IF I HAD A HAMMER: Movie Reviews of Thor: Ragnorak and Justice League by Howard Casner
Posted: December 9, 2017 | Author: Donald | Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: Ben Affleck, Cate Blanchett, Chris Hemsworth, Chris Terrie, Craig Kyle Christopher Yost, Eric Pearson, Gal Gadot, Henry Cahill, Jason Mamoa, Jeff Goldblum, Josh Whedon, Justice League, Rachel House, Ray Fisher. Jeremy Irons, Taiko Waititi, Thor: Ragnorak, Zach Snyder | 191 Comments »
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When I was young, I tended to not favor DC Comics, but gravitated toward those of the Marvel variety. This is because as a barefoot boy with cheek I never really fit in, was an outsider, so I found the Marvel universe, with its conflicted superheroes and conflicted supervillains, to be more reflective as life as I saw it.
Spiderman was especially someone I could identify with and why Spider-Man: Homecoming is the best Spidey film because it most closely mirrored what my life at school was like.
This approach, which often drives the movies based on Marvel characters, is why I have usually found these films, even the subpar ones, better than the DC ones, with a couple of exceptions (The Dark Knight Rises).
AVENGERS ONE, SMALL DEFENSELESS EASTERN EUROPEAN TOWN, ZERO: Movie review of Avengers: The Age of Ultron by Howard Casner
Posted: May 9, 2015 | Author: Donald | Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: Avengers: Age of Ultron, Chris Evans, Chris Hemsworth, James Spader, Jeremy Renner, Joss Whedon, Jr., Mark Ruffalo, Marvel, Paul Bettany, Robert Downey, Scarlett Johansson | 1 Comment »First, a word from our sponsors. Ever wonder what a reader for a contest or agency thinks when he reads your screenplay? Check out my new e-book published on Amazon: Rantings and Ravings of a Screenplay Reader, including my series of essays, What I Learned Reading for Contests This Year, and my film reviews of 2013. Only $2.99. http://ow.ly/xN31r
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It seems that after razing New York City to the earth more than a few times, the makers of movies from Marvel comics have now decided to turn their eyes on a smaller, more defenseless municipality in the fictional Easter European nation of Sokovia, smashing it to smithereens in the new tentpole film Avengers: Age of Ultron.
And one really has to feel for this poor little town. Not only has it survived World War I, World War II and the Holocaust, the Cold War occupation (under Stalin, even) and the difficult adjustment after the fall of the USSR, it once again is going to be ravaged, this time by a man made robot with sentience.
I mean, I don’t know what this city did to piss off writer/director Joss Whedon, but it must have been really something. It really gets the shit kicked out of it. Read the rest of this entry »
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