The film is called Saving Mr. Banks.
Now honestly. That plot and that title? It’s like an unofficial/unplanned sequel to Finding Neverland, about the author of Peter Pan.
At least the trailer looks pretty good. Looks like the perfect schmaltzy December sort of movie. And again, Tom Hanks as Walt Disney? Brilliant! He should do a hole series of Disney biopics.
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