Showing posts with label marvel. Show all posts
Showing posts with label marvel. Show all posts

Wednesday, May 13, 2015

[COMMENT] Avengers: Age of Ultron

Avengers Age of Ultron is captivating and full of suspense. It holds your attention from beginning to end with thrilling action and a heart-warming plot. The movie was absolutely mind-blowing and instantly made you fall in love with each character and their story. All of the avengers were seen as bad-ass heroes who didn’t take shit from out-of-the ordinary villains. What I really admire and respect about this film is how they humanized every character, even Ultron! We were able to see the greatest fears of each character and the things of their past or of their future that made them vulnerable, and instilled fear in them. Ultron, though he was a robot embodied so many emotions of a twisted and psychotic human being. Throughout the movie we see the internal struggle he has as he deciphers between “what’s right” and “how to make things right”. It is very interesting that Tony Stark (Iron Man) initially brought Ultron to life or gave him a voice because he believed he was “making things right”. In a sense Ultron was a reflection of Tony Stark’s confusion of right and wrong at its worse. It depicted the theme or morality “that when we create things out of fear we sometimes create exactly what we fear”.
The most interesting growth in relationships would have to be the one shared between Black Widow and The Hulk. No one saw that coming!! However, the relationship is truly a beauty to watch it was filled with trust of the other and insecurity of self. It gave viewers open-ended conversations leaving them with many questions about how their relationship will grow and thrive. The humanity of the characters in the film tied into the overall theme of the Avengers or Marvel movies, that human life is worth fighting for. The film reflected similar elements of other action movies, for instnace their hide-away or safe zone (Hawkeye’s House – A farmhouse in the middle of no where).

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Saturday, May 9, 2015

[COMMENTS] Is This The Reason Why Marvel Didn't Jump on Female-Led Comic Book Films?

Is This The Reason Why Marvel Didn't Jump on Female-Led Comic Book Films?


A new Sony email has surfaced via The Huffington Post that gives us some insight into why we haven’t seen a female superhero movie from Marvel yet. Captain Marvel is coming in 2018, but we’ve still got a ways to go. Just in case you were wondering why the studio hasn’t jumped on getting a female-led movie out sooner, this e-mail from Marvel CEO Ike Perlmutter to Sony CEO Michael Lynton sheds some light on what their thought process is based on: money. Perlmutter was responding to an e-mail that offers some examples of terrible female-centric comic book films that bombed at the box office.
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       >Electra (Marvel) – Very bad idea and the end result was very, very bad. http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=elektra.htm

2     >Catwoman (WB/DC) - Catwoman was one of the most important female character within the Batmanfranchise. This film was a disaster http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=catwoman.htm


3    >Supergirl – (DC) Supergirl was one of the most important female super hero in Superman franchise. This Movie came out in 1984 and did $14 million total domestic with opening weekend of $5.5 million. Again, another disaster.


So there you go. The CEO wasn't very thrilled about pumping money into a film that he thought would bomb. I guess Perlmutter isn’t as confident in Marvel Studios as we thought he might be after all the success they've had. The studio's been producing one great comic book movie after another, but there must still be a fear that a movie focusing on a strong female character could still bomb. 
The thing is, superhero films have changed so much since those movies were released, and it seems like Marvel has a working formula that has proven to be successful no matter what movie they produce.


Let's face it though, these CEOs probably live in a sheltered world, and they are all about making money, and they are going to push the projects that rake in the cash. Hopefully when Captain Marvel is released on November 2nd, 2018, it succeeds and blows away their expectations, so that we will see more of them. 


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Friday, May 1, 2015

[NEW]TGIF! The Avengers: Age of Ultron

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TGIF! And May is coming! It's time for movies again... Well, I've been thinking 'The Avengers 2' for ages! My friend, who is a big fan of Marvel even bought the Premier ticket! My friend Anthony has watched Age of Ultron  for 3 times in theatre! And he claimed that every time he watched again, he would something new and fascinating! LOL

The story is very simple. Tony wants to build Ultron when he got a chip embedded AI, because he's apparently the most rich and has the most free time! Then Ultron is out control and took advantage of a pair of brother (sliverwar) and sister (scarlet witch), finding a strong body. Tony then built Vision to compete with Ultron.

The most amazing thing is that Ultron can be duplicated and transported by Internet, that's probably why it's called age of ultron! Anyway Ultron is beaten, everyone went back to their places and three new avengers are joining: Scarlet Witch, War Machine, Vision and the Falcon.


The joke on 'Watch your language!' has been the humours point through the whole movie. Another point is the relation between Widow and Halk. Widow said' I adore you' to Halk, which made some audience excited... Oh, shield and thor are really made for each other.

The disappointing points are that Ultron is too weak to make the Avengers panic! I sctually pretty like Sliverwar but he was soon dead when rescuing a boy!! Halk hung up Wodow' s call and left to some random planet. Just let him alone... I love Mark Ruffalo, so I wanna have him back in next epidose. I love Robert Downey Jr. as well, but he will stay anyway since he's just rick and free!!

Last but not least, there's a tiny bonus clip at the end of the sculptures video of the avengers, it's one a gold-hand purple guy. I am just wondering how many colors does Marval wants to collect when it's enough to redeem a thor...or a shield... LOL

Well, the movie is overall just okay. I won't say that it makes you want to watch 3 times or really looking forward to Avengers3, like what 'the Avengers' created.
That makes even concerned about the quality of 'Insurgent' since the second episode of a movie series is always likely to let audience down. 

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