Hello my loyal fanbase! We have now gotten to the 25th post on this lovely blog, and I thought it was about time I came up with a rating system of sorts after originally not doing one, then doing one a certain way, then changing it. All of that confusion can be cleared up here!
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Other miscellaneous pieces I’ve crafted for the movie fan in all of us.
Top 10 Most Quotable TV Shows
So when I’m not doing a movie review, TV show review, trailer review, thoughts on movie news or a Why I’m Excited/Worried, I’ll just do one of these list type things. Those of you who follow me on Twitter know how much I love TV quotes, so today I thought I’d count down the Top 10 Most Quotable Shows, include a few of my favorites from them and tell you why they’re my favorite.
3 Superhero Movies that Revolutionized the Genre
X-Men (2000)
After the 1997 building-jump that was Batman and Robin (more on that later), there was a slight lull on superhero movies. Up to this point, we had never seen X-Men on the big screen before, so if you add this to the Batman and Robin train wreck, you have a pretty large potential to fail with X-Men. I believe that if X-Men was a piece of crap, then not only would X-Men have stopped right there, but most superhero movies would have ceased for another few years. However, X-Men set the stepping stones to what is still being expanded upon today. X-Men took real-looking characters and made them actually exist. They established a universe in which all of these X-Men existed and where they would actually grow and be real. Comic book-ish movies are fine for comic book-ish fun, but X-Men really took the initiative to begin definitive growth, and a successful franchise, leading us into the superhero worlds that every other superhero film sets up today.
Batman Begins (2005)
So I think of Batman Begins a lot like I think of the PLOT to The Dark Knight Rises. Batman has been gone for eight years in both, and he now has to rise up and prove who he truly is. I wasn’t around for Batman and Robin when it was released, so I don’t have the “praise God in heaven, Batman’s back!” thing that most fans did when seeing this, but I do have an equally valid point. Not only did Batman Begins revolutionize what it meant to be a superhero movie with its dark and realistic story, but it also was a revolution for movies in general. After Batman Begins and its successor the Dark Knight, films started to add a grittier and more bitter feel for added realism. Sometimes it works, sometimes it’s overkill, in either case, you can thank Christopher Nolan. The Dark Knight Trilogy’s realism has inspired countless film series to do the same in adding a darker tone and film method techniques. What Batman Begins sets up, and what the entire Trilogy continues, is not only the future of the superhero genre, but it’s the future of most crime-thrillers. And for launching that, we can thank Batman Begins.
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