My Thoughts On The Whole Francis Ford Coppla And Martin Scorsese Marvel Situation

Comic Book fans this is a post that i've been sitting on who a few days now because I wanted it to really sink in and give myself time to find away to put it into words. I did tweet about this situation a few days ago and yes I will be included the tweets which i've learnt to edit for this post (guess who learned to screen shot on a computer) and so even you don't like the MCU here is my take on the whole situation.

For those that don't know on October 4th directing legend Martin Scorsese gave an interview to Empire Magazine which I cannot find on Empire's website but it was picked up by pretty much every news site over the next few days. He was asked by the interviewer if he had seen a Marvel movie (why he was asked that I don't know) and he gave the response "I tried, you know? but that’s not cinema.”.

He would also go on to compare them to theme park attractions by saying “Honestly, the closest I can think of them, as well made as they are, with actors doing the best they can under the circumstances, is theme parks. It isn’t the cinema of human beings trying to convey emotional, psychological experiences to another human being.” Which I feel is a fair statement since comic book movies aren't for everyone just like theme park rides aren't for everyone.

This is wear the "controversy" really kicked into high gear because Francis Ford Coppola got involved and he said something which not only made and possibly hundreds of fans he called them despicable. His full actual quote is "Martin was kind when he said it's not cinema. He didn't say it's despicable, which I just say it is." and that right there is something that not only myself but a ton of other fans take issue with.

Since while Marvel movies are not great cinema by any stretch of the imagination they are still movies and not every movie is going to be great cinema Denis Villeneuve's 2016 film Arrival is an underrated film. While Francis just like everyone else is entitled to their own opinion to out right say that they are despicable to me says that your someone who is stuck in there ways and believes that certain things need to do certain things (notice how ironic his statement sounds with a picture of him from Comic-Con 2011).

When the news broke of what Francis said as you can see in the above pictures I went on a Twitter rant which is something I never do let alone then go on to bookmark them so I can use them in a future post. However I want to hit home some things the kind of cinema that Martin , Francis and now Ken Loach like can still be found in cinema's because they like the kind of films that make you think well as you can see in this post there was one of those in 2016 and I think 2018 when the Blade Runner sequel came out.

So those types of films are still being shown and are still being made for cinema's and you don't even have to look hard for them because they get a wide release alot of the time. I do admit that comic book movies are now pretty much the norm that's not due to Marvel that's due to the fact that the directors were fans of what ever comic book there adapting for the screen and they nine times out of ten do a good job because there fans and they know how to adapt these characters and still keep them true to their comic book counterparts.

Coppola's most famous work is The Godfather well here's something that make his comment seem even more ironic because for a long time gangster films were seen as despicable. So what does Francis do he makes what many consider the best gangster film of all time and so I have to wonder why he's calling Marvel movies despicable when the genre he helped popularise the gangster was also seen as such.

Every single genre from drama to horror will at some point be seen as despicable but you know what neither a drama nor a horror movie has even come close to making me cry. You know what did a superhero movie more specifically 2014's Guardians Of The Galaxy that help made me care for a tree and it came close to making cry when Groot sacrificed himself for his friends and the same goes for Endgame I cried during that film.

Now I mentioned him very briefly before but director Ken Loach has now come out and added in his two cents or in his case two pounds. He said "They’re made as commodities like hamburgers, and it’s not about communicating and it’s not about sharing our imagination, It’s about making a commodity which will make a profit for a big corporation – they’re a cynical exercise. They’re market exercise and it has nothing to do with the art of cinema. William Blake said ‘when money is discussed – art is impossible’.”.

He would go on further to say "I think reflecting the world we know can make beautiful cinema because it can celebrate who we are. It can laugh with us, it can cry with us, it can learn about our deepest feelings and what it is to be human – you find that in the everyday” I want to say that what Ken is possibly trying to say is that he doesn't like superhero films which is fair enough there not for everyone but to call Marvel movies cynical when that might even be the case isn't good at all.

To say that you can only make beautiful cinema by reflecting what's going on in the real world also doesn't make sense. Since there was a beautiful film out four years ago which didn't reflect the real world at all and if you've seen any my reviews for Makoko Shinkai film's you'll know that his film's don't reflect the world world at all and there beautiful so the fact that Marvel films don't reflect the real world is a none issue.

Every superhero movie just like any movie could be seen as a work of art literally the only thing that changes is the medium in which that art is presented. In stereotypical art it would be on a piece of paper well here the canvas is the location with the camera and the actors being the pencil or whatever art tool you want with the artist being the director or directors and while some pieces of art are better then others it doesn't mean that it's not art 

Logan and Avengers: Endgame could be seen as art just like any other art piece as could any of the films that these directors made but for some reason these guys are choosing to act like snobby art critics. By that I mean that instead of seeing films like Logan or Avengers: Endgame as a work of art they are seeing them as nothing more then a piece of film that will be forgotten about and while some of these Marvel films will indeed be forgotten about that doesn't mean that there not a piece of art and should be treated as such.

Steven Spielberg once said that superhero movies will go the way of the western and by that he means they'll be forgotten about and very few will get made. What he and many of the older directors fail to realise is Marvel movies already started out like that like think about prior to X-Men being released in 2000 there were very few Marvel movies being made and now they are more popular then every before so it's a reverse of the western genre which started out popular and then faded when the opposite happened here.

The one thing that all great films should be able regardless if you consider them great cinema or not is they should be able to make you feel something be it joy , sadness or anger. They should be able to make you feel something just like a painting should be able to do and i'm using the art analogy because to me that's what film is it's art and regardless of the genre it is something to be admired and without Marvel movies being as popular as they are that now means that we now could have more film makers being inspired to make there own films and that can only be a good thing.

Like i've said i'm not going to pretend and say that these films are great cinema because that would be stupid but what they do is they make you believe in the impossible. These films are also a great way to escape the problems of the real world and honestly sometimes that's more important then being a truly great piece of cinema because do need to escape from the real world from time to time and what better way to do that then putting on a Marvel or DC Movie.

Watchmen "It's Summer and We're Running Out of Ice" Review

Comic book fans we are living in an age we're living in an age where every comic book is getting some sort of adaptation. Now HBO is throwing there hat in the ring with an adaptation / sequel to a classic Alan Moore comic book and knowing how much of an a*shole that guy is it really wouldn't surprise me if he hates this version and so ladies and gents here is my review of the debut episode of Watchmen.

The plot of the episode is a little hard to describe but i'm going to try and do me best basically police officers have been getting killed by a white supremacist group. Yeah that's really all the plot I got out of it and that's also why it's so hard to describe what the plot of the episode is because there barely is any plot to speak of but given that this is the first episode I can kind of forgive it for not really having a story but that said the rest of the episodes better have a plot to them.

Starring in the episode is Regina King as Det. Angela Abar / Sister Night , Don Johnson as Chief Judd Crawford , Tim Blake Nelson as Wade / Looking Glass , Yahya Abdul-Mateen II as Cal Abar Sara Vickers as Ms. Crookshanks , Dylan Schombing as Topher Abar , Jacob Ming-Trent as Panda , Frances Fisher as Jane Crawford , Louis Gossett Jr. as Will Reeves and Jeremy Irons as ?????????????.

The acting in this episode for a pilot is actually really good which shouldn't come as a surprise to anyone given who's in the show. That said they do run into the same problems that you have with pilot episode and that's the fact that the actors are still trying to find their characters and are still developing chemistry with each other but both of those things will continue to develop over the course of the show.

This show does act as a sequel to the comic book while at the same time trying to be an adaptation of the film. As a sequel it does a good job establishing itself as it's own thing while at the same time catching up with a certain character while also referencing others but as an adaptation of the film (yes this was billed as an adaptation) it fails because it has nothing to do with the film outside of the name Watchmen so basically you could see this show without seeing the film and still understand what's going on.

If you want to know what it is that makes this a sequel it's that it takes place in an alternate 2019 so it's set nearly forty years after the original and a character from both the film and comic book does appear in this episode with I believe at least one more due to appear. I can't really say if this has anymore connections to the book since i've not read it and no i'm not going to either just because both the book and the show should be able to stand on their own.

I will fully admit to forgetting that this show was even coming on but tho that was also because there was a lot of films and other shows coming out. However I was excited for this show when the first trailer and teaser dropped just because I liked the movie and so getting a chance to revisit that world but now in a weekly show was more then enough to get me excited but I do wish there was more going on in this pilot tho.

Now i shouldn't really do this since both of these shows are different beasts entirely but I want to take a second to compare this show to the recently debuted Batwoman show. In my opinion while Batwoman had the better pilot because that pilot actually told a story I feel that this will be the better show overall and I feel that way because Batwoman is your typical Batman show with nothing new to add to is.

Where as Watchmen while being set in the world of the both the film and I assume the comics is telling it's own story. Which in the longer run is going to allow them to kill of major characters and thus add more drama which is something your not going to get in Batwoman because that show is a prequel and so we now that Kate is going to make it at the end of each episode which isn't the case here because alot of the main characters aren't from the comic book and so they could die in any given episode.

This is a show that I can honestly see Alan Moore hating because if you've noticed he hates anything that's good and this is a good episode. So therefor logic dictates that he'd hate this show as well and i'd be really surprised if he didn't hate the show or if he didn't do something that made him look like even more of a*shole then he already is and incase you don't know this show is based on the comic book he helped create which was published by DC Comics.

Overall while this will turn out to be better then Batwoman in my opinion the pilot wasn't that good and while it does set up a possible storyline for the show it's going to have to rebound from this episode. Since this is a pilot and I hate to give those ratings i'm not going to give this pilot a rating and i've tried to keep this as spoiler free as possible because I want you guys to go and check the show out and make up your own minds.

Some Disney Films Being Released Over The Next Year By A LOT Of Disney Owned Studios

Disney is a company that alot of us hold near and dear to our hearts and it's not hard to see why since they were responsible for alot our childhood classics and well since they do have a new film out today it made sense for me to take a look at some of their other upcoming films. Since Disney does own alot of studios i'm going to limit myself to just a small handful and I will try to include some films from the studios that Disney own as they do fall under the Disney umbrella.

Walt Disney Pictures

Lady And The Tramp (2019)

Where better to start this Disney themed post then with Walt Disney Pictures and what I assume to be the next big release from them another freaking remake. I give the remakes a lot of hate and rightfully freaking so but at the same time you can see the logic behind it since they do make money and Disney is a business after all but even so I have to ask who in there right mind was asking for a Lady And The Tramp remake nevertheless November 12th is when it comes out.

Frozen 2

This is a film that like many of you i'm both dreading and looking forward to at the same time i'm excited to return to this world and seeing these characters again however the fanbase for Frozen can be quite bad and that's why i'm dreading it also the fact that it's fanbase is mostly little girls who will except anything as long as it has the Frozen name regardless of the quality is also a bad thing. However based of what i've seen from the trailers this does look really good and I have a feeling that the company will have a monster hit on there hands with this one like they did with the first one but I just hope they don't have another "Let It Go" because I cannot go with hearing that song on the radio all Summer or Christmas again.

Noelle

This is Disney's first christmas movie in over a decade and like with Frozen 2 I actually can't wait to see this film. Which is rare for me because I don't like christmas films that much to me there boring and predictable that's also why I don't like romance films either but this film actually looks funny and it looks like it might be trying to do something different with the christmas setting weather or not it does is something we'll have to wait and see to find out but luckily we won't have long to wait as the film comes out on Disney+ on November 12th the exact same day and service as Lady And The Tramp incase any of you didn't know.

Disney Channel Original Movies

Zombies 2

I'll admit i've never seen the first Zombies film and i'm most likely never going to call me crazy but making zombies sing and dance just makes them less scary. Which for me is a big thing because there meant to be scary there not meant to be happy go lucky teens who sing and dance about there problems but for some reason this film was a hit and so we're getting a sequel next year and I just hope that Disney don't make other horrific creatures start singing and dancing COMING 2021 V-A-M-P-I-R-E-S.

Upside-Down Magic

Your guess is as good as mine as to what this film and the book series it's based on is about but apparently it was popular enough to be given it's own Disney Channel Original Movie. The only thing I know about the book series is that it's published by Upside-Down Magic and is written by Sarah Mlynowski, Lauren Myracle, and Emily Jenkins and that's really it you could make up a fact about this book series or film and i'd ave to believe you.

PIXAR

Onward

I honestly feel that this will be the best animated film of 2020 and i'm saying that with a lot on confidence because it's got a great team behind it and it's freaking PIXAR. Like many of you i've seen the trailer for this film and I think that it looks really good of course only time will tell if it's going to be a great film but so far the signs are looking good for this film at least in my opinion anyways.

Soul

The only other film that might became animated film of the year at least in my opinion is Soul and honestly that's because the director of this film Pete Docter also made Inside Out. Unlike Onward there hasn't been a trailer or a teaser released for this film but after reading the plot summery on Wikipedia it looks like the film will have some dark undertones which I do think is going to be rather interesting in my opinion.

Lucasfilm

Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker

I'm a huge Star Wars since i've been born i've seen as many of the films in theatres as I possibly could that does include the mad ones as well. However i'm not really excited for this film at all infact this whole sequel trilogy has been one big let down in my opinion in my opinion the only good story thread they had they wrapped up badly in The Last Jedi and Snoak was a wasted character so yeah i'm not hopeful for this film being good but at this point i'll settle for just ok.

Marvel Studios

Black Widow

 I wasn't kidding when I said i'll try and do every Disney owned studio that I could think of and would you believe that i'm not even close to finishing yet. Black Widow is a movie that i'm both excited for and nervous for at the same time excited because I like Black Widow and I think she deserves her own movie and I like Scarlett Johansson and Florence Pugh but nervous because the last time we got a female led movie from Marvel we ended up with Captain Marvel the worst MCU movie in my opinion but only time will tell if this is bad or not.

The Eternals

The second and last film from the MCU to come out in 2020 (altho if New Mutants finally get's released who knows) this is honestly the one which I feel has to succeed the most. I say that because nobody outside of the comic book world knows of these characters and that right there means that if Marvel want to do sequels with them or have them in other films then this film needs to be a hit but it's Marvel so we all know that regardless of the film's quality it's going to make money.

20th Century Fox

Terminator: Dark Fate

Now i'm including this here because it is being released by Fox internationally so technically it's Disney. We won't have long to see this film is any good or not because it starts releasing next week and like alot of the franchises mentioned here i'm a bit of a Terminator fan and like alot of you I to felt let down by the recent sequels and I cannot wait for this one since the original creator James Cameron is back producing the film and Linda Hamilton is back as Sarah Connor so so far so good.

 Bob's Burgers: The Movie

I'm not that big of a fan of Bob's Burgers I don't find it that funny and I don't see the appeal of it what so ever. However it's always a good and interesting thing when a TV series gets turned into a movie because not the creators have to turn something that would normally fit a twenty two minuet time slot into an hour and a half movie and it would be interesting to see what they do with these characters in my opinion.

Death on the Nile

I Loved 2017's Murder on the Orient Express and so you can bet that i'm excited for the sequel and i'm not a big mystery lover either. I honestly can't wait to work out who did because that's always the best part in a mystery movie. On top of that the great Sir Kenneth Branagh is returning as Hercule Poirot and the guest cast for this film sounds amazing with the likes of Jennifer Saunders , Dawn French , Gal Gadot and Rose Leslie all being cast in the film.

The New Mutants

This is a film that's had several release dates since it was due out in 2018 and has had several push backs with the current release date being April 2020. At this rate i'll start to get excited about the film when i'm actually a few minuets away from watching it be it on the big screen or on a streaming service because yes that was rumoured at one point and the lack of marketing especially given the new date is slightly worrying since there should be at least another teaser by now but nope nothing beyond the initial teaser we got in 2018.

The King's Man

Finally the last movie i'm going to be talking about and it's another prequel (the first one being Black Widow) and like Black Widow I can't wait for this one. I've seen all of the Kingsmen films and so it would only make sense that I not only be excited to see this prequel but also go and see the movie whenever it comes out the only thing I can see being a drawback is that it's a prequel and so you know who's going to come out on top.

There we go guys there's alot of movies from alot of different studios all owned by Disney and as you can tell the studio is going to be releasing alot of films be it from from Walt Disney Pictures to 20th Century Fox. If you think I included alot of films I didn't even scratch the service of the Fox film slate I even had had to narrow it down to next year just to keep myself from going insane and I know that chances are i've missed of alot of Disney owned studios but given that they own so many can you really blame me for missing of one or two.

Why The Live Action Disney Remakes Don't Work In My Opinion

Guys and girls lets be honest with ourselves Disney is going to be pumping out alot of remakes in the coming years regardless if we want them or not. However where as before it was one maybe two every few years it's now up to five in just this year alone and yes I was counting the upcoming Maleficent in that and well I thought that instead of telling you some fluff piece about why the live action Disney remakes are better then the original i'd go the opposite why and tell you why they don't work

To start of this recent trend of live action remakes is nothing new in fact the studio have been doing it since the nineties with a live action remake of The Jungle Book and again a few years alter with 101 Dalmatians and it's sequel four years later 102 Dalmatians. So the company has been doing these remakes for a long time but i'd say that things really kicked into high gear with the release of 2010's Alice In Wonderland.

Since ever since then they've been churning them out of the regular and alot of them have the same problem or sometime problems in common. The first being they have nothing to do with what ever film there remaking the 2010 Alice In Wonderland has nothing to do the 1951 original outside of the title and a few characters and that's an issue here because when going into this film and given who the director is people wanted to see weird imagery but instead what we got was something dark and depressing and that's not Alice In Wonderland at all.

The second issue that alot of these films have is that there more interested in cashing in on the name rather then fixing any issues with the previous film. If you look at films like Beauty And The Beast and The Lion King those remakes are more bothered about telling the exact same story in the exact same order then they are about fixing any issues that the original film had which to me defeats the purpose of a remake in the first place however to Beauty's credit it does at least try to solve some of the original films issues but it also creates more issues and those are issues that the original film never had.

These films have no idea what to focus on for every film that trys to do something new like the first few minuets of Maleficent there are several that are more interested in telling the same story. That to me says that even Disney have no idea what there doing and picking these films not because the original was flawed and could be fixed but because the original was a hit and so by that logic the film should be a hit as well.

Since she has a new movie out next week let's take a look at Maleficent from 2014 that film was promoted as being a story all about Maleficent and for the first ten to fifteen maybe even twenty minuets it was all about her. However it soon became apparent that this was in fact a remake of Sleeping Beauty so it took what could have been a cool idea how Maleficent became evil and turned it into something that we already saw so it wasted a good idea for the sake of telling the same story over again.

Which is a shame because telling a Maleficent origin story does sound like a good idea and it could very easily have held it's own film. Imagine if the opening of Maleficent was the whole film they spent time making us fall in love her and wanting to her succeed wouldn't that make her downfall more tragic and more heartbreaking but because Disney only cares about remakes rather then fresh ideas instead we get a sloppily told remake of Sleeping Beauty.

Now like many of you I was pretty excited that they were doing a Kim Possible movie however it lacks two things that the show had. Those being charm and identity because this is a remake it has no identity of it's own so it's always going to be tied to the Kim Possible brand name and it doesn't help that the film did nothing to at least make an effort to carve an identity of it's own since it's more focused on shoving iconography from the show down your throat.

The show was full to the brim with charm heck outside of the action it's charm was one of the things that made it standout. So you;d think that the movie would honour that and have plenty of charm as well and well you'd be wrong just like alot if not all of the remakes that have been released so far this one feels soulless it feels like the only reason it was made is because Kim Possible is now considered nostalgic and not because they had a good story or something new to say.

Two of these films do try to keep things fresh by adding in new characters which wouldn't be a bad idea if all of them added to the actual story. When we go to see Dumbo we want to see a heartwarming tale about an elephant just trying to get back to his mother and nothing more we don't however need nor even wanted to see a bunch of drama with a bunch of characters that we don't even know that's not Dumbo to anyone really.

Now I will state right here and now that Aladdin 2019 is the best of the live action Disney remakes but even so the character of Dalia was pointless. She adds nothing to the overall story and her whole romance with The Genie could have been dropped from the film and nothing would have been lost and the same could have been said for her. If your going to introduce a new character then make that person relevant to the plot don't just have them in a few scenes and stick them in a side plot that doesn't connect to the main one.

The original Aladdin while it most likely didn't have to create original characters and I say most likely because i've not read the source material. It at least makes all character main or not important to the overall plot and I don't honestly feel that Dalia is important to the plot of this remake and so you have to wonder why they even went to the trouble of creating a new character when they could have just picked a character from the original and gave them her role in this film.

I will never doubt this alot if not all of these films look visually stunning even if you hate every live action Disney remake that's out that is something that you have to admit to be true. However the issue is at least for me there's no meat to them there just focused and dazzling you with the visuals that they don't even bother in telling a somewhat decent plot and while it is important for a film to be visually stunning it also needs a plot.

Now getting things to look like the animated film isn't a bad idea since that's how people expect certain things to look. However that to has it's faults since it doesn't allow the film to have some sort of identity which is already going to be hard considering it's a remake and so it needs every little chance that it can get but when things look exactly like the cartoon it makes people wonder "why don't they just watch the cartoon" instead of keeping them focused on this newer version.

I noticed this with both Beauty And The Beast and The Lion King but those two films were telling the exact same story in the exact same order. Which yes I know I touched on it before but it's a huge issue because instead of being creative and telling a new story with these characters only now it's live action. There more interested in giving us the animated films story which only makes people want to watch the animated film.

Due to the story being the exact same alot of the surprise and tension is now lost because we know what's coming and what to expect. Honestly both remakes would have faired (might be spelt fared) a little better with fans if they changed the story up enough that way even the fans of the original wouldn't know what to expect and thus could be taken on this ride the same as the new fans but nope Disney just cares more about cashing in on nostalgia then actually doing something that makes sense.

Disney cares about cashing in on nostalgia so much that they are now in the process of remaking a film that's not only important to animation but also important to them. That film being Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs it was the first animated film to be released in North America and it was also the first film to be released by Walt Disney and it absolutely shouldn't be remade because of how important it is. 

Could the original be improved upon yes of course but that doesn't mean that it should he remade classic films like this should be preserved the way they are. Snow White is a classic in every sense of the word and the fact that Disney have decided to remake this over a film like Home On The Range which could do with a remake to fix it's issues to proves what i've been saying all the time in this post they only care about nostalgia and making money from it.

    

Batwoman "Pilot" Review With SPOILERS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

DC fans this has been quite the week for the company with not one but two movies out one animated and the other being Joker and the fact that both Supergirl and a new show have premiered just last night. While it would have been super easy for me to take a look at Supergirl since i've been watching the show on and of since it first started it's the new show that i'm going to be taking a look at and so here is my spoiler filled review of the pilot episode actually called pilot for Batwoman.

The plot of the episode is that military graduate and security agent Sophie Moore has been kidnapped by a new gang themed around Alice's Adventures In Wonderland and this brings back Kate Kane who tries to find the missing agent. I'm not going to go to deep into the actual plot of the episode here just because if I did i'd be here all day writing just that bit I will say that it did a good job of setting up certain characters and character arc's for the season but at the same time there's very little sense of where this season is going.

Technically reprising her role from the Elseworlds crossover is Ruby Rose as Kate Kane / Batwoman and she is joined by Ex Birds of Prey Star Rachel Skarsten as Alice , Meagan Tandy as Sophie Moore , Nicole Kang as Mary Hamilton , Camrus Johnson as Luke Fox , Elizabeth Anweis as Catherine Hamilton-Kane , Rachel Maddow as the voice of Vesper Fairchild , Dougray Scott as Jacob Kane and Brendon Zub as Chuck Dodgson.

I honestly didn't mind the acting in this episode I always say that you can't expect great acting from a pilot episode because all of the actors are trying to find there characters and it's true here. The acting isn't that good and the chemistry isn't quite there yet but that's to be expected from a pilot episode and just based of this episode alone I can see the acting and the chemistry getting better over the course of the season.

SPOILERS START HERE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

They spoil what could have been a really cool reveal at the end of the episode because they reveal that the season's main villain Alice is in fact Kate's presumed dead sister. To me that's a waste of a good reveal because we hardly know these characters so just imagine how much cooler it would have been if we got that reveal at say the end of episode twelve or thirteen when we've had much longer to get to really know the characters it would have made for a great holy s**t moment but here it just feels wasted.

Now if you'll recall in the Elseworlds crossover event we did meet Kate fully dressed as Batwoman and so this series does act as a prequel. However it's hard to say how far back we've gone because there's no indication what so ever of a time frame and the fact that it's basically a prequel means that we already know that Kate is going to come out on top by the end of the season and so there's no tension what so ever it's not the fault of the show runners but rather who made the call to have her appear in Elseworlds who's at fault.

Speaking of Alice I freaking loved her in this episode she's wonderfully insane and just out there she's everything the original book Alice was and then some. I honestly couldn't wait for her scenes to come up because I was having such a good time watching her and the fact that she quotes Alice's Adventures In Wonderland just really helped sell the whole wonderland gimmick to me and I can't wait to see more of her this season.

I've held of talking about this long enough but I just have to talk about this there was some controversy surrounding the show. The first of which had to do with the casting of lead actress Ruby Rose who is a lesbian but apparently she's not lesbian enough to play this openly gay character and that to me is just so freaking stupid because there's no such thing as being lesbian enough what does that even mean anyways someone please help me out.

The second bit of controversy comes from the fact that from the trailer this series seemed to be pushing an agenda and yeah I kind of agree the trailer did do that. However some of the cringyness from the trailer wasn't in this episode and so I don't really think that this series has an agenda what so ever however there is a certain line of dialog spoken in the trailer which is in this episode and it's the batsuit line I hated that line in the trailer and hate it in this episode the suit it perfect just the way it is giving it to a woman suddenly doesn't mean the suit has faults that's just bad and forced writing right there.

As to be expected there is going to be alot of action in this show and there is some in this very episode and I have to say that for a TV show the action wasn't that bad. Don't get me wrong it's not that good either but given that these shows always have a small budget it's a miracle that we get anything at all and I do feel that Batwoman shouldn't have fought Alice in the first episode that's something that should have been held of until later in the season like maybe the season finale or if your going to have them fight here have Batwoman only just win like make it a really close fight so then that way she has growing to do as a fighter.

SPOILERS END HERE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Overall in terms of pilot episodes this wasn't that bad in my opinion but there's alot of room to grow as for if i'll be checking this series out week to week i'll probably watch the first few episodes and then take it from there and since this is a pilot episode i'm not going to give it a rating since it's the start of a journey and not the whole thing and so i'll only review the whole show when it ends it's run and not it's first season. 

Wonder Woman: Bloodlines SPOILERS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Review

Animation fans DC is back with yet another new movie and oddly enough there released this movie on a Saturday. I will be getting more into that later on in the review because such a weird day to release a movie but i'm a huge fan of not only the Wonder Woman character but also the 2009 animated film and so you can bet that in was excited as all hell when this film was announced and so here is my review of Wonder Woman: Bloodlines.

The plot of the movie is someone is looking for Themyscira and it's up to Diana to stop them for stealing it's tech all the while she's trying to help heel a young girl who's turned evil. This film is part prequel and so you do get the Wonder Woman but a more condensed version of it with alot of stuff cut out as for what I thought the overall story it's fine but it was also a very weak plot with the actual story only coming into play around forty five to fifty minuets into this hour and twenty three minuet movie.

Reprising her role is Rosario Dawson as Diana Prince / Wonder Woman and she is joined by Jeffrey Donovan as Steve Trevor , Marie Avgeropoulos as Vanessa Kapatelis / Silver Swan , Adrienne C. Moore as Etta Candy , Kimberly Brooks as Cheetah and Giganta , Courtenay Taylor as Doctor Poison , Constance Zimmer as Veronica Cale , Nia Vardalos as Julia Kapatelis , Michael Dorn as Ferdinand , voice acting legend Cree Summer as Hippolyta and Mozhan Marnò as Doctor Cyber.

Honestly the acting in the film was alot better then what I thought it was going to be and i'm saying that because the acting in the 2009 film is so good that I can't picture those characters played by anyone else. Altho I will say that Nathan Fillion has alot more charm in his performance then Jeffrey Donovan does but that's just my opinion and Rosario is honestly getting better in the role of Wonder Woman.

The animation for the film was done by Digital eMation who have done the animation for the recent Scooby Doo! movies. They might have done some DC films as well but their website doesn't list their credits and their name isn't listed on the film's IMDB but it is listed in the actual film. Their animation is usually really good but here I don't know why but the animation seen in this film just feels really lazy to me I don't if it's because they were busy working on Return To Zombie Island or if they just didn't have enough time or money but they could have done alot better in my opinion.

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As you can see in the above picture Diana does get a new costume and in my opinion it's miles better then the one she's been wearing in the recent animated films. If your wondering why it looks familiar it's because it looks exactly like the one that Gal Gadot wore in the 2017 film it's actually unreal how similar it looks but for some strange reason they choose to have her in her Animated Movie Universe attire for the majority of the film but when it comes to the final battle she suddenly needs a costume change.

They did Steven Trevor dirty not only did they give him nothing to do outside of being the toyboy for Diana they also emasculate him at every single chance he's always the but of the joke. Which for a film where the main character is a feminist icon isn't something to be proud of as it comes across as you saying that all men should be the but of all the jokes and that women are better then men at everything and that was something that really annoyed me because both the 2017 film and the 2009 animated film treated him better then this film did.

Not to keep on bringing up the 2009 film but in that film they at least explain how Diana got her costume and they explain away things like the lasso of truth. Here while they do explain how she got her costume nothing is explained which is something I thought to be rather odd since there could be people who have only seen the 2017 film and thus don't know the lore that well and so they won't really know how the lasso works that well and why when Diana wraps it around herself it's a big deal.

This is going to be the last time I mention the 2009 film but in that film when Diana got her costume it felt earned it felt like we earned that moment of seeing her standing proudly in her costume. Here she comes out wearing it after no build up and very little time spent with her and establishing what this version of the character was like when she was younger while that might not seem like a big deal to some of you it is to me because we don't know what this version of the character is like because the only time she's featured she's a bit player in someone else's story where as here she's the main character so we need to know more about her.

Now I said i'd mention this at the start of the review and i'm a man of my word but they released this movie on a Saturday. Which to me is such a weird day to be releasing a movie because no one is going to be checking out a new direct to DVD movie on a Saturday if anything alot of people are going to be spending the day in bed or out with friends or family. The only reason why I think they did this is because Teen Titans Go1 Vs Teen Titans on a Tuesday which is when DC would normally release there direct to DVD movies and because TTG makes them more money they gave that the prime date and this gets the weird weekend date for it's release.

Like I said there is alot of jokes in this film and alot of them are oddly centred around Steve Trevor for no reason what so ever. That said there are some jokes which aren't centred on him and that are actually funny the film overall is actually entertaining outside of the issues that I mentioned and having funny jokes does help the film be more entertaining it's just a shame that there's more jokes emasculating Steven then this about literally anything else.

There are alot of villains in this film and if i'm being honest alot of them are really weak and I say that because outside of one villain the rest have no motivation what so ever. In fact the only one who does have motivation is Veronica Cale which is she wants the tech from Diana's homeland and that's it the rest of them are just there to serve as bosses for Diana to fight. I'm not saying that every villain in a movie like this needs a reason to be fighting the bad guy but it honestly help the film if they were given one even if it's just something small it would at least be something.

Now I Know I said I wasn't going to be talking about the 2009 film anymore but there is just one more thing I want to bring up and that's Queen Hippolyta. In the 2009 film we know why she doesn't want Diana to go of to man's world because we've seen some of what she's gone throw and so it makes sense here even tho she does kind of give a reason as to why she doesn't want her to go it still doesn't explain why she's cold towards her daughter during the final battle or wouldn't even offer to help her when she was fighting Medusa if the film makers are going to have her act like that then at least give us a solid reason and not "I was afraid of loosing you.................even tho your here on the island defending me".

Now since this is a superhero action movie we finally get to talk about the action seen in the film itself. To me the action wasn't that bad I meant it wasn't really great either but it's alot better then what it could have been in my opinion and for me the best action sequence in the whole film is the one in the third act on Themyscira it's a long drawn out fight to the death and there are several times in which Diana could have died and I was left on the edge of my seat because of that fact and yes they do show her bleeding and yes there is an after credits scene which i'm mentioning now because its my last chance to do so.

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Overall like I said this is a very entertaining film and out of the two Wonder Woman animated films I think i've made it clear which one I prefer and so this film gets a modest 5.5 out of 10 from me