Sinister six date locked

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November 11th 2016 is the official release date for the Amazing Spider Man spin-off: the Sinister Six. We had been promised a Sinister Six for a couple of years now and it is reassuring now to have a date that we can look forward to. Amazing Spider Man 2 was heavily criticized because of the fact that it was more of a set up movie than a sequel. Because of all the criticism (which yours truly does not agree with) a solo Spider Man movie has been pushed back to 2018.

Now, I'm confident that this is the right path for Sony, I loved the Amazing Spider Man 2 but at the same time I think ,considering the way they set up the movie, that it's fitting that they have a Sinister Six movie first. I think we'll see Andrew Garfield as Spiderman in this movie, perhaps we might get to see how his fight against Rhino ended at the beginning of the movie and that will lead into the assemble of the awesome Sinister Six.

As for the line up of the team, no official announcement has been made. There are different comic book incarnation of the Sinister Six but it is reasonable to assume that Harry Osborn (Goblin), Doctor Octopus, Volture and Rhino are the confirmed ones. Paul Giamatti who played Rhino in the Amazing Spider Man 2 will most likely reprise his role and so will Dane Dehaan as the Green Goblin. We are still not sure about the rest of the team but who knows we could have more news on the way coming from San Diego Comic Con in the upcoming days.

Volture                                Doctor Octopus                             Goblin                                                Rhino

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Geoff Johns confirms no shared universe

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there you have it! Yesterday Jeoff Johns Chief Creative Officer at DC Comics confirmed that the DC cinematic Universe will be kept separate from the TV Universe. They are each "their own universes" "It's a separate universe than film so that the filmmakers can tell the story that's best for film," Johns said. "While we explore something different in a different corner of the DC universe." This is what Johns said at the CW Panel of The Flash destroying even that glimmer of hope that we could see Stephen Amell in a Justice League movie. WB/DC have apparently acknowledged their incompetence in planning out a succesfull share universe like Marvel has done. Honestly, I don't see what the problem is since there will not be a movie before 2016 which means that they do not have to coordinate anything before then. There are free creatively speaking to do whatever they want to, all they have to do is meet on a monthly basis and let eachother know what their plans are. Jeff also added that it will be difficult to have 2 Justice Leagues ( one on TV and the other on the big screen). Now here's what I think: Agents of the S.H.I.E.L.D is a shitty show with an awful story but people tune in to see it despite the horrible episodes. More than 5 million people watched the season finale as opposed to Arrow season 2 finale with a little more than 2 million viewers. What should we learn from this WB/DC? We should learn that having a shared universe raises the number of viewers both in the tv and movie universe. Look at the buzz Guardians of the Galaxy is getting. Nobody in their right mind would have taken even the smallest of interest in this property if it wasn't in the MCU. But in a world where Marvel has a huge success steaming from the fact that they have chosen to have a shared universe, what does DC do? It's simple, they give the rights off to Fox for Batman, they keep Green Lantern movie out of the movie universe and since the Dark Knight Trilogy grossed over 2.5 Billion $ at the worldwide box office and they are in this business for making money they decided to keep even that universe separate. Basically all they do is separate universes. Now the implications of such decision will be that we won't get to see the Flash in the movie universe otherwise audiences will get confused when they see Flash on TV played by Grant Gustin and another Flash on the big screen. Every hope that us DC Fanboys had were flushed down the toilet.

They say that Hollywood is about making money but WB/DC is an exception to this. Even Avatar announced 3 sequels with a story so predictable that we had seen a million times before but here WB/DC will not continue good franchises that make them a lot of money and nor they intend to continue franchises that haven't made them a lot of money.

I really don't get them and I am truly disappointed by all of this.

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Transformers: Age of Extinction movie review

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Trasformers Age of Exctiontion has finally been released in Italy. We have had to wait two more weeks to see it but it's finally here. This is a spoiler filled review. Let's start!!!. This fourth installment in the Transformers franchise is not tecnically a reboot but it kind of is. No references whatsoever to the original trilogy characters and not even a cameo. They could have either said that Sam was dead or that the autobots simply wanted to protect him by staying away.

Much has happened after the events of Chicago and this story takes place exactly three years after the previous film. Nowadays the autobots are on the run hunted by the CIA. Without getting too much into the convoluted storyline this movie is kind of a mess. It's two hours and 45 minutes long and it's simply exhausting and this is coming from someone who happened to love the first three movies(all of them). 

The positives for me were :

1. Optimus prime and Bumblebee. 

The two autobots that we knw and love are the only ones returning for this 4th film. We  can't help to smile when we see that yellow Camaro or that red and blue awesome Truck. They certainly embody the best of the Transformers. We can relate to them, we emphatize with them.

2. Mark Wahlberg as Cade Yeager. 

If you've read my Transfomers trilogy review you know that unlike many I was a fan of the Sam character but I have to admit that Walberg was an improvement over Sam and I believe that his character had a good role to play. I liked the fact that he was an inventor and his role as a dad.

Unfortunately his good performance was not enough to make this movie good.

3. Galvatron plot twist.

I have never watched a single episode of the Transformers cartoon therefore I had no clue as to who Galvatron was. I really enjoyed  how Megatron was actually controlling what KSI was doing and that he managed to transfer his consciousness into Galatron . 

4. Optimus Prime riding a dinobot.

True, we had to wait 2 hours to see him riding a dinobot but how awesome was it? Amongst one of the greatest moments of the whole movie.

5. Micheal Bay's girls

let's face it! He has the ability of turning a regular girl into an amazingly hot chick and we have to give him credit for it. Apart the ass and thigh shots I particuarly enjoyed the shots when she was in the Camaro. Perfect Colors and perfect make up even though she had just gone out of an explosion.

Negatives:

1. Cheese dialogue

Worst dialogue of all the transformers movie, the dialogue was very bad and the lines were terrible, to say the least. I've never criticized Transformers scripts but in this case I'm gonna have to do it. As much as I enjoyed seeing Nicola Peltz on screen I really hated when she spoke because her lines were terrible.

2. Stanley Tucci character.

Stanley Tucci is a wonderful actor but in this movie he was the worst character. He started off really well as the CEO of KSI but from then it got worse by the second. I really hated his scene in the elevator and with the motorbike. As soon as he landed in China he became a completely different character.

3. Sponsors (Victoria Secret , shua milk) samurai autobot.

Was this a movie or a huge commercial? People bashed on The Amazing Spiderman 2 because it contained to many product placements but it didn't really bother me in that movie, in this however there were entire scenes shot with the sole purpose of promoting a product. The two scenes that really got me mad were the budlight scene and the shuwa milk . 

4. Plot confusion 

The movie is extensively long. Even those of you who enjoyed the movie will agree that the runtime is too much and the movie could have easily been spilt into two parts. 2 hours after walking out of the theater I couldn't even remember the reason (if there was one) behind all those fights and explosions.The plot was simply too convoluted and at times it didn't make sense. 

5. Lack of character development amongs autobots

Same problem as the previous movies, everytime we get new autobots which we don't give a damn about and it seems that neither do they. Each time they give us new autobots with no personality and the only reason they do that is to peek the interest of someone. In this case the one of Japan with that stupid Samurai autobot who had no impact on the story and was completely useless.

6. Soundtrack

What happened to that beautiful soundtrack? They used it only in a couple of scenes but for the rest even the score was as louzy as the movie. The music makes everything better but they chose to make the movie worse than it already was.

Overall the story had fascinating twists. If the movie had been half an hour shorter it would have much more enjoyable. My excitment  for the next movie is not as high as it was for this one but I will definately not miss cool explosions , nice slow motion shots and beautiful chicks running around in shorts .  

Despite the obvious flaws of the movie I believe that Micheal  Bay has clearly found the recipe for printing easy money and people love to see this type of movies.

I truly hope Michael Bay acknowledges his mistakes and gives us a next instalments which will resemble less this one and more the previous ones.

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Brandon Routh returns to the DC Universe

                                                                                        Hey guys,

Superman Returns was definately not a great movie, but I still thought that Brandon Routh was a great Clark Kent and a really good Superman. At least he looked the part but let's face it the script didn't allow him to do more than that. After many years where he hasn't done much in Hollywood he will be making his comeback to a DC Comics based show: Arrow. Don't panic though, he's not goona reprise the role of the Last Son of Krypton but he'll have a new role. He'll play Atom (not to be confused with Captain Atom). He has the ability to shrink in size. Routh will be portraying the second incarnation of the DC character the one of the Silver Age named Ray Palmer who's a physics professor. Ray Palmer/Atom is also a Member of the JLA. Needless to say that I'm very excited about the return of Brandon to this Universe, I've always like him and even though his Superman movie wasn't great, you can find lots of videos on youtube of him talking about being the Man of Steel and he always seemed to be extremely interested in this comic book world. So my excitement for this casting has to do mainly with the enthusiasm and passion that Routh has showed for this genre.

And who knows maybe we'll get to see Routh standing beside Henry Cavill who plays Superman if recent rumors are indeed true. I truly hope so!

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Heroes: What we know so far

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here's all we know as of today of the upcoming mini series of Heroes. During the winter Olympics it was announced that Heroes would return in 2015 with a mini series of 13 episodes. The show, as we all remember was cancelled in 2010 after one horrible season with very poor ratings and with a season finale (which turned out to be a series finale) which gave us no closure whatsoever.

Rumor circulating on the web said that Tim Kring &co were going to shoot a tv movie to wrap it all up but it never happened. A few months ago everything changed, NBC decided they wanna invest in Heroes once again and they'll start doing that with Heroes: Reborn. Now the question on everyone's mind is: Will this be a reboot or will it continue the story of the Heroes we know? I assumed it was going to be a reboot especially when I saw that previous cast members were as shocked as we were when hearing about the Jake Coleman who played Noah Bennet on the show would be returning to reprise his role. Now you would think that since Jake is coming back so is Claire who played his daughter on the show. Well not really according to Hayden Panettiere who said she'll not be back. We still don't know if this was the producers decision or if it was Hayden's decision. This is all we know so far. Oh wait, we also know that Milo Ventimiglia will not come back. He replied to one of his followers on twitter who asked him if he was going to come back and he said that he won't but he'll be watching the show from home. Needless to say this is a huge disappointment for me because I've always been a Peter Petrelli fan and I was disappointed with what they had done with him in Season 3 and 4.

return of Heroes, however few weeks ago it was announced that

We still don't know much about the storylines and very few statements have been made on the return of this hit tv series so all we'll have to do is wait and see how it turns out.

What would I like to get from this show?

I would like to show to give me closure, even with small references or cameos I want this show to tell me what happened to the characters that we all loved and then continue with its main story. If it were up to me I would definately bring Milo back and Zachary Quinto back because when you really think about those two were the protagonists and we deserve to see them have an epic final battle.

I really hope that in a few months I'll be able to say what a great show Heroes is.

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The Flash tv series pilot review

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Yesterday I saw the pilot of the CW's new tv series entitled The Flash, which is a spinoff series of ARROW. I want to share my thoughts about the leaked pilot episode with you.

This is a spoiler review. Don't go on if you have not seen the pilot.

First of all my general impression is that the first episode was really good and very well-done. The show looks promising! Second of all I want to focus on specific scenes.
Let's start.

In the pilot we see the origin of the flash (Barry Allen).The story is narrated with flashbacks, also we  see some old scenes that we already saw in arrow season 2 episode 9 "three ghosts". Some of those scenes are inconsistent (i.e. Barry using a tissue when walking into his lab) with what we saw in arrow but this is just a little mistake...it does not matter..what matters is that the pilot was online months before it was supposed to come out and whoever put it online had not idea of how much money the CW was gonna loose.

 The best moments of this episode, in my opinion, are:

• the first scenes in which there is barry running into the city while is narrating! I have to say that despite the fact that it is a tv show and the production budget is not as high as a blockbuster movie, the special effects are awesome and I liked them very much

• Starling city 

after failing to catch the Weather Wizard, Barry runs to Starling City to his friend Oliver Queen aka The Arrow and Oliver tells him that now he can be a guardian angel for his city and says that the lightning chose him to inspire people and I like this scene because it is mind blowingly beautiful because we have the flash and the green arrow standing in front of one another in a very epic scene.

• Pilot finale 

the ending is unexpected  beacuse I would never have imagined that  they would bring time travel  into the show especially if we consider the implications of that into a share universe. Anyway, what a cliffhanger, right?

• Harrison Wells speech to Barry

when barry goes after the bad guy (the Weather Wizard) and has problems defeating him, Harrison encourages him and when at the end he says "you can do this...now run barry.....RUN!!!!"...I jumped out of my seat because it really was a great scene and I liked it very much.

• Barry's father 

One of the things I really enjoyed is that Barry's father is  John Wesley Shipp and he was played back in the 90s The flash on television and I think it was great to see him now play The Flash's fahter.

In this first episode there are also a lot of Easter Eggs and these are some of them (please tell us if we missed any):

• Gorilla Grood

After Barry wakes up from coma  at Star Labs , doctor Harrison Wells explains to him what happened after the particle accelerator  was turned on and they,while talkink, walk passed a broken cage on which we see "Grodd"..and that's a reference to Flash's enemy Gorilla Grodd.

• Wayne tech\Queen inc

at the end of the episode Dr Harrison Wells goes into a secret room and opens a newspaper from the future(2024) On this newspaper we read on the left ,at the bottom of the page we see"Wayne Tech\Queen Inc Merger complete"...that's clearly a reference to Wayne Industries which is the compaany of Bruce Wayne aka Batman.

• Ferris air

After discovering his abilities, Barry with Dr. Harrison Wells and his assistants test how fast he can run and they test him in a ferris air testing facility which is clearly a reference to agent Carol Ferris aka Hal jordan(Green Lantern)'s love interest. .A Ferris easter eggs also appeared in arrow season 1 finale....so HOPEFULLY one day we'll see green lantern POP UP in either Starling City or Central City.

• Crisis on infinite Earths 

Also in the end on the newspaper from 2024 we read the Heading which says "Flash vanishes in Crisis" which is a reference to the comic book series Crisis on infinite Earths but It will remain simply an Easter Egg since that particular story needs Batman, Superman and other important comic book characters but I guess it could be a great idea in the case they decide to have a shared universe with Batman and Superman from the movie universe.

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Predictions on summer blockbuster movies

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Summer is finally here and there are 4 big blockbuster movies about to release in the upcoming weeks. We are obviously talking about Transformers: Age of Extinction, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Guardians of the Galaxy and Dawn of the Planet of the Apes. I suppose we have seen enough footage from all four movies for me to give you my thoughts and expectations on how they are going to turn out.

                                1. Transformers: Age of Extinction

Despite all the bad critics befallen on the previous instalments of the franchise which I do not agree with I have to admit that I was a bit skeptical about the idea of changing the entire cast, I mean they could have replaced easily one or two other actors who did not want to come back but they still could have continued the storyline. It kind of bugs me that the story will take place some years what happened in Chicago and that Optimus and the Autobots are now hanging out with new people. I wonder how they are going to explain the reason why there's a totally different cast. The trailer has not got me excited one bit but I'll still go see it and I'll go in there with an open mind.

                                2. Guardians of the Galaxy

People keep saying how awesome the trailers look for the next instalment of the Marvel Cinematic Universe but I personally don't see it. I do not like the tone of the trailers, too many jokes for my taste and apart from Starlord I don't actually have an interest in any of the other members. With that being said, it will still be a Marvel movie and it will be interesting to see how the Guardians will fit into the whole Avengers Universe.

                                3. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

Everyone is bashing on this movie for the casting of Megan Fox as April O'Neil and for the fact that Michael Bay is producing it but I've actually been impressed by the two trailers, the turtles as I said in my review of the TMNT trailer look good and so does Shredder. I actually have a feeling that this movie will have a huge box office success.

                                4. Dawn of the Planet of the Apes

Definately my most anticipated movie of the summer. After watching all three trailers I have to say the movie looks better than what I had expected. I think I've watched the scene where Ceasar says: Apes Together, Strong" a million times and I still get goosebumbs. I think that this movie will have a mojor twist at the end which will leaves completely shocked.

This are my thoughts on the biggest summer movies of 2014. What's the movie you are most looking forward to?

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