Showing posts with label movies. Show all posts
Showing posts with label movies. Show all posts

Tuesday, October 4, 2011

Rotten Tomatoes: Marvel Movie Madness!

Recently, Rotten Tomatoes had a series of movie reviews on EVERY MARVEL MOVIE EVER. That's 34 movies! You can check them out at http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/thor/news/1922609/rotten_tomatoes_presents_marvel_movie_madness/. The list includes the newest films such as Captain America and some terrible direct to DVD films such as Man-Thing.

The surpise on the list for me? Men in Black I and II. That's right. These movies were officially Marvel movies. HOW? Well, MIB was originally published by some no name company that was purchased by Malibu Comics. Malibu was purchased by Marvel and then the first MIB movie was made. Marvel even published some MIB comics at that time! Here I thought they were just licensed comics like the ones Marvel did for Independence Day, but NO! Marvel apparently owns the rights to MIB! Guess that makes MIB III a "must see" for me since I see every Marvel movie!

Another confusing thing for me was Red Sonja. How is RS a Marvel movie but not the two Conan movies since RS is a spinoff? Well, as I found out, Conan is not an original Marvel creation but Red Sonja is! Arnold was suppose to be Conan in RS but they didn't get the rights secured so his character's name was changed to Kalidor. How weird...

The list does leave off Made-for-TV movies such as the Hulk specials, Nick Fury, and Generation X. Kind of an odd choice especially since they included the direct-to-DVD Man Thing.

So check out the list and the reviews for each movie... you'll probably learn something if you do!

Monday, August 15, 2011

Goodbye, Streaming Movies!

Well, I did it. I wasn't sure I would but I did. I cancelled Netflix streaming movies. My computer died recently anyway so it's no big deal. *SOB*

Compose yourself. Get it together. Be a man! (slaps self)

Anyway, as my computer went downhill, my ability to watch streaming diminished anyway. Perhaps someday I'll get streaming back... but until then, I'll enjoy the lower Netflix bill and stick with two disks at a time. I only wish there was an option to get four disks without streaming. I'd do that in a heartbeat! I wonder why Netflix doesn't offer this option? It's money they're losing from people like me.

So I've removed myself from the graph below. I wonder how much I'll miss being on that chart?