Alex Corey Reviews!!

The Spider-Man retrospective continues as I go back and take a lot at the rebooted Spider-Man duology titled The Amazing Spider-Man . This was my first time seeing both films so here are my final thoughts on The Amazing Spider-Man 1 and 2: THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN (2012) Instead of Spider-Man 4 , Sony had the bright idea of wiping the slate clean for our favorite web slinger and bring us a reboot. Andrew Garfield was cast as the lead role and Marc Webb of (500) Days of Summer  was set to direct. Friends of mine claimed this to be better than Spider-Man 3 and heck even all the Tobey Maguire films and I must say that I couldn't disagree with them more. I kind of hated watching The Amazing Spider-Man for many reasons one of them being the Peter Parker character himself. I did not like this incarnation of the character because it seemed like the film kept mixing up what kind of person he was. First he's a skater punk, maybe an artsy kid into photography, and also a science n...

* Directed by Edgar Wright * Starring Ansel Elgort, Lily James, Kevin Spacey, Jamie Foxx, Jon Hamm, Eiza González, Jon Bernthal, Flea, and Lanny Joon The Plot: A getaway driver by the name of Baby (Ansel Elgort) who has a strange humming sensation in his ears from a brutal car accident at a young age, partakes in various robberies while listening to music to help drown out that humming, but at the same time giving him the ability to focus driving and maneuvering out of different scenarios and function normally as a human being. These robberies are headed by crime boss Doc (Kevin Spacey) and Baby's in the process of finishing off a debt between him and Doc, which would then lead him away from a life of crime. However, he meets a waitress at a diner named Debora (Lily James) and starts to gain feelings for her and then future situations in store for Baby start to go sour. One of the things this movie had coming for it was the director itself Edgar Wright who is by far one...

Hi folks! So with Spider-Man Homecoming on the horizon, which I'm dying to see, I figured it'd be a great time to go back and review the Spider-Man movies of the past. So to start things off let's dive back into the original Spidey trilogy directed by Sam Raimi, which ran from May of 2002 to May of 2007. Without further ado let's delve back into the cinematic beginnings of our friendly neighborhood hero. SPIDER-MAN (2002) This was actually one of the first films that got me hooked into the superhero genre. I remember friends of mine talking up superhero movies and Spider-Man was always brought up in the conversation. Luckily around that time, which I believe was the summer of 2008, TNT had been playing re-runs of the first Spider-Man movie. I remember finally watching it having it saved on the DVR, fell in love with it, and must've watched 2 or 3 times there. I then finally owned the DVD and then watching it multiple times after that and now I own the Blu...

*Directed by Michael Bay *Starring Mark Wahlberg, Anthony Hopkins, Laura Haddock, Josh Duhamel, Isabela Moner, Peter Cullen, Jerrod Carmichael, John Turturro, Stanley Tucci, and Frank Welker The Plot: With Optimus Prime gone finally encountering his maker on Cybertron, Transformers are scattered across Earth, and Cade Yeager (Mark Walhberg) finds himself in possession of an ancient Transformers knight artifact that has him on this journey to find the ancient staff of Merlin with his allies of Autobots, a Transformers historian (Anthony Hopkins), his robot servant and a hot British female professor while battling Decepticons and avoiding an epic plan of Cybertron destroying Earth because...Transformers movie. If you haven't been following me as of recent I covered every Transformers film on my blog, which I will provide links for at the very end, and the consensus is I'm not one to be a fan of the Bay directed films. The animated film from 1986 is amazing and I've e...

*Directed by Nelson Shin *Starring Judd Nelson, Orson Welles, Lionel Stander, Susan Blu, Leonard Nimoy, Gregg Berger, Robert Stack, Peter Cullen, and Frank Welker The Plot: Taking place in the future in the year 2005, a planet by the name of Unicron who eats other planets is on the move and in the meantime, the battle between the Autobots and Decepticons ensues. The Decepticon leader Megatron is then captured under the clutches of Unicron, who upgrades him as Galvatron and sets him off to destroy the one artifact that could destroy Unicron called The Matrix of Leadership. With the Matrix under the protection of a small band of Autobots, they must partake in a battle against Unicron and his forces of evil to prevent Unicron's attempt at gaining immortality by destroying the Matrix itself. If you were a fan of the original cartoon as a youngster of the 80s there's no doubt you were a fan of this film. Transformers were definitely at a great popularity high with an attra...

Obviously, with Transformers: The Last Knight , the fifth installment, upon us next week, why not have yet another proper time to revisit the film series that started it all for this franchise, the Michael Bay directed Transformers movies. Granted, I've seen the first three films and had thoughts about those, but I revisited them again just to really wrap my head around them and get in on the conversation about these movies and watch the fourth for that matter. I truly viewed these movies with an open mind and whatever my final thoughts were on each film, it's all about a proper discussion about cinema. I want to get in on the conversation about these movies and that's that. Without further ado, let's get into my thoughts about them "robots in disguise." TRANSFORMERS (2007) I must say that this film has one of the single greatest teasers trailers of all time with the silhouette of a Decepticon destroying the Mars Rover. I'll put a link at the end ...

*Directed by Alex Kurtzman *Starring Tom Cruise, Sofia Boutella, Annabelle Wallis, Russell Crowe, and Jake Johnson The Plot: In the middle of a military operation in Iraq a couple agents and an explorer stumble across an ancient burial containing the sarcophagus of an Egyptian princess (Sofia Boutella) who is then reawakened and links her consciousness to one of the agents, Nick (Tom Cruise) in which a curse is unleashed and the princess strives to wreak havoc to gain immortality. For those who do not know, this is the first film to kick off the next shared universe with the Universal Movie Monster characters called the Dark Universe. So as the first film in this next big franchise it certainly has energy in its action sequences, which I must say were very well orchestrated and undeniably fun to watch on screen. The effort shows in Alex Kurtzman's direction to make the visual aspect of the film really leap out. I have no doubt that if Kurtzman makes more films in the futur...

*Directed by Patty Jenkins *Starring Gal Gadot, Chris Pine, Connie Nielsen, Danny Huston, Elena Anaya, Robin Wright, David Thewlis, Lucy Davis, Saïd Taghmaoui, Ewen Bremner, and Eugene Brave Rock The Plot: From a faraway island called Themyscira inhabited only by women, a determined young warrior named Diana leaves home and joins an American spy to fight in the time of World War I in hopes to destroy the enemy's leader in order to end said war, as prophesied from a Greek myth which would then bring about a peaceful balance throughout the world. Unlike most people I'm actually on the bandwagon of people who enjoyed the movies in the DC Extended Universe. I don't mind Warner Bros at all bringing about the whole shared universe franchise deal because I've liked the films they had going to have them all connected. Sure, they might be playing catch up to be like Marvel, but the way in which they're releasing their stuff and telling their stories is different tha...