Fantastic Four

A DVD that I recently picked up was "Fantastic Four".  Directed by Josh Trank and came out in 2015.  Unlike the other Fantastic Four movies directed by Tim Story, this one showed the superheros at a younger age.  I thought it was interesting how the characters were young and that helped to emphasize their recklessness and impulse.  One of the things that I liked was the development of their relationships with one another when they were building the teleportation device together.  It was interesting to see how even Victor Von Doom became friends with the others.  That just helped to emphasize the calamity of their clashing with one another when Victor turned evil.  I didn't like the development of Reed and Ben's relationship.  They didn't really give Ben that much personality so it was hard to truly see their friendship as completely genuine.  Overall, I thought the movie stood out a bit because it showed superheros in their adolescence stage.

Captain America: Civil War

I just recently picked up the DVD "Captain America: Civil War".   I thought it was really interesting how they incorporated more of weapon and war elements into the movie.  The movie was more concerned with the power of meta-humans and how their power is too destructive.  I thought it was interesting because there is such a change from old super hero movies to the modern day super hero movies.  Before, I felt like there wasn't such a huge issue on the power superheros. That power issue has blown up to dramatic proportions.  Another thing that I thought was interesting was how they split the Avengers into opposing standpoints.  Iron Man supported the fact that the government should hold power over the Avengers.  While Captain America believed that they could hold their own ends and should be able to work freely.  I felt that the threat the government felt towards the power of the Avengers sort of dehumanized them in a way.  It made the Avengers look more as weapons than humans. 

Yesterday I watched the movie "Suicide Squad".  Before watching the movie my mom told me that it didn't receive very good reviews.  I'm not sure if that prepped me to be more critical of the movie when I watched it but I thought the movie was okay.  At the beginning I wasn't quite sure if they were showing flashbacks or everything was happening at the same time.  Usually flashbacks are clearly defined with different colors or a distinctly different fade in and fade out.  However, none of these were present.  Basically, there were two sets of sequences happening at the same time; or so it seemed to be at the same time.  At the beginning wasn't clear to me what the purpose of recruiting the squad of villains was.  And with the addition of the other side story it made me even more confused, especially since it seemed like both stories were happening simultaneously.  Another thing that I was disappointed about was that they didn't really develop all the main characters.  They mostly focused on fleshing out Harley Quinn and Deadshot.  It would have been nice if they showed everyone's background story, it would have made the audience feel even more connected to the characters. 

Finding Dory

I recently watched the movie "Finding Dory" in the theaters.  Overall I thought the movie was cute.  It followed the basic arc a Disney movie has.  The main character is faced with a challenge that will help them grow and develop in some sort of way.  In Dory's case, she started remembering her parents and wanted to reunite with them.  In comparison to the previous movie, "Finding Nemo", I felt that there was still something lacking from the movie.  There were flashbacks from Dory's memories of her parents, and that helped to build up the emotional satisfaction of her reuniting with them in the end.  However, the journey itself didn't feel as rigorous as the one Marlin took on to find Nemo in the first movie.  All in all, I think it's hard for sequels to live up the expectations of the first movie.  However, I still did enjoy the movie.