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GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY - MOVIE REVIEW

*Directed by James Gunn *Starring Chris Pratt, Zoe Saldana, Dave Bautista, Bradley Cooper, Vin Diesel, Michael Rooker, Lee Pace, Karen Gillan, Benico del Toro The Plot: A band of misfits must settle their differences and team up to defeat an unstoppable force from obtaining and using an artifact that can wipe out an entire race of any living being in the entire galaxy. This movie was one that really caught me by surprise due to the fact that in Marvel's line-up I didn't think remotely that this film would ever be made nor have I ever heard of the Guardians of the Galaxy before. I'm not really big into comics and when a title such as this was floating around I definitely knew I wasn't into comics period. I'm familiar with typical characters introduced in the Marvel movies like Iron Man, Hulk, Captain America and whatnot yet I didn't know what to think of this property. Then all of a sudden the trailer is released by Marvel Studios and I was instantly exci...

ALIEN - MOVIE REVIEW

In Loving Memory of John Hurt (1940 - 2017) *CONTAINS SOME SPOILERS* If you have not seen Alien I highly encourage you to see it 100% then come back and read what I have to say! *Directed by Ridley Scott *Starring Sigourney Weaver, Tom Skerrit, John Hurt, Harry Dean Stanton, Yaphet Kotto, Ian Holm, Veronica Cartwright The Plot: A space crew is making their way home towards Earth when all of a sudden they receive a distress signal from an unknown planet. They investigate said planet, find an abandoned spacecraft and then aboard the craft they find a field of alien eggs. One of those eggs opens up causing a creature to latch itself onto one of the crew members and is then brought aboard the ship. It then kills that crewmember, sets loose and the crew must find a way to kill it before it kills them. One of the reasons why you’ll hear Ridley Scott regarded as one of the greatest directors of all time is because of films like this. Alien is truly a magnificent film and ...