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Did You Know That Ben Affleck Played Superman?

ben-affleck-supermanI have to admit that I forgot about this little known film called “Hollywoodland” where the soon-to-be Batman once played the role of Superman.  Okay, to be more accurate, he actually played the role of George Reeves who played Superman.  The film was about a private investigator looking into the supposed suicide of George Reeves who many believed to have been murdered.

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“Big Hero 6” Trailer, Poster and Screenshots

Big Hero 6 Title CardDisney just recently released the first trailer for their animated film “Big Hero 6.”  I’ll let Wiki tell the story…

WIKI ON…

“Big Hero 6 is an upcoming American 3D computer-animated superhero film produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios and inspired by the Marvel Comics superhero team of the same name. The film will be directed by Don Hall and Chris Williams, and will be the 54th animated feature in the Walt Disney Animated Classics series. Big Hero 6 will be the first Disney animated feature to feature Marvel characters since The Walt Disney Company’s acquisition of Marvel Entertainment in 2009.”

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X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014) Recipe Card Movie Review

Movie Rating: 4 1/2 Joes

Four and a Half Joe's

X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014)

Released May 23, 2014 / Action & Adventure, Sci-fi, Fantasy / PG-13


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2 hr 11 min

Cook Time
2 hr 11 min

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  1. Stars: Hugh Jackman, James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender, Jennifer Lawrence, Patrick Stewart,
  2. Ian McKellen, Peter Dinklage, Nicholas Hoult, Halle Berry, Ellen Page, Shawn Ashmore, Evan Peters
  3. Written by: Simon Kinberg
  4. Directed by: Bryan Singer
Instructions
  1. In the future, mutants and mankind have all but been driven to extinction by powerful sentient robots known as sentinels.
  2. As a last resort, Wolverine’s consciousness is sent back in time to the early 1970’s, placed into the body of his younger self in order to stop this apocalyptic chain of events from occurring.
  3. To do this, he’ll need the help of some of his mutant friends (Professor X, Beast, etc.), but he finds that their younger versions are far from the people he remembers.
Notes
  1. If you’ve never seen an X-Men movie before and you want to check one out, “X-Men: Days of Future Past” isn’t the one to go and see. And yet, I loved this film a lot. It was extremely enjoyable and entertaining. Then what gives, you ask? Why shouldn’t I go see this one? And the answer is this… it’s very continuity heavy. You might like what you’re seeing, but you won’t really understand a lot of what’s going on unless you’ve viewed the previous entries in the series. It would be a damn shame if you couldn’t enjoy the film for everything it has to offer.
  2. There is a lot to service in this movie – two different casts and time frames, an intricate storyline, pulling a somewhat fractured franchise into a cohesive whole, and fixing some past mistakes while pulling off a reboot of sorts. Whew! Tall order. And guess what? Singer pulls it off in grand fashion. Most of the characters get serviced reasonably well. Although Hugh Jackman’s Wolverine is in the film, this is not a Wolverine movie. He serves as the link to both past and future casts and helps drive the story along. But overall, it’s essentially an ensemble piece. And what an ensemble it is. But Singer also made sure to capitalize on Jennifer Lawrence’s stardom by giving her a more prominent role in this one. Her character serves as the key to the mutants (and humanities) future.
  3. But the welcomed surprise for me was Evan Peters’ Quicksilver. He stole the show in every one of his scenes. The one real drawback of this film was that he wasn’t in more of it. There is a kitchen scene involving his character that will be talked about for years to come. Easily the best scene in the movie.
  4. The film’s production design and effects are excellent and the movie does a great job at capturing the feel of the 1970’s. If anything, I wish we got to play around a bit more in that era and just really have fun with it, but there was just too much to do. And there are a few surprise cameos in the film, for which I am not going to spoil here.
  5. Without a doubt, this film is going to be one of the biggest blockbusters of the summer. And with this being the seventh film in this series, amazingly, it will most likely breathe new life into this franchise. Usually movies will degrade with every sequel until the eventual reboot. This film series actually took its reboot (X-Men: First Class) and un-rebooted it with a reverse karate move, thereby returning it back into its original form. And by combining both cast of characters, it created a larger (and more cohesive) X-Men universe, and a more interesting one at that.
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New “Transformers” Trailer, Poster and Lots of Screenshots

I present to you the new “Transformers: Age of Extinction” trailer and poster that was just released today.  Along with a gaggle of screenshots.  They are calling this the payoff trailer, so I guess it has a ton of new stuff that the other ones didn’t have.  Does this mean that everyone from now on is going to call their big reveal trailers the ‘payoff‘ ones?  Well, good for them.  I’d rather the movie actually payoff instead.

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Community: The Movie (Trailer and Poster)

Community The MovieWelcome to a new section I like to call “Movies I’d like to see from TV shows.”  In the past, there have been a few television shows that have spun off to the big screen keeping their casts intact (“Star Trek”, “Firefly”, “Veronica Mars” for example) and some that have been remade completely with new casts (“A-Team” “21 Jump Street” “The Fugitive”).

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Christopher Nolan’s “Interstellar Star Trek Enterprise” Trailer

Christopher Nolan's Interstellar Star Trek Enterprise Title CardSo you’re asking right now – is Christopher Nolan making a “Star Trek” movie?  Well, okay, I’d have to answer that as a big fat negative.  At least not that I’m aware of.  But after watching the trailer for his upcoming film “Interstellar” I noticed more than a few similarities to the opening credits sequence to the TV show “Star Trek Enterprise.”  It’s not shot by shot by any means.  But it’s basically almost the same in tone. 

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