Great Movies about Great Heroes

1 - The Amazing Spider-Man (2012) – Directed by Marc Webb; With Andrew Garfield, Emma Stone and Rhys Ifans.

2 - The Dark Knight (2008) – Directed by Christopher Nolan; With Christian Bale, Michael Caine, Gary Oldman, Heath Ledger, Morgan Freeman and Aaron Eckhart.

3 - The Dark Knight Rises (2012) – Directed by Christopher Nolan; With Christian Bale, Michael Caine, Gary Oldman, Morgan Freeman, Tom Hardy and Anne Hathaway

4 - Iron Man (2008) – Directed by Jon Favreau; With Robert Downey Jr., Terrence Howard, Jeff Bridges, Gwyneth Paltrow and Paul Bettany.

5 - The Avengers (2012) – Directed by Joss Whedon; With Robert Downey Jr., Chris Evans, Mark Ruffalo, Chris Hemsworth, Scarlett Johansson, Jeremy Renner, Tom Hiddlestone, Samuel L. Jackson, Gwyneth Paltrow and Paul Bettany.

6 - 300 (2006) – Directed by Jack Synder; With Gerard Butler, Lena Headley, Dominc West, David Wenham , Andrew Tiernan and Rodrigo Santoro.

7 - Watchmen (2009) – Directed by Jack Synder; With Malin Åkerman, Billy Crudup, Matthew Goode, Jackie Earle Haley, Jefrrey Dean Morgan, Patrick Wilson and Carla Gugino

1- Perhaps the best movie of Spider-Man. The story is all about how Peter Parker deals with the problems of a regular teenage. His problem with girls, the missing parents, living with uncles that don't understand him. And, when he becomes the Spider-Man, everything changes. It's like there's another person inside of Peter, as if all the problems of his life disappear when he suits up. It's interesting to see the composition of Lizard, one of the most important villains of Spidey, how Curt Connors becomes a monster, just to get his arm back. And, it's really good to see, finally, Gwen Stacy, as she should be, in a movie. The love of Peter's life, and of every spider-fan.

2 – The masterpiece. I could write pages and pages about this movie, but it not will express how good it really is. It should be present in EVERY list of good movies. Top 10, Top 5, Top 500 of history, it doesn't matter. It has to be there. The Dark Knight shows us a completely different side of Batman. Not the rich man behind the mask, Bruce Wayne, but Batman. How he deals with the pressure of being a myth, not just a hero, and how to defeat the Joker, his greatest enemy. How to defeat a guy with no normal motivations, just desiring the chaos?

3 – It’s really hard to understand the The Dark Knight Rises. After the astonishing The Dark Knight, you expect a movie even better, with more action and psychological dramas. But in this movie you don’t have this. I mean, you have some action and some drama, but this is not what movie is about. It’s a story of a fallen Bruce Wayne, returning from the dark, or ashes, to save the city from Bane, one of his greatest enemies. In the previous movie, the story was about Batman, with Wayne being left aside of the history. But in TDKR we see the whole story around Bruce Wayne. Perhaps not the perfect way to end the trilogy, but it was a good way.

4 – Robert Downey Jr. IS Iron Man. Perhaps is the best way to start a review about this movie. Everybody knows, or should know, that both Tony Stark and Robert Downey Jr. used to have problems with drugs and alcohol. And they have walk through hard times and need some help to return to the limelight. And there it is, the best Tony Stark in story. You can also find in the movie the awesome Pepper Potts, and the great Obediah Stane, but Tony Stark is the center of the movie, and perhaps the center of the world.

5 – How so many stars can work together without any of them be forgotten in the end? That’s was the greatest challenge faced by Joss Whedon in his movie. How can Iron Man, Captain America, Thor, Black Widow, Hawkeye and Hulk appear in the same movie having the exactly same importance? At the first time, even I, the greatest Avengers' fan of all, had my doubts about it. But they did. All heroes are necessary to defeat the Chitauri invasion and all act like a team, like a superteam, when the time for being a team has come.

6 - Writer-director Zack Snyder set out to faithfully adapt Frank Miller’s graphic novel 300 and his slavish devotion to the source material pays off with a visually stunning, innovative epic unlike anything I’ve seen. Aesthetically speaking, 300 is a remarkable piece of art. It’s a movie about freedom, fight for what is right and all those things, but if you want to see some action, perhaps this is the place where you gonna find it.

7 – In an alternate 1980s America, costumed crime fighters have been outlawed, and someone is killing retired heroes. Meanwhile, USSR and United States careen toward all-out nuclear war. The legendary Alan Moore-Dave Gibbons graphic novel comes at last to the big screen after many false starts over the last 20 years—and it was worth the wait. The director Zack Snyder eschew the stylized look of other graphic-novel films (Sin City, 300) in favor of a sharply gleaming realism, and it’s a good call, giving the complex, delirious story a hard-edged sense of conviction. The adaptation from comics was made in such a perfect way that you don’t know for sure what came first. Perhaps the best adaptation from a graphic novel ever.

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District 9 Review

Of Neill Blomkamp's direction, known for contributions for Smallville, Stargate SG-1, and several others TV's series, District 9 is a tale of an extraterrestrial spaceship that landed on Earth in 1982, more precisely in Johannesburg, South Africa. After three months, a team decides to investigate the ship and found out a million of sick extraterrestrials, just waiting there for the rescue. And, after 28 years, nothing has happened, any attack from the E.T's, any development on Earth's technology. So the aliens started to being treated as refugees, as a group of sick things, that don't deserve any type of respect from humans.

Instead of thinking about the welfare of aliens the government only cares about the use of weapons which are within the alien ship, and for that they need to find a way to remove all the beings from that place, allowing the free exploration of the ship. But there's a problem. All the weapons can only be trigged with the presence of alien DNA in the user. When the MNU (Multi-Nacional United), a company created to deal with the aliens, decides do send Wikus van de Merwe (Sharlito Copley) to help the process of removal, the agent is exposed to a strange biotechnology, which changes van de Merwe's DNA, and the tension between aliens and humans just escalates.

The MNU finds out that Mikus is the key to activate the alien technology, and then he becomes the most wanted man in the planet, only having as option hiding into the District 9.

Dealing with a lot of complicated issues, just like racism, prejudice and social segregation in the South Africa, the country where the Apartheid happened, District 9 is a really good movie. The director, Neill Blomkamp, manages to excite the viewer from beginning to end, not revealing details of his work before the crucial moment. The work that was made with he soundtrack and the picture was spectacular, capable of improving the quality of the movie.

Blomkamp wrote down this movie with the help of his old friend, Peter Jackson, a well-known director of Hollywood's movies, based on a short film, named Alive in Joburg, directed by himself and Sharlito Copley, actor in District 9. The movie's ideas, just like humanity, xenophobia and social segregation were present in this short-story movie, and the full movie's name came from a place called District Six, one of those sites where the Apartheid happened. Such a whole climate was brought by Blomkamp, bringing to the screen a realistic, gritty and fantastic of science fiction in this District 9. Perhaps not since Alien, of James Cameron's direction, or Blade Runner, Ridley Scott's creation, or even more recently, the masterpiece of Wachovski's brothers, Matrix, we haven't a movie with this perfection. It have become clear to everyone that Peter Jackson's view and support to Neil Blomkamp was right, and the youngest have a long way forward.