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A Quicky!

(I may have to change that logo but it remains apt for now)

 

Today i'm tired from working hard all week so I can't dedicate true effort, sorry.

But as the title suggest i've watched 2 movies today, the new Marvel Sci-fi flick and the latest Batman Animated movie based in the Arkham game universe.

 

This movie is great, I mean reeeeally good, Guardians of the Galaxy is based on the Cosmic adventures written by Dan Abnett and Andy Lanning (DnA) of a group of Outlaws who roam the galaxy tring to prevent large space conflicts before the happen (this is the 2000 version not the earlt 70s-ish vertions from an alternate future). The main cast is the adopted daughter of Thanos (big purple bad guy from Avengers), A humanoid tree who can only say "I Am Groot", An experimented on talking hyperviolent Racoon called Rocket and a Hulking warrior brut who only understands literal terms  a half Human from Earth.

The soundtrack a mix of 70 and 60s tunes many corny but in that fun kinda way.

The effects are some of the best you'll see both in a Marvel film or any other, some good set pieces with a damn good mix of practical effects and CGI.

The characters make this movie, for an origin story with unfamiliar charaters they pack in so much. Every Actor was superb, the main bad guy Ronan the Accuser chews scenery in great fashion, Vin Diesel as Groot is surprisingly awesome and Rocket is the Joke machine of the movie but it never becomes to annoying as it appears self aware. but I think the biggest serprise is Bautista, he manages to give a lot more personality in this performance than in the comic and actually makes the old warrior archetype fun. 

The story apears to be something you seen before and does cover typical tropes but it doesn't appear ruch rather sincere, though this is more joke laden than most Marvel capers, it's buy no means distracting and the plot doesn't suffer for it, overall good pacing.

Overall out of 10? I'd give this a 9. Go see it especially for the ending and post credits scene, some of you won't get both references but to those that do, "I can't believe they went there!"

Assault on Arkham is a very solid film, DC tend not to drop the ball with Batman (inspite of Young Justice, Beware the Batman and Flashpoint) this is no different.

Though I would rather they call this movie the Suicide Squad (as they are the main focus and make the movie) this is the first major appearence of the criminal special Task Force X since the Justice League cartoon and it is well worth it.

The story goes Cadmus's Amanda - The Wall - Waller obducted criminals to perform a break in to Arkham Asylum to retrieve someting of the Riddler's while Batman tries to track down a dirty bomb set by the Joker.

It feels slick, fast oaced and has an upbeat tone despite the adult nature of it (blood, partial nudity etc.), some really good dialogue and many familiar voices return but it has a lot of good action scenes to balance it all out.

There's almost a "Black dude dies first" moment but I'll need to come to terms with that. 

Harley Quinn may have stolen the show though as she tends to do but it's clear Deadshot

All in all, this gets an 8 from me, I hope more Suicide Squad movies come of this as the espionage edge, spy motiff worked well.

 

 

And that's it for now, next week you get a proper 2 week update.

 

This is V saying "Yahtzee!"