Pics from the new The Amazing Spider-man movie!!!

For those who don't know Spider-man is my all time favorite superhero(Batman is second, Captain America 3rd) and personally i never liked the Raimi films too much Spidey was never that sarcastic and funny let alone he looked like a 35 year old creeper to me and had a terrible crying face hahah so i am sooo damn excited for this movie! I love Andrew Garfield and i think he looks like the embodiment of Peter Parker and Emma Stone is the spitting image of Gwen Stacy and i'm so excited to see the Lizard! There isn't a complaint i have about this reboot and to amp you up before the trailer is released with Captain America here are some awesome photos! And look web shooters XD

Fantastic Four #587 & #588 Review (P.S. The videos may not work due to my stupid computer)

So there has been too much in the last several years going on in the Fantastic Four comics for me too cover, but this is Fantastic February and there is no way i could let it end with out reviewing the two most important F4 comics at least in my opinion. What we have here is the death of Johnny Storm and the end of the long running Fantastic Four series, so here we go. So in this second to last issue we have Sue becoming the Queen of a lost tribe of Atlanteans and planting a well deserved force field gauntlet punch into the face of Prince Namor. We also have Reed fleeing a planet that is about to be devoured by a betrayed and super pissed Galactus and trying to get others out alive. But our main story is focused on a human Ben Grimm, Johnny Storm and a rag tag group of the F4's collected orphans and their son and daughter fighting off an invading army of Annihilus' creatures trying to break out of the Negative Zone and unleash terrible destructive chaos on Earth. They are however hopelessly outnumbered and in a noble attempt to stop the oncoming hordes the Human Torch, Johnny Storm, locks himself inside the negative zone while the offspring seal the doors. Ben pleads for Johnny to come back and sadly becomes The Thing again too late as Johnny bids farewell. As the ravenous mass approaches Johnny Storm utters his last words in true Human Torch fashion, with rebellious strength and undaunting bravery best shown with this video:

But it probabaly won't work because my computer hasn't been working right so here's the page:


RIP To one of my favorite comic book characters. In issue 588 we get a nearly completely silent comic. For the first half there is no dialogue. We see Reed confront Annihiulus to find him holding Johnny's suit "confirming" that he is dead. We also see Sue has completely shut down and her and Reed have grown distant. Ben gets in a fight with Thor and the Hulk, it seems like his way of coping, then he breaks down and cries. We get a solemn funeral that even Dr. Doom attends and an incredibly fitting monument to Johnny. The most touching however is probably when Spider-man comes to talk to a very heart broken Franklin Richards(Sue and Reeds powered son) Spidey true to his form comforts him especially when he identifies with Franklin in wishing he could have saved his uncle. All in all a great memorial to a great character. The end however is ruined to me as we see the preview for the new series Now i think the new costumes are cool and interested to see where this all new FF series goes especially with all the mystery from the last few but i feel like its so harsh to kill him off and then replace him with Spider-man. The only way i accept it is because if there is anything I've learned in comics is dead is rarely dead, and a character like Johnny Storm can't just disappear, plus there have been murmurs he will have his own series. And in the mean time Spidey is so much like the Human Torch in being the humor and he also has that wit with The Thing, plus he is helping Franklin cope so i will cope for now. So this concludes Fantastic February! I hope you liked it! Thanks for reading!

Fantastic February! And reboot ideas pt. 1

Hello readers and welcome to another themed month! This month we feature one of the campiest and well known superhero teams, the Fantastic 4! Yep all month long we will be talking F4 movies and comics but first off the reboot, if you've read my previous posts in the past about The Immortal Iron Fist movies, i like to do fancasts and my script ideas for the movies of the hero I'm featuring. Now obviously you don't have to like my ideas or my castings but I'm still gonna do em anyways so lets get started.

For those of you who don't know the Fantastic 4 is a story about a group of 4 individuals, Reed Richards(genius), Sue Storm(actress and love interest), Johnny Storm(party boy and Sue's brother) and Ben Grimm (Reed's best friend, former pilot and tough guy) who go on a mission to space where they are exposed to cosmic rays that give them "fantastic" powers! Reed gains the ability to stretch to great lengths, Sue can create force fields and can become invisible. Johnny can light himself on fire, shoot fire blasts and fly, and Ben becomes a big rock covered brute with immense strength. Now the main villain is usually Victor Von Doom a long time rival and associate of Reed's he also becomes changed on their mission.

Now as for these new movies instead of choosing between the Ultimate Universe story lines and the regular F4 story lines i think the best movie would be a mix of the two. Use the Ultimate versions origin story where they are changed as they cross through a portal(it's a long story to explain here) and use the Ultimate universe's younger characters since i think the sometimes goofy powers they possess would be easier to handle with younger heroes than full adults(also in the Ult. Universe Sue is smart and a biologist). But i think they should use regular F4 story lines for villains and such since the Ultimate universes are surprisingly more ridiculous.

Now first of here are my ideas for the casting, I'm going to do older and younger versions. First the older:

Rob Lowe as Reed Richards/Mr. Fantastic

I think he looks the part and can play smart and wrapped up in work as well as action.

Malin Akerman as Sue Storm/Invisible Woman

Shes gorgeous and can be loving and unlike Jessica Alba looks the part oh and she can do action as seen in Watchmen.

Mike Vogel as Johnny Storm/The Human Torch

He's funny, can play a party boy and on top of that can throw down for some action

Brad Garrett as the voice of The Thing if its CGI which it probably should be

His Robert voice on Everybody Loves Raymond is PERFECT! I've always imagined it that way when i read the comics.

Vin Diesel as The Thing if they do make-up

He's buff can be intimidating and has a great voice for it, he was the voice of the iron giant in The Iron Giant, but i only want real in costume if they can make the make-up a nit better than in the previous movies.

Rufus Sewell as Victor Von Doom

Anyone who has seen A Knights Tale knows he can play smart, tough and very menacing.

Now for the young:

Justin Bartha as Reed

I think he is the best for the role of a younger Reed. He's smart, plays nerdy and witty really well plus he can be tough and noble.

Sarah Michelle Gellar as Sue

She is gorgeous, smart, can play tough and independent plus she has fight and stunt work experience.

Jake Abel as Johnny

I like Jake Abel, he's new but he's good he's tough and strong in both Percy Jackson as well as Supernatural and in real life is sarcastic and pretends to be a ladies man i thinks he's great for it.

As for Ben same for the older version however i have no idea who should play pre-transformation Ben(feel free to leave some suggestions).

Adrian Pasadar as Victor Van Damme

Tough, played in the hero game before, good looking and can play menacing and back stabbing real easy plus he has a gravely voice.

As for the villain i think Doom should be saved for the finale, the third movie. Give him time to rise and become this monstrous villain and come into his own right instead of diving right in. I think the first villain should be the Mad Thinker. He's a villains who lays out these meticulous plans that play out perfectly and gains control of crime underworld making crime bosses his generals. I think this would be a perfect first villain cause it gives them a normal semi-normal person to first try there powers on. Who should play him? I like Rutger Hauer for the role. Smart and conniving.


So here's my plot idea:

Open on a desert where we see the teleporting device that changes them, and we get a Watchmen-esque explosion. all 4 of the team are blown out, Sue rolls on the ground and flickers to a skeleton then back to normal, Reed rolls on the ground limbs flimsy and elongated. Ben hits a suburban with a huge impact that breaks it in half, and Johnny stands up and ignites then stops then ignites again, they get taken by a crew back to the Baxter Building(the F4's home base basically). while being wheeled in Reed wakes up and sees his fingers elongated like they are melting and the other 3 in their strange states then black and we cut to the signature 4. Get 6 months earlier and we get the whole back story of Reed being accepted into the Baxter Buildings program and meeting the crew and such, then he meets Victor Van Damme and such. then back to the present with Reed's awakening.
Then we see the Mad Thinker pulling some genius job and he spots the Baxter Building and makes plans to steal and build androids to have a super strong gang of thugs instead of what he views as morons in his malevolent employ.

After getting use to power montages and suits and such Reed notes the Mad Thinkers recent hits and discovers based on a pattern of escalation the Baxter Building is next. Just then we see the Mad Thinker in the lobby with a large group of thugs disguised as cops and the invasion begins!

The Mad Thinker gets shockwave emitting gloves and builds his Awesome Android. Then the 4 enter to stop him, Ben/The Thing begins to fight android, they crash out window and take fight out there, Johnny takes out snipers trained on the building, Sue takes out the remaining horde of gunmen with invisibility fighting similar to Nightcrawler in X-Men 2 and Reed fights the Thinker. Battle ends with his defeat and possible accidental death maybe he blows himself up, and the papers call them the Fantastic 4 thus the name sticks and end with some crime going on they have their logos on and the Thing says "it's clobbering time!!!"

The end sorry if it bored you hahaha but oh well stay tuned all month long for the other 2 movies and more!

Thanks for reading!

DC Movies Casting News

Big few weeks for DC casting news just a few weeks ago it was annouced that Tom Hardy will be re-teaming with Nolan this time in Batman as Bane! It was also revealed that Anne Hathaway will be playing the contradictory love interest of Batman's and everyones favorite thief Selina Kyle/Catwoman.



(and yes that is Tom Hardy)



As of today however casting has finally been announced that Henry Cavill will be playing Clark Kent/Superman in the upcoming Zack Snyder Superman movie.


I could not be happier with these castings, i do wish there were a Riddler but either way im sure the movie will be great and Cavill is a great actor in Tudors and i think will pull this off amazingly!

Movie Match Up

Happy Ho Ho Hulk month readers! Ya know what I love as a stocking stuffer? Movies, not only do they make you less fat than candy but they give you something to watch during the holiday season just like these two movies. Ang Lee's 2003 'Hulk' and Louis Leterrier's 2008 'The Incredible Hulk', today I'm going to review both of these movies in a head to head match up and we'll find out which one is a gift to jingle your bells and which ones a lump of coal, this is the movie match up.

So since these are both origin stories because the 2008 is a reboot lets start with origin. In the comics Bruce Banner becomes the Hulk after he saves his friend Rick Jones by pushing him out of the way of an atomic bombs explosion and he takes all the radiation, thus later causing the transformation into the Hulk. In both movies however they change this origin (Iron Man did too). In the 2003 version Bruce's father injects himself with a serum that allows for regeneration because he needs a human test subject after the military tries to shut him down. When his wife becomes pregnant Bruce gains the effects of the serum. This causes Bruce to become abnormal though we don't really see how other than the fact that he doesn't seem to react to pain much. Bruce later becomes doused with radioactive waves when he saves a friend from a malfunctioning machine that poured out radioactive nanites or something. This coupled with the serum causes the transformation into the Hulk.
In the 2008 version Bruce thinks that his experiments are for the key to radiation resistance but its actually a military scheme to achieve a super soldier like change through radiation. During a test on himself Bruce's amigdala absorbs the radiation through a GAMMA pulse causing the Hulk transformations to happen anytime he gets angry or excited. Now in the 2003 version we see him transform for the first time wreck stuff then try and figure out whats happening, and as much as i like an origin and a character realizing his power, the origin and the realization alone as well as the the first transformation took about 45 minutes of the movie at minimum. That's alot of time for character development wasted, oh and I should mention the opening credits are about 10-15 minutes long showing animals being dissected and test tubes, another pointless time waster. I love cult classic looks of a mad science lab but in this it was unnecessary. The 2008 takes the win here by quickly brushing over the entire origin in the opening credits, while at the same time establishing the villain and gives the Hulk a big foot-esque mythic quality all without a single word of dialogue! How do you like them apples!? Point for 2008.

Now lets move on to supporting cast:
The love interest in the Hulk comics is Betty Ross, the daughter of General Thaddeus "Thunderbolt" Ross, Captain Ahab to Hulks Moby Dick (please don't take any innuendo from that, though it is funny)and she is also a cellular biologist. In Ang Lee's version she is played by Jennifer Connelly who comes off as flat and at times very cold, she seems to care about Bruce only as a friend, now to be fair they are broken up in this film, but even when their romance is rekindling her flame seems dim. In the 2008 version Betty is played by Liv Tyler, who does a surprisingly good job in this movie. At first she comes off really mousey and sweet but when her father and his team are attacking the Hulk the rage and desperation in her voice as she screams for the General to come out is completely opposite of how shes been, she also seems genuinely in love with him, even in his Hulk persona we get a King Kong/Beauty and the Beast feel this, to me, makes her the perfect Betty. Point 2008.

As for villains the 2003 yet again butchers the Hulk. In the 2003 version Sam Ellit plays General Ross however he too also seems flat while he does seem to hate Bruce/The Hulk he doesn't have the madness or obsession. William Hurt who takes on the role in the 2008 version is not as intimidating as Elliot but he does have the madness down pact, he constantly appears haggard as if he was up all night thinking of how to capture the Hulk. Point 2008.

Now as for the monstrous villains, the 2003 version had Nick Nolte as Bruce's father David(a reference to the Incredible Hulk TV show with Bill Bixby), David douses himself with radiation and becomes a movie altered version of a Marvel comics villain known as the absorbing man. In the comic the Absorbing Mans name is Crusher Kreel and he has a different origin, and his abilities are to take on the attributes of anyting he touches, say turning to stone or steel, in the movie he becomes one with what he touches -_- therefore he is a hodgepodge mash up of pieces of rock, brick, metal and so on. The only cool parts are when he and the Hulk fight in the sky after David becomes lightning and him turning to water is kind of cool, but overall very anti-climactic. What really sinks the movie villain wise? Two words, Hulk Poodle. Yeah I'm not joking. David makes his dogs Hulk like and it looks stupid and the fight is nothing special.
As for 2008 Tim Roth as Emil Blonsky/Abomination is great. He as a person is a bad ass craving power by any means necessary therefore he gets injected with an experimental super soldier serum that makes him fast, agile and strong. This sets up a great fight between him as an enhanced man versus the Hulk. And as he slowly becomes the monstrous Abomination the change is very convincing, he looks more depraved and greedy as time passes. The Abomination itself was amazingly designed and looked nothing but threatening plus the titanic WWF style fight including everything from helicopter blade swords to police car boxing gloves was purely epic. So that's another point for the 2008.

Now for the Hero:
In the 2003 version we have Eric Bana as Bruce Banner. He is awkward, and inspires no sense of a noble person. In fact throughout the entire movie he gives off a Norman Bates vibe, like he's secretly got dead people stuffed in his house and your next.

In the 2008 version we have Edward Norton, to me he is the definitive Bruce Banner in look and personality, I'm going to give Mark Ruffalo a chance but he has big shoes to fill. He is smart, calm, can appear angry, scared and he seems intellectually dangerous plus he looks and acts like a man who has a dark force in him that hes repressing. Point to 2008

As far as Hulk goes, 2008 no contest. He seems tougher and he looks like what released rage would look like if it had a form. He looks primal and savage but capable of kindness or at least tolerance. The 2003 version looked like muscle bound Lenny from Of Mice and Men, a slow and dumb creature that might cry if you called him names.


Now as for story the 2008 wins again, its got great focus on all characters and is developing stories for all of them which makes it an all around interesting movie. it shows almost every characters strength and weakness. But let me assure you this is not all one sided. There are many things the 2008 movie could have used that the 2003 version had. I loved the scenes where the Hulk really interacted with his enemies. Like the scene where he saves the jet from crashing and is flown up into the atmosphere, or him combating the tanks. And most of all I would have liked more roaming from the Hulk in the 2008 version. Like when he ends up in the jungle i wanted to See him running and making his famous Hulk jumps like in the 2003 version. However in that sentence is the thing that infuriated me the most in the 2003 version, this was the nail in the coffin. Constantly through the movie the Hulk, this massive beast that weighs at least a ton, is making mile high leaps and when he lands what happens? Nothing!!! No impact marks, no famous craters! For gods sake at one point he's skipping along small rock outcroppings and no pebbles fall! This may seem nit picky but I find that to be very lazy that no one gave him any real impact on his environment(pun intended).

So all in all in case you haven't guessed the 2008 version wins by a landslide! I definitely recommend it to those who haven't seen it, its a pretty good movie with a great cast! Thanks for reading and Happy Hulkidays!

Planet Hulk Review

Happy Ho Ho Hulk month everybody! Today we're continuing the Hulky goodness with my review of the comic series Planet hulk! If you like gladiators, renegade androids, aliens and radioactive superheroes then this is the comic for you.

So heres the story, The Illuminati which consists of Iron Man, Reed Richards of the Fantastic 4, Black Bolt of the Inhumans, Dr. Strange, Prince Namor, and Prof. Charles Xavier of the X-men, have all rallied together under Iron Man's request to decide what to do with the Hulk after his latest rampage destroyed Las Vegas. They devise a scheme, much to the objection of Prince Namor who says "the Hulk will return and kill you, and he will be right" epic! The trap results in the Hulk being sent to an uninhabited alien planet. At least that was the plan, the ship gets misdirected through a wormhole and lands on planet Sakaar which is a conqured gladiator like planet where inhabitants are constantly subjected to Darwinian challenges where only the fittest survive. Hulk becomes enslaved and meets a few other captives. immediatey he begins to stir up trouble. He kills several creatures and gets in a fight with the Red King (the ruler of the planet) but is soon knocked unconcious. Hulk then awakes, kills more creatures and is sent to a gladiator school and teams up with a rock monster named Korg and 6 other combatants and kills yet again more creatures.

This continues throughout the series with epic battles (including one with The Silver Surfer) and cool creatures! As well as Hulk becoming the new conqurer and taking a wife, and though the series ends in tragedy it births titanic vengence.

So my review, well the negatives are that the dialogue can be dull at times and the fights do get redundant, as well as the story dragging on a bit to long. But on the positives, it's epic, action packed, great story, i love th art and it has parallels to Sun Tzu's 'Art of War' if you've got the time I definately reccommend it. If you dont want to read it they also have a movie that was pretty good.

Thanks for reading as always!

The Hulk TV Series

Recently it was announced that the Hulk will be made into a TV series! Again!
The old TV show of the Hulk took place in 1978 and ran till 1982, it starred Bill Bixby as Dr. David Banner(the name change instead of Bruce Banner was because show writer Kenneth Johnson didn't want the show to be perceived as a comic book show also to honor his son David) and Lou Ferrigno as The Hulk and was about the life and trials of Bruce Banner and the Hulk. Interesting notes, the origin was also changed to a lab accident that made David the Hulk instead of surviving an atomic blast(this was also the case in Louis Letterier's The Incredible Hulk), also as another interesting note, Johnson wanted the Hulk to be red instead of green cause it was more real and human, and also red was the color of rage. The show was about the life and struggles as well of adventures of the two.


This new show will feature Bruce in his 20's and will be a mix of CGI and practical effects. The best part Guillermo del Toro will be attached as a co-writer and director and be responsible for the look of the Hulk! For those who don't know, del Toro is responsible for the amazing make up and CGI effects for Pans Labyrinth and Hellboy 2: The Golden Army. He will also be working with David Eick, Eick is expected to co-write the script. With del Toros make up, story and mastery of effects this show could be "incredible"!

I can't wait and I hope you're all as excited as I am!