Aquaman 2: The Lost Kingdom (DCEU)

I have finally seen THE LAST DCEU film Aquaman & The Lost Kingdom and here are my thoughts but first, I will tell you a lil bit about this film. Black Manta seeks revenge on Aquaman for his father’s death. Wielding the Black Trident’s power, he becomes a formidable foe. To defend Atlantis, Aquaman forges an alliance with his imprisoned brother. They must protect the kingdom. So it's a buddy cop superhero type movie at best, but its humour is its weakest point. 

The "forced" humour in Aquaman 2 is just urgh. It's not an MCU movie it shouldn't have that stuff. It's not funny and not needed. I'd rather something actually funny than a cheesy cringey line. "Oh Aquaman you took your brother's throne and his wife? Oh, shame. Shame on you" - Black Manta. "Brother, you're an asshole. A super tight one. Like really tight." - Aquaman. The part about Orm being taught how to run fast like Arthur. 

There are parts I liked about this film, but the "comedy" I've not laughed at. I've laughed at how bad it is and how cringe the lines are, but other than that it's embarrassing and such a step-down from the first. 

James Wan has made an incredible world for Aquaman on screen. The visuals, world building and creature design is incredible. The action scenes were great.

I think all the actors involved did a great job, regardless of the issues on and off-screen. The Amber Heard issue and then the Warner Bros and DCEU screw-ups have torn the promising Billion dollar DC film sequel into a shadow of its former self. 

The film does go back to Arthur Currys character from the first film, and also I thought the world knew about Atlantis after Aquaman and justice league but oh well. Its reveal to the world at the end is like Wakanda reveal in MCU. Stupidest post credits scene ever.

So AQUAMAN 2 is a weak sequel and may aswell be a fish out of water with its mess that it was to make and then to have the final product shown. It's unfortunate for how this turned out after the first was so good. 

6/10

Blue Beetle - Extraterrestrial Blast! (FILM REVIEW)

The ROAD to the DCU (dc's new cinematic universe) STARTS HERE!!!! 

So If you are not aware Blue Beetle is the first movie in the long awaited Gunn lead era of Warner Bro's DC universe of cinematic films. Xolo Mariduena stars in the leading role as Jaime Reyes and this is directed by Angel Manuel Soto. Jaime Reyes suddenly finds himself in possession of an ancient relic of alien biotechnology called the Scarab. When the Scarab chooses Jaime to be its symbiotic host, he's bestowed with an incredible suit of armour that's capable of extraordinary and unpredictable powers, forever changing his destiny as he becomes the superhero Blue Beetle.

I thought BB was bloody brilliant, I want more, and I also want to see it again!

Jaíme played by Xolo was absolutely incredible just as I imagined. He was perfectly cast. This film is a great start to the new DC universe of films. The Uncle and Nana were so funny. The villains were a bit meh, but I did like Carapax once we got into his story he was more interesting than the Evil CEO Kord lady. 

The fighting scenes were awesome! Music and lighting was so cool and synth-wavey and for me that's always loved. Heart, humour and inspiring superhero film. 

There's two after credits and the first is so interesting yet the second is uh weird to say the least, and you don't have to stay for that unless you want to show your love or want to see some more Latino representation. The Latino representations in this film I felt were on point and great to see for a change.

8.5/10

A good time no energy drinks needed. 

I was hooked all through the film and I very much enjoyed.

Please go see this film and do not sleep on it!

The Flash Movie - Great Speedforce Review

The Flash is here and so is my review! Just like Barry Allen attending work this review comes later than originally scheduled haha. When his attempt to save his family inadvertently alters the future, Barry Allen becomes trapped in a reality in which General Zod has returned and there are no Super Heroes to turn to. In order to save the world that he is in and return to the future that he knows, Barry’s only hope is to race for his life. But will making the ultimate sacrifice be enough to reset the universe?

The Flash and the Multiverse of madness is a heartfelt film with a celebration of all DC. The Cgi is meh at the best of times especially the opening. Most of the cgi can be explained via some sort of grippy perspective the flash has on time when time travelling and the director has also backed this up.

The final villain wasn't much and soon as they are revealed, it's pretty much goodbye to them which is a shame as I would have liked a few more quick run in's with the villain. Keaton always had me smiling. Sasha's Supergirl was fantastic, please keep her around the dcu. Other cameos were really cool. The ending made me go wtf! Great film if you ask me, I enjoyed it and I would consider myself a big Flash fan, so maybe it's a sort of biased opinion, but honestly I would happily go see this again.

7/10

Thanks for reading, sorry this took longer than planned to get posted.

I have been busy adjusting to life changes having two jobs now haha.

My DREAM DCEU MOVIE 10 YEAR PLAN!

OK so here's my fan made 10 year DCEU plan and this post was written before James Gunn scrapped a lot of content and I have made some adjustments since the news broke, and I have expanded it to 10 years instead of my original plan of 5 years. Please enjoy! 😁

DCEU Canon:

Man of steel, suicide squad, batman vs superman, wonder woman, the suicide squad, Aquaman, birds of prey, snyder cut justice league, shazam, Wonder woman 1984, Black Adam

So my listings for the next 10 years if I was in charge would be:

Man Of Steel 2: Metallo

Metallo with Lex Luthor to face off against Superman and after creds to have Superman come to Shazam's aid against Black Adam and this scene appears in SHAZAM 3. After credits 2: Wonder Woman is with Cyborg and Batman talking about plans for a station to watch over the world.

Shazam: Fury of the gods 

As planned BUT End credits will be Black Adam meeting SHAZAM.

Aquaman 2. 

As planned BUT End credits to be Barry and Arthur hanging out when suddenly things start to change around Barry (EZRA) who also changes his face to reveal Grant Gustin (cw theme plays). 

The Flash: Fastest Man Alive

Solo film introducing Barry Allen origins, and he fights a few of his rogues cap cold, heatwave along with a run in with Boomerang from the bank scene in suicide squad. (after creds to introduce Anthony Starr as Reverse Flash Eobard Thawne) Recast Ezra with Grant Gustin or Hughie from The Boys actor.

Constantine: City Of Darkness

Matt Ryan as Constantine. Meet John Constantine an occult detective for hire from Liverpool, Engalnd. This boozy geezer always seems to find himself in trouble or around people or rather demons who are up to no good. He comes to terms with his powers in the film and accepts who he is and what he is capable of after a tragic event occurs in which he was unable to save the life of a little girl. While on the hunt for a powerful demon he meets a formidable foe who quickly becomes an ally to John in Swamp-Thing. John also befriends the rhyming demon Etrigan and the two are forced to take down the powerful demon and to save the city and all the lives within it.  (after credits to include 2. A bar scene with John and Etrigan and introduce Zatana. Second after credits to show the house of mystery.)

Bluebeetle movie. 

As planned BUT end credits to show Cyborg messaging him asking if he'd like to join the League. 

Batman & Robin: Deathstroke

Batman (Affleck) struggles with the wear and tear of being Batman catching up to him and Alfred suggests maybe passing on the mantle because he doesn't want to see his master in any more pain and the fact for years Batman carried so much pain and Vengeance within him. However, since forming the justice league he notes Bruce has had the bright spark back like the days of old when he mentored a young Tim Drake. Bruce is in a rocky relationship with Jessica Grayson (sister of Dick Grayson of the flying Graysons) and Bruce is in public promoting his playboy self to the public eye to promote his companies new renewable energy source, and he's wrestling with himself to tell his GF the reason why he goes missing at night and sleeps during the day. The two have had happy times, but she blames him for missing parties and family gatherings due to "work commitments". This public outing with Bruce and Jessica is crucial as Jessica is going to introduce her family to Bruce for the first time. The Graysons are a family acrobat stunt team. The family do flips and tricks via parkour ways by hand and also do tricks in bikes and jumps and in cars. Ra's Al Ghoul and his gang interrupt the party try to steal the device all while sabotaging the stunt bikes and cars. Dick Grayson catches some ninjas messing with bikes and takes them down, but he doesn't realise It's too late as his family are about to crash and burn. Stephen Amell plays Dick Grayson. He helps Batman take down Ra's and him and Bruce have a rocky relationship and Dick disobeys Batman and resents his teachings and the two come to blows whilst being tricked and trapped in a shipping yard to face Lex Luthors strong arm aka Deathstroke and Batman and Deathstroke have an intense fight as an angry resentful Robin leaves Bruce to his own. Deathstroke starts getting an upper hand, but Robin joins back and the two team up and take down Deathstroke. The two seem to be on good terms, but Dick says he appreciates the help and guidance and mentorship Bruce gave him and for giving Dick a home after his families passing BUT Dick wishes to return to his home and get himself established as a young independent man and crime fighter. Robin returns home and months pass as Batman calls to check in with Dick regarding life and asks him to help solve a case with a riddle and dick reveals to Bruce that Nygma is in Bloodhaven and to not worry because Nightwing is on the case. Dick suits up as Nightwing and movie ends after creds would be 2, First have lex freeing and talking to leto's Joker about a team up. Second show a man screaming crying in the shadows and crawls out only to be dragged back into the shadows with an unnerving growl and piercing yellow serpent like eyes pierce out of the shadows. Killer Croc is coming.

So this would be my plan for the next decade!

What do you think?

Is it good or bad? Would you see these films?

Thanks for reading!

Stay Shiny!

Random Ramblin's 47 - Booking The DCEU

I watched Gunn's Suicide Squad recently and here are some thoughts and how I would book DCEU.

Warner bros should use Harley and Waller in the DCEU to set more films up in the DCEU. 

Waller for Skwad and potential Batman films and Harley for Batman and Harley team up films. 

In the DCEU the following know who Batman is and they are Waller, Lex, Deathstroke (via snyder cut ending) and I am sure the Joker knows too. 

WB needs to just cool down and make sure they USE Cavill right and just to be sure to lock their actors in set contracts like MCU has and keep Affleck for a little while longer like please. Also they need to not go against the actors and not stress them out either in putting too much onto them. 

So much potential WB please USE IT!!!!!!

Zack Snyder's Justice League Film Review

Snyder Cut Justice League is absolutely amazing! 

Action, storytelling, plot, characters, acting, cgi, the pacing. I loved every minute of it and I so wish there was more now! There's no after credits just Epilogue that covers so much!

Josstice League has some great moments still but Snyders version is much better. If I could mix both versions I think that would be a 10/10 film and a master piece for sure.

*****POTENTIAL SPOILERS AHEAD!!!! *****

The flash race Superman after credit of Joss's was so good and fun and I love that and to not have it in Snyders version was disappointing. Also the John Williams rehash superman score from Josstice league is missing and so is every body knows and come together besides that music wise it's wicked. This Arthur Curry was better more in line with his solo film. Snyder set up nicely for future Wonder Woman story aswell as Flash, Batman, Justice League 2, a certain Martian story and a possible injustice alternate film with the Knightmare scenes. Of course there's jokes or scenes in Joss's which worked and it's a shame to not have them. 

Both films are very much Cyborg focused and omg Ray Fisher what a performance and his Cyborg is brilliant in Snyder Cut. Henry Cavill still giving us the best superman. I think there was just a bit too much Black Suit Superman like we didn't need to have all that and at least we should have had another scene in where he explained the suit and gathered up his powers to full potential again and then shown off the classic suit like especially in the end when Clark is on the street and he shreds his shirt and to not see the Red S was just weird because time had passed by months at that point so the suit was not needed to be black. 

I think Leto gave a better performance in Suicide Squad than in Snyder cut but he still had great lines and a decent performance just more unhinged would have worked better and also the laugh was just not good enough. Deathstroke well omg we need to see him against batman. Darkseid well need to see more omg scary and so intimidating it's well in line with all his appearances. Steppenwolf was better he looked and sounded more menacing and ALIEN. 

Some are boycotting this and speaking ill of the film because of Amber Heard and I thought she was good and it's just silly to boycott or down rate it because she's in this film, this was filmed years ago mostly, so it seems daft to say you hate it over her as she's not even the main character or anything but ah well picky tricky people are out there.

 

Overall I think I'd give this film a 9/10! It blew me away it was what I been waiting to see for years! #RestoreTheSnyderVerse #SnyderCut #JusticeLeague

How DCEU Should Make Man Of Steel 2! Fan idea for the general plot of the sequel.

Since Lex is free let's have him antagonise Supes. Bring Metallo and Bizarro. Lex is obsessed with Supes can be the main story to why he went and created a bizarre superman and that he also wanted to take down the man of steel so acquired Kryptonite and helped make Metallo come to life.

Have the first half be Supes is back saving lives while Clark struggles getting back to the normal routine and then perhaps fails to save John Corben which is all part of a trap by Lex of course but supes won't know. John is thought to be dead members of Lexcorp take the body away supes is down sad he couldn't save someone's life and have Metallo come alive being brainwashed by Lex saying "It's his fault your like this, it's his fault your a metallic monster, it's his fault your METALLO!" which has Metallo power on snap at Lex holding Lex off the ground angry. Metallo replies to him: "Tell me where he is!" and Lex smiles and we cut to a peaceful day in the city all is well, until a train station is on the news being destroyed with people inside being trapped and killed from rubble and supes see's this and ignores it as he is down as he thinks he failed saving John's life. Louis talks Clark into going to save the people trapped in the train station as details emerge on the news it's some green robot is terrorising the city.

Superman snaps back to being a hero he's determined to stop this robot hurting others because he realises he can't always save everyone and what happened to John was not his fault and he saves those trapped uneed rubble and flies towards Metallo.  He lands near Metallo. Metallo: "So you've finally decided to show your face? Too bad you left it late, so many lives could have been spared if you wasn't so selfish!" Metallo blasts superman who dodges the blast. Superman: "You know greens not a good colour for you" Metallo: "You think so? Well come closer for a better look" Superman: "No thanks I'm good over here. So tell me, why are you causing all this senseless destruction" as superman starts to approach Metallo as the two talk. Metallo: "It's all a show, it's all for you of course, it's the only way to get your attention, for I have been looking for you" Superman: "You villains always like attention but there's a better way to get it without violence" Metallo: "Ok so please do show me, tell me what I have to do and I'll come with you quietly" Superman puts his hand on Metallo's shoulder as Metallo smiles and grabs superman tight as he can as metallo's chest plate goes down and reveals kryptonite to superman, making superman weak and in pain from Metallo's grip. The police see that superman is in trouble and are shooting at Metallo which has Metallo's guard drop and he is getting shot at pretty heavily so he releases superman and goes after the police instead which creates enough distance for superman to gain composure to lazer blast the exposes kryptonite in metallo's chest effectively blowing Metallo up. Of the explosion only metallo's head remains and he mutters to superman: "You've killed me again, you couldn't save me as a human and you couldn't save me as a machine, what hope do you inspire again?" Superman realises it was John the guy he tried to save and looks at him shocked and apologises to him before Metallo shuts down. Superman flies off.

Second half - Lex is mad at the news Metallo has been defeated so he decides to do something so drastic and that's to use the dna on what he has from superman to make himself a clone but he messes up and ends up with Bizzaro enraged at his failed superman clone he torments the clone, tortures him, telling him superman is the enemy and calls Bizzaro names and so on which enraged Bizzaro having him leave Lex's company to go kill Superman. One day whilst saving a family from a fire superman is just speared mid air by Bizzaro causing the two to Duke it out as superman is left reeling as he can't believe he has to fight a look a like of himself and he's trying to talk sense into Bizzaro but its not working so Superman fires back harder hits which does knock some sense into him but then emerges Lex from his limo wanting front row to see his failure actually succeed in killing superman. Bizzaro has superman in a choke hold as Superman tells Bizzaro "please don't do this I'm you, I'm not the enemy, I'm friend, I am brother,  I am family." which has Bizzaro let go of superman and questioning himself whilst Lex is yelling at Bizzaro, lex just bullies Bizzaro calling him useless and a freak and a ugly failure which Bizzaro snaps and picks lex up and goes to snap him in two but lex pulls a controller out and presses a button which causes a small bomb in Bizzaro to go off exploding his head as lex laughs and looks at superman saying "You can thank Amanda for her services there, as I have just saved your life" Superman looks at lex baffled and replies. "What do you mean,why would you do that?" Lex: "Look around you Superman, can't you see all the cameras, they now will all say that I saved you which means to the public I have redeemed myself so my companies stock can rise again!" Superman: "So you set up all this for money?" Lex: "Gee if you'd actually have a brain you'd know it's not about the money at all. If it was up to me I'd have killed you after your family but your a very lucky boy today and very lucky that I have a lot instore for not only you but also your friends, family and the entire world! It's going to be fun so I hope you like chess, because I've made the first move." as Lex gets in his limo and rides off, leaving Superman to have a quiet day and get back to the office supporting Superman of the new public opinion of Lex Luther. And if you want an after credit to my comment story I'd put Lex meeting up with a Mr. Savage ;)

I'd cast Sam Worthington as Metallo, there's a tongue in cheek Terminator reference to be had here :P 

I'd also cast Johnny Depp as Vandal Savage, i'm sure there's a tongue in cheek fragrance reference to be had there also. Why Depp as Savage? The two are quite eccentric and Depp can pull off the look and intensity of Savage easily. 

Thanks for reading this, if anyone did, I got carried away here haha.