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.

Saturday, 15 February 2014

The Walk-Part 2

So to continue where we left off, my friend Tarun and I were facing a dark road with no sight of civilization around us, no money and our destination being six to seven miles0 away from us. Caught up? Good,  let's continue. Our main fear was obviously us getting mugged or killed and trust me, with the reputation this place had, we weren't overreacting. We continue down this dark road when we find our first little anomaly. At first we simply notice benches facing walls, so we write it off as we had bigger things to worry about. As we go on, we find out that on the other side of the wall was a temple which would be fine i guess, and in Orissa, things are a little old fashion. But then we realize it's either a temple or a bar. Yes, people came to worship god, but if he failed to answer, then why not drink your troubles away right? Well hey, it makes sense because the temple was full of lights flashing around everywhere. But at this point we realized we need to walk faster. As we continue down this sad excuse for a road, we see a bunch of parked autos. Hoping to get a lift, we approach them only to have them acknowledge us by drunkenly pointing at us and yelling. So we did what anyone would do. We ran away.

After we lose sight of that, we managed to find another row of parked autos, but this time all the drivers were asleep and the autos had their covers pulled down. Now to those of you who do not know, an auto is a small vehicle about the size of a golf cart but with only a single seat in the front for the driver, and the passenger seat at the back that could fit around three or four people. So now we come to the weird part where a man gets out of the auto followed by a woman with a baby and a teenage girl with three other kids and they simply walk down a path on the side of the road without turning back. Okay sure cuz why not... So we keep going and we've been walking for about two hours. We're tired, annoyed, very lost and still worried of getting murdered. We see the first real thing that scared us, which was a big fat man his stomach the shaped as a globe who came out of a forest, his stomach jutting out of wife beater as he imply watched us walk past him breathing slowly, never moving from that spot. After we cross him, he simply slides back into the forest and of course, we ran away again. After we were nice and far away from that chap, we had to keep our phones some where. We didn't have any pockets, so we had only one choice which at THAT time, seemed to make sense. We hid them in our underwear. Needless to say, we were only half way through and still had a long way to go. And I needed to buy a lot of disinfectants and sanitizers for our journey to come.
  

Friday, 14 February 2014

The Walk-Part 1

So this incident happened to me some time ago but, what happened that night has been seared into my brain...kinda. Okay ,honestly i can't recall parts of it but still...So, this happened in a small town in Orissa. For whatever reason there's a pretty swanky resort 10 km outside the town.Why there's a swanky resort somewhere known for murders,mugging,etc I don't know but, hey i'm not one to judge what my friend and I did next was beyond stupid.
Now the reason me and my friends were in Orissa was because of a rowing tournament in that state. Our team was representing our state.We were placed in cricket stadium, yes a stadium ,don't ask that's another horror story.So our parents were staying at the resort, which i repeat was 10km outside the town. So, a friend and I went there to eat real food for once.
So, now for the real fun . It's 8pm ,we need get back to the stadium ,we tell our parents to relax , and thatwe would find our own away not realizing that all public transports shut down after 6.We're too far to turn back ,so we think screw it, we can walk.Let me pause to describe the road and us right now .This a single road going on without an end in sight with streetlights either blinking or just dead.We have no money on us, , we're in shorts and we're basically facing that classic horror movie situation where you scream at the screen,"TURN BACK YOU STUPID LIL SHITS" and this was just the beginning.