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 ...

Suicide Squad (2016) Immediately after the release of Suicide Squad  reviews poured in, each one dragging the movie through the mud with reports of how absolutely terrible it was from beginning to end, of how Jared Leto's performance of the Joker was the worst performance of the Joker in the history of Batman, and of how the film was a confusing and jumbled mess. Perhaps it is for this reason that my hopes were low enough to the ground for me to be pleasantly surprised after my first viewing of the infamous dreaded Suicide Squad . Suicide Squad almost immediately gained notoriety when press photos of Jared Leto as the Joker sporting terrible tattoos (such as "damaged" scrawled across his forehead as if he's the protagonist of an angsty sixteen year old girl's fanfiction) and a grill, and with people both dreading and eager to see his performance if only for the hope that it would fall into the "so bad it's good" category of filmmaking, the ma...

Captain America: Civil War (2016) Film is a beautiful medium of story telling which opens paths to communicating ideas and tales in ways that other forms of art could never accomplish, through the blending of sights and sounds and the addition of new computer generated effects film is able to tell stories which have never been told before. So, why is it that this beautiful and fascinating form of art is being used to tell the same stories time after time? Over and over again we see the same stories, borrowed from books, comics, or even older films being updated in the name of adding special effects or somehow bettering something which was already made the way the artist originally envisioned it. Is this use of film truly the best we can accomplish? Please don't misinterpret this article as a call for putting a stop to the films in the marvel franchise, or the next installment in Star Wars  (believe me, I'm as excited for Rogue One  as you are), but as a plea to filmma...