Rogue One Trailer!

Oh gawd, soooo awesomeeeee.... ;__;

Avengers : Age of Ultron

SPOILERS! : Warning in advance if you haven't seen the movie yet!

Ok, so how do i feel about the movie i was most looking forward to this year? Overall, pretty awesome! I think watching this movie is like seeing old friends; you already know them and you miss them, and you just wanna catch up and see how they are doing!

Joss Whedon has done a pretty stellar job in juggling the large cast of characters without anyone taking too much screen time. Although there is pretty much the usual action scenes throughout the movie, the focus this time is more on how the characters have developed between the first movie to now; Tony is still paranoid about the Alien invasion, Hawkeye has a hidden secret and the Widow has the hots for the doc... oh man. :p

I was worried about how the Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver would fit into this story, but thankfully they are relevant to the plot without being 'overbearing'. Ultron turned out to be.... funnier than expected. The trailers don't really spoil much for the movie thankfully, in the trailers Ultron was oh so serious, but man, he's hilarious in the movie, i guess cos he's uh, a small part of Tony?

Nice cameos throughout, we get to see some familiar faces from past movies. Poor Warmachine can't get a break haha. I also noticed a lot of scenes from the trailers were not in the movie... guess will have to wait for the blu-ray!

I'll give this movie a 7.5/10. Good and entertaining definitely. But i still find the first movie slightly better!

Oh, there's a mid credits scene of a familiar face we've seen quite a few times already haha. :p

New Fantastic Four Trailer

The FF movies have always been... cheesy at best. Even though it was ok for it's time, they storylines were kinda weak. The reboot looks like it's gonna be a moar dark moar gritty feel to the story... not sure about the casting, but at least Sue looks hot and the Thing looks soooo much better now. :)

EP VII The Force Awakens Trailer 2!

So i guess the interwebs exploded overnight with news and stuff on EP VII, and the new trailer has revealed more scenes and details... i guess i gotta see the movie though it kinda looks cool so far. What's up with blingtrooper? :p the opening with the crashed Star Destroyer and X-wing look awesome.... Please.. dun screw this one up!

Han! You're lookin' ol haha. Welcome home. ;)

Ant Man!

Probably called "Ma2 Yi3 Xia2" for the Chinese release haha! :p Hard to say now, but doesn't excite me compared to other Marvel releases so far, the main actor doesn't seem to have... the charisma? Still, it may be a sleeper hit like the first Iron man who knows?

New Avengers 2 Trailer!

Surprisingly, i saw an ad in the papers that it's being released in SG on the 23rd of April, guess i gotta take the day off that day haha! :p

Here's the latest trailer! Looks... complicated.

PS. Check out the MK 45 armor at the 1:45 mark!

The Avengers AOU poster!

Man, love these photoshop mashups! Trying to squeeze in as many people as possible haha! Apparently the German version has Cap at the back of Tony to make his shield less prominent. :p

Still, looking forward to this movie! Probably going to be darker than the 1st one.

Fantasic 4 reboot

Hmmm... not feeling it really. Maybe cos it's too close to the new Avengers movie? It's supposedly out in July. The casting and design choices are... interesting at best. Still who knows? FF has always been a kinda supporting series in my opinion. And the past 2 movies were entertaining, but hard to get rid of that "cheese" feel.

Check out the official first trailer!

New Avengers 2 trailer!

So the second trailer is out! Adds a few more moments and unseen characters.. i wonder how they all fit in? :p

Ah'll be baccckkkk!

So, there's a new Terminator movie coming soon? Terminator : Genisys. Aside from the corny name, our dear old T-800 is coming back, the Guvnor himself! Well, the trailer for the movie was just released.... it's different? I guess with this time travel schtick they can just ret-con everything that happened previously. Gawd i hate shows with a time travel plot device!

Well, remains to be seen how the movie will pan out... still, crossing my fingers!

Alternate EP VII trailer.... :p

Hehe this is a good one! Yeah, although it LOOKS cool, having two tiny little blades near the handle can't be safe right? :p

Jurassic World

Well this was... unexpected? But when will they ever learn? You can't put dinos and humans together... something's BOUND to go wrong! :p

Godzilla 2014

So i just caught the movie, and without and doubt, better than the first movie. The explanation behind godzilla's rationale to 'awaken' is kinda explained, and they also tied in some theories about nuclear testing and such haha.... Hint : it ain't a test!

The movie captured the 'feel' of the lumbering monsters pretty well, he's like a giant bear actually hehe. There's a lot of tense moments and i just realised the movie succeeded in capturing how humongous these creatures are.

I wished there were more monster fighting scenes tho, although its kinda difficult to film 2 hours of monsters fighting. ;p

Overall, not bad, i'd give this movie a 7/10. :)

Godzilla 2014

Hell, looks cooler than the last American movie outing, even though he's a bit more plump. Heck, i'm more excited about this than the next Transformers movie!

Thor : The Dark World

As someone who found the first Thor movie entertaining and refreshing, it was with a little trepidation that I watched the second Thor movie. I was afraid it was going to be like Iron Man, which didn't really live up to the impact the first movie had.

 

Thankfully, the movie was surprisingly good, with a running time of 120 minutes, you won't realize that two hours have passed as the pacing is relentless, barely leaving you a moment to catch your breath till the next set piece arrives.

 

The interaction between the actors is great, real screen chemistry. Loki was awesome as usual, and some plot twists here and there which I didn't really see coming. :) Most of the movie is spent away from Earth this time, and maybe they got a bigger budget cos Asgard looks better this time round. The scenery does leave me with a bit of a Lord of the Rings feel though. :p

 

The only downer was the bit after the first credits run... It felt... cheap and out of place after the lush vistas the were presented previously.. I know its a tie in to the next upcoming movie, but was it necessary? No wonder even the director hated it and made clear it was the studios who put it there and not him!

 

Oh, and stay AFTER that for one more extra scene. :)

Pacific Rim

What can i say? Finally a robot/monster movie done right! Thankfully the movie doesn't come off as cheesy or anything like that; a lot of big robot movies don't seem to make the transition to the big screen too well... Robo jox comes to mind somehow!

 

You can say this show is heavily influenced by anime like Evangelion, and shows like ultraman and godzilla... Heck, was expecting ultraman to appear in some scenes! The human development seems a bit rushed in some parts, and the actors characters seem rather flat.... But we're here to see the robots right? And they don't dissapoint; the fight scences are pretty breathtaking and well choreographed, they move with a certain heft, so their scale and sizes look and feel believable on the big screen.

The storyline is servicable; which movie hasn't used the 'end of the world unless we stop the invasion' trope? Overall, an entertaining movie with pretty good pacing, definately worth a watch.... Oh, stay for the extra ending! ;)

Pacific Rim

Man, one movie I wanna watch! Opens next Thursday here, can't wait! This movie is like a little homage to all the Japanese giant-monster movies that have come before. Heck, they even call the monsters "Kaiju" ( which is Guai4 Wu4) which mean monsters anyway... :p

And the giant monsters are like... Ultraman? :p

World War Z

Just finished watching World War Z, first thing you'll notice is how longggg the starting credits are, as though they're trying to stretch the film by a coupla minutes (show is only 116mins) long though.

Anyway, after a thankfully short portion about Gerry's life, we hop right into the action; people are getting bitten by zombie marathon runners! These farkers probably run 2.4 faster than me haha.

The slow build up of tension is pretty good; many parts have a good atmosphere and bring to mind some good survival horror games in their prime! 

So after Gerry is saved from the city by friend, he's taken to a ship and 'convinced' to help a doctor find the cause of the breakout. The scenes that take place after that up to the one in the trailers with all the zombies climbing the wall are pretty good... And once the plane they're on crash lands...

The whole movie goes to CRAP. It's like, WTH, it feels as though the film was directed by another person, maybe a rejected director from the RE movies or something. The cinema was LAUGHING at the ridiculous acting zombies like it was some comedy, and the creeping about felt really forced. The abrupt ending really didn't help either, but by this point no one really cared. Such a weak ending after a strong buildup... Sad.

I guess the novel would be better, and probably a TV series would have suited this more than it being a movie.

Kinda blah movie, i've read they had troubles with the production of the movie and even had to reshoot some scenes, but now i've seen the movie, the problems are pretty glaring and show through in the latter half of the film!

Man of Steel

Just finished watching Man of Steel, compliments of Fujixerox! Not too bad, it's pretty much a origins story and reboot for Supes. He DOES look less cheesy with the new suit, always found the underwear on the outside a bit strange!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Lots of CG of course, but the fight scenes were pretty entertaining, lot of homages to the classic General Zod, who was pretty awesome in this movie too.

Overall a good movie! They definately left it open for at least another sequel, cos no kryptonite was used in the making of this film! ;) I also realised i DO miss the classic Superman soundtrack!

Iron Man 3 - Mini Review

Caught this at Bugis+ last night, it wasn't too bad, off the bat i can tell you it's better than part 2; at least the "final battle" was more satisfying than the wasted opportunity in part 2. This movie takes place after the events in The Avengers, so there are a lot references to the events there.

Truthfully there are more scenes with Tony without the armor on than with the armor, the movie seems to be trying to make a point that it's the man beneath the armor, rather than the armors themselves that are important. I mean, the show starts off with Tony testing the Mk 42 suit.... boy, he's sure had a lot of time since New York! His new armor is cool, there are references to the extremis 'virus', but it's totally different again from the comic version, although extremis itself does play a pretty big part in the show.

The bad guy this round is The Mandarin... no spoilers but after seeing the movie, you'll know how "important" he is to the show, no doubt that Ben Kingsley steals most scenes he's in, at least they removed the weird slur he had in the trailers.

So, it's entertaining throughout, but to me it felt kind of messy, the scenes were all over the place and not in very defined acts, guess i'll need to watch it again to make sense of some of the parts. Will definately get the BD once it's out, but not the HT figures; most of the new armors appear onscreen for a couple of secs at most.

I'll give this a 7.5/10, fun to watch but needed to be more focused! Oh, stay till the end as usual for the secret ending after the credits, and spot Stan Lee!