Trailer: The Dark Knight Rises

Not much to go on. It better be epic. Anne Hathaway better get a Oscar nomination. And Joseph Gordon Levitt better be amazing and have a huge part!

Movie still has a stupid title...

First Poster for The Dark Knight Rises

How awesome and Inception-like! This franchise really does know how to tease us!

Movie Review: X-Men: First Class

Warning: May contain spoilers. You've been warned.

(out of four stars)

I must say that this is the best X-Men movie to date. I enjoyed the original trilogy, but this movie had it going on.

Honestly, I'm not even sure I can criticize this movie in any way.

I loved that they were able to tie a real historical event in America and X-Men together perfectly. I learned about the Cuban Missile Crisis in 8th grade, but I never really understood it. The only this I remembered about it was that it was called "The Cuban Missile Crisis" but the conflict was actually between the US and Soviet Russia. This movie, while being laced with fiction, helped me get the gist of what my 8th grade teacher was trying to explain. See… movies can be educational.

At first I wasn't sure about James McAvoy as Professor X, but he definitely grew on me. In fact, they did a great job with this cast, including Kevin Bacon. I must comment on the range of accents and languages that Michael Fassbender (Magneto) and Kevin Bacon had to pull off for their roles. I understand that Fassbender is in fact German, but he did have to speak Spanish during his scene in Argentina and he did it perfectly. I also enjoyed Jennifer Lawrence (Mystique) and Nicholas Hoult's (Beast) performances.

My one disappointment was that Xavier was paralyzed in this movie. First off, I should say that they did it in a great way. I looked up how it was actually done in the comics and that was stupid. Something about an alien dropping a rock on his legs. In the movie, Moira (who is a human) gets upset and begins shooting at Magneto with Xavier standing somewhat behind him. Magneto deflects her bullets. One of which ricochets and hits Xavier's spine. What's great about this is that we know Magneto deflected it and it happened to hit X. To Magneto, human Moira shot him, which makes him despise humans even more.

Now, why am I disappointed that he was crippled? Because by the end of the movie, I was hoping for a sequel and hoped that if they didn't cripple X, then they'd be somewhat obligated to make another to depict that.

Now, if you've made it this far into the review and you've seen the movie, I hope you'd agree with my thoughts on the movie. If you haven't seen the movie and you've gotten this far… WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU DOING? Go see this movie!!! It's amazing and I want it to make money so they realize they need to make another!!

Fun fact: the movie makes two cameos; neither of which are creator Stan Lee who normal appears in all movies based off his comics. One of which is obvious and I absolutely loved but will not spoil. The second is while Mystique is lying in bed for Magneto. Magneto tells her that she is too young so she changes her appearance to that of her older self played by Rebecca Romijn, who appeared as Mystique in the original trilogy.

Batman Will Be Rebooted After Next Film

Warner Bros. announced that after The Dark Knight Rises is released next year, the studio intends to reboot the series.

Really? I can't keep up with this.

First they semi-rebooted/spinoffed X-Men, then rebooted Spiderman, then rebooted Superman, and now they want to reboot Batman? There needs to be a Hollywood law that says there needs to be at least a ten year buffer between reboots.

Christopher Nolan (the current series' director) will be giving up the directors chair, but will continue producing. I like this idea, because I feel that the movies will retain their current level of seriousness unlike the last series where Batman Forever and Batman & Robin were more like comedies over action movies.

The cast will also be… well… recast. So no more Christian Bale. But that's okay with me. (He's starting to bug me.) But now we can put together our own cast. Here we go:

________ as Bruce Wayne / Batman

________ as female lead / love interest

________ as Alfred

________ as Robin (optional)

________ as Commissioner Gordon

________ as (villain of your choice)

Jake Gyllenhaal, Sam Worthington, or Jeremy Renner as Bruce Wayne / Batman

Rachel McAdams or Reese Witherspoon as female lead / love interest

Stanley Tucci as Alfred

Jason Isaacs as Commissioner Gordon

Johnny Depp, Russel Brand, or Joseph Gordon-Levitt as The Riddler

Emily Blunt or Angelina Jolie as Selena Kyle / Catwoman

Lindsay up for Superman role!

I don't know about you guys, but I kinda like this idea…

Rumor has it that Lindsay Lohan is up for a major role in the new Zach Snyder Superman reboot.

MovieFone via TMZ:

According to TMZ, Lindsay Lohan’s “people” have informed them that the former actress-turned-troublemaker-turned-jewel-thief will be meeting with the ‘Superman’ “people” soon about a major part in Zack Snyder’s upcoming film. Yes, Lindsay Lohan. And no, we’re not lying — they’re actually reporting that.

They claim the part isn’t Lois Lane (phew), but it’s a “major character.” Could Lohan be among the other females auditioning for this mystery female role that Latino Review claims is the villainous Ursa?

I also thought I read that they axed Lois Lane's character all together, so we'll see if that happens. Either way, I'm glad to see that Lindsay is back up for a major role in a huge movie. Let's just hope she stays out of jail for that to happen.

X-Men: First Class

Intriguing. I'm interested, but I'm nervous that I will be disappointed. I'm going to try and stay optimistic. It better have a great story and lots of action!

Meet the New Superman!

Although I did love Brandon Routh, I'm sure this guy will be good.

Meet Henry Cavill of the hit show The Tudors (you know, the show that you see previews for when you get the movie theater early, but you never actually see the show because it's on Showtime or HBO or some cable channel that you don't get). He'll be starring as Clark Kent in Superman: Man of Steel, which is due out December 2012.

Before you say he's no good. Just wait til you see him with the glasses on!

New Trailer: Thor

Thank god for Natalie Portman, otherwise this probably wouldn't appeal to me as much.

Hello Gwen!

New photos of Emma Stone (with blonde hair) as Gwen Stacy are popping up. Production on Spider-Man has officially begun!

LOVE HER!!!

The Dark Knight Rises is Batman 3's Title

Lame. The Caped Crusader sounds so much better in my opinion.

Christopher Nolan announced that the title of the new Batman film will be The Dark Knight Rises. He also said that The Riddler will not be a/the villain in the film. There will be "new characters" instead. Boo.

Major bummer.

Let's Talk the Superman Reboot

If you haven't heard (because this is older news), Zack Snyder has been announced as the new director for the latest Superman film.

Wait... let's back up to 2006...

In 2006, Superman Returns was a box office failure. Okay, it didn't fail. But it didn't do as well as planned. Regardless, there was a plan for a sequel in which director Bryan Singer and all of the cast would return however with a very low production budget. But because Warner Bros. decided to simply reboot the series, Bryan Singer moved on to direct other things.

Fast forward to October 2010 where Zack Snyder was announced as the director for the new rebooted film. Zack Snyder is responsible for such films as 300, Watchmen, Dawn of the Dead, Legend of the Guardians, and Sucker Punch (not yet released). I'm just going to mention now that he is not my cup of tea. At least his directing style isn't. I didn't care for Watchmen and I thought 300 was simply okay. In fact, I'd say 300 is overrated.

Luckily, Christopher Nolan (director and mastermind behind Batman Begins, The Dark Knight, The Prestige, and Inception) has taken the helm of the Superman franchise given his success with Batman. He never planned to direct, but Warner Bros. simply wants him to keep an eye on Superman and help them steer it into the right direction. Good.

Now for my opinion...

I enjoyed Superman Returns, but I knew something was missing and to this day, I don't know what that something is. At the time of its release, I was in love with this movie because, at the time, I was a diehard Smallville fan. Although, it was missing something and I knew that people hated it, I still wanted them to put out a sequel to give them a chance to redeem themselves.

When I learned that they planned to scrap it all and reboot the series, I was pretty disappointed. Is that the trend now? Starting fresh, even when the last movie is only a couple years in the past and the films are still lingering in people's recent memories, seems to be the thing. In my opinion, there needs to be at least a 8 year buffer period between reboots. That was the amount of time between Batman & Robin and Batman Begins. Now we have reboots for Spider-Man, the Fantastic Four, and Superman in the works. Spider-Man was last seen in 2007, Fantastic Four in 2007, and Superman in 2006. I feel as though that is way too short of a time between movies that will completely changed. Especially when Spider-Man and Superman's reboots aren't necessary. (Fantastic Four's reboot I support completely.)

Once I found out that Christopher Nolan will be taking part in the reboot, I felt a little better about it. There is nothing that Christopher Nolan has done terribly. On top of that, I was happy to hear that Zack Snyder was reconsidering keeping Brandon Routh as Superman, after saying he wanted to recast the whole series. I hope he does keep Brandon and also considers Kate Bosworth as Lois Lane again. Kate was really enthusiastic about playing Lois and was really hoping for a sequel. They can recast everyone else. ;)

Those are my thoughts on the Superman subject. The new film with its new title The Man of Steel is expected to be released Christmas 2012. (Interestingly enough, the sequel to Superman Returns was planned to be Superman: Man of Steel.)

Emma Stone is Gwen Stacy in Spider-Man!

YAY! Emma Stone has been cast as Gwen Stacy in the new Spider-Man reboot.

Hopefully her character won't be too comedic and will take the part seriously. Although, I don't much care for the idea of the reboot, I'm happy to see Emma cast in an action role! Although... why Gwen Stacy?! Random and minor.

So excited now. At least we know the movie will be good. ;)

Hilary's Rumored for Spider-Man!

I dunno...

I love Hilary! ...but as Spider-Man's girl... I dunno. We'll just have to wait and see.

It's rumored that Hilary Duff is up for a role in the reboot of the Spider-Man series. A copy of the script was spotted in her home on the kitchen table with the part of 'GIRL' highlighted...

Now, at this point 'GIRL' can be anything. But since it is Hilary Duff and she is a huge star it's most like the role of Peter Parker's leading lady, Mary-Jane Watson, or the police chief's daughter, Gwen Stacy.

I'm not a supporter of the new Spider-Man. I was all for Spider-Man 4 with Carnage and the Lizard as the villains. If Hilary does choose or gets selected to take the reigns from Kirsten Dunst or Bryce Dallas Howard, then I will be expecting a lot from this unnecessary reboot!

I loved Toby Maguire and Kirsten Dunst's Spider-Man. If Hilary Duff does go ahead with it, I'll be obligated to love the new one too. Ugh. Lol.