My thoughts on the lightyear movie

My thoughts on the lightyear movie 

A teaser trailer was released for a Buzz Lightyear movie and it took me by surprise for two reasons. First of all, I didn't think we would get a movie on this character considering we had a cartoon series centered around him twenty years ago called Buzz Lightyear of Star Command. What made us interested in Buzz is the world he came from and this series gave us an idea of the world he came from. It was basically a space police show with comedy. So, I don't see the point of this movie. To be fair I heard that John Lasseter (The man who wrote the story for all four movies and directed the first two films.) didn't like this cartoon because it didn't fit his vision for this character. That could be true because the show is not on Disney Plus, the series hasn't been revived, celebrated and it's not on Blu-Ray. It's safe to assume that Toy Story fans don't like this series, heck no one remembers it. Even though this series could have been better I thought the show was OK and it's a shame that this show's contributions to this franchise was for nothing.   

Second, making this movie is a risk. I say that because this is different from most of the Pixar films because they have gimmicks to them. What if toys have feelings, what if cars have feelings and what if feelings have feelings? This looks like a straight-up sci-fi film. Yes! We had this with Wall-E but the main focus of that movie is robots with feels. (Sidenote I wouldn't mind a Wall-E reference in this movie.) Another red flag with this movie is John Lasseter is not involved with this movie because he's no longer a part of Pixar due to him being a victim of the Metoo movement. ( My editor corrected me about that.) Oh! Never mind. I don't know if this movie will stay true to what Mr. Lasseter what to do with this character. Not only that he wanted to do spin-off movies of other Toy Story characters. I don't know if this movie will be a precursor to those films will have to wait and see. Finally, this movie looks like it's going to be an origin story for Buzz and Star Command. I'm guessing this movie takes place before the first Toy Story movie. First of all, Hollywood is not batting a thousand when it comes to origins and prequels. Second, Buzz may be a popular character in the Toy Story franchise he's not that interesting, I mean he's a boy's scout. 

We all know characters like that don't bring in billions of dollars at the box office. 

Not only that they rarely do a good job at coming up with good stories around popular characters. What made him appealing was him being delusional about being the real Buzz Lightyear and not coming to terms with being a toy. Fans love this so much that the writers brought it back in the next two movies. I don't know if the director did it in the fourth movie because I didn't watch it because I think Pixar wasted that movie. I mean it could have been about the toys having to compete with video games by having this movie do a crossover with Wreck-it Ralph. Doing that would help Buzz understand where Woody was coming from when Andy ignored him for Buzz. I'm sorry I didn't mean to go off-topic. My point is this when it comes to characters like this less is more. With that said I'm interested in seeing what Pixar will do with this character. 

As far as this teaser trailer goes it was excellent! It got me excited to see this movie because we don't know how things will play out. Plus, the cartoon didn't explain everything about Buzz's world like how the galactic alliances was formed and how Star Command went from space exploration to patrolling space? We see Buzz wondering what's in outer space, learning about the ship he's going to fly, test piloting that ship, crash land on a plant, come across aliens and maybe Empire Zurg's robots. There is a scene in the trailer that will remind you of Star Wars. Seeing that kind of annoys me because I don't want to be reminded of how Disney screwed up that franchise. 

I hope this movie deals with time travel because the movie hints at that, plus how do you explain Buzz's signature line to infinity and beyond? This movie could reinforce that Disney didn't like the cartoon that I mentioned earlier because I didn't see any references to that cartoon in this trailer. Buzz Lightyear is voiced by Chris Evans. I think he's a fine pick for this role due to both Buzz and Captain America Being noble characters. To the people who are not happy that Tim Allen is not returning to voice this character, there is something you need to consider. As you get older not only your body won't be the same your voice won't be either. If that's the case with Mr. Allen, then I can understand why he's not voicing this character. I have nothing else to say about this trailer because I don't want to risk spoiling the movie for myself or anyone else. People are already coming up with theories about this movie connected to Wall-E. This is nostalgic bait done right!    

My Thoughts on DC Fandom

My Thoughts on DC Fandom

 

Intro: I was going to talk about the Flash movie, but DC Fandom didn't say much about that movie, so I decided to talk about the event itself. 

This year's DC fandom was disappointing as far as not having a lot of movies and TV Shows to look forward to. I mean how can we be excited for the next Shazam, Aquaman, Black Adam and Blue Beetle movies if we don't have trailers to give us an idea of what those movies are going to be about? Why have the cast from Superman and Lois at this event if they're not going to talk about season two? I will say this for season two I want to see Superman fight cosmic characters. The cast of the Flash series is talking about the Flash finally getting his gold boots. My response to this is who gives a carp!?! Out of all the problems that series have you think Barry getting his gold boost would fix them? This isn't the Wizard of OZ in fact he doesn't deserve the gold boots because of how badly the show is doing. Wait a minute! The finale season of the Flash is coming out next month and you don't have a trailer for it? If I was looking forward to this season, I would be bothered by this. 

What really bothers me about this year's DC fandom is that no one is talking about the Nightwing movie. The script is ready and they cast someone to play the character so what's the hold-up? This wouldn't annoy me if A Alfred did get his own series. Don't get me wrong I love Alfred but not enough where he should get his own show because he works better as a supporting character. B They're working on a Batgirl movie what the fudge!?! I hope we get a Nightwing trailer next year. (Well, that might not be possible considering that Hollywood could go on strike.)

Also, this event doesn't talk about the Green Lantern series on HBO Max. I'm not going to talk about the new trailer for the Batman because A I already talked about that movie last year. and B that's the only thing you care about. I'm sorry I take back that statement we don't care about Batman, we wouldn't have killed him if we did. What I mean by that is we have so many different versions of this character where we don't have a definitive version of him.  

Now onto the Flash movie, the Barry Allen character could make or break the movie for me. I know I said you could forgive the main character for not being engaging if the story is good but that's not always the case. Plus, characters and stories works hand and hand. This Barry Allen/ The Flash is suppose to be the comic relief character but he comes off as odd. The Snyder cut toned him down but that didn't change my views on this character. 

Sadly, we didn't get a trailer for the Flash movie because they are still working on it, but we did get some footage from the movie. The footage we got is not enough for me to comment on the movie most of it takes place in an abandoned Wayne Manor from the 1989 Batman film. We have one conversation between Barry and Bruce about Barry's time traveling. Here's what we know about this movie so far, it's loosely based on Flashpoint, more than one Batman is going to be in it, Supergirl is in it and another Flash. Who role these characters will play in the movie is up in the air. I don't know if I will see this movie because we weren't given enough footage that would make me want to see this movie. 

The only good thing I can say about this event is that we're getting another season of Young Justice. That's all I have to say about this event do you think it's good or could have been better? 

My Bright Samuria Soul review

 My Bright Samuria Soul review

Intro: OK, what’s the point of this movie if it not going to make up for the last film?

Bright Samurai Soul: The movie takes place in 1876 in Japan and Samuria and Orcs are fighting over an elf who has a magic wand. An elf girl name Sonia manages to escape and got someone from each side to take her somewhere where she can be safe. So, the two have to protect her and get to her destination before outside forces use her to start Armageddon.  

This is basically the same movie but with a different look and location. That’s one of many things that let me down about this movie. I thought this being an animated film set in a different location would help but it didn’t. I mean why have these creatures in Japan if they treat them the same way Americans do? The movie also suffers from a lack of world-building, seriously what’s the point of having these different creatures if we don’t get their backstory? I wouldn’t have minded the story being simply if we got character development and if the story wasn’t so bland. 

The movie could also use some light-hearted moments because it feels lifeless. Something happens in the climax that undermines the tension in the movie. The soundtrack bugs me because it doesn’t match the setting of the film. The animation is kind of stiff. The movie could have been about how power corrupts absolute but that didn’t happen. I don’t have much to say about the characters because the movie hasn’t done much with them. Plus, they are unlikeable which makes it hard for me to care about the story.

Izon is a lost and broken Ronin and we get flashbacks that explains why he’s like this.  

Raiden is an Orc who looking for a way out of a life of crime. I like how he and Izon parallel each other because both of them are looking for redemption.   

Sonia is a typical whiny kid.

I like the action scene in the movie and the foreshadowing in the film. The art style is fine. Overall, this is another failed attempt to make something out of this I.P.

Rating = Trash  

My thoughts on Marvel's What if ...?

My thoughts on Marvel's What if ...?

 

The people who worked on this series should be ashamed of themselves for how this series turned out. That's saying a lot considering I wasn't expecting much from this show. The only thing I want is for it to be fun and it's not. For those of you who don't know what this show is it's based on a comic book of the same name. It's about a bunch of what if scenarios about what would happen if things played out differently in the MCU and the domino effect it creates.  

Sadly, we didn't get that, instead, we get characters switching places with each other for the most part. Doing that didn't change much of what happened in the MCU because most of the events played out the same. That's what bugs me about this series it makes no sense that things would still happen as in the original films. On the other hand, that's not always the case. For example, in episode 4 Dr. Strange lost his love interest in the car crash instead of his hands. Despite that, he still learns the mystic arts why!?! 

In episode 2 T'Challa switches places with Star-Lord and he's treated like a GOD. I'm not kidding about that everyone is kissing up to him. If this is the show's way of paying respect to the actor who played this character that's fine. The problem with this is the writers are overdoing it plus T'Challa is not like this. Just because the stories the creators are telling don't take place in the main timeline doesn't mean they should be lazy about it. Also, it opens up a can of worms about what was established in the main timeline. 

Episode 7 is about what would happen if Thor was an only child? All we got is him partying like a frat boy. How does that connect to him not having Loki in his life? Episode 3 was interesting because it was about someone killing the Avengers. When you learn who did it and why you're going to be outraged because this person's motivation makes no sense. The only original thing this show did is the zombie episode and that was awful. What ruined that episode is that it's trying to be funny which hurts the tone and the seriousness of the situation.

Well, to be fair this is a common problem with the MCU. Plus, the zombies are not as threatening as there were in the comics. I also notice some SJW moments in this show. How this series treats Thanos makes me sick! What this show has done with Uatu (The narrator of this show.) makes him look bad. There are two things we know about this character that is he sees and know everything. He can't interfere with what's going on in the universe. He didn't foresee one thing that was going to happen and he broke his rule of not getting involved. Yes! He did this in the comics, but he had no reason to do it here. 

I could have enjoyed that last two episodes if they were written better. The last two episodes are about what would happen if Ultron won? What bothers me about those episodes is that things shouldn't have played out the way they did in those episodes. I like how Steve and Peggy interact with each other in the first episode because this is something that the first Captain America film was missing. How this show slaps Captain Marvel around has me grinning. Overall, this series is a waste of time. You're better off watching the how it should have ended videos because they were better than this. Speak of them in order for season two to work Marvel Studios need to hire them to write season two.