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    Nick Paramonte 11:21 pm on 01/27/2015 Permalink | Reply
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    Fantastic Four Teaser 

    Writer, Simon Kinberg and Brian Singer did a good job with Days of Future Past which has me look forward to Apocalypse. Like they’re exploring the space exploration aspect. Exposure to the Negative Zone gives them powers as opposed to Cosmic Rays. As long as Chronicle co-star, Michael J. Jordan portrays Johnny Storm aka Human Torch’s thrill-seeking personality like Chris Evans did I’ll be happy. Kate Mara (Iron Man 2) could be a respectable Susan Storm/Invisible Girl rather then an insecured guilt-tripping Jesscia Alba in heavy make-up. Clearly this film takes cues from Ultimates which I haven’t read other then with them being youngsters also Victor Von Doom’s last name is Damme.

    Doctor Doom, one of the greatest villians in the Marvel Universe played by Toby Kebbell (Dawn of the Planet of the Apes) being an anti-social blogger (Hollywood insulting) named Domashev instead of the immensely powerful Latverian king or rehashed metallic skin is unforgiveable.

    “From the studio that brought you” is a massive red-flag. Marvel Studios did this too to be fair however they had creditably under-their-belt to warrant that marketing. Fix (Fox) appears to just follow-trends. Scene with a car racing passed cornfields shot in-the same way as Abrams’ Star Trek or tone-wise regarding Interstellar. Still Kinberg wrote X3. Miles Tiller (Whiplash) doesn’t strike me as Reed Richards/Mister Fantastic at all.

    Maybe it’ll be another plesant surprise keen-to the first Amazing Spider-Man but then could go completely screwed up in already announced sequel of-course cause studio expect instant-blockbuster.

     
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    Nick Paramonte 7:13 pm on 01/22/2015 Permalink | Reply
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    Flash “Revenge of the Rogues” Review 

    Aaron Couch, editor of The Hollywood Reporter followed me while live-tweeting the episode. Wentworth Miller’s Captain Cold is full-fledged supervillan when he and Heatwave (Dominic Purcell) steal a priceless painting, Fire & Ice (not subtle Johns). Telling Mick Rory to put his-seat-belt-on during a failed confrontation with The Scarlet Speedster (which Snart calls him) his intellectual performance.

    Star Labs continuing to help Central City’s Finest to reconcile the Partial Accelerator incident to counteract this threat (with many more to come) adds more points to the show. Barry revealing his persona to the world (unlike a certain farmboy) scores another big development with this excellent momenteum. Alternate Eobard Thawne (Harrison Wells) almost blew his cover by getting out of his wheelchair to save Mr. Allen from an oncoming drone. Tom Cavanagh shows his character’s ambition rather then his usual inherent anger despite some supposed humanity later on:

    In case you doubt it, you pushed me to be better too.

    How you gonna explain the people you killed or manipulated to keep your friend/enemy safe? Glad Joe (Jesse L. Martin) be supcious of him again after convincing his surgent-son not getting involved to focus on catching Original Reverse-Flash. Noticed Jesse kept his beanie on throughout.

    Iris (Candice Patton) giving Barry his childhood backpack (with Space Ghost comic inside) was a more thoughtful gift then just-another microscope to use at the Crime Lab. Walking onto a shootout so she can be with her Pretty Boy (Rick Cosnett) was still dumb. Captain Singh (Patrick Sabongui) should’ve kick her off she’s still a waitress nor “reporter” (copy/paste other people’s posts). Her turtle doll probably referencing Turtle Man the Slowest Villian Alive or her future nephew’s pet. Carlos Valdes (Cisco) drops some of-that comic-relief to give a genuine speech.

    Purcell however overacts Mick’s pyromania, pulling a manical laugh in the climax, topping off with a Bill Goldberg impression at Joe’s gun while struggling with CCPD earns funniest moment. Barry in his normal voice shouting out-loud into his communicator with Singh, Eddie, in-addition Iris being there not smart. Snart would’ve been smart to counteract their plan to cross-the-streams. Joe telling Cold to freeze (punny) just asks to get shot.

    Rating: 7

    Samuel Scudder aka Mirror Master is the only one left to complete the roster. Eobard uses his speed (red streak) which is probably from the charge in his suit. Episode fifteen will tackle the time-travel aspect could break the camel’s back.

     
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    Nick Paramonte 10:19 pm on 01/15/2015 Permalink | Reply  

    The Flash: Captain Cold LARPing 

    Decided to act out The Scarlet Speedster’s adversary just-for-fun since my parka came. I can’t imitate Wentworth Miller’s voice.

     
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    Nick Paramonte 2:49 am on 01/13/2015 Permalink | Reply  

    Avengers: Age of Ultron Second Trailer Reaction 

    Since my last video only got sixty-six views, I watch it first then give my thoughts while second viewing.

     
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    Nick Paramonte 9:54 am on 01/09/2015 Permalink | Reply  

    The Hobbit Trilogy 

    While I’m mostly read science fiction with some fantasy once-and-awhile like Vertigo’s Fables series. My only exposure to J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle-Earth saga were airings of Rankin/Bass Productions’ adaptations. I-for-one remember key moments like Bilbo Baggins’ encounter with the dragon, Smaug or Frodo losing his finger by Gollum.

    Bilbo played by Martin Freeman (Sherlock) is a much better character then his future pansy nephew (Elijah Wood). He protects Thorin Oakenshield (Richard Armitage) from Azog the Defiler (Arrow‘s Deathstroke, Manu Bennett) after he gets curb-stomped aswell as fighting against those giant spiders. Ken Stott (Shallow Grave) as Balin (Spoiler) has that likeable uncle quality besides being surgent-father to Thorin.

    Battle of the Five Armies (originally There and Back Again) was a forgettable threequel likewise last installment to this franchise. Thorin finally going coo-coo from apparent “Dragon Illness” which myself thought the Arkenstone served corrupted-MacGuffin for the dwarves. Some fights happen, onto Lord of the Rings, it’s over.

    More intervention (the birds) whenever characters are in a no-win scenario. Galadriel (Cate Blanchett) throughout this series does nothing but spout exposition while being all etherial (accept when she went crazy). Apprently her darkside was stronger then Sauron (Bendict Cumberbatch/Doctor Strange)? Kili (Aidan Turner) along with Tauriel’s love story wasn’t engaging when it started nor even after it “tragicially ended” since none denoting equivalences (accept Phili) have died prior. Lastly Howard Shore plays Erebor’s theme twice-to-many (We get it).

     
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    Nick Paramonte 3:47 am on 01/06/2015 Permalink | Reply  

    Ant-Man Teaser Reaction 

    My thoughts about tonight’s sneak peek at the next film in Phase Two that aired during tonight’s two hour premiere of Agent Carter which I’ll see tommorrow morning on Hulu Plus.

     
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    Nick Paramonte 5:08 am on 12/30/2014 Permalink | Reply  

    2014 in Review 

    The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2014 annual report for this blog.

    Here’s an excerpt:

    A San Francisco cable car holds 60 people. This blog was viewed about 1,300 times in 2014. If it were a cable car, it would take about 22 trips to carry that many people.

    Click here to see the complete report.

     
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    Nick Paramonte 5:25 pm on 12/20/2014 Permalink | Reply  

    Flash: Season 1…So Far 

    Since the terrifc mid-season finale came and went, here’s what I think about CW’s Fastest Man Alive series.

    Producer Greg Berlanti with Geoff Johns onboard executive producing are doing a much better job here then their Dork Knight ripoff (Arrow). It’s so good to see a light-hearted superhero show again after somber oversaturations.

    Once again Grant Gustin has charisma as Barry Allen aka Scarlet Speedster to carry it. First couple of episodes had him going Sherlock Scan on some crime scenes which have been abandoned since then. Jesse L. Martin (Rent) playing Detective Joe West (instead of Ira West) brings very genuine emotion regarding Barry maintaining moral guidance.

    Tom Cavanagh (Scrubs) is amongst best actors with “Dr. Harrison Wells” which episode nine (“Man in the Yellow Suit”) proved since “Pilot”, he’s an alternate Eobard Thawne/Professor Zoom aka Reverse Flash (hence taction chestplate) from the twenty-fifth century. His motivation however refers-to Hunter Zolomon (Wally West’s adversary) by pushing his nemesis’ super-speed to it’s max. Almost everything he says has double-meaning that somehow nobody suspects (Joe at first in episode six, “The Flash is Born”). Still don’t see how Gorilla Grodd factors into his master-plan since Star Lab’s expermental simian has ape-conquest on his mind. Opposite speedster running-around was Pre-Crisis Eobard. Having young Barry go back to stop his mother’s murder might work better then his future-self doing something that selfish which irritated me most about Flashpoint (comic and film).

    John Wesley Shipp (Henry Allen) brings a passing-the-torch (like Christopher Reeve and Tom Welling) while at the same time carries heart everytime he shares scenes with Gustin. Hope Amanda Pays reprising Tina McGee reoccurs after she called Barry out for pulling some blackmail tactics. Goes-to-show Eobard’s influence over him especially since he almost found out who he trully was by his indifference to Tony Woodward/Girder (another Wally enemy)/Colossus knock-off’s abrupted demise. Really looking forward to Mark Hamill’s third (voiced in JLU’s “Flash and Substance”) Jesse James/Trickster outing.

    Rick Cosnett’s “Eddie” Thawne could be Malcolm Thawne/Cobalt Blue (Barry’s lost brother) since he’s Eobard’s distant ancestor. Abstracting blood from Blackout (episode seven, “Power Outage”) might be used on “Eddie” when eventually turns (he’s off).

    Candice Patton’s Iris West/future-Allen hasn’t been very stellar unfornately:

    • She calls Barry’s beliefs “a sad nerdy dream” meaning “you’re pathetic”.
    • Eyeballing “Pretty-Boy”/”Guy I’m totally going to hook-up with”. Shallow much?
    • TPTB constantly having her kiss “Eddie” in-front-of Barry just to rub-salt-in-the-wound.
    • Having hots for Stephen Amell’s Oliver Queen in crossover “event”. First part being an excuse for two-heroes-to-fight-each-other is beyond overdrawn.
    • Being so completely oblivious.
    • Suffers from Silver Age Lois Lane Syndrome despite Barry’s voice sounding like a broken bullhorn.

    Things must change soon to end this pointless shipper (I don’t care) subsequently her expression meant “Finally” when Barry confessed his love for her. Just marking time for Caltin Snow (cause she’s Ice) becoming Killer Frost despite Danielle Panabaker’s decent performance.

    Leonard Snart/Captain Cold (Wentwood Miller) returns with Mick Rory/Heatwave (Prison Break co-star, Dominic Purcell).

     
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    Nick Paramonte 7:37 pm on 12/04/2014 Permalink | Reply  

    Terminator: Genesis (Genisys) Teaser Reaction – UPDATE 

    My thoughts about the fifth installment with Resistance’s war against Machines.

    UPDATE: 1/27/15 – I found my video on a mashup created by Adik The One yesterday:

     
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    Nick Paramonte 8:03 pm on 12/03/2014 Permalink | Reply  

    Star Wars: Episode VII – The Force Awakens Teaser 

    After thirty years, The Empire would still maintain control over the galaxy techncially means The Rebel Alliance wouldn’t have ended-the-war in Return of the Jedi. Andy Serkis confirmed it’s his voice which sounded like Benedict Cumberbatch (Sherlock) at the beginning. John Boyega (Attack the Block) might be a Rebel spy similar to others that transmitted messages about the Deathstar plans before Darth Vader found out at the beginning of New Hope. They’re isn’t really a balance in The Force despite Light overthrew Dark. This Sith’s hilted lightsaber has a more aggressive electrical current then their elegant counterparts.

     
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