It will probably take a while for all the waves to soften. After the announcement…
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This summer Breaking Bad comes to an end.
The second half of the fifth Season will conclude the story of Walter White (Bryan Cranston) and Jesse Pinkman (Aaron Paul). Just eight more episodes until the end of the series – eight more episodes separating this series from achieving a „perfect score“ in my book.
A perfect score would mean that the series never made any serious misssteps or dragged out certain storylines or forced character changes for the sake of it. It would mean that Breaking Bad was a series with an artistic backbone using the TV medium to tell one of the greatest stories out there.
- Why the perfect score is important
- Why this relates to Lost and my therapy
- Why a failure of Breaking Bad would mean additional therapy for me
- and what this has to do with Game of Thrones
all this after the jump:
A year ago o July 20th I saw one of my most hyped up movies: The Dark Knight Rises
The conclusion of Christopher Nolan’s Batman trilogy or – as it is now know – the Dark Knight Trilogy.
Only a year?
After some initial uncertainties with The Dark Knight Rises as a final installment I went back to rewatch the trilogy and see it as a whole. And the more I thought about it, the more all the pieces fit together.
Many problems I had with the plot – especially the idea of legacy – were because I was expecting a different take on Batman but it is undeniably clear that Christopher Nolan has had a vision for a story and never compromised. We can agree and disagree but it is truly a sign of a storyteller expressing his vision of a character.
And because of this Nolan’s trilogy is the measure stick for superhero trilogies and movie trilogies in general. And it will probably remain for quite some time.
To celebrate a fantastic and unique run for 7 years in the theaters I listed 3 moments from the 3 movies – as well as a special mention – to highlight why I think that this trilogy stands tall above most blockbusters
Comic Con is on its way and we can expect many genre news in the following days. IGN has revealed a poster for Godzilla (coming on May 16th 2014) directed by Gareth Edwards (Monsters (2012)).
The poster (as well as the variant) is done by Mondo and as usual with Mondo it has a very unique style:
Alien invasions with flying saucers are cheesy and no longer cool…
So the alien monsters in Pacific Rim are sent through a dimensional portal originating at the bottom of the pacific!
Despicable Me 2 is the sequel to the surprise hit Despicable Me which told the story of supervillain Gru (voiced by Steve Carell) who had debts at the bank of evil and tried to get some respect by stealing the moon.
But if you have seen the trailers you won’t be surprised to find out that the movie isn’t really interested in continuing the story of the characters. The yellow minions were front and center in all the trailers.Very similar to Ice Age 2 the movie expands on the things that people loved from part 1 while doing little with the other characters.
With 2 sequels to Toy Story and one unwanted sequel to Cars Pixar was no longer delivering one original movie after the other. Last year they returned to original territory with Brave with mixed results.
While I really enjoyed Brave as a kids’ movie it had notable flaws that previous Pixar tales had not. So when a prequel to Monsters Inc. was announced my expectations were modest at best.
Would Monsters University be the final confirmation that Pixar had lost its mojo?