J’s Top 5 Summer Movies 2014

You know, do yourself a favor and go see this movie now.

The X-Men Series is finally fixed because for the longest time none of us could get The Last Stand out of our heads and plenty of Wolverine Fans didn’t like X-Men Origins at all.   It became so bad and expensive that Fox decided to bring about First Class that introduces the X-Men and explain the friendship between Erik and Xavier.  This movie despite some of its flaws became very successful, but plenty of us are still fans of the Wolverine Era. So Fox managed to get it right by presenting Days of Future Past to bring together the casts from the original X-Trilogy and the First Class.

While dramatic in some spots, the movie explains the purpose of time travel, points out various reference points in the X-Men Canon, that humors and entertains us all which was missing in X3.  The only thing is that kinda bugged me was the fact that Wolverine’s claws weren’t metal in the past but meh the movie was too good to care.

Plus, The X-Men are getting a chance to battle Apocalypse in the upcoming sequel to this. 

Yep TMNT 2014 comes in 3^rdbecause despite the hate thrown at it for the Turtle Designs, Michael Bay Involvement or whatever, the movie was pretty entertaining, and you know why? Because it did what it was supposed to do.

This is not a rehash of the same old mythos it is in fact a reimagining of the Turtles Mythos while making references to please those of us who loved the turtles from the 80s, and entertain the turtle fans of today.

This movie has been more between a hit and miss in the news lately. Much like how fanboys really cares about comparing Marc Webb’s style to Sam Raimi’s.   I will say the movie has incredible features of Spider-man fighting to keep the city protected but it dwelled too much on the different villains coming together or Spider-man’s love life with Gwen.   It didn’t help that the trailer gave away really important aspects of the film, and in some regard plenty of scenes didn’t even make it into the theatrical cut.    I would’ve been fine if they just did the original thing and kept the focus between Spider-man and Electro while keeping the Rhino and Harry battles as a hidden subplot within the movie.   Electro to me was way underused in the film, whereas most would say he’s overpowered, I think we didn’t get to spend enough with him where Spidey would consider him a threat to the city (At least in the 2^nd battle).   It felt like Spidey just saw him and said “Oh I have to stop him” rather than it having a solid connection like The Lizard and him in the first movie.   It felt more like the real villain was Harry than Electro and that was kinda annoying especially since they’re doing this whole “avengers” angle with the Sinister six.   

Despite its flaws, the movie was decent in following the angle set by the first one in 2012 with Peter’s parents,  Spidey becoming more of a hero, and following through with Great Power comes Great Responsibility.   It’s just next time I would like to see one villain for Spidey to stop with some clear goals.

Hercules at Number 5 because it is the one film so far that wasn’t a Superhero one, it made you take a look at the legend of Hercules and turn it upside down to where Hercules is currently a mercenary due to some misfortune from his past.   He leads a band of other helpers who aid in his confrontations of his labors.   This time though we lightly hear about the labors and he aids a king in fighting against an army of rebels but throughout the movie, you’re wondering if he’s really fighting on the right side or not because the King seems to have some ulterior motives in store for Hercules and his allies.   I liked this movie due to the adventures, the effects, and the change of pace from Superhero films but would you believe that this movie was directed by the same man who directed X3?  The irony is astounding.