Monday, 27 April 2015

Avengers:Age of Ultron non spoiler review

NON-SPOILER

Age of ultron is the culmination of everything marvel has been doing for their phase 2 of their cinematic universe as well as the last time we see Joss Whedon helm an avengers movie (for now atleast). Is it everything we were hoping for though?

AoU is mist definitely darker than the first one, but still has those comedic interactions between characters. There isnt any point where jokes fall flat or whete character interaction isn't well done - the only exception here being the black widow-hulk romance which felt organic in the first movie and extremely forced in this one. There's alot foreshadowing for civil war, Thor 3 and the upcoming Black Panther movies. There are more than a few instances of convenient writing which may or may not bother certain movie goers but for the most part the pacing of the movie is much slower than the first movie.

Ultron the big bad in this film feels more of threat in this movie than loki did. James spader does a wonderful job bringing him to life and the translation from his comic version is done quite well but those who aren't fully privy to Ultrons character from the comics may or may not fully understand his reasoning for his actions as the movie doesn't really do the best job of truly explaining them.
The 3 new avengers we get in this movie being Vision, Quicksilver and Scarlet Witch are all brought to life quite well with Scarlet witch getting the most development.
The original cast don't really get much development, outside of simply setting up thier future films, with the exception of hawkeye who really came into his own in this movie but it can be argued all the development we need is in the stand alone movies.
In the end this movie has more interesting story and villain with more interesting new characters as well but it lacks the fun of the first movie.
AoU is a movie that delivers in almost all its aspects it has great acrion, comedy you feel invested with most of the characters. This movie is a must watch for all fans and this movie does deliver in its promise of an new age. An age of New Avengers.

Saturday, 25 April 2015

Jared leto joker first reaction

Earlier today David Ayer posted the first official picture of Jared leto as the joker in the up coming suicide squad movie and my initial reaction was that it works...for the most part. Intially I wasn't too sure about the tattoos but dcs batman is based on Frank Millar's work it makes sense that their joker is too (in all star batman joker had many tattoos albeit it was a giant dragon). I honestly only question the face tattoos and teeth. I initially thought the teeth to simply be dirty but it turns out he seems to have metal  teeth probably replacing all the teeth he lost from being punched in the face too many times by batman. Heath ledger's joker took the character to new levels but Leto's version shows us the true chaos and insanity that the joker has while hopefully keeping the the intelligence and charm of ledgers. Though im mainly thankful they aren't rehashing the old and trying something new which hopefully pays off. All that's left is to wait for Harley Quinn.