Review – Movie – Alita: Battle Angel (2019)
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Review – Movie – Alita: Battle Angel (2019)

When this film was first announced, I have to say I was both kind of excited and a little worried. Excited because it looked pretty awesome, worried because, manga to live action adaptations tend to be kind of hit or miss. I also felt like even if it was good, it wouldn't really have enough mainstream appeal to actually be successful. While I really liked this movie, its not perfect. It has a lot of weird pacing issues and the ending left a bad taste but the visuals are amazing and the action sequences were all well done. The story…
Review – Movie – Spider-Man: Into the Spider-verse
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Review – Movie – Spider-Man: Into the Spider-verse

Sony is kind of in a weird place with it's Spider-Man license.  They are working on their third reboot of the series, which is not tied to the MCU which they don't really own any stake in.  So they have a pretty decent and successful Spider-Man series going now, but it's technically part of a universe they can't fully touch.  Take the recent Venom movie, for example.  Venom is pretty tied to Spider-Man, but this new movie itn't part of the MCU, so that gets a little tricky. Maybe they don't really care a lot about continuity. Maybe they also…
Review – MCU – Captain America: The Winter Soldier
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Review – MCU – Captain America: The Winter Soldier

Captain America - The Winter Soldier (2014) Chris Evans Samuel L Jackson Scarlett Johansson Robert Redford Sebastian Stan Anthony Mackie Cobie Smoulders Frank Grillo Spoiler Free thoughts and Notes The second entry in the Captain America series comes in right on the heels of The Avengers, or "Phase 2" of the Marvel Cinematic universe.  I want to take a moment here to comment on how the continuity of these movies have been handled up to this point, since this is the first "post crossover" movie.  This applies to pretty much all of the Phase 2 movies, though it seems to…
Review – Movie – Monster Trucks
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Review – Movie – Monster Trucks

So, I'm kind of a stupid sucker for this sort of thing. Kind of dumb movies based on dumb concepts. Monster Trucks really feels like one of those, in a meeting, guy says "What about, trucks, possessed by MONSTERS. And we could call it.... MONSTER TRUCKS. This is a Nickelodeon film and rated PG, so it's pretty sanitary in it's story and presentation. You're not going to get much more than what you might expect. There's quite a few faces that you'll recognize in here as well, though the stars are Lucas Till, from MacGuyver as "Handsome outcast loser kid"…
Review – MCU – The Incredible Hulk (2008)
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Review – MCU – The Incredible Hulk (2008)

Spoiler Free Thoughts and Review The Incredible Hulk seems to be a really hard hero to get right for movies.  He's had a few of them and even a live action TV series in the 80s.  The Incredible Hulk is sort of the redheaded stepchild of the MCU.  It came out just after Iron Man.  It's technically sort of part of the MCU, but no one really remembers or cares that it's part of the MCU.  Part of this confusion is the change in actors from the movie and his next appearance in The Avengers.  They traded out Edward Norton…