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Marvel at the movies

April 2, 2008 at 12:33 pm · Filed under Movies ·Tagged , , ,

Marvel, it seems, can do no wrong at the movies. Sure it produces some duds now and then, Elektra is an example of this, but it’s still a box office juggernaut and as I write this they have at least 18 movies in different stages of production. So raising up a storm at the box office is something they’re good at and that probably won’t change in a while.

But it hasn’t always been like this, Marvel used to suck! The punisher (1989), Captain America (1990), The Fantastic Four (1994) and Nick Fury: Agent of Shield (1998) probably doesn’t fill Avi Arad and Stan “The Man” Lee with pryde…
But something started to change in 1998, Blade was released and two years later X-Men hit the big screen. In 2002 Spider-Man was released and Marvel had the beginnings of three very profitable movie series, Blade seems to have come to an end, but movies such as X-Men Origins: Wolverine, X-Men Origins: Magneto and Spider-Man 4 will probably continue the winning streak of our favorite comic book company.

The near future of Marvels movie production seems to be safe, but is really Iron Fist, Deathlok, Nick Fury and Ant-Man famous enough to draw in the crowds?

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Discovering Movies

December 19, 2007 at 12:01 am · Filed under Movies ·Tagged ,

Let’s say you are in a cinema and you want to see a movie, but you’re uncertain what to see. The safest bet, safest in the meaning “most likely to be of high quality”, is picking a movie from a country not very known for making movies.

This might sound strange, but think about it for just a moment, most movies from your typical movie producing countries are going to be shown, regardless of the quality. Movies from other countries is only shown when they have something that is going to put them above the rest.

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