Two trailers and still no dialouge from Johansson’s Black Widow. Unless if or when she does speak, will be the case of the character’s birthplace still be in Russia but raised in America to fit the actress’ likeness like Tim Roth as Emil Blonsky in Incredible Hulk.
Despite an early report suggesting the last shot being the cover image from Demon in a Bottle being false, the suitcase armor was a susprise because I really didn’t think that concept was going to work but director, John Favereau and crew did.
Rob tells me to focus on the positive of Smallville, I can’t do that when an episode bugs the hell out of me like last night was.
About the Clois scenes, I’m skeptical about where their going with Lois working with Checkmate and keeping it from Clark. But I’d like to believe like what Lois did in “Identity” when she didn’t tell him about dating a psychopath to get a lead on a story to protect him.
Saving an enemy’s life, even someone with a black heart like Zod is what Superman would totally do. The problem with it can now be used as leverage for the producers and the Dumb Bitch to use and say “See, if he listened to her, none of this would’ve happened.” Never mind the fact that she flat out implied that the Failsday incident was his fault.
More fuel to the fire why I openly hate this character so much. Somebody give me a bat so I can bash this bimbo’s skull in. Really, it’s that damn frustrating, and on top of that, Oliver is still shady as to who’s side he’s on. Guess he learned nothing from Hawkman.
The future tyrant of Krypton going undercover at the Daily Planet was just another form of other characters stealing the lead character’s thunder, especially when he flew at the end after being healed by the supposed Last Son‘s blood. (Which shouldn’t work because the particles of Blue Kryptonite are part of their DNA, so technically he still shouldn’t have any powers.) To which Boyscout had better f##kin fly in the finale.
Rating: 5 1/2
Anyway, the preview for the remaining episodes of the season when it comes back from hiatus, again.
It was only a matter of time before Ms. Graves started shagging with the Major. Finally he’s wearing the black leather that he should’ve worn in the alternate future episode, but Kal-El has been clearly dumb down once again by the writers that he wasn’t suspicious in the slightest that Zod got the powers.
Look forward to The Man of Steel’s confontation with Waller, hopefully Lois will tell him about the black ops group by the end.
As for the tagline at the end of the promo “Who will be in control?”, I’m willing to bet that Chloe fakes her kidnaping, has been apart of Checkmate since “Roulette” where Ollie confronted Plot Device by throwing the chess piece down onto the cafe table.
By the end, Waller or Max Lord will kill her once the use of her character is expired (since it’s been long overdo) it’s the reward for all the sins she’s committed since the start of this show instead of like last year where Jimmy gave her the keys to the kingdom as it were.
Wonder Woman was the pinnacle of DC Universe features that been made so far because unfortunately, this didn’t live up to expectations.
The art designed by Rick Morales and Jay Oliva on this movie was fantastic, different from the previous since the some of the same people at the Animation Department work on these films. Of course, James Woods delivered the goods as Owlman, Gina Torres did well for Super Woman, and Josh Keaton was a decent Flash, specifically the scene where the Justice League escape from the Crime Syndicate’s headquarters in the sky, runs out of hole Superman made, screaming “Oh Craaaaaaap!” on the way down.
You can’t condense a Multiverse story in 74 mintues because this still felt like an episode of the JL cartoon that Dwayne McDuffie originally wrote this for. Unfortunately aside from the actors I’ve just mentioned, no one else stood out as the voices were just average. William Baldwin had the deepness for Batman, but there’s no sense of character behind it. Speaking of which, while the cherography on the fights were good, Bruce should’ve been killed or still be injured by the punctured rip delivered by Super Woman. Also a slip up comes when Diana Prince murders two henchmen inside a loaded truck of crack with her lasso.
It would’ve been cool to see some cameos from the heroes and villains of the other parallel worlds. Would’ve made the film a little more epic. Since the annihilation of Earth Prime, which the master plan to destroy all reality, it would’ve been nice to see the ruin’s of Superboy’s domain, instead of it being a plain where existence was non-existence.
Overall, despite it’s problems I still enjoyed it for what it was, it’s just that it could’ve been so much better. The Spectre short film attached the DVD was well done with Gary Cole as the ghost detective, Jim Corrigan and written by Steve Niles of 30 Days of Night fame.
Rating: 6 1/2
The cast for the next one, Under the Hood looks interesting. Bruce Greenwood might take second place above Jeremy Sisto’s performance in New Frontier cause Kevin Conroy will always be number one. The rest sound good, Jensen Ackles (Red Hood), and once again, Neil Patrick Harris (Nightwing).
I missed almost the entire episode from watching the first Die Hard with the old man. But now that I’ve seen in it’s entirary, here’s what I thought.
Because of the characters getting infected by Gemstone Kryptonite (aka bulls##t because it’s just used for more plot conviences which the show is notorious for.) that writer, Ante Cofell Saunders came up with, Chloe in the “protecting Clark” excuse once again, actually comes very close to breaking up Lois & Clark.
Even though Alia, the ninja assassin from the premiere turned out to Jor-El’s murder (Okay I was wrong but that still doesn’t excuse Chloe’s actions and the fact she’s still witholding information about that device for the Book of Rao thingamajig), Mercy will still kill her, having seen her original fate in “Pandora”.
But the saving grace was that even Lois is getting fed up with her cousin’s den mother tude, Clark’s honest words for how much he loves her, and references to Lucy, The General, and especially Martha Kent, considering her and Perry White are coming back towards the end of the season were nice.
I missed almost the entire episode from watching the first Die Hard with the old man. But now that I’ve seen in it’s entirary, here’s what I thought.
Because of the characters getting infected by Gemstone Kryptonite (aka bulls##t because it’s just used for more plot conviences which the show is notorious for.) that writer, Ante Cofell Saunders came up with, Chloe in the “protecting Clark” excuse once again, actually comes very close to breaking up Lois & Clark.
Even though Alia, the ninja assassin from the premiere turned out to Jor-El’s murder (Okay I was wrong but that still doesn’t excuse Chloe’s actions and the fact she’s still witholding information about that device for the Book of Rao thingamajig), Mercy will still kill her, having seen her original fate in “Pandora”.
But the saving grace was that even Lois is getting fed up with her cousin’s den mother tude, Clark’s honest words for how much he loves her, and references to Lucy, The General, and especially Martha Kent, considering her and Perry White are coming back towards the end of the season were nice.
Deadline/Hollywood reports that the man who brought The Caped Crusader’s resurgence to the big screen, is in talks to consult on The Last Son of Krypton’s second film adaptation.
“Our insiders say that the brains behind the rebooted Batman have been asked to play a “godfather” role and ensure The Man Of Steel gets off the ground after a 3 1/2-year hiatus.
[Producer] Jon Peters is trying to make something happen since he stands to benefit financially. But they [the studio] need to hear a great story that makes sense.” Another insider explained to us, “We know what we don’t want to do. But we don’t know what we want to do. We learned a lot from the last movie, and we want to get it right this time.”
I’m sure they learned their lesson after putting your complete obedience in Bryan Singer. And for f**ksake keep Peters away from this franchise, his collaboration with Kevin Smith and Singer was a joke.
As Rob and I have said since we started doing this, no more Lex Luthor as the main villian with restate scams, actually use the source material, not relay on the dated Donner films, and for Rao’s sake, give the other villains in the Man of Tommorrow’s rogues gallery a chance to shine.
Well they did it, they actually did it, the PTB have used their Dumb Blonde to piss on the culmination of Lois & Clark’s relationship.
This episode would’ve been so much better if Billy Batson, on the quest to becoming Captain Marvel (much in the vain of Judd Winick’s Trials of Shazam, where Billy’s sidekick, Freddy Freeman became the new champion) was the guest star instead of another Warrior Angel centric, which that fad from the earlier seasons is pointless now considering Kal-El is almost heading towards the finish line.
Not only that, while it’s good that Kent was the lead as screentime goes (“Society”) with Zatanna, unlike their one scene in “Hex”, the makeout scene shown in the trailer pryer to the second half of the season airing that was used to give him “perspective” on his feelings for Lois comes totally out of left field.
But the worst part was the end. For godsake, not another pointless shipper. Why are the producers trying so damn hard to make us the audience, into liking Chloe and Oliver to the point of them starting a relationship when they clearing done the most dethhhhhhPICable things and sharing a philopsy that’s completely against the Superman code?!
The only reason they did that was to keep those two relevant to the series, when they should’ve been thrown in jail for their crimes last year but where left off the hook by said people.
But to be fair out this montrosity, I always enjoy the comedic moments of Clois, plus her giving the mild manner reporter the real view on fantasy and escapism.
Well they did it, they actually did it, the PTB have used their Dumb Blonde to piss on the culmination of Lois & Clark’s relationship.
This episode would’ve been so much better if Billy Batson, on the quest to becoming Captain Marvel (much in the vain of Judd Winick’s Trials of Shazam, where Billy’s sidekick, Freddy Freeman became the new champion) was the guest star instead of another Warrior Angel centric, which that fad from the earlier seasons is pointless now considering Kal-El is almost heading towards the finish line.
Not only that, while it’s good that Kent was the lead as screentime goes (“Society”) with Zatanna, unlike their one scene in “Hex”, the makeout scene shown in the trailer pryer to the second half of the season airing that was used to give him “perspective” on his feelings for Lois comes totally out of left field.
But the worst part was the end. For godsake, not another pointless shipper. Why are the producers trying so damn hard to make us the audience, into liking Chloe and Oliver to the point of them starting a relationship when they clearing done the most dethhhhhhPICable things and sharing a philopsy that’s completely against the Superman code?!
The only reason they did that was to keep those two relevant to the series, when they should’ve been thrown in jail for their crimes last year but where left off the hook by said people.
But to be fair out this montrosity, I always enjoy the comedic moments of Clois, plus her giving the mild manner reporter the real view on fantasy and escapism.
The mind controling manic of Checkmate will make an appearence on the show.
“KryptonSite has gotten confirmation that the character of Maxwell Lord will be appearing in this season’s 18th episode, “Charade.”
This should be interesting with introduction of The Suicide Squad and Amanda Waller.
Actor, Gil Bellows from Ally McBeal fame will play the tycoon. Wiether or not he’ll have the metahuman (which was finally sid in Absolute Justice) ability or the they’ll use the plot device aka The Orb is up in the air at this point.
But it would awsome for a season finale to have Max use Clark to attack his friends like in Identity Crisis, but unfornately like how she stole Barbara Gordon’s future proffession, Dumb Blonde will probably pull Wonder Woman’s deed. Would be sweet if Lord blows her brains like he did to Ted Kord from the source material.
Along with Clash of the Titans, this was the first remake I was looking forward last year before the project got pushed back and so on, and so on.
The 1941 film recited the classic poem too many times but thankfully they get through it in the first 5 minutes. Although Benicio Del Toro resembles Clifford Evans from Hammer’s Curse of the Werewolf, he still manages to channel some of Lon Channey Jr. Rick Baker’s make up worked well with the atmosphere, cinematography and tone.
The result of the 17 minutes of footage removed from the final cut, the beginning of the film is severely rushed. You hardly have time to get to know the characters before crucial things happen. Hopefully in an extended cut will come out on DVD so it can breath a little bit more.
But my main problem with the movie is in the aftermath of the psychic episode in the asylum and the escape afterward, Talbot still maintains a rational state of mind, to which in prenotions, the torture and endless amounts of shock therapy would be the last straw for him to give into his inner beast.
Geraldine Chaplin as Maleva (to which they mispronounced her name I might add) is severely underused. The character loses her role of surgent mother to Lawrence that Maria Ouspenskaya brought to the role.
The early revelation of Sir John being a wolf, which I knew beforehand from the trailers leading up to release, the end battle started with them running all fours into a collison course was just bad. A result of the reshoots by stunt coordinator, Vic Armstrong.
A small nitpick is when Larry follows Sir John to the cellar under the monstary, he doesn’t transform right there under the full moon.
Overall, I did enjoy it. I look forward to Guillermo Del Toro’s Frankenstein that’s in development and a Creature from The Black Lagoon return to the big screen in the hopefully near future.
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