Street Fighter II: The Animated Movie Dub Review

Video game fans there are a lot of bad video game movies out there and there's bound to be alot more made. However that doesn't mean that there aren't a few decent ones out there it just means that you have to look harder to find them and i've found a movie that I honestly feel is a decent video game movie which comes to us from the land of the raising sun and so here is my review Street Fighter II: The Animated Movie.

The plot of the film is M. Bison and his evil organisation Shadowlaw are hoping to increase their power be enlisting the world's top fighters their main target being Ryu who'll they try to recruit by any means necessary. Yeah I had to get this plot summery of Animenewsnetwork because even after watching the film I still had no idea what the actual story was which I think is due to the fact that the story is so thin that it might as well not even be there.

Now all of the actors in this dub where using fake names however since those names have been decoded i'll be using their real names. So starring in this dub is Skip Stellrecht as Ryu , Eddie Frierson as Ken , Lia Sargent as Chun-Li , Kirk Thornton as Guile , Peter Spellos as Sagat , Richard Cansino as Vega , Joe Romersa as Balrog , Richard Epcar as E. Honda , Debra Rogers as Cammy , Steve Blum and T.Hawk and I kid you not Bryan freaking Cranston as Fei Long.

I just want to say how awesome it is that Walter White himself was in an anime movie even tho he doesn't have a big role it's still awesome as hell. In terms of what I thought about the acting it was honestly pretty wooden I get that for alot of these actors this was their first role but they don't really give any emotion and I have no idea why that's the case since alot of these actors are really good and have proven that time and time again.

The animation for the film was handled by Group TAC but that's oddly enough not the most interesting part about the animation because also working on the film helping with the photography are animation giants Studio Ghibli. Knowing that Ghibli worked on this film is just insane to me but it doesn't change how I feel about the animation tho which while indeed impressive for the time it still look pretty cheap at least when it comes to the dialog scenes when it comes to the action scenes however it leaps of the screen.

Now then given the picture above I think you all know what scene that I have to talk about and yes I did see the unrated cut of this movie. The famous Chun-Li shower scene is every every single fourteen year old boy wants and it's awesome in every single freaking way and if i'm being honest it was the only reason why I wanted to even watch the movie so as you can no doubt tell I am a man of culture.

All jokes aside the fight that happens after the shower scene is shockingly intense like why more intense then the violence in any video game movie ever. I'm honestly glad that the film had intense violent scenes because of the fact that so many video game movie shy away from showing intense scenes where as this one not only shows them but revels in them and that to me is honestly really refreshing. 

This film is honestly so freaking boring the film is an hour and forty minuets long but it feels so much longer then that. I think that the reason why it's boring to me is the fact that I couldn't find any hint of a plot and so all I was left with was a ton of talking scenes that go on and on with the occasional action scene which didn't go on long enough plus due to the lack of plot there's no character development at all.

Where all the characters are at the start of the movie is the exact same place they are at at the end of the film. In the game the characters might get some development but in this movie they don't get any what so ever and on top of that the characters just aren't that interesting the film is more focused on telling us why we should care for the characters instead of showing us and that just doesn't work at all you need to show us why we should care for them by making them actually interesting characters instead of telling us to care for them and putting no effort into making them interesting.

  

Now I do have a bone to pick with this movie and it's over the name if any sane person saw the name Street Fighter II: The Animated Movie chances are they'd think that this is a sequel. However it's not a sequel it's infact the first movie so there for would a better title be Street Fighter: The Animated Movie since that way people would know that this is the first movie in the series by adding the 2 to the title your only going to confuse people.

Now since this is an action movie and yes I do realise that I briefly touched on the action before we do have to talk about the action scenes in the movie. These scenes are so well animated like I said they leap of the screen and while they do boil down to who can hit who the hardest I get the feeling that that was also true for the games (I don't play them never have never will) and so I have to commend the makers for staying true to the game all the while creating exciting action scenes.

Overall this is a fairly decent video game movie but really it's only saving points are decent animation , decent fight scenes and the Chun-Li shower scene for obvious reasons and so the film gets a 5.5 out of 10 from me. I also do have some history with this film as I do recall watching it on VHS in the mid-nineties but I think I only watched it once and I don't even think that I owned it because I never saw it again.

My First Impressions Of High School Musical: The Musical: The Series ONE SPOILER INCLUDED

Disney fans the company is a few days away from launching it's streaming service and well the company did something great. They released the first episode of it's new show High School Musical: The Musical: The Series on ABC as a special preview which is something that alot of studios never do and I don't get why since it's free advertising and so here are my first impressions of High School Musical: The Musical: The Series and yes there will be ONE spoiler.

The plot of this episode is East High the school where the movies were filmed is finally putting on a production of High School Musical with this episode mainly focusing on the auditions for the production. In terms of story it's understandably pretty basic since all it does is set up the characters and nothing more but at the same time I would have liked it if they had a bit more going on to keep me interested in the series long term.

Starring in this episode and the rest of the series is Joshua Bassett as Ricky Bowen , Olivia Rodrigo as Nini Salazar-Roberts , Kate Reinders as Miss Jenn , Sofia Wylie as Gina Porter , Matt Cornett as E.J. Caswell , Julia Lester as Ashlyn , Larry Saperstein as Big Red , Dara Renee as Kourtney , Frankie Rodriguez as Carlos , Mark St. Cyr as Mr. Mazzara , Joe Serafini as Seb Matthew-Smith and Alexis Nelis as Natalie.

If i'm being honest the acting in this episode isn't that good but given that this is the first episode that's understandable. The actors are clearly talented and so over time you just know that the acting is going to get better as the series goes on but it still does leave a mark on this episode tho and so it's something that I have to talk about but like I said the actors are talented and so there's more room for them to grow.

Now the aim of this show from what I can gather from the first episode is about the characters growing and becoming friends. Which is honestly something that i've personally not seen before in any show and so it was really refreshing for me to see it possibly be the aim for this show and if it is then great because it's something new and something different and we need new and different now with so many streaming networks coming.

What I found very hard to believe is that everyone in the world of this show loved High School Musical and if they didn't at the start then they did by the end of the episode. I get that it's an instalment of that franchise but it's ok to have characters that don't like the film or it's sequels in fact it would be really refreshing since then they could offer a viewpoint that you wouldn't get from people who obsess over it.

Like I said Disney aired the first episode on ABC however what they did was have the cast talk about the show several times so instead of being around twenty minuets it's around forty minuets. I would have preferred if they didn't have the cast interrupt the episode since that way you'd be able to get a better feel for what the show is going to be like but they chose not to go that route which would have made more sense if you ask me it would be like having the cast of a movie interrupt the movie your seeing to talk about the movie your watching is what i'm getting at.

SPOILER IS STARTS HERE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

There is one sequence that I have to talk about because honestly it was so good and was easily the best moment of the whole episode for me. It's Nini's version of "Start Of Something New" I just loved that sequence it starts with her singing in the dark because the power died and then one of the male characters uses his phone to give her some light and then another male character does the same and then the whole scene transitions it this beautiful looking stage full of chandeliers with Nini wearing Gabriela's red dress and I just loved it.

SPOILER ENDS HERE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

This actually a musical series and will include original songs as well as cover versions of songs from at least the first film. We do get an example of one of the original songs in this episode with "I Think I Kinda, You Know" and like I said "Start Of Something New" both of which are being sung by Olivia Rodrigo and man can she sing if she doesn't want to act anymore she could very easily make it as a singer and I like the fact that the show is using a mixture of old and new songs because it keeps things fresh which is always good.

Overall this was a really good episode one thing I forgot to mention was the comedy which was very hit and miss for me personally but there might be some people who find this episode to be funny as heck. For those of you who don't know I don't give out ratings when I do a first impressions just because that rating might go up as the series goes on and I have no idea if i'm going to watch the rest of this series or not so I don't know if there will be a review of it or not and yes the teacher does mention being a backup dancer in the original film which was pretty funny. #HSMTMTS

Thirty Years Of Wallace And Gromit A Look Back At The World's Most Famous Man And Dog

Well then this is something that really did sneak up on us then didn't it thirty years ago a man and his dog landed on the moon and in the process stole our hearts. Ladies and gents as you might have guessed from the title thirty years ago this year Wallace And Gromit first debuted on UK screens and well since I like many of you grew up with the famous duo I thought that i'd take a look back at what they've been up as well as possibly tease you with their future.

As we all know the duo's first short film was called A Grand Day out and even tho it was released in 1989 it was first being made five years earlier in 1982. That's because the film started out as a film school project for creator and British animation legend Nick Park it was during that final year at film school that he invited Aardman founders Peter Lord and David Sproxton to give a talk at his school which they did and sometime later while still not having finished A Grand Day Out Nick was invited by the duo to finish the film at Aardman Studios to which both he and the school agreed to do.

Over the years the duo would star in four short films each around thirty minuets in length but in 2005 the duo went Hollywood. Altho this wasn't the first feature done by Aardman Animations that honour goes to Chicken Run it was their first film in which characters from the public already knew and loved and I have to say that i'm a huge fan of this film and I honestly that it's a must watch for any Aardman and Wallace And Gromit fan.

The duo have also been known to have an influence in the real world as well because in the early nineties Wensleydale cheese was about to close down due to poor sales. That all changed tho when the Wallace And Gromit shorts started because Wallace loves cheese and the cheese he loved the most is Wensleydale and due to those shorts being so popular the factory making them was saved and has been going strong every since in fact in 2005 when The Curse Of Were-Rabbit was being released Wensleydale sales went up again by twenty three percent.

Now i'm sorry if this post seems all over the place I didn't plan on doing it in fact I didn't even know it was there anniversary year but bare with me. I'd say that the most well known of the four short films is The Wrong Trousers and I say that because both The Wrong Trousers and A Close Shave won OSCARS and honestly it's not hard to see why because it is a fun short film with a ton of jokes and a great plot.

In fact there's a scene in this short that is actually quite well known and that's the capture of the villain Feathers Mcgraw. If i'm right that whole sequence starting with him flying and ending up with him landing in the milk bottle won an award for every single frame and it's the one scene that alot of people think of when they think of Wallace And Gromit and this is the one short film that they think of as well.

Now then this is something that not alot of people know about but there was a few Wallace And Gromit TV series the first being called Wallace and Gromit's Cracking Contraptions which was a series of ten episodes with each length being up to three minuets and would show some of the duo's other inventions. The second was called Wallace and Gromit's World of Invention which would show of inventions in the real world and would feature the duo in a side plot which would tie into the theme of the episode.

The duo also kind of did a concert and I say kind of because it was done for BBC Proms and it was called Wallace & Gromit's Musical Marvels and it's also known as Wallace & Gromit at the Proms.  To be frank there's no real reason for anyone to watch this unless your a fan of the music there is kind of a plot about Wallace composing a piece of music but that's really it it's nothing really that special and that's all I can say about it.

As with anything popular there's a spin off series that's right ladies and gents Shaun The Sheep is a Wallace And Gromit spin off since the character of Shaun was first introduced in A Close Shave. The character and the show proved to be so popular that it not only spawned it's own spin off Timmy Time but also a feature film with a second one just being released so technically there's a Wallace And Gromit Cinematic Universe out there.

The duo have also made it a habit of appearing in many comic books over the years and since i've never even heard of the comic books I can't say if there any good or not. I can say that a 2005 comic book did sort of act as a sequel to the feature film which is kind of cool and from 2010 to 2013 the characters would appear daily in a comic strip published in The Sun newspaper and I have no idea why the strip was cancelled either but it's good to see that the characters are still going strong.

Now then we've seen where the characters have been and it was while doing to quick and I do mean quick research for this post that I came across this post from this year. It looks like we might be getting some new Wallace And Gromit content within the next five years I must stress that the post doesn't say if this means a new feature film or a new short film it just means that we can expect to see our favourite cheese loving inventor and his dog sometime soon.

The Morning Show "In the Dark Night of the Soul It’s Always 3:30 in the Morning" Review

Movie and TV fans we are now living in a world where every network or company is making a streaming service (remember when Netflix was the only streaming service) well now Apple of all people have thrown there hat into the ring. So I thought i'd take a look at the first episode of one of their debuting shows and I picked a good one and so here are my review of the pilot episode for The Morning Show.

The plot of the episode is after being work colleagues for fifteen years Alex Levy (Jennifer Aniston) finds out that Mitch Kessler (Steve Carell) has been fired Alex now has to deal with the reason as to why he was fired all the while she starts a rivalry with Bradley Jackson (Reese Witherspoon) who's looking to take Mitch's place. I'll admit I was looking forward to this show when I first saw the trailer and the first episode didn't disappoint me the story was understandably a little lacking since it's the first episode but it did a good job of making want to watch more.

Starring in this episode and the rest of the show is Jennifer Aniston as Alex Levy , Reese Witherspoon as Bradley Jackson , Billy Crudup as Cory Ellison , Mark Duplass as Charlie "Chip" Black , Gugu Mbatha-Raw as Hannah Shoenfeld , Néstor Carbonell as Yanko Flores , Karen Pittman as Mia Jordan , Bel Powley as Claire Canway , Desean K. Terry as Daniel Henderson , Jack Davenport as Jason Craig and Steve Carell as Mitch Kessler.

In terms of what I thought about the acting for a pilot it was honestly really good and that's not something that I get to say that often. With acting being this good in the very first episode it does make me wonder if the acting will only continue to get better or get worse as the show continues since at least if the acting is bad in the first episode then you know it's going to get better as the show goes on but here I have no clue and that makes it more interesting at least in my opinion but that's something that only time will indeed tell.

The show is inspired by the book Top of the Morning: Inside the Cutthroat World of Morning TV by  Brian Stelter and I say that because it's not an adaptation which I believe was planned by Lifetime a few years ago. Due to the fact that this show is inspired by the book I cannot say for sure if anything that happened in this episode actually happened in the book but I will say based on the brief read of the synopsis it does sound like an interesting read.

I'll admit when I first saw the trailer for this show I actually thought it was a comedy altho a very bad one because there was no jokes. Which now makes sense because I found out it's a drama so shame on me for thinking it was a comedy but in my defensive when you see Jennifer Aniston in a new project you straight away think that it's a comedy even more so when you see that it also stars Steve Carell.

Now this show is listed as a satire and I have to say I have no idea what they are meant to be satirising since everything that they mention in this episode could also be true for any TV show or film. So it would have been better if they only satirised things that happen on morning TV shows instead of having things that could effect any show but this is just my personal opinion there might be others out there who get what the satire is.

I have to say that based of this first episode alone I really like the character of that Reese Witherspoon plays. I think that she's a spunky character who doesn't take c**p from anyone and will openly call people out when there not being honest that is something that I very rarely see on any kind of show and it honestly made me excited for her scenes because I was in love with her character and I wanted to see what she'd do next.

As you'd expect from a drama there is alot of dramatic scenes but I honestly didn't feel that they became the focus of the episode. Which for me is always a good thing because i've seen things where there's drama every few minuets and it gets overbearing here the focus is more on the characters with a small hint of drama every now and then which is great because it's more like real life in that regard but it is something that I could see people being put of by as well as TV is a form of escapism for many people.

This is one of the first shows made for Apple's new streaming service the aptly named Apple TV+ and I think they are copying the Netflix route of releasing all the episodes at one time. I personally don't think that this will work for them especially since they haven't really announced any shows that will get people excited unlike Disney+ which announced a tone of shows and films that people are excited for so I think it would be better if they released the episodes weekly for now just to build up a fanbase.

Overall I do think that this was a solid debut episode for the show and I do think that Apple was right to have this show be one of the first shows launching for their service. Since I don't give out ratings for pilot episodes i'm going to do the same here and I will be checking out the rest of the series over time i'm just not quite sure when since there's a lot of stuff coming out that I want to see from other studios.  

   

Comparing Ghost In The Shell 2017 To It's 1995 Original

Anime fans as some of you will have worked out by now i'm a huge fan of Ghost In The Shell i've seen every single film in this franchise and i've seen the original film more times then i care to count. So I thought instead of reviewing the film again which is what I was planning to do by the way i thought i'd do something a little bit different and that's compare the original 1995 film to the 2017 live action American remake since both use the same story elements it only makes sense.

Before I do that tho I want to lay down some ground rules and they are that I will judge things that both films could help so I won't be judging the visuals because of the limitations of the 1995 film. Secondly I will only be including the first movie so you won't be seeing me make any kind of references to any of the series that came after it nor will I be mentioning the animated sequel this is just the original film and remake only.

Major Motoko Kusanagi

Let us start with one of the characters that is pretty much the mascot for this franchise that being Major Motoko Kusanagi or in this film Major Mira Killian. Now while The Major in the live action film isn't that and of a character by any means in fact the same can be said for any version of the character I personally feel that the original film's take on the character is better because I honestly believe that she could kick all of our a**es where as here that's not the impressions that I get.

The impressions that I got from the live action version of the character is that she will punch you in the face but she'll ask you nicely first. Which to me doesn't seem like something any version of The Major would do she's the type to punch first ask questions later and nowhere is that more evident then in the sequence where she snaps arm she doesn't ask why he's shooting at them she just starts shooting.

WINNER: GHOST IN THE SHELL (1995)

Opening

I know that this is a weird thing to bring up here but I have to talk about the opening to both movies and that's because the opening does play a part in the whole robot theme that both films have. I have to be frank I like both openings because of how visually stunning they both are however the original does have one thing that the remake doesn't have and that's Kenji Kawai's hauntingly beautiful "Making of a Cyborg" which really does help set the mood.

That being said the remake does have a pretty sweet remixed version of it playing near the end of the sequence. While the remakes opening is pretty faithful to the original opening that is also it's biggest downfall because we've already seen it before so why should we see it again however I will admit that the CGI is pretty decent in that scene and is most likely in the whole film but I would have preferred a more original opening sequence.

WINNER: DRAW

Acting

One of the things that I liked about the remake and that was the acting which I honestly feel was better then the original. I'm saying that because i've only seen the original dubbed i've never heard it in the original Japanese and so I can only judge it based on the dub and that's why i'm saying the remake has better acting just because the dub is never going to be as good as the original Japanese dub.

I will say that the acting in the original film is indeed good but and while I do prefer those actors i'm trying my best to be fair. I will also like to say that Scarlett Johansson didn't deserve the hate she got for being cast in this film if the Japanese public are happy with her casting then it's good enough for me and to be honest she's one of the only people who could have played this character and yet still got people to see the film.

WINNER: GHOST IN THE SHELL 2017

Secondary Characters

It's all well and good having The Major but she wouldn't get very far with the rest of Section 9 and so we have to talk about them. I honestly feel that the Section 9 characters were better handled in the original film then they were in the remake mostly because I could actually tell them apart in the original which is something that I could barely do in the remake and that takes me out of the film because i'm trying to work out who's who.

Also adding to why i'm picking the original film here is the fact that i feel they were honestly used better in the original film. In the remake the Section 9 characters feel like side characters with alot of the focus going to The Major which is fine since she is pretty much the mascot for the franchise however she works better when she's with the other characters and not when she's on her own like she is alot of the time in the remake.

WINNER: GHOST IN THE SHELL 1995

Overall Quality Ghost In The Shell 2017

As an adaptation this film does a good job of representing what Ghost In The Shell is the issue is it waters down alot of things. There's no philosophical speech's from any of the characters which was a stable of the first film , the action while indeed entertaining also feels watered down and it's due to that that iconic tank scene looses alot of it's impact but it is still a good scene to see in live action tho because in the original you see alot of The Major's blood and I think some bone thus telling us that she's human here all of that removed.

Overall Quality Ghost In The Shell 1995

Without this film there would be know Ghost In The Shell franchise this is an iconic film and it's iconic for a reason. The characters are so well defined in this film it also has some great animation which still holds up to this very day. Where as some of the CGI in the remake looks really bad no joke during one of the early scene there's some CGI on screen which is so bad it caused me to yell out how bad it is plus it has a ton of iconic scenes.

OVERALL WINNER: GHOST IN THE SHELL 1995

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.