Twin Peaks: The Return came back in style! In a giant 4 hour chunk too and i also just found out that Twin Peaks: The Missing Pieces exists. It and certainly the new season finally explain what the controversial prequel film was about. The new show is basically a 2nd and more... structured (?) Fire Walk With Me, as it answers how the inbred child of Eraser Head, Lost Highway and Inland Empire would looks like. S03 is that fucking wild and from nearly minute one too! Undeniably the most niche big budget show of ALL time and certainly the most frightening. Just show anyone the scene of Cooper being eaten by an electricity socket or that strobe light tree with a heart for a "head" talking backwards. They will never talk to you again 🤣 . The unsettling gore is though the roof too.

Long story short. David Lynch is about to create another masterpiece, especially if i consider that the 4th episode then suddenly takes a time out to recreate the 1990/91 original, before veering back into relentless psychological horror in the last 10 minutes.
So go back to the classic + film, if you never saw it. Even if S02 historically shat the bed after solving the big mystery. It ended strong though. Here is a refresher: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxUC8QH8miU
Get the 3 hard canon books too (don´t ask me which one is the craziest, but The Secret Diary of Laura Palmer is a hard NC-17) and strap yourself in for 18 hours of old man David Lynch without ANY restrain + a final book. Unless someone at Showtime decides to fund these mad men again. One can only hope.
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Rewatched Scream 4. I love this franchise. I wish they could make more.

X-Men: Apocalypse. It was sloppy and boring.

Same with the new Ghostbusters. Finally gave it a try but I slept the whole time.

Rewatched American Pie Reunion. I appreciate it

Now I want to marathon rewatching Final Destination movies and National Lampoon next. I also love these franchise

Spider-Man: Homecoming

Here we got our Avengers' new inclusion your very own friendly neighborhood Spider-Man. Loved the movie. Of the last few Marvel franchises, this Spider-Man: Homecoming came out to be quite pure, It's a marvelous new vanilla inclusion.
Spidy is kinda happy-go-lucky fella as he should be. This nice middle-aged version of Aunt May is very appreciated. Loved the guardian figure of Stark...Oh! and last but not last, don't forget about Cap, Perform great in your schools kids and make the Cap happy.

My Rating: 8.3/10

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Iron-man: Homecoming nails the "Friendly Neighborhood" hero from Queens feel. It´s also immaculately directed, features the first good version of the Vulture and every single actor was great. Where the film struggles somewhat is being a coherent adaptation of the comics. Peter is half Ultimate Peter, half Miles Morales and half Iron-man´s sidekick striking out on his own. That´s all a bit much! "MJ", Flash and Aunt May have nothing to do with any comic counterpart either and i 100% fail to comprehend why the film can´t have 5 minutes devoted to his origin. This is a reboot targeting a new audience and they are now missing Spidey 101 canon. I don´t get it.
The film is obviously a success and not a 2nd Amazing 2 mess, as the crappy trailers suggested, yet it´s not much of a comic adaptation and more of a radical reinterpretation. That why this film will always come behind the highly comic accurate Sam Raimi original and obviously it´s borderline perfect sequel. Still, Sony + Disney did good and successfully rebooted their golden goose and that´s all that matters.

One question remains though: Who though that the now 21 year old Tom Holland could pass for a 15 year old? Can we please get Spider-MAN out of high school within the next solo film, as that period only lasted for about 2 years in the comics!

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i 100% fail to comprehend why the film can´t have 5 minutes devoted to his origin

This This this...yeah this also hit me. It never explained the details of Stark Scholarship, how he met stark any other mild details like how he got his powers. They could have explained these small details via his video journals...how much more footage would've taken to include those anyway. At least for the new kids who might seeing Spider-Man for the first time, they need to give some of those in their next instalment as the screening current one already a thing of past. And no extended version please.

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The vid logs were an interesting idea to connect to his usual (and currently abandoned) comic roots of being a photo journalist but the film dropped them rather quickly.
That´s what happens if you try every single thing a comic film can at once but i am glad that we finally got a solo origin film from the MCU that isn´t Iron-man 1 again, as this isn´t an origin film. Oy. My current favorite comic film of the year so far still remains Lego Batman but all were good.

I will also bring up that i am one of those people who liked Iron Fist and Arrow S05 finished strong, after the all over the place 2nd act. The top spot certainly belongs to Legion but Gotham S03 (the best one yet) was quite impressive for most of the run.

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Stark roasted him with his vis video logs apparently when he kicked him out of his car and other than that his suit can record videos actively now though not as logs. Probably only Iron Man suits (all wearable ones) should be able to make video logs actively like the mug shot of him get to see time to times with him being coordinating with Jarvis.

Lego Batman is awesome. So far so good. And that proves DC characters gotta stick together with Warner bros. IMO.

I find Iron Fist and Arrow meh. Particularly Arrow is lame (no offence intended to fans). And lets not even talk about Flash.
Gotham is great. Gotta watch Legion.
Still Marvel Daredevil is the best among the ones I watched in this category, yeh!

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King Arthur - Legend of the Sword... I liked it, but I also have the feeling it is not everyones cup of tea.

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I had huge problems with Game of Thrones S05 and the much more coherent S06 didn´t change my mind too much. A lot of it can be blamed on the middling quality of books 4 and 5, yet the 2 seasons really rushed though them while trowing out really good arcs (Tyrion´s sea journey and Zombie Catelyn), managed to forever ruin characters as Sansa / Littlefinger and most importantly my favorite Stannis the Mannis. Bah.
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Even GRRM complained about some of the changes but S07 is now turning the ship around. The brooding pacing is now utterly out of the window, most characterless are in their final arc and the guiding "source material" is still years away from being published but i must say that this Hollywood style GoT is rather good too. The opening ep. was a bit clunky but the last 2 were gripping form star to finish. Admittedly tasteless and gratuitous but what a spectacle! I now regained hope for the ending after 2 years of very mixed feeling.

On to movies. Baby Driver is the best film of the year so far and nearly every single cut of the whole picture is edited to music. The unearned love story cancels out a perfect 10 but Edgar Wright undebatably outdid himself.
Dunkirk would have also been a 10 if the the shellshocked protagonist exited the film as a vocal charter after act 1 but he didn´t and TDK still rains supreme as Nolan´s best film.
Kong: Skull Island was lastly my favorite film of 2017 till Dunkirk and Baby Driver. The way modern fanboy sensibilities meet actual 70s filmmaking left me in awe and every Snyder fan need to see it, as it feels like on of his (earlier) films. Zack´s longtime cinematographer Larry Fong certainly had something to do with that. Such a step up from the misassembled Godzilla 2014 too.
Man dat JLA from the SDCC btw. Especially the apocalyptic Chernobyl footage! Get wrecked Avengers is all i have to say. So yeah, get better Zack Snyder. Hollywood needs you but JLA is undeniably in good hands.

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Blade Runner 2049. Bizarrely, it mentioned a book within the first ten minutes (Pale Fire, which I love) which was a plot spoiler due to parallels between the BR protagonist/PF narrator. Writers, stop trying to be clever. Or be more clever.

Star Wars: The Last Jedi... What can I say, it was a Star Wars movie... I liked it a lot.

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Let´s do a quick year in review: Blade Runner 2049 is the film of the year and a worthy sequel to the greatest film of all time. To bad it bombed (again). Talking about successless films. Justice League was also pretty good. Not quite the film it could have been and i hope for at least an Extended Cut on Blue Ray but it´s also the best US comic film of 2017. The "worst" was Thor: Ragnarok. Not that i hated it but it´s one of the weaker MCU film. I bothered to review both on Imdb. Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets was also a surprising delight and it´s better than the albums or the anime adaptation. Even Death Note by Netflix is worth a watch, as it´s the best life action adaptation of the manga yet and only US GitS needs to be avoided like the plage this year.
Punisher my Netflix more than delivered and Defenders was fine. Gotham is on it´s best season and Gifted really came together by now. Runaways is fine but i wish it adapted the comic and i now kicked all the CW shows for good.

Now go out there and find out if Star Wars EP VIII ruined your childhood or not. It´s a top 5 film of the year for me and just 1% below VII due to the slightly sluggish Finn/Poe sub-plot(s).
I kinda liked the Porgs, was wowed by Kylo´s 8-pack and Luke got the send-off of the century in the film. Anyone who thinks the godawful prequels or the Legends crap (the old Expanded Universe) is inferior to the new canon is out of their minds. Especially as this very film showed how the Anakin/Padme romance should have looked like and how much potential Jacen Solo (the "original" Ben Solo from the books) had.

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I´ll keep my Imdb trivia for the Oscars and only have a singly recommendation. For the most unflinching only horror buffs only though. The french coming of age cannibal body horror Raw 2016. It´s the 2nd best horror film of the decade, after the Evil Dead remake, and i can absolutely see why people fainted during the screenings. Looking at actual war photography (i was in the military) is more relaxing that this thoroughly unnerving tour de force. The female debut director is one to look out for! The film is also equally sexually provocative and animal lovers should likely stay away too. It´s thus a movie for the 1% of us. I could easily eat meat after the film but by good god did it leave it´s mark. Being cut to the bone (i know the feeling) is actually more pleasant. If that ain´t the highest praise i can give that i don´t know what us.

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[color=red]12 Strong (2018)[/color]

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[color=black]12 Strong tells the story of the first Special Forces team deployed to Afghanistan after 9/11; under the leadership of a new captain, the team must work with an Afghan warlord to take down the Taliban.[/color]

Rating: 7.5/10

Another good War-Drama from Hollywood. It's taken from a (declassified) real war story after 9/11, though not sure how much (or little) of 'Drama' part is included there. Overall it's a nice inclusion to the arsenal after American Sniper.
Good acting, nothing seems forced on the front. I watch movies mostly lightheartedly, which is to say I'm not a hard critic, so I enjoyed the movie.

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And as somebody who played Battlefield 1, I felt a bit of nostalgia. Hopefully others who played Battlefield 1 will like the movie too.

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[color=red]Going in Style (2017)[/color]

Rating: 7/10

[color=black]It's a really good remake of the 1979 film. It's not a total copy-paste story of it's older counterpart. It's some of the problems, that some middle class old people faces after retirement. It got it's own uniqueness. Humors that that sync well with the time it's sets in.[/color]

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[color=red]Last Vegas (2013)[/color]

Rating: 7.1/10

[color=black]Story of four old friends, with there own old people problems. They come to Las Vegas for the bachelor party of one of them, who is gonna marry a girl half his age. It's shows sweet & sour friendship, with some of it's high and lows. And it's never too old to enjoy your life.[/color]

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