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The story picks up two years after the events of the first Shazam! movie. Billy and his foster siblings have had some time to learn and adjust to being superheroes in Philadelphia. They often transform into their magical alter egos with supersuits and rescue their fellow men and women.
Read MoreHere are two videos of the opening of DC Comic’s Wonder Woman 1984 and The Birds of Prey and the Fantabulous Emancipation of one Harley Quinn 4k/Blu-ray Best Buy Exclusive Steelbooks.
Read MorePart Two is the history lesson for the movie and it is expanded upon and contains a lot of detail and information regarding the enemy and their motivations. But lucky for us, not only does it contain a lot of exposition, we also get to see a lot of action. As Diana narrates the history lesson to Bruce we are also shown the story so as to see it firsthand.
Read MoreThis Part is a series of introductions to our beloved heroes.
Read MoreThe Prologue serves as a good set up and reminder of where our heroes were the last time we saw them. Superman has just been killed by Doomsday as a way to save humanity while Lois Lane, Wonder Woman, and Batman look on.
Read MoreFollowing on the heels of the recently released Wonder Woman 1984, a third Wonder Woman film has been greenlit and said to be fast tracked by Warner Bros.
Read MoreWonder Woman 1984 is finally released! The Credible Nerds give their review of the film.
Read MoreThis fan cut consists of scenes from the trailers and some deleted scenes are cut into the existing film and parts are re-scored with Hans Zimmer's music from the earlier films.
Read MoreThe big question was if Justice League would follow in Wonder Woman's footsteps, or go the way of Batman vs Superman: Dawn of Justice (however, I loved Dawn of Justice). Justice League is more Wonder Woman than Dawn of Justice.
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Watertower Music has released the first tracks from the Justice League Motion Picture Soundtrack by Danny Elfman. The first track is titled "Hero's Theme" and the second is "Friends and Foes". While Hero's Theme is a new composition, Friends and Foes does contain hints from John Williams iconic Main Theme from 1978's Superman The Movie. Random Angst is hoping that Danny Elfman also includes themes from previous DC movies and is able to weave them into his original compositions. I think that having this musical continuity is key to tying in previous films and stories recently released by WB and DC. Rupert Gregson-Williams was able to do it with the Wonder Woman soundtrack in a satisfying way, so he was able to show that it can be done and be done well.
Stay tuned for more releases and the entire soundtrack can be pre-ordered now and will be available on November 10th, 2017 (per iTunes).
Watertower Music has also released the titles for the 2-Disc soundtrack.
Disc 1 01. Everybody Knows - Sigrid 02. The Justice League Theme - Logos 03. Hero’s Theme 04. Batman on the Roof 05. Enter Cyborg 06. Wonder Woman Rescue 07. Hippolyta's Arrow 08. The Story of Steppenwolf 09. The Amazon Mother Box 10. Cyborg Meets Diana 11. Aquaman in Atlantis 12. Then There Were Three 13. The Tunnel Fight 14. The World Needs Superman 15. Spark of The Flash 16. Friends and Foes 17. Justice League United 18. Home 19. Bruce and Diana 20. The Final Battle 21. A New Hope 22. Anti-Hero’s Theme 23. Come Together – Gary Clark Jr. and Junkie XL 24. Icky Thump – The White Stripes
Disc 2 01. The Tunnel Fight (Full Length Bonus Track) 02. The Final Battle (Full Length Bonus Track) 03. Mother Russia (Bonus Track)
You can currently stream or buy these two songs on iTunes, Spotify, Soundcloud, and other digital music services.
UPDATE: As of today, Oct 30, 2017, Friends and Foes is no longer available to stream or buy (at least via iTunes). My speculation is that it will be released as a single sometime over the couple of weeks prior to the film release in the theaters. Then it will be available once the album is fully released on November 10, 2017.
"Black and blue. Fight night. The greatest gladiator match in the history of the world: God versus man; day versus night; Son of Krypton versus Bat of Gotham!"- Lex Luthor
Batman versus Superman. When this title was announced at San Diego Comic Con in 2014, it blew my mind! I was eagerly awaiting the announcement of a Man of Steel 2 movie, but this! This, my fellow nerds, was paramount to the Second Coming! Then to top it all off - Wonder Woman was announced to be a part of the movie too!
Batman AND Superman in the same movie?! The Man of Steel AND The Dark Knight at odds one with another?! Wonder Woman fighting alongside the two most iconic superheroes of all time?! Finally! This will be the first time The Trinity would appear on the big screen for fans to enjoy. For the first time we will see Diana Prince in action on film. The potential for greatness and movie making history was finally announced! And let me tell you, this film did not disappoint.
Wait, WHAT?! What is this you are reading? I'm sure you're asking yourself, "Am I truly reading a review of Batman vs. Superman: Dawn of Justice that isn't disparaging the film left and right?" or "Am I understanding this correctly? This guy actually LIKED this movie?!" The answer is yes, you are.
But all joking aside; yes, I did enjoy this movie from the first viewing. I saw it multiple times in the theaters, four times in fact. I would've gone once or twice more had I had the time to do so. I bought the Ultimate Edition when it came out on home video and my appreciation and enjoyment of this film grew even more. The storyline and character development was fleshed out to be more fulfilling and robust with the Ultimate Edition. If this Ultimate Edition had been released in theaters, I believe it would have been better received.
I intend to break this film down into various parts from beginning to end, as well as to write a character analysis for each of the main players in the film, over the next few weeks. To discuss and analyze everything this movie event has to offer would be too long for one blog post. I will attempt to win over those that dislike, are ambivalent, and even hate this movie; as well as reinforce the greatness of this movie with those that do enjoy it. I'm looking forward to this experience as I delve deep into this film, which in my opinion could be considered the greatest movie of 2016. It's only competition being Rogue One: A Star Wars Story.
But at the end of the day, if you don't like the film - that's fine, if you do like the film -great! Either way, life will go on and Warner Bros. will continue to produce and release films from the DC Universe for those that enjoy them.
Listed below are the topics I will address and expound upon, I will activate links to the various topics and characters as I finish writing them.
Batman vs. Superman: Dawn of Justice pt. 1 - Prologue
Batman vs. Superman: Dawn of Justice pt. 2 - The Setup
Batman vs. Superman: Dawn of Justice pt. 3 - Investigations
Batman vs. Superman: Dawn of Justice pt. 4 - The Plan is Set in Motion
Batman vs. Superman: Dawn of Justice pt. 5 - War
Bruce Wayne/Batman
Clark Kent/Kal-El/Superman
Diana Prince/Wonder Woman
Lex Luthor
Lois Lane
Alfred
Zod/Doomsday
One of the most exciting things to come out of San Diego Comic Con this past weekend was a trailer of sorts, of the upcoming Justice League movie. In this exclusive footage, we get to see Bruce Wayne visiting Arthur Curry (Aquaman) and Barry Allen (The Flash) and inviting them to join with him for an upcoming, unknown threat. We see Bruce and Diana Prince (Wonder Woman) planning out how to create a super team. We also see three of them (Bruce, Barry, and Diana) together, along with Cyborg (Victor Stone) walking into an abandoned room.
Following on the heels of Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, where we saw very small glimpses of Aquaman, Flash, and Cyborg, it was great to see them a little longer in this trailer and see more of their personalities as we watch them interact with Bruce. We also briefly see a Mother Box being buried in the ground. We saw two Mother Box's in Dawn of Justice, one that essentially combined with Victor Stone and presumably turned him into Cyborg. The other was in Ultimate Edition, when we see Lex Luthor communing with Steppenwolf (a DC villain and Darkseid follower) and a Mother Box is present.
Justice League is set to be released November 17th 2017.
https://youtu.be/gglkYMGRYlE
We got our first look at the upcoming Wonder Woman movie, as the first trailer and teaser poster was released this weekend at San Diego Comic Con. The trailer was great in that it showed some great action, showed the main characters and gave us a little of their motivations and personalities, but didn't reveal the main plot and left us intrigued.
We were able to see Wonder Woman's abilities and fighting style, which is amazing and promises some great visuals that hopefully are just a glimpse of what we'll see in the actual movie. Wonder Woman is due to be released on June 2nd 2017. Check it out below!
https://youtu.be/5lGoQhFb4NM