After assembling the Avengers in 2012 to great shawarma swarming success, 'Buffy The Vampire Slayer' director Joss Whedon proved Jon Favreau and Robert Downey Jr.'s 'Chef' cooked up 'Iron Man' franchise starter was the right pot stirrer to set off the Avengers initiative like a gas oven, or Samuel L. Jackson appearing in your penthouse (what you don't have a penthouse?!) uninvited, late at night like you've left the stove on. No matter how many green guys or hammers fell in the middle of nowhere like a frozen capsicle, the Avengers were here to stay. Even the ones from Budapest, no matter how you remember it. 'The Avengers' changed the comic book, cinematic game just when you thought the M.C.U. was something Heat Ledger's Joker wanted to be locked up in. And the 'Serenity' of Whedon like a fanboy 'Firefly' was given the 'Age Of Ulton'...for three hours.
'Ultron' may have given us James Spader, Vision and what would result in Cap being worthy of lifting the hammer of Thor (I knew it), but it also gave Whedon more problems that the more press promotion interviews he'd have the more he'd promote exactly that. Let's just say like Loki in his final frame of the first movie his hands were tied...even if his mouth wasn't gagged. What happened to that original appearance from Captain Marvel? Do we really have two Quicksilver's running at the same time (with Evan Peters' 'Days Of Future Past' X-Men rumoured to be making a multi-verse appearance like Aaron Taylor-Johnson's at home with Disney +'s new 'WandaVision' series for your television sets this fall)? And how the f### does the "age" of Ultron last just one movie? The film was fun, but this sophomore slumping sequel lacked the spark of the first film before the Russo Brothers tidied all that destruction (that movies like 'Batman v Superman' were much maligned for) up with the 'Civil War' Sakovia accords and their history making and breaking 'Infinity War' and 'Endgame' double. Remember the best, most heartbreaking death scene in the opening of 'Endgame' were Hawkeye loses his whole family in a thunder strike before becoming lost in Tokyo as the Ronin samurai in Japan? Well SNAP! That scene wouldn't have happened if it wasn't for Joss. Fighting for the family time of Clint Barton's nest to not be cut for time in 'Age'.
Edgar Wright's 'Ant-Man' (imagine that hot fuzz with a Cornetto baby drivers). Most recently Scott Derrickson's 'Doctor Strange and the Multiverse of Madness' (although the addition of Sam Rami may just bring back your friendly (not if you've watched Michael Cera in Jessica Chastain's 'Molly's Game'), neighbourhood Toby Maguire) featuring a study in the Scarlet Witch like Thor's 'Ragnarok' did a comic crossover Planet Hulk. More directors have dropped out of Marvel movies than we've had Spider-Men. But it's not just the M.C.U. DC have had their fair share of problems too...but Martha's the word on that. And now with game changers before 'Black Panther' and 'Captain Marvel' in 'Wonder Woman' and fun films like 'Aquaman', 'Shazam' and the 'Suicide Squad' emancipating 'Birds Of Prey' for Harley Quinn can we not call it like it is now...even? The successful shows DC have to their credit too on the box more than level the playing field like Tim Roth becoming an Abomination. So let's not be green with envy now Marvelites. This isn't the Lakers and Celtics. There's room to like both like Schwarzenegger and Stallone.
HBO this weekend have made their latest 'Watchman' series available for free worldwide, without a need for a subscription service. Watch this! In reaction to the recent Black Lives Matters protests, the 'Watchman' series has an important story to tell you about what happened in Tulsa in 1921. The same weekend Trump can't even draw a crowd there. They're probably at hope being told how it really is by HBO. The original 'Watchmen' movie was directed by Zack Snyder. The same Snyder of the criminally underrated like Ben Affleck's Batman, 'Dawn Of Justice'. The same Snyder who after hosting a 'Man Of Steel' locked down, quarantine watch party with special guest, Superman himself Henry Cavill announced that the 'Justice League' movie would be coming to HBO's new streaming service HBO Max next year...his Snyder Cut that is. Time to fix that moustache problem. Zack Snyder left the 'League' after a family tragedy and a new director with a superhero reputation stepped in to stick the landing. But making it more like a Marvel movie the gritty DC style looked like it was subserviently bowing to the mainstream masses. And who was the director in charge of all that? Joss Whedon! Now a few years and a Batman change later to Edward Cullen of all people (but go bats### crazy. Robert Pattinson will own this be twilight, now winging it) it looks like justice is about to be served with this new assemble. Comic book cults can't wait to see the cut they've been scratching for the minute they left cinemas after watching Whedon's decent but not definitive movie (the one DC product that actually isn't up to par). Although some see in this social media age of this actually being a case of studios bowing to trolling toxic fandom online. 'Fury' and 'Bright' director David Ayer who says he has his own cut of 'Suicide Squad' with more underrated Jared Leto for the pack disagrees. We do too. We say it's studio heads finally listening to the people they should be with faith...the fans. The people that actually want the product. Not those in charge just concerned with charging the most money it can make. And now with this news we may finally have a new trend of seeing big tent pole blockbuster movies across all sorts of franchises as the vision of the original director intended, no more fingerprints like 'Men In Black'. Here they come off the cutting room floor like countless others we don't know about or will never see like Nicolas Cage's Superman (could be a good thing) and Clint Eastwood's Batman (do you feel lucky...punk). All for a new age in Hollywood that needs a new direction (not director) post COVID cinema closure to get peeps back in seats. Now if only Mickey Mouse could put those big ears to use and listen. The people have spoken. Cut. TIM DAVID HARVEY.
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