Thursday, 14 June 2012

Avengers and Prometheus after a long time in Stasis

Lets seen then, new post.
What have I been doing with my life?
I've finished my first year of University. w00t w00t.
I've been to see a few films:
Avengers (Twice)
Prometheus (Twice)
and if I seen anything else I can't really remember. Mirror Mirror too, I think.

So I'll talk about these films for a bit.
Avengers.
Ooft.
I love Marvel movies, even enjoyed the Incredible Hulk when I actually sat down and watched it.
So come the 26 of April, I had a bad day, coursework got on top of me and dragged me down into the dumps.
Then my friend walked into my room and was like "Wanna go watch Avengers?"
I was up and on top of the world, sitting in the cinema with a Gin and Tonic in hand, ogling the people who had come dressed up as said Avengers.
Needless to say, the movie was amazing. No doubt it wasn't going to be.
Well, I was a bit worried that because of the huge hype about it, it would be a slight let down.
God, I was wrong. If the action didn't do it for you the comedy sure did, a majority of it one liners but still absolutely amazing. The Hulk stealing a huge part of the show in his "Puny God" scene with Loki.
And have you heard the avengers theme?
I love it. I like soundtracks and scores and this film had both.
The soundtrack was more rock based with bands such as Silverstein, Buckcherry and Shinedown's songs being selected.
I think my favourites are "Even if I could" from Papa Roach, "I'm Alive"from Shinedown and "Unbroken" from Black Veil Brides.
Well worth a listen.

As for the Score, written by Alan Silvestri, who's famous for doing scores such as Back to the Future, Predator and Forrest Gump, he also did the score for Captain America: The First Avenger.
A majority of the soundtracks takes elements from the main Avengers theme, an amazing ring of trumpets over the top of the track.
One piece of music from the score I can listen to forever, is "Assemble" from the Avengers Score.
It takes a few minutes but then you get the recognizable trumpets singing over the top.
And Boom, here it is:



Okay, and now for Prometheus.
I wanted to see this, so I sat down and had my own like Alien marathon (Cause no one would watch them with me)
But I really liked them so it was all good, the best I think being the first Alien, cause it was hilarious. Just the classic chest-bursting scene, I laughed so much, though it did freak me out a bit, the way the thing downs down the throat, it makes my own throat feel all clogged and scary.

So of I went to see Prometheus, merrily along with my friend, in 3D cause it wasn't being shown in 2D.
Well the thing is, I went to see it twice, cause I went to see it with my friend, then went for my friend's birthday.
It was harder to sit through the second time, but about 45 minutes to the end it just picks up and rolls on so smoothly, I think it's cause I knew what was going to happen so it was like "Get on with it!"
I can't rally pick my favourite moment, but it might be the beginning scene with David, the android, walking around the ship whilst everyone else is in stasis.
"The trick...is not minding that it hurts."
That, and the end. If you've seen it, you know what I'm on about. 
I'm not kidding when I say, I think an Alien is adorable.
If it was in front of me, maybe a bit more scary, but whilst it's on screen, I can love it all I want.

Now the thing I was most impressed with with Prometheus, was the trailer. The David 8 one.
http://www.weylandindustries.com/david, you can watch it here.
Now, I love Michael Fassbender, I loved him in X-Men:First Class, Inglourious Basterds. And I still want to watch Shame which I will do sometimes.
But just him as David. Wow, I went to see it again, pretty much just for him. But the detail, they go into on the Weyland Industries website, like how he's made and just little details which means they  obviously thought a lot about advertisement and such. And even then on the site you can make David act out emotions. Now to be fair, his face doesn't move much. But he still looks dayum good.
Am I right, or am I right?

As for Noomi Rapace. This beautiful Swedish actress and has charmed some of us from The Millennium Trilogy, the original version. However for some people I'm betting she didn't appear on screens til Sherlock Holmes: Game of Shadows, which she was AMAZING in.
In Prometheus she is on a completely different level.
I'm in awe of her, she's still like one of my favourite actress', next to Scarlett Johannson and maybe Rachel McAdams.
And in Prometheus, she must have worked like hell because she did  hell of a lot of running, sooo much running, I felt tired just watching her.Running towards this, running away from that, running towards this, rolling away from that. Completely kicking ass every step of the way.

Now I don't know if you've noticed but I'm getting slightly tired, so I'm writing less.
So, I think I'm going to go now, and when I come back I'll probably write a blog post on Robert Downey Jr, I've been watching a load of his films lately.

Happy reading til next time~

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