Showing posts with label Tadanobu Asano. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Tadanobu Asano. Show all posts

Thursday, November 8, 2012

BATTLESHIP (2012)

Aliens in large spaceships land right smack dab in the middle of a Navy exercise off the coast of Hawaii and immediately put up a large force field that they can fire out of but nobody can fire into.  Stuff happens and only one ship, captained by a total fuck up, can save the day.

The main reason I watched BATTLESHIP is because it featured Tadanobu Asano, but despite the fact that he only had a minor role I still ended up walking away enjoying the film simply because it's so goddamn crazy.  Common sense, reality, intelligent story...all of that is thrown out the window in exchange for raw entertainment.  And it somehow works.  Funny opening scene, non-stop action, lens flare overdose, sound effects overdose, fat tits in a white t-shirt, pretty explosions, impressive special effects, aliens killing the fook out of humans, a chicken burrito, aliens that could totally kick our asses doing stupid shit, Liam Neeson, beautiful Hawaiian locations, cringefest dialogue, rock music montages and lots and lots of shooting and explosions.  Worth a watch while folding laundry.

Monday, October 3, 2011

THOR (2011)

As far as superhero movies go, I enjoyed this one. Thor is a badass dude who lives on another planet, called Asgard. His father, Odin, is the king and about to retire and make Thor king, when the Asgardian's mortal enemies, the Frost Giants, send a group of dudes to try and bust into the Asgardian's armory. They're defeated and Thor gets all pissed off and wants to attack the Frost Giants. Odin tells him to chill out, but Thor says fuck this shit and attacks the Frost Giants. Because of his arrogance, Odin strips Thor of his power and banishes him to Earth.

Once on Earth, Thor is confused and fucked up because he doesn't have any power, but things aren't all bad because his fall to Earth was witnessed by astrophysicist Natalie Portman.  But he doesn't have time for romance, because it turns out Thor's butthole brother, Loki, was behind all the shenanigans that got Thor kicked out!  So now he has to figure out a way to get back to Asgard and plant his foot up his brother's ass.

THOR was a fun film and even though I didn't know anything about the character of Thor beforehand, I thought the movie did a good job of quickly, but not too quickly, introducing him and his world. I'm not a huge superhero fan, so this review might be a little simplified...I have no idea if Thor's cape was the wrong shade of red or the incorrect thread count, but as far as entertainment goes, I liked it.

My only real complaint, besides Natalie Portman not being the owner of a nudist colony, instead of an astrophysicist, is the fight in the middle of the movie (the fire face robot thing) was way better than the final showdown at the end of the movie. Also, Tadanobu Asano should have had a bigger role. He's way too talented of an actor to just have hanging around in the background.

The Infinity Saga

Phase One
Part 1 - Iron Man (2008)
Part 2 - The Incredible Hulk (2008)
Part 3 - Iron Man 2 (2010)
Part 5 - Captain America: The First Avenger (2011)
Part 6 - Marvel's The Avengers (2012)

Phase Two
Part 7 - Iron Man 3 (2013)
Part 8 - Thor: The Dark World (2013)
Part 9 - Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014)
Part 10 - Guardians of the Galaxy (2014)
Part 11 - Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015)
Part 12 - Ant-Man (2015)

Phase Three
Part 13 - Captain America: Civil War (2016)
Part 14 - Doctor Strange (2016)
Part 15 - Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (2017)
Part 16 - Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017)
Part 17 - Thor: Ragnarok (2017)
Part 18 - Black Panther (2018)
Part 19 - Avengers: Infinity War (2018)
Part 20 - Ant-Man and the Wasp (2018)
Part 21 - Captain Marvel (2019)
Part 22 - Avengers: Endgame (2019)
Part 23 - Spider-Man: Far From Home (2019)

Phase Four
Part 24 - Black Widow (2021)
Part 25 - Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings (2021)
Part 26 - Eternals (2021)
Part 27 - Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021)
Part 28 - Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness (2022)
Part 29 - Thor: Love and Thunder (2022)
Part 30 - Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (2022)

Phase Five
Part 31 - Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania (2023)
Part 32 - Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 (2023)
Part 33 - The Marvels (2023)