The Amazing Spiderman...

I'm a bit late watching this film because I wasn't a massive fan of Toby Maguire previously, and of Spiderman in general, but I finally watched it...

I'm impressed! I really love Andrew Garfield, he IS Spiderman in my eyes. He did a fantastic job;

1) He's gorgeous
2) He's adorable with his cute little 'oops' smiles


3) He is a real geek because he loves science and is really good at it
4) His chemistry with Gwen Stacey (Emma Stone) is so real 

I couldn't help but compare the Toby Maguire Spiderman to this one, because well you just have to...and I preferred how his father died in this one and how he dealt with finding the murderer. I liked how he realised his Spidey senses, the way he experimented and learnt to do things. And the best thing of all was the accuracy to the comic - he built his own web shooters! 

The action scenes were incredible, his sarcasm and wit when defeating bad guys was just hilarious, I LOVED it. 

I have one big criticism though....I DO NOT like Rhys Ifans or The Lizard..

The actual lizard is just plain weird, the fact that it talks and has a bald head just looks weird! I get why he wants to make everyone a lizard but I don't get why he went after Peter Parker personally...so Peter found out that it was Kurt Connors who was the lizard, and Connors wanted to stop him because he knew...so where did he go?!...to his school!...a very public place! Makes no sense. 

This film is far better because he is involved in science, so the spider bite is more realistic. His family is better, and the beginning of them film mentions his parents and I like that. 

Overall I would give it 3.5/5 purely because I hate The Lizard, but everything else is great! 

Man of Steel...

I believe that this is finally a Superman film that we can be proud of, and not cringe when watching it.

Long gone are the blue tights and underwear on top, and no more whizzing around in a lift to transform.

This film took Superman to a different level, and Henry Cavill did a brilliant job with it. You actually see a complete history of Superman or rather Kal-El. You meet his real parents, and you see the whole back story to General Zod, which makes the villian of this film more understandable.


For someone who has just started to watch comic book films more, it really helped me to know about his history, why he was sent to earth and the reason behind Krypton.

I especially liked the way he came to terms with his powers, and explored his strengths and his ability to fly. You saw him as a child experiencing various things that he was confused by.

There are however a few things that I didn't like...

I wasn't too sure whether I liked how little screen time they gave Lois Lane, she seemed to appear at all these important but random moments, and then all of a sudden without any real 'getting to know each other' she kisses Superman, thought that was all too rushed.

I also didn't like the editing of the film, it seemed to be in an odd order. I liked the flashbacks to his past, but some of them were unnecessary. There were these amazing fight scenes which were phenomenal, but then it would cut to a scene like the one with Clark at his dads grave. NO, back to fighting!

I also didn't like that his father died in a tornado attack...in the comics it was a heart attack, and this would have been more prevalent because it would show pain to Superman that he can't save everyone (body failures can't be cured).. so for me they should have shown a heart attack or nothing at all (preferably nothing).

In summary, they could have cut a fair few scenes out, because it felt like a bloody long film to watch! Longer than Lord of the Rings! But...it was a Superman worth watching, and that is a very good achievement from both Henry Cavill and  Zack Snyder.

3/5

WORLD WAR Z...(spoilers)

Just going to start by pointing out that it's World War ZED for all the British folk, so say it right!

There's also a reason I capitalised the title of this blog, because this film is effing amazing!!

The film is (dare I say) an original zombie film...those 3 words don't normally go together...

I think the best part of the film was the zombies themselves, they are bloody scary and had me cowering behind my boyfriend several times, but that's what zombies are supposed to do! I LOVED how you saw when they transformed, with the weird spasms. And the biting they did and the creepy gnarling noises they made.

And to build up the tension of when zombies were coming, you had no 'scary indication music', it was just dead silence...and then BOOM ZOMBIE!

Brad Pitt wasn't too terrible either, he even looked okay with that long hair he's sporting at the moment. I liked that he was from the UN rather than the glorified CIA, this made me believe that his character had been through some tough shit and seen too many things, it made him perfect for the mission.

Here is the massive spoiler, and what makes it an original zombie film...

They are not FIGHTING the zombies, they ended up looking for a CAMOUFLAGE. How clever!?

The survivors are to be protected instead of killing all zombies, which lets face it would be impossible and very lengthy. And Brad Pitt doesn't realise this until he is on his 3rd journey of the film, which is believable!

Some have said the family was a bit 'meh'...my boyfriend didn't like them and thought they served no purpose and it would have been better if Brad Pitt was a single man fighting for all this just out of pure help for strangers. I said that they were there to provide a back story for Brad and he is trying to save loved ones as well...what do you think?

I have given this film 5/5 because I can live with the family, and the whole film is just brilliant, clever, fantastically edited and wonderfully scary.