Movies

This week a new fan movie premiered on the internet called “Casey Jones” by Polaris Banks and is based off of Casey Jones from Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird’s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.  This has been a project in the works for a few years as the trailer had been online for awhile.  I got the chance to watch it the night the movie was up for public viewing and found myself glued to it until the very end.

Being a child of the 80s, I adored The Smurfs cartoon, giggling every time that Brainy received a kick out of the village.  Though, I must admit that I was terrified upon seeing the original teaser trailer. The continuing trailers did not ease my fears. Yet, when I received tickets to an advanced screening, I decided to attend and judge the movie itself.

While this summer has been filled with sequels or properties based on comic books, it has been an explosive summer. The latest blockbuster is Captain America: The First Avenger. Based on a comic book that began back during the second World War, Captain America is one of Marvel Comics' flagship characters and an icon known worldwide.

And so the end to an epic journey has been completed.

I’ll be the first to admit that I went into watching Transformers 3 with an expectation of 0. The previous two movies had been very discouraging with their focus on Shia LeBouf and Megan Fox. The one thing I can say about the movies, the CGI effects and battle sequences have always been more than stunning. Yet, the first two movies were soulless shells wrapped in visual chocolate.

With the success of most CGI movies these day, it was only a matter of time before the ‘Cars’ movie got its sequel.  Lightning McQueen will make his return to the big screen with all of his friends to learn another life lesson.  Fans of all of the original characters of the first movie will probably enjoy this movie and a good fun well rounded movie for all fans to enjoy. Knowing Disney and Pixar’s history with Toy Story, one could hope that they could keep that kind of feeling going with the Cars franchise, as well.

And for a third time this summer, a comic book movie has hit theaters. This time shedding a little green light on the screen.

Those of us who were born in the late 70s and early 80s all have one thing in common, we grew up watching a true master of cinema, Steven Spielberg, and his tellings of E.T., Goonies, Indiana Jones, Jaws, and so many more iconic classics. Spielberg has taken on the roles of director, writer, and producer of countless films in the last four decades. Many filmmakers look up to him as their inspiration, one of them being J.J. Abrams, writer and director of Super 8.

Back in the early 1990s, I found a cartoon on the Fox Channel on Saturday mornings. X-Men: The Animated Series. It had caught my attention mainly because a decade earlier, I watched Spider-man and his Amazing Friends which occasionally featured the X-Men. Right from the start, I found myself hooked and dearly loving the cartoon.

Every once in awhile a comedy comes that’s just so wrong all the way through it, that they can get away with the most offensive things and make it work.  The original Hangover movie, which came out in 2009, was one of those movies with jokes that were so horrible, adventures they went through that was so awful, and the things they did that was just insane.  All off that is what made the movie work so well.