I have had a hard time psyching myself up for Captain America: Civil War, but man does Doctor Strange look good. You know what I love most? So far there are no connections to the other Marvel movies. I would watch this movie with or with out the ‘Marvel’ brand. It looks like I will have one more thing to be thankful for this November!
Thanks To The MTV Movie Awards It Is Trailer Day!
First up we got the new Suicide Squad trailer!
With Batman v Superman underperforming DC/Warner Brothers are doing everything in their power to make sure that the Suicide Squad is a hit, and I do have to say it is looking very fun. This trailer mostly has longer shots of things we have already seen, but that is alright with me. I think we can safely say that Enchantress is the big bad guy in this movie.
Next we have Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them!
Again Warner Brothers is really ramping up the hype train, and this movie looks great! We get to see a little more magic in this trailer, and we learn a little more background info about Newt. On thing is for sure I will be in the seats come November!
Now how about a video game with Gears of War 4!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3f8VgQ_dqk
Clearly the people over at Microsoft are paying homage to the classic ‘Mad World’ Gears of War trailer with a very somber cover of ‘Sound of Silence’. This trailer sets up the new character and the setting for Gears 4 pretty well, and I have to say after not playing the last two Gears of Wars games this makes me pretty excited for Gears of War 4.
Happy trailer day everyone!
The Walking Dead Season Six Finale Was Bull Crap!
Okay we need to talk about The Walking Dead season six finale “The Last Day On Earth”! Obviously this rant will contain spoilers so you have been warned. Well except for the fact I can’t really spoil anything because nothing really happened. I don’t know what the writers were thinking with this episode. They managed to create an episode that not only didn’t deliver on its promises, but that also now has the worst cliff hanger of all time.
They have been asking for all of the second half of season 6 “Who will survive?” only to not tell us. Sure the introduction of Negan was good, and he is just as charismatic and terrifying as we have been told, but we were also promised he would kill someone, and while he technically did, they just didn’t show us. So they used 90 minutes to not deliver on the one question that they have been asking for months. Of course now they get to ask ‘Who was it?”, but that is garbage, it is just being mean to their fans.
The show already had a natural and interesting cliff hanger, “How will the group survive this?”, but I guess that wasn’t enough, so they decided it was okay to amp it up for no reason. I could see if this show was doing poorly how an action like this would make sense, but this is the most popular show on the planet, so there was no need to not deliver on their own marketing.
The Walking Dead has been getting lazy with their writing for a while now, and this finale might be the tipping point in The Walking Dead’s popularity. I have not heard this much backlash about an episode of TV in a long time, and I think the producers of The Walking Dead are going to regret filming “The Last Day On Earth”.
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Daredevil Season Two Wrap-Up: If Ninjas Are Boring You Are Doing It Wrong!
I figure enough time has passed for me to give my final judgement of Daredevil season two. Which will be way better than my midseason impressions I assure you! For the most part this was a pretty successful season. The Punisher stuff was very good. Frank Castle becoming the terrifying murderous vigilante was great. Surprisingly what wasn’t great was the Elektra/Ninja storyline.
I mean Elodie Yung was an excellent Elektra, but that story really never went anywhere, and it mostly served as a distraction from all the good stuff that was going on with Frank. It just seemed like any time there was a lull in the story they just threw some random Ninjas at it and started talking about ‘The War’.
The only real positive the ninjas served is bringing up the question of if superheroes should kill or not. For the most part we can all agree that they shouldn’t because then they would be replacing the law, but in the case of the ninjas their clan would just sweep in and collect them, so none of these guys that Murdock was knocking out were ever going to serve any jail time. He was just going to have to fight them again tomorrow. So if he was truly fighting a centuries old war, maybe, just maybe, he should stop pulling his punches. Maybe then he could have saved us from a couple of those boring ninja fights.
I have to tell you that I never thought ‘boring ninja fight’ was something I would write, but here we are. Daredevil has boring ninja fights. Now like I said they are only part of what happens this season, and I do think they are building to something bigger, but they are kind of forced in to a holding pattern until Iron Fist shows up. Once all the Marvel TV series are launched we can probably get to the interesting ninja fights. At least I hope so. If the Luke Cage show is filled with boring ninja fights I am going to be ticked!