Terrible Plan! Movie Reviews

What I liked: We have evolved from fighting the Nazis. We have moved on from cold war nuclear attacks (we still have Russian sleeper agents though). We have moved past terrorist bombings. What is the next great threat? Economic terrorism naturally. Yep, I see this setting a trend in spy/action movies. I did like how they set up Ryan’s backstory. It was a little close to home having him get shot down in Afghanistan but worked for an up-to-date Ryan. I liked him as the out of his depth analyst he plays in the first half of the movie. Some of the fight scenes were good. What I didn’t: Why is it that the spy’s girlfriend always shows up at the most inconvenient moment demanding a full explanation of spyly activity? And why has the spy never come up with a reasonable explanation before this point? I mean it can’t really be that big of a problem and if it were you would think some of the spies would have watched spy movies and thought about the situation.  Also, I may be biased in my ...

What I liked: The tie ins with the other X-men movies. They kept me laughing through most of the movie. Quicksilver. Some of the fight scenes. What I didn’t: All of the future. We can have the future be suspenseful and scary without watching all the x-men die multiple times in different gruesome ways. And where are they? The setting is really weird. The film seemed really brutal and graphic. The files of mutant experiments are far more graphic than necessary. The death methods are brutally creative and magneto remains a psychopath. Magneto’s plan was terrible. Did he actually do any thinking at all before he started flying around washington with a baseball stadium? I contend he did not. I’m glad professor x quit his drug addiction cold turkey, after 2 seconds of deliberation. good work super brain. Should have thought of that in the first place. Also the sound track is not as good as first class. Who should watch it: People who love x-men but ones who either aren’t bothered ...

What I liked: The Avengers have been working together as a team for a while since taking down the last threat to planet earth; they have become a team and fight well together. The film opens with a fight scene, and there are multiple high powered fight scenes in which they work together smoothly, taking advantage of eachother’s strengths and powers. I’m not sure I would carve a marble statue of the fight scene but pretty fun. Two inside jokes the team carries through the movie (about language and Thor’s hammer) work well and help establish the group dynamic. Also the search for bad guys takes us around the world so we get to see cool cities and stranded boats (shouldn’t ocean freighters be in the water?). We also get to see some hulk rampaging. So far the hulk has been fairly well contained. The Hulk gets to hulk smash and it is impressive. What I didn’t: One of the best things about the first Avengers was the banter between the characters. It was funny. It established the m...