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by Nigel Druitt
As Marvel Studios begins their big push to the 2012 release of The Avengers, their films are increasingly taking on more of a soap-opera-like continuity between them. This serialization might be a little aggravating, but so far, it’s not keeping the films from being enjoyable in their own right (at least for the most part).
Still, comic book superhero films in general (and Marvel films in particular) are only becoming more prevalent nowadays. This year, we’ll see the X-Men prequel, X-Men: First Class. And, only five years after the hit-and-miss (mostly miss) Spider-Man 3, the webslinger will be getting his very own shiny reboot in 2012.
But in The Avengers is Marvel’s juggernaut, and before it brings together Iron Man and The Incredible Hulk, it has to introduce more members of its roster in their very own films. It can be a little exhausting trying to keep up with these Avengers, so if we really only want to check out one Marvel movie this summer, which should it be? With that question in mind, Flickchart‘s Reel Rumbles take on a slightly different form as we present: Pre-Rumbles: Thor vs. Captain America: The First Avenger.
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- Tags: 2009, 2012, A Perfect Getaway, Ang Lee, Anthony Hopkins, Beowulf, Captain America, Captain America: The First Avenger, Chris Evans, Chris Hemsworth, Fantastic Four, Hamlet, Hayley Atwell, Henry V, Honey, Hugo Weaving, Hulk, I Shrunk the Kids, Ian McKellen, Iron Man, Joe Johnston, Kat Dennings, Kenneth Branagh, Marvel, Much Ado About Nothing, Natalie Portman, Patrick Stewart, Reel Rumbles, Spider-Man, Spider-Man 3, Stanley Tucci, Star Trek, Superman, The Avengers, The Incredible Hulk, The Lord of the Rings, The Rocketeer, The WOlfman, Thor, Tommy Lee Jones, Wild Wild West, X-Men, X-Men Origins: Wolverine, X-Men: First Class, X-Men: The Last Stand
by Nigel Druitt
In This Corner…
Back in the days before 1995, before Pixar came along and ruined everything, the Walt Disney Studio was responsible for the greatest animated films of all time. In 1937, Walt Disney changed the face of cinema forever with the first feature-length animated film, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. Every few years heralded the advent of a new Disney masterpiece, but following The Jungle Book in 1967 (the final animated film Walt himself oversaw before his death), Disney animation hit a bit of a slump.
It wasn’t until 1989, with the success of The Little Mermaid, that the studio’s second Golden Age of animation arrived, and it lasted until CGI (and the obvious storytelling prowess of Pixar Studios) moved in and brutally kicked traditional hand-drawn animation out of the cinemas. It was a magic age that brought us films the likes of Aladdin, Mulan and Tarzan, but there were two films that stood head and shoulders above the rest.
Both were films that told classic stories in a way that only Disney animation could achieve. Both reveled in critical and box office success. (One was able to claim for nine years that it was the highest-grossing animated movie of all time; the other was able to claim for 19 years that it was the only animated movie to ever be nominated for a Best Picture Academy Award–until an expansion of the category to ten nominees and this film came along.) And both were unquestionably among the most brilliant jewels in Disney’s animation crown. But this, folks, is Flickchart, and there’s only one question to ask: Which movie is better? Find out in this edition of Reel Rumbles (now Super-Sized, with a special Bonus Round!): The Lion King vs. Beauty and the Beast.
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- Tags: 1937, 1967, 1989, 1991, 1994, 1995, 1996, 2001, 2003, 2006, Aladdin, Alan Menken, Angela Lansbury, Atlantis: The Lost Empire, Beauty and the Beast, David Ogden Stiers, eddie murphy, Elton John, Ernie Sabella, fairy tale, film, films, Flickchart, Gary Trousdale, Hamlet, Hans Zimmer, Howard Ashman, James Earl Jones, Jeremy Irons, Jerry Orbach, Jonathan Taylor Thomas, Kirk Wise, Linda Hamilton, Matthew Broderick, movies, Mulan, Nathan Lane, Open Season, Paige O'Hara, Pirates of the Caribbean, Pixar, Reel Rumbles, Rob Minkoff, Robby Benson, Robert Guillaume, Roger Allers, Ron Perlman, Rowan Atkinson, Shakespeare, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Tarzan, The Haunted Mansion, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, The Jungle Book, The Lion King, The Little Mermaid, Tim Rice, Walt Disney
by Dan
What’s new to the Blu-ray and DVD Release Schedule This Week?
Me and Orson Welles (Target Exclusive – DVD & Blu-ray)
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How would you rank it amongst the best period films of all time?
Flickchart Ranking: #6842 Times Ranked: 269 Win Percentage: 73% How Many Top-20′s: 0 Users
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Orson Welles was The Man, pure and simple. He’s one of those guys along with Cary Grant, Clint Eastwood, Errol Flynn, Rudy Ray Moore, and Charlton Heston that the movies will never see anybody like ever again.
The Good, The Bad, The Weird (DVD & Blu-ray)
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How would you rank it amongst the best action movies of all time?
Flickchart Ranking: #5964 Times Ranked: 543 Win Percentage: 74% How Many Top-20′s: 1 Users |
Crazed Korean retelling of The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly – and really, how could you ever not want to see a movie described as such? This is already shipping to me from Netflix.
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- Tags: Black Orpheus, Cemetery Junction, cop out, Did You Hear About the Morgans?, Django, Furry Vengeance, Give 'EM Hell Malone, Hamlet, L'Enfance Nue, Me and Orson Welles, mother, Red Riding, Shock, Temple Grandin, The Assassin Next Door, The Bonfire of the Vanities, The City of Your Final Destination, The Crazies, The Good The Bad The Weird, The Last Song, The Losers, The Loveless, The New York Ripper, The Prowler, The Shape of Things to COme, The Stendhal Syndrome, Two Evil Eyes