Iron Man 3

Wasn't what Marvel did awesome? With their movies I mean. Doing movies centered around the individual characters was really the only way that you could bring comic book continuity onto the big screen Then tying it all together in a crossover movie. So, can the series work in a post Avenger's setting?

Robert Downey Junior is two inches taller than Tony Stark. Boo, zero stars

This is a first to my knowledge. This movie is a sequel to two different stories. It continues off of Iron man 2 and has to show what life is like for Tony after the New York incident. If your late to the comic party, Avenger's was universally praised, everybody loved Iron Man and everyone tolerated Iron Man 2. Myself? Iron man was OK, Iron Man 2 was serviceable and Avenger's made it all worth it.

War Machine does sound better than Iron Patriot

Tony Stark aka Iron Man is busy tinkering and playing with his suits. His reasoning, ever since the events of Avenger's, he has been going stir crazy due to sleepless nights spurred on by apparent PTSD. tensions between he and Pepper rise and soon a new threat makes himself known. The Mandarin begins to take credit for several bombings. The oddity? No bombs are ever used. Tony must get back in the game and discover what the true danger is before it's too late.

Lot of super hero movies advertising the whole broken mask thing

Shane Black is one of my favorite directors and one of the greatest action comedy director in recent memory. He previous effort with Robert in Kiss Kiss Bang Bang is one of my favorite movies and when the news broke that Shane would direct this, my expectations soared. Justifiably so. The directing was top notch throughout with better action scenes than we've ever had before. The Writing is crisp and flowing and fricking hilarious. The effects were great and the actors all brought their A game with Robert stealing the show as always followed closely by Sir Ben Kingsley's scenery chewing Mandarin. The only technical gripe is that the 3D was worthless. Whenever there is a 3D movie and stuff fly's away from the camera, your doing it wrong. It doesn't enhance the atmosphere and it doesn't have any fun.

Aviators, you know he's bad

This one is my personal favorite of the Marvel movies. Avenger's notwithstanding. Everything as it should be. The stakes are high but not avenger's scale high and this gives a good reason for why the other heroes don't assist. I have always been in the view that when you adapt something, you should do your own thing especially when that thing is unique. I'll take creativity over accuracy to the source any day and this movie does a great job at both paying homage to it's comic book roots, while also doing it's own spin on things. The action is better than it has ever been with a particularly awesome mid air rescue scene, the comedy is funnier with my personal favorite joke of the series, the character's at their peak and the story is tight and clean as a superhero movie can be. I especially liked the villains who aren't just other guys with suits this time. Now they actually have powers and for the first time in the Iron Man movies, it felt like his opponents were a match for him. They also give the movie more of a comic book feel than the other two possessed. The twist halfway through is unexpected and hilarious. Almost everything about this movie works and if it's the final stand alone iron man movie, than it was a great send off.

what up guy?

My biggest problem is it does tie into Avengers and I can buy that Thor couldn't help, Hulk, Widow and Hawkeye, but as for cap? What was he doing? The events of this movie seem to be in his wheelhouse but oh well. Also there are a few plot holes. If you don't want to know skip to the next paragraph. Spoilers follow: When the helicopters attack his home, why didn't the military shoot them out of the sky within two minutes? The botanists plan didn't make much sense and if Tony could have had doctors remove the shrapnel from his chest, why didn't he do that before. End spoilers.

I'm calling it. Right now. Everyone will still claim the first one was the best, but really what was so good about that one? It was a decent origin story but what really sold it was Robert Downey Jr. as Tony Stark. It was the role he was born to play and i agree, but He's perfected the role by this movie which is better in every area. Just saying. But you can keep on about how awesome the first one was and how this one's just trying to capture the magic of the first. You bunch of critics.

If your a comic book purest, this movie will not please you as several liberties are taken, but speaking as someone who has read those comics i found the changes to be minor as well as serve the same purpose as the original story so take that as you will. However if you enjoyed the first two you'll love this one. Check it out.

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Evil Dead 2013

I was dreading this one. Trying to remake the cult horror classic of a generation? Can't be done. Not no way not no how. This opinion was shared by most, then the reviews started rolling in from pre-screenings. They were good. Outstanding in some cases. With a horror movie that is rare. So were they right? Mount on than chainsaw arm and we'll find out. Fair warning, the pictures in this will be graphic.

It's like it's daring you to see it.

Don't read this! Just kidding. The history of this remake, reboot whatever starts with a film maker named Sam. He wanted to make a horror movie but had barely any money. So he decided to go out into the woods find a nice little cabin and pour blood all over it. The result? Evil Dead. A damned good movie considering the situation and soon it had a sequel and then another. It's been along time with rumors abounding of a fourth sequel or a reboot. Now we finally got her.

Peek a boo.

The story is begins with a group of friends meeting at a long deserted cabin in the woods. They have all come here because one of the leads sister Mia is going cold turkey to solve her drug problem. Time passes and the gang stumbles upon a trapdoor leading too a grizzly sight. Dead animals hang about the room at the center of which lays a book wrapped in a garbage bag and barbed wire. What does one of the gang choose to do? Open it of course! How else are we gonna get the plot moving? Inside is a book bound in flesh and inked in blood and on the first page is written DO NOT READ. So he reads it. Of course. Wacky shenanigans ensues. Wacky here meaning people gonna die. More than once in some cases.

Wanna know how I got these scars? 

This movie is visually brilliant. The lighting is atmospheric, the sound design is great with one of the best horror movie soundtracks in recent memory and the directing is from solid to ingenious with one or two scenes of mild shaky cam though it doesn't detract as much as it could. Usually modern horror movies have a sterile feel to them. They're just too clean looking sometimes which is what the movie's trailer made it look like. However the movie has a gritty and oppressive feel that most just can't capture.

Leather Face's early years.

The acting is good. Not great. Good. This movie get's it right however where so many other movies get it wrong. While the characters aren't exactly lovable, they aren't detestable scum of the earth we can't wait to see offed. The trade off here being they're fairly bland, with one notable exception. Jane Levy's Mia is fantastic, capturing a junkie needing a fix and a deadite perfectly. She's really the standout of this movie and keeps you invested through the whole running time.

Like dogs? Don't worry I'm sure nothing will happen to her.

Time fore some personal back story if you'll indulge me. When i was but a child, I hated horror movies. Scared the dickens out of me. Couldn't stand them. That is until one day, when I being the young rapscalion i was, found my parent's copy of the movie. I don't remember what compelled me to watch it but I did. I was seven. I loved it. Very few movies change you but his one changed me. It turned me into the horror nut I am today. So being a devoted fan, when I heard of a remake, I scoffed at the notion. I could not have been more biased. When I saw the trailer  was so very ready to rip into this thing without mercy.

For dry red eyes, use clear eye!

I loved this thing. So much. From beginning to end I was hooked. While the movie isn't run out of the theater terrifying it has atmosphere so thick you need a chainsaw to cut through it. And the effects are astounding. I was expecting this to be another cgi crapfest and indeed there are a few times were there is cg and it looks out of place, but 90% of it is done practically and practically amazing. Best gore effects in recent memory bar none. The movie isn't a carbon copy either. It takes the idea and does its own thing. It starts at the same point but then goes on to do what it wants. The first act brings you in with Mia's battle, the second act builds the tension and horror and the third act in a nothing held back gorefest the likes of which we haven't seen since Braindead. Honestly, the movie is worth admission price for the last ten minutes alone. Everything a remake can do right was done right. Is it as good as the original? Who cares? You could nitpick a thousand things but it doesn't matter. It's a bloody blast and I regret nothing.

We don't need no water, let the blood rain!

This is a case of never judge a movie by it's appearance. Anything can be good if you do it right. This movie is a blood drenched masterwork worthy of it's inherited name. Applause to those involved, can't wait for it's sequel. No scale, you know if your the kind of person who would enjoy this. But if you are a fan of the original and call foul still I have some good news for you. This movie gets a sequel. Sam the man is going to make Army of Darkness 2. Then we get another movie from Sam and this guy combining the two story's. Eyes to the future my fellow deadites. We're gonna get more, not another wait, time to go to 2. Keep devouring those souls and singing those creepy lullaby's. Ash will return, and there's not much groovier than that.

Nice of the guy to translate the necronomicon so that other's can read it and doom themselves. Jerk.