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So remember earlier this year when I was watching all the movies that were Best Picture Contenders. Up until now, I had seen 5 of the 9 films that were nominated. Until now I was convinced that the real competition was between Moonlight and La La Land and maybe Hacksaw Ridge. But now... I still think that cause this movie was a little boring.
Lion centers on the story of a young boy named Saroo (at the beginning of the film he is played by Sunny Pawar, when he grows up he is played by Dev Patal). Saroo lives in a small village in India with his mother (played by Priyanka Bose), his brother Guddu (played by Abhishek Bharate), and his little sister.
One day Saroo sees his brother heading out to get some work and he wants to go with him. His brother protests but eventually lets Saroo tag along.
They take a short train ride to the city but Saroo is tired and he falls asleep at the train station. When he wakes up, his brother is gone. He goes looking for him in a stationary train but soon falls asleep again.
When he wakes up, the train is moving and Saroo has no idea where he is. This is really all in the first 10 minutes of the movie and it is very heartbreaking. You see this kid confused and scared and he rides this train for miles. He gets so lost and he has absolutely no bearings on where he is or how to get home.
The first half of this movie takes place in India with his young kid and I have to give almost more credit to Sunny Pawar. He doesn't say much but you can just tell this kid is scared and when things happen to him, he's calculating it all and he just wants to get home.
After a very long first half, he is eventually found and brought to an orphanage and eventually adopted by a nice couple from Australia (played by Nicole Kidman and David Wenham). Saroo goes to Tasmania and grows up with this great couple. They eventually adopt another kid from India and Saroo grows up to become Dev Patal.
Saroo grows up knowing that he was adopted but doesn't truly know where he's from. He has a girlfriend (played by Rooney Mara) and his relationship with her and his relationship with his family is strained because he time consuming mission to find his mother and his home. The second half is essentially him investigating the path he took, trying to remember where he went and how he can get back home.
This is a long movie. I know it's only about 2 hours and some change so there have been longer, but I remember watching the first half and as much as I think that little kid is adorable, the movie takes FOREVER to get rolling and actually start up. A lot of the movie is this kid walking from place to place, meeting random people in each place.
And then when he grows up the movie is essentially Dev Patal starring at a computer and every once in a while having a little chat with Rooney Mara or Nicole Kidman. Don't get me wrong, there is some pretty good acting in the movie by Patal and by Kidman, and I've already mentioned Sunny Pawar, but like I said, it's a pretty slow movie.
The movie also spends a lot of time showing some things in very intense minute detail and other things are really kind of blown over not giving them the time to develop properly.
An example of this is the relationship between Saroo and his girlfriend Lucy. I'm not totally sure if the relationship begins when these two are on screen for the first time or if it was an already established relationship but one moment they're talking in class, the next moment they're mocking each other while they're walking down the street, and the next scene they're having sex.
The relationship is probably a real relationship that occurred in the true story that this movie is based off and in that case I guess it's okay that she's in the movie but I guess I totally didn't get her role in the larger scheme of the story.
On a side note, I have not actually seen Rooney Mara in a lot of movies. I have seen previews of movies with her like Pan and The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, but I don't think I've actually seen her very much. She's beautiful but she actually is a pretty plain looking person. She has a very indistinctive face. Again, still beautiful but a little indistinctive. She also is a pretty good actress so it's not the worst seeing her in this film, but like I said, she's really not the focus of the movie.
I suppose perhaps that she's supposed to be a representation of white privilege and how she doesn't totally understand the struggle that Saroo is going through. They sort of make mention of that but it's not really delved into beyond one scene.
The main draw of this movie is the relationship Saroo has with his adoptive parents and the struggle he has with trying to look into who he really is and not wanting them to feel like he's abandoning them.
That is a very personal and legitimate struggle and I did really like it. Nicole Kidman nails this performance and it really is powerful.
However, I just feel like this movie is paced very strangely and in the full reality of things, not a lot happens. If you watched the Screen Junkies Honest trailer, they call this movie "If you Say you've seen this, you're probably Lyin". And I get it. This is not a movie a lot of people are going to like and it has very much an Indie feel to it. The music is great and serene and it kind of makes me want to look into getting the soundtrack. But I understand why this movie didn't win Best Picture. While best picture movies always have a little bit of an indie edge to them, they never seem to have THIS MUCH of that edge.
Lion is a well made, well acted film. It's just very, VERY slow. If you're someone who likes to watch Oscar nominated movies, you'll probably enjoy this one. I also think that if you have two hours and have a lot of caffeine in your body this movie might actually be enjoyable. But I wouldn't say it's absolutely a film you need to check out from 2016. It's not going to be for everyone.
But what about you? Have you seen Lion? What did you think about it? Where did it rank in your list of the best movies of 2016? Comment and Discuss below! You can also send me your thoughts on Twitter @MovieSymposium as well as send me your requests for films I should review in the future. If you follow me on Twitter, you can get updates on future movie news and reviews coming out of this blog.
I'll leave you with this. So this is not even closely related. However, it is a film that I am actually kind of looking forward to and it is a new trailer. I don't want to do a full review on it, but I do want to say, I'm not a person who usually watched scary movies, but this movie actually looks pretty sick. I'm hoping that I'll get up the nerve to watch it though. Here is the new trailer for IT. Enjoy!
So I love going on long plane rides because it is one of the few situations where I can find recently released movies for free and watch them with little to no distractions. There were two Mark Wahlberg/Peter Berg films that came out in 2016 that I wanted to check out and that was this film and Deepwater Horizon. I heard great things about both and both were on the plane movie menu, but I chose this one because the Boston Marathon bombing is just a topic I find more intriguing. If you've seen both, tell me which one you enjoyed more. I hope to watch Deepwater Horizon soon, but for now, here's my review of Patriots Day.
Patriots Day focuses on the events that occurred on April 13th, 2013 when two homegrown terrorists detonated two homemade bombs in the streets of Boston during the Boston marathon.
The movie focuses on the events that actually happened on that day, and then the ensuing manhunt for Tamerlan and Dzokhar Tsarnaev, the two Kyrgyz terrorists responsible for the bombing. I read something that stated that the movie takes a blend of accuracy and a little bit of fiction, especially surrounding the movie's main character, a Boston Police Officer named Tommy Saunder (played by Mark Wahlberg).
Now Wahlberg I think has gotten a bit of crap due to this movie. He spouts off a lot saying things like if he could have prevented 9/11 if he was on the plane and other things that I think he is trying to be patriotic but he kind of comes off like a douche. It's not nearly that bad in Patriots Day, but I understand the criticism when people say that you've got this really tragic but at the same time uplifting story about perseverance... and then you've got Mark Wahlberg kind of trying to hog the spotlight.
I don't think it's that bad and all that aside, it is actually a pretty good performance turned in by Wahlberg.
Whether or not his intentions in this movie were misplaced or not, you can tell that this is a movie that Wahlberg is passionate about. It comes out in his performance and while there might be some scenes that seem a little bit like they're action movie-fying this tragic event, I think I understand why they created this character to connect the events of the film. The bombing and the manhunt take place over a large span of area and it involves different characters. Not all these characters were in the same place at the same time so it makes sense to have a character that ties it all together.
Now I was aware of the criticism of his movie prior to watching the film so I spent a lot of the movie questioning if this was just Mark Wahlberg trying to make himself an action hero or not, and again, I don't think it's as bad as people make it out to be. It's there, but not to a level where it's offensive.
I do think that there were other characters in this movie that they could have focused on. John Goodman plays the Boston Police Commissioner Ed Davis, Kevin Bacon plays the head of the FBI investigation, Richard DesLauriers. Michael Beach plays Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick. JK Simmons plays the Police Sergeant of Watertown. And those are just some of the big name actors and their roles.
Jimmy O Yang plays Den Meng, the young man who go car jacked by the Tsarnaevs. Alex Wolff and Themo Melikidze play the Tsarnaevs. Even Melissa Benoist, Supergirl, plays the wife of the older brother.
It's a really solid cast and yeah, could the focus have been more on them as opposed to Marky Mark playing a fictional police officer who just happened to be involved with all of the events.
Regardless of who the movie should have been focused on or not, there are some really spectacularly shot scenes in this movie. When the bombs go off and the panic ensues it is all really powerful. I'd be lying I didn't find it hard to watch at times.
Even after the blast, the manhunt is very exciting and suspenseful. There is a lot of payoff in that you see this horrific thing happen and you want nothing more than for the police to get these horrible pieces of shit.
But here's one thing about the Tsarnaev brothers that was a little bit difficult with this film.
These guys had to have been difficult people to portray because their motives are pretty rudimentary and kind of difficult to really grasp. Even the younger kid who has seen been sentenced to death in Massachusetts has stated that he was recruited by his older brother and he was the real mastermind behind the plan. They say that they were motivated by their radical muslim faith and that they were trying to defend Muslims who were being killed in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
They don't really delve into that at all in this film and these two are probably portrayed as two of the dumbest terrorists ever. After they detonate the bomb, they just go home and chill for a couple days before heading off to New York to carry out more attacks. And they barely leave Boston before they muck it all up and end up getting into a firefight with pretty much all of the Boston and Watertown police department. THEN the younger brother ends up hiding in a boat that gets absolutely surrounded by police officers. It's a wonder these two didn't blow themselves up.
Now I don't think that Alex Wolff and Themo Melikidze do a bad job in their roles. They're not bad actors at all and again, it had to have been difficult roles for them. I'm not knocking their performance, I'm more knocking how they were written. And even that I have a hard time doing because it's very likely that that was what really happened and these pieces of shit were just dumbasses too.
And here's the thing about this film. I understand the criticism of Mark Wahlberg in this film because even though he gives a great performance, it's when this movie doesn't focus on him that it gets good. Maybe it's the fact that I knew his character was fictional, but there are some really powerful and genuine moments in this film and they're usually ones without Mark Wahlberg.
There's a point where they are debating on whether or not its a good idea to release the pictures to the public. There's the part where the younger brother is finally caught. There's the entire scene where the bombs go off and people are legitimately afraid because of the horrible thing that just occurred.
These moments speak so much more than Mark Wahlberg's monologue that he gives near the end of the film. That's not to say it isn't good, but I feel like there was a cut of this movie that ended on that monologue and it would have been so much less powerful than the real ending.
Rachel Brosnahan and Christopher O'Shea play a real life couple named Patrick Downes and Jessica Kensky. I didn't really mention them earlier because besides the fact that Rachel Brosnahan playing Rachel Posner in House of Cards, these two haven't really done anything in the past and there's not a lot that they do in this movie. They're not bad, they're just kind of in the first third of the film and they don't appear until the end.
But here's the reason I bring them up. At the end of the film, they actually stop the cinematic version of the story and bring out the real people who were involved. Deval Patrick, Richard DesLauriers, Ed Davis, and a lot of people who were really involved in this event come out and say what this event meant to them and what it means to the world today with the recent attacks in Europe and other places in the world. And they also talk about perseverance and the "Boston Strong" mentality that came out of this event and brought people together.
Well they also brought the real Patrick Downes and Jessica Kensky, two people who lost one or both of their legs after this horrible explosion. And I don't care how many speeches about togetherness Mark Wahlberg makes, nothing will compare to watching a guy who was injured during the Boston Marathon running it years later with a prosthetic leg and how he felt when he came down the same road that years before he had faced such a tragic event but he still preservers and crosses that finish line and it is just a beautiful example of the human spirit.
I'm sorry if I gave away the ending, but just watch this film for the ending alone. It is great and you will enjoy it.
Is Patriots Day a perfect movie? No. I guess in the grand scheme of things in comparison with the best films of 2016, it doesn't really match up as much as I had hoped it would, but it still is a really great movie that I enjoyed immensely. Peter Berg definitely has had a little bit of a checkered filmography with missteps like Hancock and Battleship, but this movie definitely makes me want to check out his work, especially his more recent films like Deepwater Horizon and Lone Survivor. Pretty much Mark Wahlberg seems to be his guy and I like what I've seen so far.
But what did you think? Comment and Discuss below! You can also send me your thoughts on Twitter @MovieSymposium as well as your requests for films I should review in the future. If you follow me on Twitter, you can get updates on future movie news and reviews coming out of this blog.
I'll leave you with this. I don't know when I'm goping to watch Deepwater Horizon, but here's the trailer to hopefully get me more in mindset to watch it. Enjoy!
Guys, I don't know if you're like me, but I loved The Lego Movie. It is just a movie that is just a lot of fun and the humor was just refreshing.
But when they mentioned that they would be making a Lego Batman movie, I was a little bit skeptical as I can be with a lot of films. Why Lego Batman? Will Arnett made a fun character but he definitely wasn't the spotlight of The Lego Movie. While I love Batman, I wasn't sure that Lego Batman was the route I really wanted them to go. Of course the trailer dropped and it looked like itt was going to be a funny movie, but there wasn't actually a lot that made me think this movie was going to be as good as The Lego Movie...
Boy was I wrong.
Before I go on, did you ever notice that the promotion for this movie had Batman running a lot? He's kind of like Tom Cruise...
But anyway, Lego Batman follows exactly that, Lego Batman (voiced by Will Arnett). He is a pretty arrogant, narcissist in this movie, he knows that Gotham needs him, pretty much until there is a new Police Commissioner in town named Barbara (voiced by Rosario Dawson). On top of that he adopts a bug eyed orphan named Dick Greyson (voiced by Michael Cera). All the while there is an evil plot by The Joker (voiced by Zack Galifinakis) and man is it a good one because throughout all of this you might think that they're limited to only Batman characters. Not at all, they pull out villains from different movies, characters from other superhero movies, it is very expansive and a lot of fun, especially since this is very much DC's opportunity to make fun of itself.
I mean, let's be honest. Last year was a rough year for DC. Both Batman v Superman and Suicide Squad, both movies that I liked but knew were not incredibly solid movies, were panned by critics. They had a lot of issues with them and this movie makes me think that DC understood the pitfalls that they had.
I think if I were to compare this film to anything, it would be DC's attempt at a PG rated Deadpool film. One of the great parts about Deadpool was that because he broke the 4th wall so often and his character is pretty meta, he was able to poke fun at previous movies and laugh with the audience at the issues past movies have had. This was DC's version of that. They make jabs at Batman v Superman, they make jabs at Suicide Squad. And they make jabs at DC comics in general.
Let's be real, the superhero world is a little bit of a weird one and if you take it too seriously, people aren't going to take you seriously. I think The Lego Batman movie was a perfect opportunity for DC to take a step back, take a bit of a chill pill, and take themselves less seriously.
But aside from self deprecating humor and making light of the superhero world, this movie is legitimately funny all around.
Because it is an animated film and it is in the same vein as The Lego Movie, it is (For the most part) a kids film. The colors are bright, the story is pretty simple and streamlined, but it still has a lot of humor that is for the adults so don't write it off if you wrote off The Lego Movie because both films are funny as hell and aren't ones you really want to miss if you like comedy.
But one of the perks of being a kids movie is having the simple message of family. And who better to bring in a message of family than the caped crusader who can't seem to get over his dead parents.
If you look at the voice cast of this movie, you'll realize that a lot of talented actors were used for this film and a lot of them I didn't even notice. I already mentioned Arnett and Galifinakis, but Ralph Fiennes played Alfred, Billy Dee Williams played Two Face (that is hilarious), Eddie Izzard plays Voldemort and Jemaine Clement played Sauron (year those two characters are in this movie). The rest of the cast are a lot of funny comedians of today but they also play a lot of obscure Batman villains.
Like I said before, this movie takes the opportunity to make fun of the source material but it also provides a lot of fan service for those fans who knew about these obscure B-list Batman villains.
The movie takes full liberty at utilizing these characters and they use them well. You will be laughing pretty consistently in this movie because they break out a lot of jokes and not all of them are comic book related in case you were worried about that.
I think if you're looking for a fun movie to watch with your kids, or even if you're bored and want to get a good laugh out of a film, The Lego Batman Movie is definitely a film you should check out. There's not a lot to hate about this film. I don't think I would put it on my list of best movies of 2017 just because there are a lot of really great movies that have come out already this year, but who knows, I hope I'll do a Top 10 this year and maybe we'll see Lego Batman on that list.
But what did you think of The Lego Batman Movie? Comment and Discuss below! You can also send me your thoughts on Twitter @MovieSymposium or send me your requests for films I should review in the future. If you follow me on Twitter, you can get updates on future movie news and reviews coming out of this blog.
I'll leave you with this. So when The Lego Movie came out, they did the Everything is Awesome Song. It was a catchy tune that you probably had in your head for hours after watching that film. Well I think they're starting a trend with these Lego Films in putting in a catchy little tune in it. Here's the song from The Lego Batman Movie. Enjoy!
So I wanted to do a special part 2 to give myself a forum to talk spoilers about the third season of The Flash. I did this for a couple reasons. First because it gives me liberty to talk about specific things that I really didn't like about this season, especially the ending. Second, it gives me the opportunity to talk about the future of the show and some of the implications this season left us with.
So let's get to it, let's talk about Savitar.
I can honestly say that the identity of Savitar was not something that was spoiled for me early on, I legitimately guessed that it was Barry underneath the mask. I didn't know exactly which Barry, I didn't call that he was a replica of himself that can be created through a time loop, but I did guess that it was Barry just because I caught onto the really blatant hints they give like giving him the line, I am the future Flash... the FUTURE FLASH. If that doesn't spell it out pretty clearly, I don't know what does.
I mentioned in my regular review that I didn't like the fact that Barry was facing ANOTHER speedster. I thought that it was all together too much like the last two seasons. I do like the poeticness of it in that every season has shown the duality of the hero himself and this one was literally a shadow version of himself. Like I'm a little surprised that they didn't give him an evil Goatee... or at least a paper one until he could grow it himself...
So fighting another speedster, it was a little repetitive, but there's no way that they could do that for a fourth season straight... right?
The one other problem with Savitar was the fact that because they're dealing with a future Barry, he knows everything that is going to happen and he becomes very difficult to defeat. Like the only way things become different is when somebody decides to change the future and Barry has literally no idea that it happens.
The death of H.R. though tragic was kind of undercut by the fact that it was a little bit of a cop out. We're shown that the future cannot be changed, this is the complete penance for Barry's meddling with the timeline... and the real heart of the season is sacrificed so sniveling little Barry can get his happy ending.
I don't really mean that because I do like Barry, but I mentioned this in the regular review, Barry really gets away with doing a horrible, horrible thing in changing the timeline and he pretty much gets away with it in the end. I'll talk more about the ending ending, but that was a theme throughout the entire movie of people sacrificing themselves for Barry and then he has the balls to bitch and moan that there's no way to stop the future and Iris is gonna die?
Like I get it, all of Barry's friends like Iris and nobody was going to give him the hard truth that maybe the universe is telling him that Iris needs to die. Maybe that's just the way it goes and that's something he needs to accept. He would never accept it and never does, but if they hadn't pulled that cop out with H.R. that's exactly what the lesson would have been. None of this bullshit speedforce prison Barry needs to go to, his prison would have been the fact that he alone was responsible for the death of the woman he loves and he needs to get over that. While the future showed that he couldn't, Barry would need to try and change that future, even though he couldn't change it before. I don't know, that just seems more poetic and while you lose a decent actress in Candice Patton, it would mean so much more to the show and to the character.
I'm not totally sure if they did that same thing in Arrow because I got the sense that they did when I saw Laurel Lance seemingly dead in the Arrow episode of Invasion! But even if they did it in Arrow doesn't mean that The Flash couldn't do it better.
The last episode is a little bit of a mess with H.R's forced ninth hour romance who is probably going to end up being a villain down the road leaving, Barry trying to strike some kind of deal with evil Barry, a weird Phantom of the Opera scene with evil Barry and Iris, and then an evil plot that is incredibly, INCREDIBLY confusing. Evil Barry I guess wants to transcend time and become a god but we don't really know what that looks like and in order to do that he needs to open the speedforce, dispatch Hunter Zolomon with Killer Frost like he was absolutely nothing, and evil Barry is shot by Iris. He disappears and everything seems good. It was really kind of a mess and was more just a run of the mill episode and dispatched the main villain like he was a common episodic villain. They basically try to pull off a Doctor Who time travel evil plot that was even confusing in Doctor Who, and they just don't end the season on a very high note.
The only other thing to add onto that was the usage of Killer Frost.
I mentioned in my regular review that I wasn't really wild about the fall to the evil side that Danielle Panabaker's character goes through in this season. Killer Frost is not a very interesting villain but that's not to say that she couldn't be. Having a loved character turn evil is a hard thing to do. They had three prequel films to turn little Jake Lloyd into the greatest villain of all time Darth Vader and they failed miserably. Unless you totally change the character, it's very hard to do.
In this show they explain it by mentioning that the alter ego from Flashpoint is turning Caitlyn evil. But there are a lot of points in the show where people bring rational arguments as to why Caitlyn shouldn't be turning evil and her reasoning for refusing to believe them are total bullshit.
And so when it finally comes down to the end, Killer Frost is fully realized, the only reason she is needed is to kill Hunter Zolomon. This was the main villain of the last season and he goes out like a punk. Also they talk about how Caitlyn wouldn't kill anybody but she kills him pretty easily. I mean I guess he's a villain so it's okay, but that's kind of a big deal isn't it?
Overall, Caitlyn had been a really strong character until this season but maybe in season 4 they can make her a compelling character and still manage to keep her from reverting back to her normal self... cause that would be really lame.
But then we come to the end.
Everything seems great, everyone is together, we're having a good time, Iris and Barry are talking about their wedding and then BAM! Speedforce lightning storm starts up and Barry says he needs to go take his place in the speed force along with his ghost mom.
And he's oddly cool with it. There's no point where he questions the speedforce if he needs to do it, or if there's any other way to get out of this like I think the Barry we've actually come to know would do, he just says, "Forget all those plans we just made, I'm going to heaven. PEACE!"
And I don't want our hero going to hell, but the explanation on why he's not going to speedforce hell is really shaky. Savitar, Wally, and Jay Garrick all went to speedforce hell, why doesn't Barry?
But here's the thing. This would be a really powerful and meaningful sacrifice... if we knew it was going to be final. C'mon, you know that Barry is going to come back for Season 4, you know they're going to get him out of the speed force somehow. I mean they even allude to it in the Season 4 trailer.
That is a really crappy trailer now that I rewatch it. I should have mentioned that when I put it up at the end of my Season 3 review, but it's kind of horrible. As much as I like Candice Patton, she is not a strong character to lead the show so get Barry back as soon as possible. And they'll explain it in some half-assed manner and it will be stupid, but once they move past that, I hope they can piece together a pretty good 4th season. One of the issues with the end of Season 3 was that things were wrapped up pretty neatly. The big conflict in the first episode (or maybe two) is that they're going to try and get Barry out of the speedforce, but after that they might need to manufacture some conflict and that is where the show has the potential to lose some of it's steam.
All that being said, Season 3 is actually a pretty solid season. I mentioned that it expose some holes in the armor, but overall it is a really strong season. It took a lot of risks, especially in the beginning and it did put the characters in some very different circumstances, especially considering that Flashpoint started off the season.
And I want to talk about that and the fact that the cinematic universe is actually going to be developing a Flashpoint movie.
The TV was able to pull off Flashpoint because it had given itself the time to develop this character so much that we would know the difference between the real world and the alternative timeline that Barry creates when he goes back in time to create the Flashpoint universe.
If I'm understanding this correctly, DC plans on having Barry Allen's first outing as The Flash be one where he goes back in time and changes a timeline that we know nothing about, to a totally topsy turvey universe. If you know anything about the real Flashpoint universe, in that universe, Bruce Wayne is killed in the alley and his father overcome with grief is the one that puts on the cowl and becomes a very violent Batman, where his mother becomes the Joker.
In the alternate timeline, there is a war between Atlantis and Themyscira, and Superman didn't grow up with the Kent and instead was raised in a government testing facility. While the TV show paints Flashpoint as a very happy place for Barry, in the comics the world goes to absolute shit.
But again, I go back to the point that we have never seen Ezra Miller's Flash except in the email video in Batman v Superman, a small cameo in Suicide Squad, and clips from the Justice League Trailers.
I'm sure he's gonna be great. He also looks like a pretty young Flash so I can understand why he would make the decision to go back in time and save his mother.
But let's be honest, what's the real reason they're doing Flashpoint?
If you haven't been been on the rumor train, you'll know that the solo Batman movie is in a little bit of a rut as originally, Ben Affleck was going to direct AND star in the film. Then he dropped out as director, then his script was tossed out, and right before the DC panel, there were even rumors that he was going to bow out as Batman all together. I don't want to see Affleck go as I really did enjoy him as Batman in Batman v Superman and I think he could do a really good job. But it's always fun to speculate on who could replace him if you're a long time reader of this thing, you'll know my vote goes to Richard Armitage. Overall, I just want somebody who is committed to the character. And that's not to blame Affleck if he isn't as wild about the franchise as he used to be. It sounds like some of the blame goes to Warner Brothers for not giving him the creative control he wanted. So while it I might be just a rumor, it's actually a rumor I can believe and wouldn't be surprised if it happened in reality.
Now at the moment they are just rumors and Affleck has since dispelled them by saying he's firmly on Team Batman, but even if those rumors aren't true, what better way to fix some of the missteps of the earlier DC films like Suicide Squad or Batman v Superman than to change the timeline. You get a great adventure in an alternate timeline and when everything is fixed, maybe some of the missteps are fixed. Maybe Doomsday wasn't created, maybe Lex Luthor Sr. didn't die and we have Bryan Cranston as the main Lex Luthor villain, maybe the Jared Leto's Joker looks a little bit different and is utilized better in the cinematic universe.
And the best part about Flashpoint is that it's already got the beginnings of a kickass cast.
Maybe they didn't just cast good actors like Jeffery Dean Morgan and Lauren Cohan for no reason. Jeffery Dean Morgan is probably going to play Flashpoint Batman, Lauren Cohen may just be Martha Wayne Joker. As much as my logical side is saying that this is a bad choice for the cinematic universe and that it's too early for a Flashpoint movie... just those two alone make for an awesome start to the cast.
I don't want a Flashpoint film unless it is done well. I don't think using Flashpoint for the sole purpose of fixing mistakes is a good reason to do it... but it does sound cool. Again, the logical side of me says no, but the nerd in me really, REALLY wants to see it done.
And hey, if they're delving into the time and inter dimensional travel, we must start up the question of are we ever going to see these two on the same screen together.
I don't think there is ever going to be any kind of feature length movie where these two are starring in a Flash film, but again, I wouldn't put it past DC to capitalize on the popularity of The Flash and have the two see each other while they're traveling through the speed force.
There's a lot to speculate on. Season 3 of The Flash gave us an opportunity to see what Flashpoint could look like and it also pointed out some of the downfalls that The Flash could see itself falling into in the future. This is a great show and while it shouldn't be copied by the movies, they should take advice from this show and take what works and leave out what didn't.
Overall, I think The Flash Season 3 is still a good season. It just needs some work and they need to stay vigilant or Season 4 is going to suck... hard.
But those are my thoughts on Season 3 of The Flash. What did you think? Comment and Discuss below! You can also send me your thoughts on Twitter @MovieSymposium as well as send me your requests for films I should review in the future. If you follow me on Twitter, you can get updates on future movie news and reviews coming out of this blog.
I'll leave you with this. So this is really unrelated but I wanted to talk about Doctor Who a little bit without doing a whole post about it and I did mention Doctor Who earlier. The new Doctor is a female! There's a lot of opinions about this, I have my own, but the predominant opinion I have is let's wait and see how she does. I think Jodie Whitaker is a good actress and having the Doctor be a female definitely gives the show an opportunity to shake things up. I'll reserve more thoughts until I see her in action, but until then, Enjoy!
So I went and saw the Peter Jackson version of King Kong a long time ago. I kind of wish that I had watched that prior to watching this film so I could do some kind of comparison but I really decided to watch this film on a whim on a plane so I didn't have much preparation for this film. Also, this film has almost nothing to do with the Peter Jackson film or really any King Kong film except the fact that King Kong is in it and it takes place on Skull Island, two things you could deduce from the title.
Kong Island takes place in the 70s. Vietnam is coming to a close and Soldiers are starting to come
home. John Goodman is working with the black Jack Bauer (his name is actually Corey Hawkins) and they are apart of a special government organization called Monarch. He brings together a team to explore the island for a mysterious reason. He recruits Samuel L Jackson, a disgruntled Lieutenant Colonel who wanted more in the war so he sees the trip to Skull island as an opportunity to fulfill his need for war. He also recruits Tom Hiddleston, a former British spy. For some reason he brings Brie Larson, an “anti-war” photographer. Not totally sure why she’s in the movie…
You may be asking why I referred to them by their actor’s name and honestly, I can’t recall a single
name in this film. I think Hiddleston’s characters name is Conrad… maybe? But there is really no chemistry between any of these characters. I think they tried to create a romance between Brie Larson and Tim Hiddleston but there was nothing between them.
And everyone, I mean EVERYONE is phoning this performance in. I did not care about a single character in this entire movie. Apparently Tobey Kebbel is in this movie and while he actually has a decent significance to the rest of the film, I am not going to mention him at all for the rest of the film because he had absolutely no point and was one of the most boring characters I've seen in a while. Tobey Kebbel also helped with the CGI of Kong... go him.
Eventually they get to the island and they figure out there is more to this island than meets the eye. There are insanely large monsters, giant ants that are disguised as trees, and of course, a skyscraper sized ape named Kong.
On the island, They find a castaway from World War 2 on the island (played by John C Reilly). Oddly enough, the most developed character is Reilly. He just wants to go home and they agree to take him with them. Really the only character they give any time into is this rando that they meet half-way through the film.
Essentially the entire movie is this team, along with a bunch of disposable Soldiers they brought along trekking the island, getting into scrapes, running into the weird and abnormal. Losing disposable characters along the way.
And man… is this movie dull. You’ve got a list of really great actors. Hiddleston, Goodman, Larsen, Jackson, Riley, all really great talent and yet none of them are really used correctly or are developed… like at all.
The main appeal of the movie is the spectacle. The size and scope of this movie is actually incredible. I’m going to try and not compare this movie to the Peter Jackson movie, both because I want to review this movie on its own merit and because I haven’t seen that King Kong movie in a while. But
the one thing this movie has on that film is the absolute size of Kong. This Kong is literally the size of a skyscraper the other Kong would climb and it’s shot beautifully. Kong eventually starts fighting these dragon looking creatures and the fights are pretty great to look at. When you see the human characters in perspective with Kong and you see how small they are compared to how big he is, it really is a spectacle. But that’s really all it is. There’s little to no substance in the performances and I really didn’t care that much about these characters. I figured from how little they were developed on the way to Skull Island that a lot of them were going to die and the only reason I knew I was supposed to care was because the more attractive ones like Hiddleston and Larsen are too valuable names to kill off in the first film, especially since there is a shared universe planned.
Yeah, I’m going into spoilers a little bit but this movie definitely sets up for a shared universe where
King Kong is definitely going to have a crossover with Godzilla. I will give them credit, as far as I could tell, they stayed on target with the shell of a story and didn’t bring up any future movie until the end credit scene. And yeah, I will make mention that it was kind of cool to hear the Godzilla screech at the end of a King Kong movie. And yeah, it’s probably going to be a cool fight, especially if they hire the same visual effects guy to do that film. But please… get better writers.
This movie could have been a lot better. Like I’ve said, you have a great cast and an interesting premise. It was also different. The Peter Jackson film was adapting the classic film being set in the 1920s and centering on a film crew going to film a movie where they come across Kong. This film was different having it set in the 70s and having a bit of a Vietnam war movie feel. There are allusions to the original which were somewhat clever, but without a really coherent story or characters you cared about and could turn on their heads to fight the conventions expected by the original, they just felt forced and not nearly as clever as they could have been.
Instead the two things this movie focused on were John C Riley, an awkward character who I didn’t
have time to really care about as people were getting picked off one by one which was the second thing they focused on. I can’t tell you how many scenes in this film just felt like the movie was trying to recreate the classic T-Rex eating the lawyer scene from Jurassic Park. Jurassic World tried that guys and it didn’t work. Just callasly killing off characters because the visual is kind of funny is not good storytelling and in certain contexts just seems mean spirited.
And Kong Skull Island falls into the category of movies that passed up good storytelling and instead designated the entire movie to set up a Marvel-like cinematic universe. Listen, I’m not opposed to more cinematic universes. While I think that they might be a little bit overplayed and aren’t created so much for the stories that are available and more for the financial benefit, I actually wouldn't mind seeing a shared giant monster universe where Kong fights Godzilla and the giant robots from Pacific Rim… if it was good. I wouldn’t mind seeing a Dark Universe with classic characters like The Mummy, Dracula, and… the phantom of the opera? Well maybe not that one, but I like the idea of Russell Crowe playing Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, providing a Nick Fury like character, assembling a team together to fight the supernatural… if it’s good.
Even the DC universe, the home to some of my favorite superheroes, has made the misstep in believing that spectacle is the only thing you need when making a shared universe and forgoing good stories.
As much crap as I give Marvel for making their movies too much alike and following a formula that is really getting tiresome by now, at least they have stories. At least they develop their heroes and I am legitimately entertained during their films. Maybe Tom Hiddleston isn’t going to have a future role in the shared monster universe, but give him a character. Make me like him a little bit for more reasons than just being the handsome lead. If John C Riley is going to have a larger role in this universe, give him more time and development.
This shared universe is going to be difficult because its going to be very hard to make a movie off of
giant monsters that don’t talk and in the past have been symbols of destruction to urban infrastructure compelling protagonists. And if Kong Skull Island can’t even do that with their human characters, I don’t know how they’re going to do it with their monsters.
But those are my thoughts on Kong Skull Island. What did you think? Comment and Discuss below! You can also send me your thoughts on Twitter @MovieSymposium as well as send me your requests for films I should review in the future. If you follow me on Twitter, you can get updates on future movie news and reviews coming out of this blog.
I’ll leave you with this. I really enjoy Film Theory. If you haven't checked out MatPat's videos, whether they be Film Theory or Game Theory you really should. Well I wanted to give him a little shout out and have it connect to Kong Skull Island. Enjoy!
Whatever your thoughts on The CW superhero shows are, you do have to give them some credit and that is the shared universe that they have created. While this is not a new thing, especially in television, it is fun if you’re aware of the characters of The Flash, Arrow, Legends of Tomorrow and Supergirl to have all of them come together to fight evil.
And in Season 3 of The Flash, they created the ultimate crossover as Oliver Queen, Barry Allen, The Legends of Tomorrow, and Supergirl all came together to fight an alien invasion. The three part episode was a little clunky and required you to recognize multiple characters from multiple shows who are on multiple different seasons. I can't tell you how confused I was when I got to the Legends of Tomorrow episode where I had no idea where Rory from Doctor Who was and there was some weirdly attractive guy piloting the big ship that they had. Also Wentworth Miller wasn't in the episode for some reason but that's getting into spoilers and a longer conversation that this post is not about.
Overall, it still was a lot of fun and great to see these characters come together. There's a pretty fun scene where Barry needs to face off against a bunch of his friends as they have been possessed by aliens and that was a fun way of utilizing the characters.
The episode was also the first real exposure to Supergirl I had.
Supergirl follows the story of Kara Zor-El the Kryptonian cousin of Kal-El, or as you know him, Superman. The first few minutes of the show show a quick origin story of Kara as she is put in a pod being sent to Earth along with her cousin. Her mission is to protect Kal. However, her ship is knocked off course and she doesn’t make it back to Earth for another 20 or so years. By that point, Superman has grown up and become the famous hero of Metropolis and Kara has the opportunity to live a normal life.
All grown, Kara (played by Melissa Benoist) is the secretary for a media mogul names Cat Grant (played by Calista Flockhart). Kara is living her life with her friend who is obviously in love with her (played by Jeremy Michael Jordan) and she has a good relationship with her sister Alex (played by Chyler Leigh) Eventually though, Kara wants more out of her life and she wants to help people. After saving people from a plane crash, she dawns the red cape and the S symbol and takes on the alter-ego of Supergirl with her incredible strength and ability to fly.
Eventually, it is revealed that Kara’s adopted sister Alex is an agent with a secret organization with the goal of tracking down aliens, especially those that have escaped from a downed space prison. A whole slew of villains have escaped from the prison and it’s up to Supergirl to help the organization (headed up an agent by David Harewood) track down and contain the aliens again.
Supergirl is very much the same premise that has been the cookie cutter formula set up by other CW TV shows. Supergirl develops her super heroine identity, is supported by a secret group of people who assist her with their particular knowledge, and she saves the day.
Melissa Benoist plays Supergirl and she actually brings a lot of optimism and fun to the role. Like Grant Gusin, she’s not the strongest actor in the world but she makes the character her own and I enjoyed the first episode or two with her. Like I said, my first exposure of her was her role in The Flash and she is able to both be a cute (and very attractive), adorkable CW girl, while also being a badass. Seeing her fly is both cute and kind of inspiring at the same time.
One of the differences of Supergirl from The Flash or Arrow is the tone. The show is overly optimistic but unlike The Flash, it provides a perspective particularly focused on female superheroes and using the premise to promote a feminist perspective.
I know some people might see that as a bad thing but let me explain. A feminist perspective is not automatically a man hating, let’s burn all bras, fuck the patriarchy perspective. It can be but that is not the main purpose of the perspective. Feminism is merely looking at things from a perspective that isn’t a white, Judeo Christian, straight male view. That’s not to say that view is bad but it does put a certain lens on the way people see things. The Flash and Arrow are not bad shows or anti-women but they were conceived and centered around the experience white superheroes and the things that Barry Allen and Oliver Queen go through are not going to be the same things that a hero like Luke Cage or Supergirl would go through.
I think Supergirl takes the opportunity to see the superhero story from a different perspective. Is it always good? Well, I don’t know, I’m only about three episodes in and a lot of it feels very similar to the formulaic episodes that come out of The Flash and Arrow. It’s a good thing those shows aren’t bad, they’re just formulaic. There are very similar characters, similar plot lines, and similar predicaments that Supergirl finds herself in. Aaaaaaand even though the show originally aired on CBS, it still has that CW stink that even the best episodes of The Flash couldn’t shake. The dialogue is cheesy, all the actors probably started off or could have started off as models, and there still are probably a lot of filler episodes that will probably take the interesting part of the story to a screeching halt.
Something I found entertaining about the first episode (and a couple after that) is the references to the Superman universe. Jimmy Olson is a part of the main cast and Superman is constantly referenced. I have heard that Superman was casted for the second season and that might just be enough to trudge through a first season that I’ve heard takes a little bit to get on it’s feet.
From the few episodes I have seen, I totally understand the awkward opening stage this show probably went through. They’re all new characters, trying to convey (if not a little forcibly) a feminist message, on a different network, probably one that didn't have the audience that the CW provided. But because I like the character, how badass she is, and how great she has crossed over with shows that I do like, namely The Flash, I want to see this show succeed.
So I’m going to keep watching. I might not blaze through it like I do with The Flash as I do have to eventually start catch up on Game of Thrones, however, I wanted to do a post on the slightly awkward start that Supergirl had, but yet still make mention that it has promise.
But those are my thoughts on the pilot (and a couple more episodes) of Supergirl Season 1. Have you watched it? What do you think of it? Should I keep watching? How does it compare to The Flash? Comment and Discuss below! You can also send me your thoughts on Twitter @MovieSymposium as well as send me your requests for films and TV shows I should review in the future. If you follow me Twitter, you can get updates on future movie news and reviews coming out of this blog.
I’ll leave you with this. Well before CBS and then the CW decided to revitalize the character, there was this pile of garbage. Maybe I'll have to give this a review. Enjoy!
So I have never been to Comic-Con. It is something that I think I've always wanted to experience, but I've never had the availability to do it. I usually have work or something in the middle of it so it's not really available to me. This year especially, I have really only experienced the results of Comic-Con through what is publically released. There's a lot of news that comes out about comic book movies at these panels and presentations but you're required to go and read about it. Unfortunately, unless a trailer is released or there is leaked footage online, something I didn't see too much of this year, I just didn't have the time to read about what happened at comic-con.
I also have been behind in my reviews. I have a review for The Flash Season 3 coming up along with a couple of movies. I need to catch up on that. However, I did want to do a quick (if possible) post on the trailers that I did see come out of comic-con and what they mean for the respective universes.
I'll start with Marvel.
So the last Marvel movie that I saw was Doctor Strange. I have still not seen either Guardians of the Galaxy 2 or Spider-man: Homecoming. I'm hoping that that will change soon but the reality is, I'm just not overly excited about Marvel as a whole right now.
There are some great looking movies coming out in the future.
I guess that they did show some footage for Black Panther at Comic-Con but since it was not released to the public, I have no knowledge of it or what it looks like.
The trailer that came out a month or so back for Black Panther looks phenomenal and it is a movie that I feel will be different from the run of the mill Marvel movies I have come to expect. And while I haven't seen Guardians of the Galaxy 2 or Spider-man Homecoming, to me they didn't feel new at all. They didn't feel like much was going to be at stake and I wasn't totally sure if they were going to have any kind of huge impact on the cinematic universe.
I'll remind you that I haven't seen either of them so I don't know if that's true or not. But at least with Black Panther, it feels like something different and I'm in for some new superhero badassery.
Enter Thor: Ragnarok.
Ragnarok is a film that I don't think a lot of people had high expectations for before the first trailer. Now with the newest trailer, it's showing a lot of different places, alien worlds, team ups between Thor, Loki, Hulk, and Tessa Thompson's character Valkerie.
You know how I mentioned that Black Panther was something different than the formula that every Marvel seemed to overuse? Ragnarok seems to be breaking from the mold as well and trying to do something different. The style is a lot of fun, it seems to be a pretty comedy driven movie, especially considering the subject of Ragnarok which is the end of all things in the universe.
And Cate Blanchett's Hela looks phenomenal. I'm hoping that she provides a great villain for the film and she continues to be a presence, especially since her character could substitute the character of Death who Thanos is in love with in the comics.
I am still skeptical of Ragnarok due to the very nature of Thor and how he has always been the least popular of the mainstream Avengers. While Hawkeye is the most useless, I don't know anybody who would say that Thor is anywhere near their favorite Avenger and his previous standalone outings are proof of that. Ragnarok seems to see the character lean into the weirdness and wackiness of the character of Thor and it looks very exciting.
The trailer shows off a lot of things to be excited about. The formation of the buddy team with Thor and The Hulk. The additions of Valkerie (it's always good to get a female hero in the mix) and the return of Loki all coming together to fight Hela and M16 wielding Karl Urban. The humor in the trailer was great. The tone and the scenes with Hulk actually talking in sentences make for some really funny humor. Obviously Bruce Banner somehow ends up on a different planet which is pretty different from the place we saw him last in Avengers: Age of Ultron so how he made his way to Asgard will be fun to explore.
Then we get this cool looking poster where the cast of Infinity War seems to be coming together and everyone has a little bit of a different looking coming into the culmination of all the Marvel movies up until now. And this poster doesn't show Captain Marvel and the role she will have in the film as well as her future in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
But what it does show besides Captain America with a beard and Scarlet Witch with Silver hair are the guys at the bottom in the center. Based on this and the toys that have come out, those seem to be the henchmen of Thanos and it only adds to the threat that our beloved heroes need to face in this final show down.
Besides that... it is some cool artwork.
Before I move on to DC and their treasure trove of awesome. I will say that I was not at Comic-Con so I'm not going to say who won it or not. I have heard that Marvel won due to pure amount of content, but DC won the best trailer. Based on the trailers I have seen... yes I would agree.
Now of course I'm probably biased towards DC since the Justice League has been something I've been waiting years for. But I have had my doubts about this franchise actually getting their shit together.
Despite the success of Wonder Woman, I am honestly still a little worried about Justice League.
2016 was not a good year for DC and one good movie does not mean that they're on track yet. It does not mean that they will be able to recover from the honestly horrible decisions made in the last two films. There are still a lot of basic story elements that will make it very difficult for...
Um... is that Aquaman riding a parademon from the sky like a freaking air surf board?
This movie looks awesome.
There was honestly just so much to like in this trailer. The Flash's humor, the emphasis in the trailers changing to how much of a badass Wonder Woman is, the fact that Cyborg doesn't look as much like a CGI dumpster fire, the whole rock band roadie look Aquaman has got going on. The action, the humor, even the freaking lighting makes this movie seem like it is not going to be the dark downer that Batman v Superman, Suicide Squad, and yeah I'll admit it, even Man of Steel could be at times.
This movie looks fun, it looks like an adventure, and it doesn't have to imitate Marvel to do it.
The great tonal change that came in this trailer gives off the idea that these guys are heroes. They are working to save people, something that has been distinctly missing in previous movies (sans Wonder Woman). They do have a line where they say that Superman didn't just save people but he brought out the best in them. I am someone who actually will defend Man of Steel and Batman v Superman to a certain extent, but the fact of the matter is, I didn't get that from Superman that much.
I actually just thought of this but follow me here. It is pretty much confirmed that Superman will appear in the film. If you've been following the news of Justice League at all, you'll know that they had to extend the shooting for the film by a couple months and because of this they need to CGI Henry Cavill's mustache he's growing for Mission Impossible 6. Besides the fact that that is hilarious and is going to be on my mind every time he's on screen, it does confirm that Superman is going to be in the film and at certain points will have a CGI upper lip.
Now the trailer does allude to that.
At the end of the trailer, Alfred sees someone who we do not see and he says, they said you'd come, let's hope you're not too late.
Everyone assumes that this is Superman and it probably is. I have heard some theories that it is Supergirl and as much as I'd be interested in something like that, I think it's too early and I don't want this movie to get bogged down with the Supergirl storyline as well.
However, while Superman will no doubt come back in the present day, I'm wondering if he will also be shown in a flashback or two.
I get the feeling that the creative minds at DC have recognized that maybe they didn't show as many scenes of Superman actually saving people as they could have. What if to set up the premise, they have flashbacks to prior to Superman's death and actually show him saving people. This would allow for the movie to focus mainly on the members of the Justice League who have showed up predominately, leave the Superman cameo for the end, and allow for a little bit of background and show people that the Man of Steel was the symbol of truth, justice, and the American way of life, we just didn't see it that much. I think it would provide some context and foreshadowing when he ultimately does come back, it's something that the audience has been waiting for.
I am already suspecting that the movie is going to have some flashbacks. Piecing together some of the footage of Steppenwolf with the footage of the larger battle scenes with Amazonians riding on horseback, I can guess that they're probably going to have a flashback explaining the origin of Steppenwolf in this film, so why not have a couple of flashbacks to give Superman a little bit of context and maybe he can be a symbol that every member of the Justice League saw and was inspired by.
Is it going to happen? I don't know, probably not. It's honestly a point of the movie that I am very nervous for because they already kind of botched Superman by killing him in the first place so I'm not sure what to think yet.
But speaking of Steppenwolf... he looks awesome!
We actually don't get a full shot of the villain, but we do see him and his axe having appearances and even little skirmishes in Themiscyra and Atlantis. With his army of parademons and his awesome look, I have high hopes for this villain. I foresee DC taking a page from Marvel and focusing more on their heroes than the villain, but that doesn't mean that he won't be good.
I think the part of Steppenwolf that everyone loved though was his voiceover where he says that this world is left defenseless because we don't have any Kryptonians anymore... or any LANTERNS!
I don't think that Hal Jordan or any of the Lanterns are going to show up in this movie, but the very mention of them got people like myself really excited.
There are plans to make a Green Lantern Corp movie in the near future. I'm not totally sure what the plot of that movie will be but apart of me wants them to show Steppenwolf killing Ryan Reynold's Hal Jordan and that leads him to proclaiming that there are no more Lanterns. As mediocre of a film that is and how much it really doesn't need to be apart of this cinematic universe, I feel like it would be a really funny way to connect the two.
I still don't think we're going to see any Lanterns in this film, but it gets me and a lot of other people excited.
And that's pretty much all there is to talk about Justice League. I have to keep reminding myself that I've been in this position before where I have been excited for a DC film and have been disappointed, but this movie continues to dish out some really great footage and I'm excited for it.
The other news that came out of DC was an announcement of future DC films that are coming out. Now I have learned to kind of take these lists with a grain of salt because a couple years back DC did the same thing. They had this long list of films from Wonder Woman, Green Lantern Corp, Shazaam, The Flash, and that list they put out was not totally accurate. I'm going to guess that this list is still pretty inaccurate, but here are some of the films that they said are on the docket for DC.
Aquaman (2018) Shazaam and Wonder Woman 2 (2019) Cyborg and Green Lantern Corp (2020)
Along with that they announced Suicide Squad 2 was happening as well as The Batman directed by Matt Reeves, Batgirl directed by Joss Whedon, an untitled Nightwing film, a Gotham City Sirens Film, Justice League Dark, and of course the Flash movie would be titled Flashpoint and follow the Flashpoint storyline.
If you read my Flash Season 3 review, I mentioned that I wanted to talk about the future of Flash movies and it's mainly because of this choice. There is A LOT to unpack with this direction choice. So much that I do need to do it in a totally different post. Whether it's a good idea or not, I need to discuss the repercussions of this choice because it could change everything.
I actually think above everything else, this was the most radical choice of everything that DC stated in their comic-con presentation.
But overall, I was very excited by all the news that I heard from Comic-Con 2017. Is there anything I missed? Is there anything that was really worth talking about and I didn't think it was that important. Where do you see the DC cinematic universe going? Do you like the choices being made? Comment and Discuss below! You can also send me your thoughts on Twitter @MovieSymposium as well as send me your requests for films I should review in the future. If you follow me on Twitter, you can get updates on future movie news and reviews coming out of this blog.
I'll leave you with this. So Ready Player One was one of the trailers that Warner Brothers dropped that wasn't apart of the DC presentation. It's not really a movie I've really been looking forward to and I can't say I'm overly excited for it right now... but there are some cool things in this trailer and it's worth checking out. Enjoy!
