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Iron Man 2: Directed by Jon Favreau. With Robert Downey Jr., Mickey Rourke, Gwyneth Paltrow, Don Cheadle. With the world now aware of his identity as Iron Man, Tony Stark must contend with both his declining health and a vengeful mad man with ties to his father’s legacy. IMHO, this is still the best MCU stand alone character films with some of the best action scenes in the entire MCU. Two scenes in particular get me every time I see them: the racing scene with the suitcase suit, then the “kill zone” battle with Iron Man and War Machine just...
Captain Marvel: Directed by Anna Boden, Ryan Fleck. With Brie Larson, Samuel L. Jackson, Ben Mendelsohn, Jude Law. Carol Danvers becomes one of the universe’s most powerful heroes when Earth is caught in the middle of a galactic war between two alien races. As part of of my wife’s mandated MCU rewatch, Captain Marvel is a pretty ok film, but it could have been so much better. The bones of a trilogy are here but they’re not used, which is something we’ll see repeatedly with this character. Buy On Amazon!
The Wrecking Crew: Directed by Angel Manuel Soto. With Dave Bautista, Jason Momoa, Temuera Morrison, Roimata Fox. Estranged half-brothers Jonny and James reunite after their father’s mysterious death. As they search for the truth, buried secrets reveal a conspiracy threatening to tear their family apart. A pretty solid movie about family, set it Hawai’i, and includes and excessive amount of computer generated violence that’s only just barely acceptable in a live action film. The plot is a familiar and safe one but it’s entertaining enough. One thing I was surprised about those was that Bautista allowed himself to be portrayed...
Iron Man: Directed by Jon Favreau. With Robert Downey Jr., Gwyneth Paltrow, Terrence Howard, Jeff Bridges. After being held captive in an Afghan cave, billionaire engineer Tony Stark creates a unique weaponized suit of armor to fight evil. On my wife mandated MCU rewatch, we’re skipping around a little bit to Iron Man, which remains one of my favorite characters in the MCU, which isn’t exactly a unique opinion to have. Buy On Amazon!
Captain America: The First Avenger: Directed by Joe Johnston. With Chris Evans, Hugo Weaving, Samuel L. Jackson, Hayley Atwell. Steve Rogers, a rejected military soldier, transforms into Captain America after taking a dose of a “Super-Soldier serum”. But being Captain America comes at a price as he attempts to take down a warmonger and a terrorist organization. My wife has demanded that we do a full MCU rewatch, sans television shows, so here we are, sorta at the beginning. Turns out that the order we’re watching them in is a “in universe” chronology. The First Avenger is still by far...
Wonder Man: Created by Destin Daniel Cretton, Andrew Guest. With Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Ben Kingsley, Arian Moayed, X Mayo. Hollywood actor Simon Williams is thrust into the world of superheroes as he gets powers of his own, and becomes the new superhero Wonder Man. It’s difficult to explain how much I enjoyed this show, but I hesitate to really pump it up. It’s not going to be for everyone and if you’ve really really enjoyed the standard MCU movie format of 2 hours of moderatly interesting plot followed by 45-60 minutes of a cgi battle for the third art, this...
Dogma: Directed by Kevin Smith. With Ben Affleck, Matt Damon, Linda Fiorentino, Bud Cort. An abortion clinic worker with a special heritage is called upon to save the existence of humanity from being negated by two renegade angels trying to exploit a loop-hole and reenter Heaven. Finally out on physical media again! It’s still one of Kevin Smith’s more solid films from a narrative perspective and the cast is just absolutely loaded with great actors giving great performances. Buy On Amazon!
Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues: Directed by Adam McKay. With Will Ferrell, Christina Applegate, Paul Rudd, Steve Carell. With the 1970s behind him, Ron Burgundy, San Diego’s former top-rated newsreader, returns to take New York City’s first twenty-four-hour news channel by storm. Not as great as the first movie and hasn’t aged very well, but as a fan of the character and of the actors involved I still enjoy 60% of the time every time. Buy On Amazon!
At Deep Space Nine, a space station located next to a wormhole in the vicinity of the liberated planet of Bajor, Commander Sisko and crew welcome alien visitors, root out evildoers and solve all types of unexpected problems that come their way. I didn’t watch all 7 seasons, but I think the last two are enough that I can count it as enough to say I saw it again. Season six was on Pluto so we watched it there, but then had to go to bed, and I picked up season 7 via the bundle I purchased on Fandango a...
Quasi: Directed by Kevin Heffernan. With Brian Cox, Steve Lemme, Jay Chandrasekhar, Kevin Heffernan. Follow a hapless hunchback who yearns for love… The team that brought us all the Broken Lizard movies is back, but this time they’ve brought some of their friends from the TV shows they’ve been on lately. This is a goofy, low budget, low brow, low effort film with a decidedly specific audience that I happen to comfortably self identify as. I enjoyed everything about it and would suggest it to anyone that has enjoyed Broken Lizard’s past projects. Buy On Amazon!
