Silent Hill Review/Analysis/Defense

Hey here's a neato Spring Break review that nobody will really care about. This is less of a review and more of a debate thing, as the Silent Hill movie is very, very split between people. Some people love it, others hate it and say that it's inaccurate to the games. Here will explain the plot (in chronological order, which means spoilers) and share my thoughts, but also bring up a few points that people use to bash the movie that I think don't work. And yes, I will also bring the points that do work. I'm nice like that.

Silent Hill


In the 60's or 70's, Silent Hill was a small mining town where a little girl named Alessa was frequently bullied and accused of being a witch. Her mother Dahlia tried to protect her, but the bullying would not stop. Dahlia's sister, Christabella, was the leader of a cult in the town, and said that she needed to "cleanse" Alessa. What Dahlia did not know is that the cult's way of cleansing her was to burn her alive. When she realized this, Dahlia called the police to help and in an accident, the thing Alessa was tied to broke off and knocked over the big pot of hot coals it was resting on, setting most of the town on fire. Alessa was rushed to the hospital where her rage separated itself into a darker form of herself, which eventually pulled the entire town of Silent Hill and the cult into an alternate purgatory dimension. Sort of. She then made a little girl, Sharon, out of the good left in her and continued to slowly pick off the different cult members left. Many years later, Rose, who was Sharon's mother, took Sharon to Silent Hill to try and figure out what happened, only to end up in a car crash and wake up later with Sharon missing. Most of the movie takes place in this present time, with Rose waking up in the foggy purgatory Silent Hill looking for her daughter.

I have to say, this movie looks amazing. The foggy Silent Hill looks stunning, but it's even more stunning when the world shifts and the walls melt away to show a grittier, more violent town. The fog looks awesome and the creatures are almost all practical effects enhanced with CGI, giving it a very strange and surreal look. The acting is also really good, and I love that they got Akira Yamaoka, the sound designer of the first few games to come on and make music for the film.

Now for the part where I respond to some complaints about the movie and give my two cents on it.

"Why did they change Harry Mason to a woman in the movie? Don't men care about their children too?"

Yes, it is rather questionable and I'd agree that it was sexist towards men if not for the entire subplot in the movie focused on the father trying to find his family. For a good portion of the film, Chris breaks into buildings, reads through police records, interrogates people, and constantly calls Rose all to try and find her and his daughter. The ending of the film is built around the fact that Chris will have to live knowing he'll never see his family ever again, and the depression he's going through without them. Do people just forget this part of the story? 

"Christophe Gans only made this a female-centered movie because he thinks women are sexy!"

I would believe this if not for their portrayal in the film. Rose, Cybil, Dahlia, Christabella and the others are very active in the story, they move the story along, and if you actually watch the movie, they aren't treated as eye-candy. 

"They took creatures from Silent Hill 2! Those creatures were only supposed to be in that game!"

They still have relevance and meaning in the story. GoodBadFlicks did a really good job of pointing out each creature's purpose and meaning in the film. The only big difference is that these creatures are more based around Alessa in the film rather than James Sunderland.

"If Alessa and her monsters can't access the church where the cultists live, why can't she just have it always be in nightmare time? And why does she leave food around for them to eat during the day? She wants to kill them, yes?"

The movie does not answer this, as far as I can tell.

"If Sharon is sleepwalking and having nightmares about Silent Hill, why is Rose's solution to just take her there? She says that she's taking Sharon there to remember something about Silent Hill, but Sharon's never been to Silent Hill. Explain."

This is another plot hole. In the games, Harry Mason took his daughter for vacation there. He didn't know his daughter had anything to do with Silent Hill.

"Why did Rose reach into the mouth of a dead person? That's gross!"

Why did James Sunderland reach into a toilet? That's gross!

"This movie is too graphic! The games were never like this!"

So uhhh...

...yeah, sure. Whatever. 

"This movie is nothing like the games!"

Nothing? Are you sure about that? The way the film was started in the first place was when Christophe Gans, the director, came to Konami with a 30-minute long video explaining why he loves the games so much and what he would do if given the rights to make a film. The writer, Roger Avary, also came on to work on the film because he was a huge Silent Hill fan. The film pulls elements and references from the first four games in the series. Most of the characters from the first game are in the movie and have basically the same role. 

As far as changes go, here is a quick list of adaptations you may know that made changes:

• The Hunger Games movies
• The Divergent movies
• The Harry Potter movies
• The Lord of the Rings movies
• The entire Marvel Cinematic Universe
• The X-Men movies
• The Fantastic Four movies
• All of the Batman movies (all of them)
• All of the Spiderman movies (all of them)
• The Polar Express
• How to Train Your Dragon 1 & 2
• Pretty much every Stephen King-based movie
• All of the Resident Evil movies (all of them)
• All of the Uwe Boll-made game adaptations
• Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 1 & 2
• The Jurassic Park movies
• The Thing From Another World
• Scott Pilgrim v.s The World
• Watchmen
• V for Vendetta
• Many, many more movies

The point I'm trying to make here is that no book or game can fully be adapted into a 90 minute film, it just is not possible. Books, movies, and games are three completely different mediums that function and operate very differently. Books are all text and naturally have to be descriptive, movies use sounds and images to create a visual experience that we can observe on our own, and games are interactive, using all of the previously described elements to often create a story that you, the player, can experience and perceive at your own pace. Sometimes in games, you can even control the outcome of the story, providing a very interesting relationship between the player and the game. Both Christophe Gans and Roger Avary did the best they could with what they had, and made a movie that may not have been entirely accurate, but had its heart in the right place.

But hey, we could have had an Uwe Boll Silent Hill instead, if you'd rather watch that.

"Why not just make a movie that is a part of the game's story instead of making a new story based on the game, like Resident Evil: Degeneration?"

Because if they made a film like that, it would really only be important to people who played the games and knew the story. Making an adaptation may change things, but it gets new audiences interested. Why do you think Resident Evil: Degeneration was exclusively direct-to-video?

Overall, I hope people reading this can gain something. Translating a story from one medium to another isn't easy, and changes to the story are bound to be made. Just accept it for what it is, guys.

Guardians of the Galaxy Review

Welcome to the final entry of my Marvel Cinematic Universe review event thing! This is the tenth movie in this series, and it's probably the one that has me the most mixed. Check out the review to find out why.

Guardians of the Galaxy

This movie is about Peter Quill, or Star-Lord, trying to steal an orb that Ronan The Accuser, a Kree general, wants to use to destroy some planet named Xandar. But there's also Gamora and Nebula, who are some purple dude's adoptive children, but Gamora doesn't like her purple dad and when she and her sister are tasked with retrieving the orb for Ronan, Gamora tries to steal the orb for herself and sell it, but then in the process, she ends up getting arrested alongside Star-Lord and these two bounty hunters, one being a talking raccoon named Rocket who likes weapons, and the other being a tree-man named Groot who's dialogue consists entirely of "I am Groot." So they get arrested and then they meet with this tough dude named Drax whose wife and daughter were murdered by Ronan, and they escape the weird high-tech prison. But wait, there's also this kind of redneck-ish guy named Yondu who raised Star-Lord and he's ALSO looking for the orb because he thinks that Star-Lord betrayed him AND ALSO he has a weird arrow thing that is controlled by his whistling. BUT WAIT, there's also this weird dude named The Collector who keeps all sorts of freaky aliens and stuff in glass boxes and all the main heroes go to him to give him the orb, because they could get a lot of money for it, AND THEN they all get an exposition dump for no reason from The Collector even though he's just buying the thing, and they learn that the gem inside of the orb is one of the Infinity Gems, which totally may or may not appear in some sequel or whatever. Anyways, you get the point. The plot is kind of ridiculous, and this movie has too many characters. Whatever. What's good about this movie?

First, the Guardians themselves are really awesome, particularly Rocket and Groot. Many laughs were had with these characters. Speaking of which, this movie is loads of fun. The action, the visuals, the comedy, they all come together so well in this movie. Granted, as soon as you start thinking about it, it falls apart, but it's still a fun movie to pop in when you're tired and just don't care. Because Star-Lord was abducted in 1988 while he had his walkman with him, that means that the entirety of the soundtrack consists of really awesome 70's and 80's music. Seriously, this soundtrack is, in my opinion, among the best movie soundtracks ever.

Overall, what can I possibly say about this that hasn't been said by everyone else? It's fun, it can be serious when it needs to, it has a great soundtrack, it's just a really entertaining movie. The only problem I can think of is that, again, it falls apart as soon as you start thinking about it.

I hope you all enjoyed my MCU review event…thing, and if you really don't want to wait until Age of Ultron comes out on Blu-Ray, I'll be doing a short, spoiler free first impressions post after I see the movie in theaters. Until then, I'll be reviewing other stuff. Leave a comment down below with suggestions.

Captain America 1 & 2 Review

Captain America: The First Avenger

This movie has a very similar problem with The Incredible Hulk. It is definitely good, and has a lot of points that allow you to think for yourself, but it's really loose in some areas and really needs a lot of extra time to give it a polish.

This movie follows the story of how Steve Rogers, a young boy longing to fight for his country, get injected with a Super Soldier serum that makes him stronger and faster. He decides to become Captain America and take down Hydra, but in the end gets frozen in ice and wakes up in the present day, where he meets Nick Fury and finds out what's going on. I know I just spoiled the ending, but the whole movie details Captain America's origin leading up to him waking up in the present. I can't really talk in detail about the movie unless I explain the ending.

First, the good stuff. The way Captain America's origin was told here is really good, and even though Steve Rogers really isn't the most interesting of characters, (yeah, 'murrica) Chris Evans still portrays him well. The movie waits until the very end to show him getting out of the ice in the present day, which was a very smart decision, as it gives the audience time to understand Rogers and the trouble he goes through to get into the army. Hugo Weaving as the Red Skull was a great choice, and the Captain America suit itself looks awesome. 

However, and I know a lot of you probably saw this coming, but the ending is really, really, profusely stupid. Not the fact that Steve ends up in the ice and wakes up in present day, but rather the way they get him to the ice. Okay, so we're gonna go step-by-step here, because everything about this is dumb. 

Red Skull's master plan is to launch nukes to different countries and rule the world afterwards. The nukes are made to be ejected from a silly-looking boomerang plane, where they will be piloted by Hydra soldiers and crash landed in their destinations. In order to indicate where each nuke plane is headed, Red Skull painted the names of the countries they were going to blow up on the planes in English. Are you guys still following me here? In the final fight, Captain America fights the different pilots and ejects a few of the nuke planes while the big plane is over the ocean. Because they are over the ocean, the ejected nuke planes do not explode. Then, the Captain beats up Red Skull, and then in the fight, the Tesseract which Red Skull is using as a power source falls out of the machine and Red Skull picks it up with his bare hands and disintegrates because I guess Red Skull is an idiot now. The Captain then pilots the big plane and when Peggy Carter radios to him, he says that he can't land the plane because if he does, the nuke planes will explode. Why? When were we supposed to know this? He says that he has to crash the plane into the water, because that's safer. Okay, if we're supposed to assume that landing the plane normally is dangerous, then why would he have to crash into the water? Can't he just eject the nuke planes manually and then land normally? 

"But Ian, he needs to pilot the plane, or else it will crash anyways." 

Really? Wasn't the plane auto-piloting during the big fight with the Red Skull? Who's writing this garbage? And then Steve wakes up, and we see Shield's amazing, well thought-out method of making just one fake room for Steve to wake in that looks like it's from his time period, only to let him escape and run out of the building into Times Square. Is there not any security in this place? Why make one fake, incredibly small room within a much bigger room for Steve to wake up in. Nick Fury greets him and says that they just wanted to ease him into the revelation that woke up decades in the future, but that's complete nonsense. If you wanted to ease him into it, why did you make him wake up in an incredibly small room where if he just looks out the fake window he tell that it is fake?! Why would you do something so stupid?!

Overall, Captain America: The First Avenger is a fun, although frustrating entry in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Also something something patriotism.

Captain America: The Winter Soldier

Let me put this in simple terms:

This movie is awesome on steroids. This movie is one of the few MCU films I can definitively say is well written, and while it may seem like a stretch, I think this is actually slightly better than The Avengers. Allow me to explain why down below.

The movie follows Cap' in present day working with Shield, and everything seems okay until Nick Fury reveals Project Insight, which involves three big helicarriers with machine guns meant to eliminate any possible threats ahead of time. The Captain is furious, saying that Shield is keeping the world safe by putting a gun to its head. Shortly after, Nick Fury is hunted down and shot presumably by the Winter Soldier, a mysterious man with a robotic arm. Armed with a flash drive and their wits, Captain America and Black Widow eventually figure out that Shield has been slowly infiltrated by Hydra from the inside, and now Cap' and Widow don't have anybody to trust. In the end, they take down Shield, destroy the helicarriers, and discover that the Winter Soldier was actually Cap's friend from the war: Bucky Barnes. DUN DUN DUNNN. As you can tell, this movie is very densely packed with information and plot threads, which all come together in the end very well. Of course, there's a bunch of information that was left out, but the plot is so thick that it's near impossible to talk in depth about it without listing everything that happened in order. 

For the good stuff, there's quite a lot. Black Widow is finally given a personality here, both when she tries to get Steve Rogers a date and when she starts questioning the fact she has been working for Hydra. The Winter Soldier may not appear very much in this movie, but every time he does appear, he's awesome. All of the fight scenes are exceptionally well choreographed and shot, and while I do wish that the movie wouldn't cut away so quickly during the fights, they were still satisfying. Samuel L. Jackson is still awesome as usual as Nick Fury, and Falcon was really cool. I've been told by many that in the comics Falcon wasn't very interesting, so it's a good thing we got a better version for the movies. 

Also, I know pretty much everybody expected this, but the Shield/Hydra twist was brilliant. Not just because it makes all of Shield past decisions in these movies more questionable, but also because throughout the second half of this movie, nobody knows who to trust anymore. I mean, we know Captain America, Black Widow, Nick Fury, and a few other Shield agents are the good guys, but aside from that, characters we once knew from Agents of Shield or any of the extra short films from Phase One are either definitely bad guys or in a gray area. Both Trust and Freedom are primary themes in this movie, and they're both juggled very well. With Trust, Nick Fury talks about how he doesn't really trust that many people, and that in Shield, you can only really count on yourself. Not everybody knows all the information, not even the Captain. With Freedom, a lot of the movie focuses on Freedom v.s Security, mainly with Project Insight, which if you remember, is made specifically to kill millions of potential "threats" before they even do anything bad. Captain America even says, and I quote: "This isn't freedom, this is fear." 

Okay, so what don't I like about this movie? Uhh....

...I didn't get to see it in theaters? I don't know, this movie is near perfect. I guess if I could say anything, it would be that Steve Rogers still isn't really that interesting this time around. I mean, Steve was never really interesting, but that doesn't make it not awkward when he's surrounded by so many characters way more interesting than he is. But when that's really the only problem with your movie, that's a pretty good sign. This movie is awesome, without a doubt the best of all the Marvel movies so far.

Thor 1 & 2 Review

Look at dat pose!

Thor

This is yet another Marvel I feel almost nothing about. It's about Thor being sent to Earth to learn responsibility...

...and that's it. Oh, yeah, there's Loki trying to take over Asgard, but aside from that, nothing really happens in this movie. Yeah, I guess it's cool to see Thor in his costume and with the hammer or whatever, but cool costumes and CG and can only get you so far. 

First, the few good things. Chris Hemsworth is really great as Thor in this movie, and while he gets much better in the role in the later movies, he's still pretty good here. Tom HeyFiddleDiddleSomething is also okay as Loki, although he also gets way better as the films progress. The cast in this movie is pretty awesome in general, even if some of the characters get pushed aside a lot.

As far as bad stuff, Jane Foster, a.k.a Unnecessary Love Interest is bland and stupid. I would honestly be surprised if I found one single person on Planet Earth who actually liked this character. Yeah, she kind of maybe-ish gets a personality in Thor 2, but here she just exists because if she didn't exist, all the comic book readers would complain about it. Not every superhero really needs a love interest, guys.

Overall, I really don't care about this movie. I only watched it because I felt like I had to at some point, and I don't plan on watching it again.

Apparently, they decided
to use the same exact
poster from Iron Man 3

Thor: The Dark World

This movie, while not great, is still way better than the first movie. It's about an army of Dark Elves led by Malekith, who wants to use the Aether to plunge the entire universe into darkness. Thor suits up, gets his hammer, and goes out to stop him. Oh, yeah, and there's Loki trying to take over Asgard or whatever, but aside from that, the plot is pretty simplistic. 

There are thankfully a lot more good things in this movie. Chris Hemsworth, at this point, has gotten used to playing the God of Thunder, and he does it great here. Tom Riddlerston also does pretty good as Loki, but judging by the reception he's gotten, you already know that. The dialogue in this movie is really hilarious, as well, and it definitely made the regular human characters more fun to listen to. The fight scenes, particularly the end one with Thor fighting Malekith while also being teleported from world to world, were really well done. They were creative and entertaining, and that's something we really need more of in these movies.

For the bad stuff, I guess I would say that it's only enjoyable on a basic level. I mean, Malekith wants to do evil things, Thor fights him, he wins, and everybody's happy. It didn't quite make me think the way Iron Man 3 or Captain America: The Winter Soldier did. Aside from that, the movie is pretty solid. Forgettable, but solid.

The Incredible Hulk Review

UPDATE: Last night I finally got around to re-watching The Incredible Hulk, and some of my opinions on it changed, so some parts of the review are either edited or removed. I hope you understand that I really want to give people the best review possible, so sometimes I might edit a review a little bit after it's posted. Thank you for reading.

Yes, I know I didn't refer to the thing in Tony Stark's chest as an "Arc Reactor" in my past review. I forgot that was what it was called. Sorry.


The Incredible Hulk

This one of the few MCU movies I feel almost nothing about. It's not that bad, but it's not that good, either. This movie focuses on Bruce Banner trying to find a cure for the Hulk while also running from the government. So basically, every Hulk story ever made. I mean, it's executed okay, but the story doesn't offer anything really new. 

First off, the good stuff. I seem to be among five other people on Earth that thinks Edward Norton is better than Mark Ruffalo as Bruce Banner. People complain that Norton didn't do anything new with the character, and while I can understand that, he was still fantastic, as he definitely captured the tragedy of the character. Bruce Banner is also made a lot more realistic in this film. In particular, I really liked that he went out of his way to learn different languages and wear a watch that would tell him if his blood pressure was getting too high. It was also a smart move to have Bruce Banner's origin and why General Ross is hunting him down be explained in the intro, which is only a few minutes long. It gave the movie much more time to show what Bruce is gong through and why he does what he does.

Now for the bad stuff. The big problem I have with this movie is that it really doesn't do anything new with the Hulk. The execution is good, but the story itself doesn't have much depth to it. Betty, Bruce Banner's old girlfriend, just sort of shows up halfway through the movie because oh hey, that's an important character. The guy who becomes the Abomination at the end doesn't really do much other than fight the Hulk and... not succeed? What was the point to his character again?  And yes, the government is chasing after him, because we all know how much of a success story that is. Why, they're so good at hunting the Hulk, just watch as he shrugs off all of their missiles! That totally worked!

Overall, this movie is just okay. If you're bored one night and you want to watch the Hulk smash things, this is the movie for you. 

Iron Man Trilogy Review

What better way to talk about the Marvel Cinematic Universe than to talk about the egotistical invincible armored Iron Man and his action-packed, often hilarious adventures? Iron Man is, at the time of this review, the first of the Avengers to have finished his own trilogy, which really is not all that surprising considering the insane popularity he has compared to the rest of the superheroes. It's getting to the point where he's becoming one of the big faces of Marvel, right alongside Spider Man and Wolverine. Anyway, without further ado, let's get into the Iron Man Trilogy!

Iron Man

This movie, at least in my opinion, is not nearly as good as everyone says it is. It's not really bad or anything, but story-wise, it's fairly simplistic.  

For all five of you reading this who don't know, Tony Stark basically becomes Iron Man when he gets captured by terrorists who want him to build missiles and stuff for them. In the process of being captured, there's an explosion that sends shrapnel into his chest, so he has a electromagnet thing in his chest that stops the shrapnel from getting to his heart. Instead of doing what the terrorists want, he makes a suit of armor powered by his electromagnet whatever to wear and just barely escapes alive. Then, he perfects the armor in his lab, his friend Obidiah Stane turns out to be a generic bad guy who wants Tony's armor for himself, Tony stops him, and then at the end just flat-out reveals to the public that he's Iron Man.

As far as the story goes, it starts really good, but then by the time Tony creates the finished Iron Man suit, bright red and all, everything starts to become really predictable. I honestly don't get when people say that they like Obidiah Stane as a villain. He's really dull and generic, and half the time it feels like the movie knows it.

Of course, the one area where the praise is justified is with Robert Downey Jr as Tony Stark. He is consistently amazing and I'm happy to say that there has never been a boring scene with him in all of these movies. He keeps a perfect balance between serious and funny, more often than not using his humor and witty dialogue to mask his fears and emotions. 

Overall, this was a decent start. It isn't amazing like everybody says, but it's not bad. The action scenes are really good, and the Iron Man armor in this movie looks fantastic. It moves very realistically, and it actually feels like it has weight. 

Iron Man 2

This is the one movie in the trilogy I just don't like. It's a great popcorn movie, but the second I start putting any thought into it everything just falls apart.

In this movie, Tony Stark finds out that the magnet in his chest that is keeping the shrapnel away from his heart is also slowly killing him, and while he tries to find a way to save himself, a villain named Ivan Vanko teams up with Justin Hammer to crush puny Stark like sparrow's egg between thighs. Also, Tony Stark's buddy, James Rhodes, at one point steals a gray Iron Man suit and becomes the War Machine.

This movie may have great special effects and acting, but a lot of the other things in the movie are just not good. Tony Stark is dying. Great, that could lead to some interesting stories. What happens? Tony goofs off like an idiot, wears his Iron Man suit to his own birthday party, then fights his best friend, and then when he loses, he flies over to a donut shop WHILE STILL WEARING THE IRON MAN SUIT, and then Nick Fury and Black Widow show up because Marvel needs to sell the Avengers. Seriously, why was Black Widow in this movie? The only relatively important thing that she does is infiltrate a facility and then hack into a computer so that Rhodey can regain control over the War Machine armor, which Stark could have very easily done on his own. 

All of this stuff is such a shame, too, because Jon Favreau and crew really wanted to make a great movie that would take a deeper dive into the mind of Tony Stark, but Marvel simply wanted an advert for the Avengers, so most of the really awesome stuff from the movie ended up on the cutting room floor. This movie suffers the same problem as Thor; it feels less like a movie and more like a commercial. 

Overall, this film is just okay. If you have a Saturday night and you're really bored, I'd maybe suggest this, but if you want something to really think about, check out the next film.

Iron Man 3

Wow, this film is actually really good! Marvel had two movies to try, and this time they really got it.

It's been a year or two since Tony Stark's near-death experience in the Avengers, and now he's changed for the worse. He's often being plagued with anxiety attacks and he keeps working in his lab on all sorts of Iron Man suits in the hopes that he can use all of them to protect to people he loves, when suddenly a terrorist named the Mandarin "attacks" all sorts of random places around the world while trying his hardest to destroy Tony's life in every way possible. Then, *spoiler alert* the Mandarin is revealed to actually be a misdirection, a "target" for Iron Man to shoot, so to speak. It was actually Aldrich Killian, a man from Tony's pre-Iron Man days that Tony humiliated by telling him that he was going to meet with him on the rooftop of a convention building and then not showing up. Now, Tony has to team up with Rhodey, find Killian, and stop him before he murders the president.

This movie is amazing. All of the action scenes are well shot, choreographed and directed, and the Iron Man suit looks better than ever. I really like the idea of Tony having frequent anxiety attacks because of what happened at the end of the Avengers, as it definitely makes that movie seem a lot better. When I first watched the Avengers, I was kind of confused as to why Tony just shrugged off the fact that he almost died, but now it makes perfect sense. It makes sense that Tony would seclude himself and build a small army of Iron Man suits to combat any forces that threat Pepper or anyone else he loves. Of course, he's still hilarious as usual, but it's a little more toned down and his constant sarcasm isn't obnoxious.

There's just a lot to love about this movie. The Iron Man suits are really creative this time around, and you would think that the Mark 42 suit would get really overused and overpowered, but it's actually utilized in the action scenes very well. First it gets attached to Tony, then Tony attaches it to Pepper when Killian's men blow up the mansion, and then Tony attaches it to Killian at the end and has the suit blow up to try and kill him. Then there's the ending, where all of the suits Tony has been building get sent to the oil rig to fight alongside him, which the more I think about it doesn't really work very well to conclude the story. Yes, it's really awesome, but I think it would have resolved Tony's problem by having Killian gain control over all the other Iron Man suits except for Mark 42, and have Tony try to fight them, as it would definitely be an interesting kind of wake-up call for him to see the all of the suits he build to protect his loved ones be reset to do the exact opposite. It's not that big of a deal, but it definitely would improve the final act of the film. 

Overall, this was the first Iron Man movie I saw that was really good. The first two weren't exactly bad, but they were only really enjoyable on a base level. They didn't make me think quite like Iron Man 3 did.

I hope you all enjoyed this first part of my Maddening Marvel Marathon...whatever, and if you have suggestions for movies I can review after all this is over, leave a comment down below. What did you guys think of these movies? 

First Post, Explanation, Age of Ultron Lead-up, etc

Yes, Ian totally just made a movie-themed re-skin of Ian's Game Corner. Why? Take a good read through.

Ian's Game Corner is basically in purgatory. You can read all the details about it on the blog itself, but basically, it is not coming back any time soon unless for some sort of special occasion or whatever. If you haven't read that post yet, you can read about it right here. 

Okay, now let me explain my little project that's going to jump-start my little blog. The Blockbuster Buster, in case you didn't know, has been doing an event titled "Countdown to the Age of Ultron." The basic idea with it is that he would lead-up to the highly anticipated Avengers 2: Age of Ultron by reviewing all of the Marvel Cinematic Universe movies from Phase 2. 

What is Phase 2, some of you may ask? Well, the basic idea with the Marvel Cinematic Universe is that it's split up into phases. Phase 1 consisted of The Avengers and the 5 films leading up to it. Phase 2 consists of all the films after The Avengers and concludes with Avengers 2. 

The Blockbuster Buster has been reviewing all of the Phase 2 films as well as other Marvel goodies, but I wanted to take it a step further. While he did review all of the Phase 1 and 2 films, I don't think he really went into as much detail as he should have. They're great reviews, and I definitely recommend them to everyone interested, but I felt like a lot of his reviews, particularly the Phase 1 reviews, were way shorter than they should have been. Not to mention, because he reviewed most of the MCU movies not too long after

So once every week, I'm gonna do in-depth reviews of all of the MCU films released as of now except for The Avengers. I will talk about that movie in full along with Age of Ultron once I see it. Keep in mind, my rule is to watch a movie twice before I review it. Below is the MCU review schedule:

Iron Man Trilogy: January 30th, 2015
The Incredible Hulk: February 6th, 2015
Thor 1 & 2: February 13th, 2015
Captain America 1 & 2: February 20th, 2015
Guardians of the Galaxy: February 27th, 2015
The Avengers 1 & 2: Preferably sometime after Age of Ultron comes out on Blu-Ray 

Anyways, stay with me as I go completely insane reviewing all of these superhero films!