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Another year that proved to be ultra successful for Marvel was 2014. Not only were there surprise hits like Captain America: Winter Soldier and Guardians of the Galaxy, but Fox gave us X-Men Days of Future Past. Bryan Singer, the one who has done the X-Men the most justice, at last returns back to the director's chair to not only give us probably the best movie in the franchise but to make up the sins of the past. Also, the original cast members return, as well as the cast of X-Men First Class , so this was indeed a big deal. The world is now a very grim, dystopian future where mutants and even humans are hunted by powerful machines named Sentinels who can adapt themselves to any mutant power. We see our old heroes like Charles Xavier, Magneto, Storm, Kitty Pride, Colossus, Iceman and of course Logan/Wolverine, along with some newcomers like Blink, Warpath, Bishop, and Sunspot. With the help of Kitty, Logan is sent back in time to prevent this world happening. It all began ...

After Thor , Marvel Studios' next movie would take a dive into the past with Captain America . Cap has had a very interesting history, being conceived about 75 years ago. He was perhaps the first big star on Marvel Comics, which was Timely Comics at that time. He even had a film serial in the '40s. So I can assume people had their doubts that Marvel could bring the Star-Spangled Man with a Plan on the big screen in a good way, what with the costume being considered ridiculously outdated today. There has been a movie in the '90s with Matt Salinger in the role but that was when Marvel movies sucked and DC films usually ruled, But again, with a very strong lead and cast, along with good production values, I'd say they gave Cap a good amount of dignity. Steve Rogers (Chris Evans) wants to enlist in the Army, but he gets repeatedly rejected due to his small stature. But he manages to get in, thanks to a doctor named Erskine (Stanley Tucci) who admires his persistence....

Wolverine is given another chance for another solo film. Taking place after X-Men The Last Stand , Logan is in the woods for his Revenant audition. There's even a bear who urinates instead of fighting him. Real classy. He's very despondent about killing Jean Grey, and even sees visions of her very often. But things begin to turn when a mysterious woman named Yuriko comes to him. In a flashback at the beginning,  in a POW camp in Japan during WWII, Logan saves a Japanese soldier from an H-bomb dropping. It turns out the soldier named Yashida is dying and wants to see his mutant saviour. Logan reluctantly agrees to go to Japan with Yuriko who has her own power of seeing in the future. When he meets with Yashida, Logan is offered a chance to have his powers removed and become human. He refuses Yashida's offer. However, his healing is slightly stalled by another mysterious woman named Dr Green who has the power of spreading toxins in people. Not only that, Yashida's gr...

After one successful movie, one average movie, and one subpar sequel, Marvel's next entry would be centered around the God of Thunder. Thor is the first time in the MCU where we'd see bigger, different worlds. This would continue with other movies and expand possibilities. In the world of Asgard, Thor (Chris Hemsworth) is being named ruler by his father Odin (Anthony Hopkins). However, after disobeying Odin to fight back enemies after an invasion, he is banished to Earth where he runs into an astrophysicist named Jane Foster (Natalie Portman), along with Dr. Erik Selvig (Stellan Skarsgard) and her quirky assistant Darcy (Kat Dennings). Along with him, his hammer Mjolnir is shot down to Earth where some people tried to lift it with no avail, and later SHIELD, led by Agent Coulson, come in to build a facility around it. But Thor's brother Loki (Tom Hiddleston) is behind an evil plan to seize control of the throne of Asgard after learning he was adopted and Odin falls into a ...

SPOILER WARNING Even though Buffy's first season wasn't great, it did end on a relatively strong note. And fortunately, the show received a second season with 22 episodes and it manages to take everything in entirely different directions. A lot of people say that this is the point where the show reaches its peak and cements itself as one of the best and most influential shows ever, and I can't argue with that. However, it takes awhile and you'd have to sit through some more average/bad Monster of the Week episodes, but we do get some gems in the first half. The season begins with a tradition of opening every season in a cemetery. Xander and Willow are walking together, eating ice cream and playing a game where one says a movie quote and the other has to figure out which movie it came from. My friends have created a game like this for me to test my movie knowledge. Even though I know pretty much every famous movie quote, they would stump me with some obscure ones. ...

After two X-Men movies were not very well received by fans, a savior named Matthew Vaughn came in to direct another prequel called X-Men First Class . However, this one proved to be a thousand times better than X-Men Origins Wolverine . We follow a young Charles Xavier (James McAvoy) and a young Erik Lensherr a.k.a. Magento (Michael Fassbender) during the beginning of their relationship and the formation of the X-Men. They're both on a quest to find a man named Sebastian Shaw who was a Nazi when Erik first knew him and has the power to absorb energy into strength. Charles, along with other mutants, is trying to find Shaw because an agent named Moira McTaggart (Rose Byrne) needs mutant assistance while Erik is trying to get revenge on Shaw for the murder of his mother. The two eventually run into each other and Erik joins Charles' team of mutants, all the while learning to control his powers through more serene emotion. Everyone bands together to stop Shaw from making World War...

Robert Downey Jr. returns as Tony Stark in Iron Man 2, along with director Jon Favreau. However, even with new characters, villains, and conflicts, this one doesn't hit the mark like the first movie .   The story begins with Tony Stark enjoying his new role as Iron Man to the world. At first, I was iffy on him revealing his secret identity at the end of the first movie, but now I felt it's a strong bold move. Even though he's caused world peace, a bunch of problems comes his way like the government attempting to get him to sell his iron suit and health issues involving the arc reactor that's supposedly keeping him alive. He keeps this info from Pepper Potts (Gwenyth Paltrow) and blindly appoints her the CEO of Stark Industries. At the same time, a Russian man named Ivan Vanko (Mickey Rourke) has been building his own arc reactor and powered suit with electro whips to kill Tony. He is beaten by Tony by is soon recruited by Justin Hammer (Sam Rockwell), a rival of Tony w...

Just a month after the release of Iron Man, we get another film from Marvel Studios. The Incredible Hulk is a reboot in an attempt to do the story of the Hulk a lot better than the movie by Ang Lee. While I haven't seen the Ang Lee Hulk movie, I'm sure it's okay to say that the other movie is better, but in my opinion, it's not on par with Iron Man . We first get an opening credits scene showing us the origin of Bruce Banner (Edward Norton) becoming the Hulk by gamma radiation. This is a pretty smart way of incorporating the origin without repeating itself. I also like the nod to The Incredible Hulk show. Banner is now a fugitive and has been residing in Brazil, trying to find a cure. But he's found by General Thaddeus Ross (William Hurt) and a SWAT team, including Emil Blonsky (Tim Roth). Banner makes his way back to the USA to reunite with his girlfriend Betty (Liv Tyler) who helps stay undercover to meet up with someone named Mr. Blue who's been helping ...

2008 saw the huge success of the comic book films Iron Man and The Dark Knight . However, we didn't get any films like those the next year, unfortunately.  The only Marvel movie that was released in 2009 was X-Men Origins: Wolverine . Now an entire movie centering around the best X-Men character sounds like a winner. But the fans felt that everything was phoned in from the acting to the action to the characters themselves. It gained an infamous reputation and I can see why. We begin with Wolverine/Logan as a young boy in the 19th century discovering his mutant powers moments after his father was killed by the man who reveals he is his real father just when he was killed by his own son. What a twist? He and his brother Victor Creed aka Sabretooth (Liev Scriber as an adult) run away where they grow up together and fought in every major American war. They are then approached by William Stryker (Danny Huston) who recruits them in a team of mutants that includes Fred Dukes (Kev...