The Foxy Film Fan

Man of Steel (2013) Zack Snyder, The first film I saw of yours was 300 , and I feel as though I'm stating the obvious when I say it was decent; of course it was, it was the film which launched a thousand memes, and the visual style which accompanied it was unlike anything ever attempted before. It certainly wasn't one of my favorite movies, but I enjoyed it enough to consider it warranting a second or third viewing. Next, I saw Watchmen . I now understand that my opinion is exceedingly unpopular among the majority of film and comic book fans, but I absolutely adored Watchmen . For years it was my favorite movie based off of a comic book (since then Guardians of the Galaxy  has taken that space in my heart), I adored the darkness of it, the stunning gritty visuals (back when being gritty and dark was actually an original concept and hadn't been used in absolutely every other superhero movie ever), the choice of music, and the way that it so beautifully translated a ...

The Take (2016) The Take  is an action movie which was nearly titled Bastille Day , but I'm glad it wasn't because that would have been a very difficult title to turn into a pun about how terrible this film was. While I wish I could say it started with promise, that was hardly the case. This film opens with the classic white text in the bottom left-hand corner of the screen describing the current location of the film; in this case, it's Paris (which raises the question: why not simply show a shot of the Eiffel tower and allow your audience to connect the dots?). The plot is confusing, I'll admit, but I will try to explain it to you as simply as possible. Idris Elba plays a rude and sarcastic cop who seems to be stuck in the whole "good cop, bad cop" routine, but is yet to find a good cop in order to round him out a bit more. He's completely unlikable throughout the majority of the movie, and the film makes no effort at providing any depth or backg...

Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016) The action genre is perhaps the most popular genre of film. The addition of CGI to modern cinema brought along endless possibilities for fantastic stories, it brought unimaginable levels of creative freedom and provided directors and screenwriters the ability to take characters to far off lands and into other universes to face off against horrifying monsters beyond our wildest dreams. Unfortunately, none of this is what filmmakers have been giving us for the past several years. Instead, we have received an endless supply of remakes. Sit back and think of the last action movie you saw which wasn't based on something else. The last action movie which wasn't inspired by a novel, a reinterpretation of an older movie, based off of a toy, or some bizarre sequel which also serves as a prequel to a film which has long since been forgotten. It's practically impossible. Even fantastic recent releases in the action genre aren...