Mr. Dent
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I mean seriously, let's run through this:
Captain America: The Winter Soldier: Already high, positive buzz based off prescreenings and the trailers. It looks truly revolutionary in itself in some ways with it taking the basic elements of a superhero movie and turning it into a conspiracy political thriller with kick ass gritty action and large superhero blockbuster set pieces. What The Dark Knight was to crime drama genre, I feel The Winter Soldier will be to the political thriller genre. The movie has serious potential to get a high 80's or better rating on RT.
Guardians of the Galaxy: This is also getting really good buzz and introducing a completely new concept to hollywood blockbuster. It's a legitimate pulp space opera given a superhero movie blockbuster budget. Just think about that for a minute. Think about seeing stuff like Farscape or Captain Harlock or Space Cobra on a $170m budget...except even more zany. It has an actor that looks set to be the next big Hollywood star in Chris Pratt as the lead, and an extremely unique tone coming via James Gunn that could have people dying of laughter. There's not much to go on with this film but I just have a good feeling about this movie and think it will strike a tone with comedy, drama, and pure awesome action that has seldom been achieved in Hollywood.
Avengers: Age of Ultron: We're starting to get a clearer picture of how this movie will roughly play out and it seems like it will be absolutely fantastic. The script seems like it's jampacked but in a way that will flow seamlessly together and it has potential to hit comic book geek levels that will make even the first film seem like Batman Forever in comparison. The story of the Avengers inadvertently creating their own worst foe is extremely compelling in itself, but toss in extra things like JARVIS becoming Vision and Ultron and Vision potentially being the two halves of JARVIS that hate and love Tony, outside elements in the Maximoff twins that will create a sense of uncertainty throughout the movie and further raise the stakes and add conflict for the Avengers, an international scope instead of just being on the Helicarrier and in New York the entire movie, and potentially the introduction of Ms. Marvel, the involvement of War Machine, and the mere presence of all the Marvel staples like HYDRA and SHIELD and you have what seems like the makings of yet again the best pure superhero movie ever if done correctly.
And finally Ant-Man: Edgar Wright as director, Paul Rudd as the leading man, and Michael Douglas a grizzled, weary old scientist. A story of passing things on to the next generation, and potentially a cold war political bend to it. And of course the action scenes involving a man shrinking are going to end up being way more awesome than people can imagine. For a character that very little people care about, and what seems to be a very bare bones scopre, this movie sounds like it will be a different kind of awesome that will harken back to the first Iron Man. It won't be as big per se' as any of the other three movies, but it knows what it wants to tell and it sounds extremely original and so simplistically awesome, it just gives me the feeling of literally a big indie film.
I mean, Marvel could seriously have back to back to back big time critically acclaimed hits on their hands with the way it's shaping out. I was never to enamoured with what I saw coming out of Thor 2 and while I was expecting IM3 to be just a bit better than what it turned out, I never felt it would set the world on fire or anything. I really feel like these upcoming 4 Marvel movies all have the kind of creative juices pumped into them to all result in extremely awesome products in their own way.
And that's not even mentioning TASM2. Even though it's made by Sony, that movie really looks like it's taking a page out of the Avengers' book in terms of feeling like it's popping right off the comic page. I don't expect it to necessarily have the originality and freshness of the upcoming Marvel Studios movies, but I feel like the story it will tell will be very emotional and much more concise than the first film and will be a big hit as well.
tl;dr, I really feel like Marvel is about to put on a clinic over the next two years and do something really unprecedented.
Captain America: The Winter Soldier: Already high, positive buzz based off prescreenings and the trailers. It looks truly revolutionary in itself in some ways with it taking the basic elements of a superhero movie and turning it into a conspiracy political thriller with kick ass gritty action and large superhero blockbuster set pieces. What The Dark Knight was to crime drama genre, I feel The Winter Soldier will be to the political thriller genre. The movie has serious potential to get a high 80's or better rating on RT.
Guardians of the Galaxy: This is also getting really good buzz and introducing a completely new concept to hollywood blockbuster. It's a legitimate pulp space opera given a superhero movie blockbuster budget. Just think about that for a minute. Think about seeing stuff like Farscape or Captain Harlock or Space Cobra on a $170m budget...except even more zany. It has an actor that looks set to be the next big Hollywood star in Chris Pratt as the lead, and an extremely unique tone coming via James Gunn that could have people dying of laughter. There's not much to go on with this film but I just have a good feeling about this movie and think it will strike a tone with comedy, drama, and pure awesome action that has seldom been achieved in Hollywood.
Avengers: Age of Ultron: We're starting to get a clearer picture of how this movie will roughly play out and it seems like it will be absolutely fantastic. The script seems like it's jampacked but in a way that will flow seamlessly together and it has potential to hit comic book geek levels that will make even the first film seem like Batman Forever in comparison. The story of the Avengers inadvertently creating their own worst foe is extremely compelling in itself, but toss in extra things like JARVIS becoming Vision and Ultron and Vision potentially being the two halves of JARVIS that hate and love Tony, outside elements in the Maximoff twins that will create a sense of uncertainty throughout the movie and further raise the stakes and add conflict for the Avengers, an international scope instead of just being on the Helicarrier and in New York the entire movie, and potentially the introduction of Ms. Marvel, the involvement of War Machine, and the mere presence of all the Marvel staples like HYDRA and SHIELD and you have what seems like the makings of yet again the best pure superhero movie ever if done correctly.
And finally Ant-Man: Edgar Wright as director, Paul Rudd as the leading man, and Michael Douglas a grizzled, weary old scientist. A story of passing things on to the next generation, and potentially a cold war political bend to it. And of course the action scenes involving a man shrinking are going to end up being way more awesome than people can imagine. For a character that very little people care about, and what seems to be a very bare bones scopre, this movie sounds like it will be a different kind of awesome that will harken back to the first Iron Man. It won't be as big per se' as any of the other three movies, but it knows what it wants to tell and it sounds extremely original and so simplistically awesome, it just gives me the feeling of literally a big indie film.
I mean, Marvel could seriously have back to back to back big time critically acclaimed hits on their hands with the way it's shaping out. I was never to enamoured with what I saw coming out of Thor 2 and while I was expecting IM3 to be just a bit better than what it turned out, I never felt it would set the world on fire or anything. I really feel like these upcoming 4 Marvel movies all have the kind of creative juices pumped into them to all result in extremely awesome products in their own way.
And that's not even mentioning TASM2. Even though it's made by Sony, that movie really looks like it's taking a page out of the Avengers' book in terms of feeling like it's popping right off the comic page. I don't expect it to necessarily have the originality and freshness of the upcoming Marvel Studios movies, but I feel like the story it will tell will be very emotional and much more concise than the first film and will be a big hit as well.
tl;dr, I really feel like Marvel is about to put on a clinic over the next two years and do something really unprecedented.
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