Logan - Movie Review!

Who's In It?

Boyd Holbrook, Stephen Merchant, Dafne Keen, Hugh Jackman, and Patrick Steward


What's It About?

After the mutant holocaust, Wolverine (Logan/James) is living with a locked away Professor X and a mutant sniffing.. mutant, while taxiing to save for a boat to safety.

Doctor Strange - Movie Review!

Who's In It?

Chiwetel Ejiofor, Benjamin Cumberbatch, and Tilda Swinton

What's It About?

When a world renowned neurosurgeon mangles his hands in a car crash, he makes a pilgrimage to Kathmandu in the hopes of a cure where he meets a cabal of sorcerers.

Suicide Squad - Movie Review!

Who's In It?

Will Smith, Margot Robbie, Viola Davis, and Jared Leto

What's It About?

Government agent Amanda Waller assembles a team of some of the most dangerous villains for her black ops team, in exchange for their lives and time off prison.

Any Good? 

The first thing that struck me about this film was that it was more Scott Pilgrim style than DC, THANK GOD. Highly stylised with nods to old costumes and story lines - the facts were all here, MUCH better than Marvel - sadly that didn't last.

A lot of the costumes were good, but I've never been as let down by character design as I have been by Cara Delevingne's Enchantress. She looked great at first, dark and weird but that doesn't last, they take away all of the weird, all of the interest & turn her into just Cara Delevingne in a shiny bodysuit. Such wasted potential.  

Get a good look, it doesn't last 5 minutes

As for the other characters, watching The Fresh Prince shooting people in the head was a bit odd - it was just Will Smith with guns on his wrist. As one of the most anticipated characters, Margot Robbie actually wasn't bad as Harley Quinn, I didn't like her costume (digitally shortened short shorts included) but she slipped in between a plain and Boston Harley accent which I was delighted with.

Jared Leto as the Joker has so much potential, but he was butchered by Warner Bros. For unknown reasons they portrayed him as a pimp, in one scene LITERALLY trying to sell Harley - real Joker like there, WB. He wasn't in any scenes with anyone but Harley, which was massively disappointing. 

Even when they had BATMAN WITH HARLEY WHILE HE MAGICALLY DISAPPEARS?! WTH?! Any time he does anything even remotely Joker-like the screen cuts away,the frustration levels are real. I just hope solo Batfleck-flick affords him more time.

An actual gold pimpcane..

One thing for sure is that this film was BUTCHERED by Warner Bros. and I feel terrible for David Ayer. The beginning of the film was really good and stood head and shoulders over most comic films in general, but then it had to be made PG-13. The script has no gravitas because it's 'nice and wholesome'. The fighting was dumbed down - they were fighting rock monsters and still had to be watered down.

If you have kids who REALLY want to see this I'd say bring them, otherwise wait for the (hopefully) R-Rated director's cut which I'm genuinely excited to see. Overall, Suicide Squad is a film with huge potential that was subject to American editing standards - hopefully they'll pay attention to the results and stop forcing things for children.

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The Amazing Spider-Man 2 - Movie Review

Who's in it?

Andrew Garfield, Emma Stone, Jamie Foxx, and Dane DeHaan

Actual Release date is April 18th!!!

What's it about?

When Spider-Man saves Max Dillon from being crushed by a car, he becomes obsessed with the Web-Head. While working late in Oscorp he falls victim to a freak accident and after being fried by genetically modified eels, he becomes Electro - only to have his limelight stolen by the 'selfish' Spider-Man.

Any Good?

While I did love the first Amazing Spider-Man, this one seems to be delving more into the comics and it couldn't be any the better for it. While it is more source material than Sam Raimi's, this had many moments where it felt like it was advertising future films in the franchise - as well as SONY SONY SONY in almost EVERY shot.

I'm genuinely in love with Dale DeHann's new Green Goblin (especially his look!), but I was throughly let down by Electro. The original was some hack in a camp green and yellow spandex suit with a ridiculous mask, but in this he had basically turned into Dr. Manhattan from Watchmen; even down to the changing of his molecular structure.

THIS is Electro!

I'm not sure what happened, but someone called Attack of the Clones Anakin Skywalker to play Peter Parker while Andrew Garfield took the role of the much sassier Spider-Man. While Spider-Man was exactly as he should have been, Peter was just a blubbering mess breaking down in 8/10 scenes he was in unnecessarily which really toned down the emotion of the truly sad parts. Jamie Foxx was great as Nu-Electro; in the beginning he was just an ignored worker in Oscorp but turned to a jealous and huge ego'd villain. Dale DeHann really shone as the desperate Harry Osborn, playing it cool until going mental and truly becoming The Green Goblin. 

One sentence I thought I'd never even think let alone say was... Paul Giamatti was AWFUL. Now when I say this I don't mean Giamatti-level acting awful, I mean Birdemic awful. His fake accent physically hurt, while he over hammed facial expressions just destroyed the character completely; never mind the ridiculously bad Rhino suit.

This is the only film that I have ever recommended to pay full price for 3D tickets - it's shot extra bright so not much colour is lost and WOW is it incredible. The true stand out of the film was watching my favourite hero fly about and actually feeling like you're right there with him. Scored by Hans Zimmer, the sounds of Electro shooting and moving were sneaky dubstep clips mashed up in the best sound editing I've ever seen. Definitely worth full price, I'm planning on dragging the arachnophobic other half multiple times despite her personal hero Rolled Up Newspaper Man not being there to fight the Web-Head.

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