Batman & Robin movie review

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you truly are masochist for wanting to even read this review about the 1997 Batman & Robin better known as the "Death of the Franchise" or also known as the undisputed worst comic book movie of all time.

This movie stars George Clooney as Batman/ Bruce Wayne and several other actors who reprised their role as Alfred, Gordon and Robin.

I have absolutely nothing good to say about this movie. It has no redeemable qualities whatsoever. There are a million reason why George Clooney alone was not right for the part and he did a very poor job. However it wasn't just his fault. Who in the hell hired the costume designer? What were those f..... bat-nipples? Were they really necessary?

What about the props? They looked like toys made for children, apparently they props were a by-product of the toys and they were used to promote the toys they were going to sell after the release of the movie.

Another problem had to do with the script: First line of the movie was "That's why Superman works alone!" Really? Really? Are you telling me that in that horrible universe Supes not only exists but he hasn't killed himself when he discovered that Bruce Wayne was George Clooney? But I guess it makes sense if they had cast Nicolas Cage as the Man of Steel. If they had done a Batman/ Superman movie with those two actors the comic book world would never have recovered from it.

Up until this movie the only decent thing we had had in the franchise were the villains, but in this movie we don't even get that. We get three villains,( and now we know that having three villains in a movie is really bad See Spiderman 3) and none of them were interesting. We have Arnold Swarznegger as The Ice Man who basically did not have more than two lines in the whole movie, then we have Bane or a version of Bane who did not have any lines and finally we had Uma Thurman as Poison Ivy. So what's the solution to three silly villains? Three silly wanna be superheroes. We got Batman, Robin and Batgirl who apparently showed us that you don't need to train like Christian Bale's Batman for 6 years to learn how to fight, the only thing that you need is to find your way to the Batcave and magically learn everything overnight then you simply put on mask and you are a superhero.

I could go on forever about this movie. There are so many plot holes like the rocket scene where Robin is climbing the rocket from the outside despite the freezing temperature and also the whole premace that The Ice Men needed Diamonds to power his suit that freezes everything and that he wanted to use his suit to freeze Gotham and then hold the entire city for ransom for billions of dollars so he can cure his wife with those money. Then my question is, why not sell those diamonds in the first place instead of creating this evil masterplan which is highly unlike it will succeeed?

Anyway we should be thankful that this movie did so bad, for without it we would never have gotten the fantastic reboot with Christian Bale and Christopher Nolan.

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Batman Forever Review

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today I want to share with you my thoughts on the 1995 Batman Forever or as I like to call it the beginning of the end of the franchise. It was the third instalment in the Shumacher/Burton franchise of the Dark Knight and I've never ever understood when producers keep part of the cast of previous films and simply replace others with new actors.

I mean, I understand the need to replace one actor with another. That can happen for many reason, see Iron Patriot aka James Rhodes who was played by Terrence Howard in the first Iron Man and then by Don Cheadle in the second and third movie, in that case it was only one actor who was replaced and it is ok therefore to continue with the franchise. However when you have to change half of the cast and you also change the whole tone of the movie then you might as weel do a proper reboot.

In this movie Alfred and Gordon are played by the same actors of the first two movies, but we get a completely new Batman. After Michael Keaton stepped down as Batman, he was replaced for one film only by Val Kilmer and we also get to meet Robin and as always we get a hot blonde which apparently this franchise can't survive without. I mean why did they think that they needed a hot blonde in every single movie and why didn't they just keep one instead of changing every damn movie?

Needless to say that this franchise went from bad (which was the first movie) to worse with Val Kilmer's interpretation of the Caped Crusader but fans who thought that that was the worst were really in for a treat. 

Another awful thing about the movie was the batmobile which was horrendous and so was the CGI throughout the whole movie.

One thing that I didn't mind about the movie were the enemies which were the Riddler played by Jim Carrey and Two Face played by Tommy Lee Jones.

Another interesting aspect that the director could have expanded more on is the relationship between Robin and Batman and how what happened to their respective families helped them bond.

Overall the movie per se was not that bad but when placed in the context of the franchise it is absolutely worthless.

I didn't even dislike Val Kilmer as Batman, hell I think out of the three Batman of the franchise he was by far the better one but still the whole franchise was not what it should have been.

Anyway this movie can be considered one of the greatest comic book movie of all time if we compare it to what followed only two years later.

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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles trailer review

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the brand new trailer for the upcoming Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles has hit the web. It's only 1 minute and 30 second long but from what I have seen it looks amazing.

You should know that I am a big fan of Michael Bay's work, I enjoyed most of his films including the much criticized Pearl Harbor and the Transformers Trilogy. But let's get back to the trailer.

There are few things that I enjoyed about this brand new trailer:

1. The tone

The movie has the same tone as the transformers movies. The colors are very bright, we get a hot chick in Megan Fox and we get some giant "heroes" in the turtles.

2. The turtles

The turtles look really good. Apperently they were created to protect humanity and one thing that surprised me was the fact that they are enormous. I imagined they would be as tall as humans but it turns out they are twice as tall as humans. Megan Fox is, by the way, used to being in movies with giant creatures and even though the turtles were CGIed I don't think there will be any problems when they are interacting with humans.

3. The humor

 Looks like the movie will have a huge dose of humor and I think that is the right choice because after all it is a movie designed for kibds and for those who are young inside so a couple of jokes are more than welcomed.

My biggest concern with this movie however is Megan Fox playing April O'Neil. I don't understand why Bay would give her this role especially after what happened on the set of Transformers 3: Dark of the Moon.

The movie hits theaters this summer and here's the trailer:

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Arrow 2x17 Review

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the 17th episode of the second season of Arrow entitled Birds of Prey aired last night on the CW network.

Arrow has had one awesome episode after another and it was only a matter of time before we got a not so good episode. It's a shame because the hype for this episode was extremely high due to the title: Birds of Prey but it turns out that this was just a teaser title since only 2 members of a team don't make the team.

These are the main points of last night's episode

1) The Huntress is back and "Birds of prey"

Oliver discovers that Frank Bertinelli is back in town and so as a result it's only a matter of time before Helena Bertinelli aka The Huntress comes back to Starling city to kill his father.So the Huntress is back for this episode and she is dead set on revenge.

2) Roy's Anger connected to the "Speedy " thing

When Team " Arrow" finds out about the Huntress return, Felicity tracks down Helena  and  Roy Sarah and Oliver go after her. They track down a car in which they think Helena is but it turns out to be only a decoy. The man hired by Helena, however, shoots Roy in the hand and Roy nearly kills him. Thankfully Oliver stops him by calling him "Speedy"  which is Oliver sister's nickname but also Roy's alterego in the comics before he was called Red Arrow.

We know that Roy Haper throughout his comic book history has been called in different ways:

Speedy as Green arrow's sideklick ,

Arsenal in the Teen Titans and

Red Arrow in the Justice League of America.

We still don't know how they are going to call him in this new incarnation, but maybe Speedy will be a temporary name exactly as The Hood was for Oliver.

3) Thea-Oliver relantionship

After Roy once again lost control, Oliver tells roy to break up with Thea since he is not able to control himself and he can hurt her. In the episdode we clearly see Roy' love for Thea so he listens to Oliver and breaks up with her. After breaking up with Roy, Thea is very vulnerable and that is why she's the best target for Slade. One thing that I did not understand was why Roy had to break up with Thea. I mean he's never been a threat to her and in the last episode it was said that Roy was protecting Thea from Slade. What happened now? Did everybody forget about Slade? To me this was a bit of an inconsistency which I didn't like.

4) Few island scenes and strong presence of police officers

We always have had a lot of island scenes but this time around there were only a few. On the island Slade is trying to fix the engine of the boat in order to leave the island but the engineer escaped so Slade proposes a trade to Sarah: Oliver in exchange for the engineer but something tells me he's not gonna live up to his end of the bargain. In the present storyline, however, we see the rise of a sense of anti vigilante feelings within the police force and I think this will be one of the main themes of the upcoming episodes.

5) Laurel's situation

Laurel's situation has become much more important and we see her still struggling with her alchool dependence. I love her scene with Helena, to me that was the true essence of the title Birds of Prey because let's not forget that she's the true Black Canary. I also very much enjoyed Sarah and Helena fighting scenes and it is nice for once to have female superheroes.

In conclusion, the cliffhanger of Thea's jumping in the car with Slade makes us wonder what will happen next. Well if you are like me and you can't wait for next week then take a look at this sneek peek.

All hell is about to break loose!

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X-Men Days of future past trailer 2 review

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Today a new trailer for the upcoming movie X-Men Days of future past has hit the web. Let me start by saying that this new trailer is completely different than what we have seen in the previous one. From this trailer we get a whole new look at the film. The present or rather the future seems like it has been devastated by the war between mutants and that is why Logan has to go back to the past to fix it.

One new thing that we discovered from the trailer was that at some point during the film The Wolverine will regain his adamantium claws which he lost at the end of the last Wolverine movie.

I loved the vibe of this movie, to me both the original cast and the new one are absolutely perfect. It was a genius move to have them in the same movie. In the trailer the scene where young Magneto played by Michael Fassbender flies or rather lands on the ground gave me goosebumps.

It looks like most of the movie will feature the new cast with the old cast appearing maybe only at the beginning and at the end, however, it looks like Logan might not be the only one to pop back in the past.

This new trailer can only be described with one word: EPIC.

The new trailer came out in a perfect time, Fox keeps building up its momentum after announcing new release dates for its Marvel properties.

X-Men Apocalypse was already scheduled to be released in 2016 but now we also know that the studio will release the sequel to the Fantastic Four on the 14th of July 2017, another Wolverine movie on March 3hd 2017 and an untitled movie for july 13th 2018. Unlike other studios (you all know who I am referring to) Fox has shown support and confidence in their Marvel properties and rumors have it that the untitled movie is actually going to be the first crossover between the X-Men and the Fantastic Four.

We couldn't have asked from Fox anything better and I can't wait to see the X-Men Days of Future Past movie which will hit theaters everywhere on the 22nd of May of this year.

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Hans Zimmer top 10 scores

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with this article  I want to talk about the importance of music in a movie and specifically I want to focus on The Great Hans Zimmer.

First of all ,music is one  of the most important elements of a movie and it represents one of the pilars on which a movie is built. The relationship between these two, movies and music, comes to life from the fact that music can create through rhythm, melody, notes all emotions and the power of more instruments playing together is what make you feel the action, the drama and a lot of different emotions. Music combined with images is something special and unique, and a movie with no music wouldn't be so special. A good Score is capable of turning a bad  movie into a good movie. To undestand the importance of music in a movie imagine a Sergio Leone movie with no Ennio Morricone score in it. Imagine the original Superman movies with no John Williams score in it. .With that being said , I think that the best composer of our time who is able to express in movies all sorts of emotion is Hans Zimmer.

In this top ten there are scores that I had to leave out but I think they are still worth mentioning:

"The Last Samurai"

"Sherlock Holmes"

"Mission Impossible"

"King Arthur"

"Kung Fu Panda"

"Madacascar"

"The king Lion"

"Spirit"

"The Road to el Dorado"

"The lone ranger"

"As good as it gets"

"The Preacher's Wife"

Now, let's take a look at my personal Hans Zimmer Top Ten Scores:

10. 12 years a slave

9. Rush

8. The Thin Red Line

7. Pirates of the Carribean

6. Pearl Harbor

5. Man of Steel

4. Inception

3. Dark Knight Trilogy

2. Da vinci Code

1. The Gladiator

Guys, as always, tell me what is your Hans Zimmer favourite score in the comment section below

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Arrow 2x16 Review

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I finally found the time to do this review. I have been busy lately and I wasn't able to post the review for this week Arrow episode on Thursday. 

Let me start by saying that Wednesday's episode entitled Suicide Squad was a drastic change from previous episodes.

We finally got to see one of the most anticipated episodes of the season. The hype was so high this week because of the break and because of that 4 minute clip that the CW released 2 weeks ago teasing the birth of the Squad. 

I have to say that the episode has lived up to its expectations however I had imagined it completely different.

I thought the Oliver and Slade storyline was going to be connected to the Suicide Squad but apparently those paths are not destined to cross just yet. 

One of the thing that we didn't get to see were the flashbacks of the island but instead since this was a Diggle centered episode we saw flashbacks of Diggle's time in the US Army. 

This season the character of Diggle hasn't been used properly, in my opinion, and even when he was used during the season he was kinda useless so it is nice to see him have a more important role, at least for this episode.

We barely saw Oliver who was trying with Felicity and Sarah to find Slade but when they seemed to be very close to finding him they realized that Slade is always one step ahead of them.

Anyway the main plot of the episode was the Suicide Squad and its leader Amanda Waller who gathered a group of criminal who she controls with a mini bomb placed in their head which can be activated if one of them does not follow the orders. I personally loved the character of Deadshot and the actor who plays him Michael Rowe. 

The most exciting moment of the episode were the 7 seconds at the beginning when one of the inmate recruited by Amanda Waller interfered in the conversation between Diggle and his ex wife by saying: "Do ya kiddies need some counseling? I'm a trained therapist.". If you are a big comicbook fan you understood who that person was. She is none other that Harley Quinn, the Jokers girlfriend and we understood who she was also by looking at her hair. One thing you may not know is that the voice of that character was Tara Strong who's the voice of Harley in Batman's Arkham Origin. How awesome is that? The internet and twitter exploded with comments on her and Harley Quinn was one the biggest trend on twitter on Wednesday night.

Arrow keeps getting better and better and next week's episode is entitled Birds of Prey and the title says it all.

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