http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the_amazing_spider_man_2/
The Amazing Spider-Man 2 is out overseas and early reviews don't look so hot. It's at 70% after 44 reviews 2 weeks before US release. By comparison The Winter Soldier was at 94% around the same point.
so, i tried watching Man of Steel on HBO on demand last night. does it get better? after an hour plus, nothing had happened and they kept having drawn out fight scenes. it really sucked. should i finish it today?
Scene: Amy Acker is doing a little bit of stretching before she goes for a run. Earbud goes in and she is off, we see(clearly) a man is walking behind her causing the lights around him to go out. After two seconds of running her music dies and she turns around to see(again, clearly) the guy coming towards her, more lights are going out. SHIELD swoops in and points some lights at the guy.
Now any other show, and I mean any other show, would've used that scene to build tension. We would have seen Ms. Acker stretching and running, passing numerous lights, establishing a general feel for the area. There would certainly be some wide shots so we could see the lights ahead and behind. And then we would slowly start to see the lights going out behind her as the darkness is closing in. And she would be unaware of all of this until the darkness is about to envelop her as her music dies. We would only see the man at the very last moment, if at all.
also what bugged me: the interrogation of fitz and simmons. it went like this:
"what's in the box?"
(other agents' answers)
fitz: how big is the box?
"just say the first answer that comes into your head."
fitz: simmons.
simmons: that's a hard one. let me think. the tardis.
any thoughtful writer (or editor) would've put that together thus:
"what's in the box?"
(other agent's answer)
fitz: (argues about the size of the box)
(other agent's answer)
simmons: that's a hard one. let me think.
"just say the first answer that comes into your head."
fitz: simmons.
simmons: the tardis.
The show established with Lorelei and last week that he does have some affection for Skye so there was some truth. It was lame that he was able to use the old fingernail trick though. I thought he was going to break out of the chair and take down Koenig.
The end product works with Coulson left to pick up the pieces.
a regular SHEILD agent is a step below the Black Widow? "Robin's just a step below Batman"
a regular SHEILD agent is a step below the Black Widow? "Robin's just a step below Batman"
a regular SHEILD agent is a step below the Black Widow? "Robin's just a step below Batman"
He's not a regular SHIELD agent though. He's a specialist so he's supposed to be "a step below" those guys. The same is supposed to be true for Malinda May. That's why Ward was able to take on more than a dozen regular SHIELD agents by himself a few episodes ago.
I do wish they would make the SHIELD agents more competent though. How Agent Koening handled the interrogations, all of the love interests, how inexplicably trusting they can be and so on needs work.
The show has a lot of room for improvement. Everything from the dialogue to character development needs to be improved. Hopefully, they work out a lot of the bugs with a few more seasons under their belt.
Holy. Shit.
Arrow is setting up one hell of a season ending arc. Again. Tonight's episode left me genuinely in shock.