Blade Runner 2049 Review

Blade Runner 2049 is a neo-noir science fiction film and the sequel to the 1982 film Blade Runner. The film is produced by Alcon Entertainment, Columbia Pictures, Thunderbird Entertainment, Scott Free Productions, Torridon Films, and 16:14 Entertainment. Blade Runner 2049 is distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures. The film is written by Hampton Fancher and Michael Green and directed by Denis Villeneuve.



The story is Officer K of the Los Angeles Police Department has found a long-time secret that has the potential to plunge society into chaos. During this investigation it leads him to former blade runner Rick Deckard, who has been missing for 30 years.

• Negatives

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• Mix

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• Positives

One thing to love about Blade Runner 2049 is the cinematography. Everything about the film's setting is just visual eye candy. You could look at the cinematography all day and still fall in love with it.

Now this was my first time watching a Denis Villeneuve film and I got a say I see why people like his stuff. His directing is very good. Each of his shots are gorgeous and I'm looking forward to see what he does next.

Blade Runner 2049 has a very simple mystery to it. I won't tell you what it is because this is a non-spoiler review but what I will say is despite it's simplicity it does leave you guessing. And just when you thought you had it solved they throw a twist at you.


This movie has spectacular performances. Harrison Ford and Ryan Gosling are great together. And even though Jared Leto is in a supporting role he was awesome and the character he played that being Wallace.


Now the movie doesn't have a lot of action in it which is fine but despite that they were great scenes.




Blade Runner 2049 is an example of a sequel done right. The action was good, the performances were incredible, it has a simple but interesting mystery, Denis Villeneuve has great directing, and I loved the visuals.



My final rating is A Must Watch



State of The Project (Sept 25th - Oct 9th)


Sept 25th - The Top 4 Cinematic Universes That I'm Skeptical About


Sept 28th - Plans for October


Oct 2nd - Cinematic Disasters - Jason X


Oct 4th - The Thing (1982) Review


Oct 7th - Blade Runner 2049 Review


Oct 9th - A Look Back at Batman: Return of the Caped Crusaders (2016)



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The Thing (1982) Review

The Thing is 1982 horror film and technically a remake of the 1951 film The Thing from Another World. Both those movies were based on John W. Campbell Jr's novel Who Goes There? It's produced by The Turman-Foster Company and distributed by Universal Pictures. The Thing was written by Bill Lancaster and directed by John Carpenter.


The story is a group of research scientist in Antarctica are distributed when a helicopter pilot and his sled dog arrive at their base. Then everything becomes a horrifying nightmare. A strange alien creature is consuming and taking the shape of the one of the group members one by one. Now they must find out which one of them is infected and stop this monster.

• Negatives

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• Positives

One of the best things to praise about John Carpenter's The Thing is the amazing designs to all the different appearances to The Thing. They are so creative and nothing I've ever seen before. And not only are the good monster designs there also spectacular practical effects as well. They effects team did such an excellent job with these monsters. They even pull off some amazing stuff considering this film didn't use any CGI on them especially since this was a time when CGI wasn't a common thing nor was it ever used.

Another thing to like about the movie is the performances. Not only does our main star Kurt Russell give an awesome performance but really everybody does. There was never a seen where I felt like they were just phoning it in or their not even trying. What really help give them was the fact that they were actually filming in freezing weather and they also felt sick to their stomachs when they looked at the prosthetics.

The movie also gives you a great guessing game. Because like the characters you don't know who's infected with The Thing unless they do either a blood test or when it's too late for them. Now I've seen this movie at least three times and I knew when a something bad was going to happen I just didn't know from which person. I don't know if that's just great filmmaking or I suck at remembering things either way I love it.



I also liked how the ending is left ambiguous. Because at the end of the movie we don't know which survivor is infected or maybe there not infected at all and like the characters were such being paranoid.



The Thing (1982) is one of many great horror movies. It has great performances, gives you a very creepy guessing game throughout it's runtime, I love the ending, and above all else the special effects are amazing and one of the best highlights of the movie.



My final rating is A Must Watch

Initial Reactions


Now today The Thing is regraded as one of the all time great horror movies but when it was released in June 25 of 1982 many critics and audience members hated it. People while praising the technically effects also found them repulsive and excessive. Even Roger Ebert, one of the best film critics thought the movie was disappointing and even thought he found it scary and thinks it's a good "barf-bag" movie. He also criticized what he felt were poor characterizations and illogical plot elements giving the movie 2½ out of 4 stars. Vincent Canby of the New York Times called The Thing , "a depressing, overproduced movie that mixes horror with science fiction to make something that is fun as neither one thing or the other. Sometimes it looks as if it aspired to be the quintessential moron movie of the 80's". The movie was also criticized for being too slow and not only that but it was also nominated for a Razzie Award for Worse Musical Score. So yeah people weren't very happy with the film they got.




John Carpenter's Response


John Carpenter would let respond to the negative feedback twice. He's first time was back in 1985 and he had this to say "I was called a pornographer of violence. I had no idea it would be received that way. The Thing was just too strong for that time. I knew it was going to be strong, but I didn't think it would be too strong. I didn't take the public's taste into consideration". Then in a Time Out magazine back in 2010 he said this "I take every failure hard. The one I took the hardest was The Thing. My career would have been different if that had been a big hit...The movie was hated. Even by science fiction fans. They thought I had betrayed some kind of trust, and the piling was insane. Even the original movie's director, Christian Nyby, was dissing me.




Accolades


The Thing would later go on to be nominated for Best Horror Film and Best Special Effects by the Saturn Awards but lost to Poltergeist and E.T. the Extra Terrestrial. The film was also nominated for Worst Musical Score from the Razzie Awards and thankfully lost to The Pirate Movie. Seriously The Thing nominated for a Razzie what the hell?




Cancelled Sequels


In 2003 the Sci-Fi Channel (SyFy) was planning to do a four hour miniseries titled Return of The Thing on was planned to come out in 2005. John Carpenter thought the series should proceed, but Sci-Fi later removed all mention of the project from their homepage. Then in 2009 there was a positive review of the abandoned screenplay published in Corona's Coming Attractions.


In 2004, John Carpenter said during an interview for Empire magazine that he had a story idea for The Thing II. The story centers around the two surviving characters MacReady and Childs. However Carpenter felt that due to the higher price associated with his fee, Universal Studios will not pursue his storyline. Carpenter also indicated that he would be able to secure Kurt Russell and Keith David for the sequel. In his story, Carpenter would explain the age difference of the actors between the two installments by having frostbite on their face due to the elements until rescued. The assumption of the sequel would rely on a radio signal being successfully transmitted by Windows before Blair destroyed the communications room. After the explosion of the base camp, the rescue team would have arrived and found MacReady and Childs still alive. Since then John Carpenter hasn't giving any other details about the story.



Prequel

In September of 2006, Strike Entertainment the studio that produced Slither(2006) and the 2004 remake of Dawn of The Dead announced in a Fangoria magazine that they were looking for a writer or writers for their prequel to The Thing. The studio would later accept a script written by Eric Heisserer also titled The Thing and filming began in March 22, 2010 and ended in June 28, 2010. The movie was released on October 14, 2011 and received mixed reviews.




Theme Parks

The Thing also received it's own attraction in 2007 for Universal Studios' the Halloween Horror Nights in Orlando, Florida. The attraction is called The Thing - Assimilation, guest walk though Outpost 3113, a military facility where the remains of Outpost 31 were brought for scientific research. Scenes and props from the movie were recreated for the attraction, including the bodies of MacReady and Childs. Then in 2009 the event's icon house Silver Screams contained a room based on the film. Universal Studios would feature an attraction based on the 2011 prequel during it's 2011 edition of Halloween Horror Nights.



Comic Books

The Thing would later appear in comic books but it went under the 1951 title The Thing from Another World to avoid possible legal issues and confusion with the Marvel Comics' character the Thing. All of the comics were be published by Dark Horse Comics. Here's an entire list of the comics, number of issues and links expect for the last two stories. Sorry about that.

The Thing from Another World - 2 issues

http://readcomiconline.to/Comic/The-Thing-From-Another-World/Issue-1?id=85026&readType=1

The Thing from Another World: Climate of Fear - 4 issues

http://readcomiconline.to/Comic/The-Thing-From-Another-World-Climate-of-Fear/Issue-1?id=59867

The Thing from Another World: Eternal Vows - 4 issues

http://readcomiconline.to/Comic/The-Thing-From-Another-World-Eternal-Vows/Issue-1?id=93318

The Thing from Another World: Questionable Research - 4 issues and appeared in Dark Horse Comics #13-16

The Thing: The Northman Nightmare - 1 issue and a promotional tie-in for the 2011 prequel




So The Thing (1982) didn't get the big approval the studios and filmmakers hoped for when it first came out but through time it definitely became one of the kings of horror. And today we are all love this timeless classic.



State of The Project (Sept 23rd - Oct 7th)


Sept 23rd - The Lego Ninjago Movie Review


Sept 25th - The Top 4 Cinematic Universes That I'm Skeptical About


Sept 28th - Plans for October



Oct 2nd - Cinematic Disasters - Jason X



Oct 4th -The Thing (1982) Review



Oct 7th - Blade Runner 2049 Review




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Cinematic Disasters - Jason X

Jason X is a 2001 horror/sci-fi film and the tenth film in the Friday The 13th franchise. Jason X was also the fourth and final time Kane Hodder would the character Jason Voorhees. The film was produced by Crystal Lake Entertainment and Friday X Productions. It was distributed by New Line Cinema. The movie was written by Todd Farmer and directed by James Issac.


The story is it's 2455 and a group of students on a filed trip have found the frozen body of Jason Voorhees. They take his body onto there ship then when Jason is unfrozen he goes on a murderous spree. Now the teens must get off the ship before their all slaughtered.


Now before I get into the review part of this post I want to tell you a few things. It was for me anyhow tough to pick which bad Friday The 13th film to review. There's Friday The 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan, Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday or Jason X. But I thought to myself which one of these films had the dumbest idea and so I picked Jason X. Also funny story of how this film was made. This was Todd Farmer's only pitch he gave to New Line Cinema thinking this was a way to advance the film series and New Line Cinema was like yeah sure why not we still have that Freddy Krueger/Jason Voorhees crossover film stuck in development hell so let's make your awful premise into a movie. So enough of that let's get into the review.

My Thoughts

I already have a problem with this film in only the first three minutes. Why's that let me explain in four words Crystal Lake Research Facility. Yeah Crystal Lake went from being a summer camp to a research facility. So were off to "good" start I can't wait for more.


In the Crystal Lake Research Facility they have successfully captured Jason and were never told how they did that. Typical it is best to keep things a mystery but this is one of the things that need explained.

Then we get our first look at Jason and man does his new hockey mask suck. Both the eye holes are sucked in so now we can see both of his eyes and for whatever reason the costume designers decided to combine both the nose and mouth piece together. Also the mask is too small, so whenever Kane Hodder has to act like he got kicked in the chin and has to move his head upwards you can see his chin. What's even more weird is New Line Cinema used a hockey mask in their previous Friday The 13th film Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday and it looks good

The mask used in Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday

So why didn't they just use this hockey mask instead of the one we got for Jason X? I don't get it.



Then the movie continues to piss it's audience off because the security guard that was watching over Jason is killed but you don't get to see it. When you make a slasher movie like these the worse thing you can do is kill a character whether big or small off screen. It's just lame and cheap.



Then just to make matters worse we have this nipple scene

https://youtu.be/jblzpuNNsKM?t=100

You know what the saddest thing is about that scene? It's the only scary part of the entire movie.



The movie has no creative death scenes. Throughout Friday The 13th's history you would sometimes get a very creative kill but here a large majority of them is just Jason snapping someone's neck, stabbing them, slicing someone's throat open. The only good kill is this frozen head smash one https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qE83HUOXfh8. Also the movie was so desperate for another good death scene that they ripped off the sleeping bag kill from Friday The 13th Part VII: The New Blood.



None and I mean none of the acting is believable expect for Kane Hodder because all he had to do was act like Jason Voorhees which he does great at. Everybody always sounds like their reading directly from the script like it was their second take or they always talk in some sort of I'm trying to give some sort of emotion but not really. All of it was just painful to watch.


At one point in the movie a group of soldiers have to attack Jason. Not only don't we get any good deaths but we don't get any good action. It was just the soldiers looking for him and then they predictable get killed off. Also the scientist named Rowan once said that Sergeant Brodski is all alone down. The main problem with that line is how does she know that? She never saw any of the soldiers and there were no security cameras to show her and the students that. So how does she know this?



Now let's talk about "Uber Jason". Just look at him

Guys this is not Jason Voorhees. This is a villain meant for the Power Rangers. I'm not joking. All you have to do is tone down his violent streak and give him a cheesy bad voice and this design is all set for an episode of the Power Rangers.

Look at this special effect when Jason punches off Kay-Em 14's head off.

https://youtu.be/YEHbl1gwuZ8?t=191

Wasn't that just an unconvincing effect? That looked terrible and I noticed it when the footage was at it's regular speed when you slow it down it's even worse.

So I think I made it not big surprise that I hate Jason X. The premise is stupid, the acting is terrible expect from Kane Hodder, a lot of times our characters are brain dead morons, that nipple scene was gross and distributing, the death scenes minus the frozen head one were boring, I hate Uber Jason's look and overall it's just an awful movie.

My final rating is Destroy It!

Other Media

Now this aspect of Friday The 13th didn't go away like many people hoped it would. There have been five novels based on Jason X. Here's the list

Jason X (a novelization of the movie)

Jason X: The Experiment

Jason X: Planet of the Beast

Jason X: Death Moon

Jason X: To The Third Power

It didn't stop there either, Avatar Press released two comic books related to Uber Jason. The first one was called Jason X Special published in October of 2005 and the other one was when Uber Jason fought classic Jason in the two issued comic series Friday The 13th: Jason vs. Jason X published in February of 2006. Then Gun Media released a Friday The 13th video game at one point during the game's early development they had a poll held by the developers to determine the different incarnations of Jason Voorhees one of them being Uber Jason. The character didn't get enough votes to be put in the game. However Gun Media didn't rule out the possibility of Uber Jason he could always be a DLC, shortly after the game was launched Ronnie Hobbs a producer for Gun Media and one of the co-creators of the game asked fans on Twitter for help locating any good quality Uber Jason mask and costume.

State of The Project (Sept 21st - Oct 4th)


Sept 21st - Differences Between Captain America: Civil War and Marvel Comics' Civil War


Sept 23rd - The Lego Ninjago Movie Review


Sept 25th - The Top 4 Cinematic Universe That I'm Skeptical About


Sept 28th - Plans for October


Oct 2nd - Cinematic Disasters - Jason X


Oct 4th - The Thing (1982) Review




NOTE: IF ANYTHING CHANGES I WILL TELL YOU.

Plans for October

So another month is fading away and October is right around the corner. With that in mind I decided to tell you guys my plans for next month. Basically my plans for October is to review horror films. I know how creative. Alright not every review will be horror related because I'm also planning to review Batman: Return of The Caped Crusaders because it has a sequel coming out so I'm really excited to review that. And besides Batman: Return of The Caped Crusaders I'm also going to review recently released movies too, some may not even be in the horror genre. My plans for the horror movie reviews are to review them but also tell you interesting things about them. Such as if they have novels, comic books, video games or how many awards they won or were nominated for, things like that. There is also going to be two Cinematic Disaster reviews one them I'm really looking forward to. So here's the schedule but remember things could always change.


Oct 2nd - Cinematic Disasters - Jason X


Oct 4th - The Thing (1982) Review


Oct 9th - A Look Back at Batman: Return of The Caped Crusaders (2016)


Oct 12th - Batman vs. Two-Face Review


Oct 16th - The Exorcist Review


Oct 19th - Killer Klowns from Outer Space Review


Oct 23rd - A Look Back at Stranger Things - Season 1


Oct 26th - Cinematic Disasters - Troll 2


Oct 30th - Road to Justice League - Justice League Dark Review (This is the end of the Road to Justice League)


Now that is what I'm hoping will be the schedule. Until then I hope you'll all enjoy the content I'm giving you next month.



State of The Project (Sept 18th - Oct 4th)


Sept 18th - Raiders of The Lost Media - Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Adventures - The Forever War


Sept 21st - Differences Between Captain America: Civil War and Marvel Comics' Civil War


Sept 23rd - The Lego Ninjago Movie Review


Sept 25th - The Top 4 Cinematic Universes That I'm Skeptical About


Sept 28th - Plans for October


Oct 2nd - Cinematic Disasters - Jason X


Oct 4th - The Thing (1982) Review




NOTE: IF ANYTHING CHANGES I WILL TELL YOU.

The Top 4 Cinematic Universes That I'm Skeptical About

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So it's no big secret that film studios want to make their own cinematic universe. Hell there are cinematic universes everywhere nowadays. There's the Marvel Cinematic Universe, the DC Extended Universe, the MonsterVerse, the Dark Universe, the Conjuring Universe, and the Lego Film Universe. Cinematic universes are all over the place, however these are the top four cinematic universes that I'm questioning if studios can pull off or make it work. But before I get started let me just explain that some of these are rumors or they might happen but could get scrapped if things don't work out. So enough of that let's do this.

#4. The Valiant Cinematic Universe

Let me get a couple of things out of the way. One I haven't read any of Valiant's comics so I don't know how they are quality wise and two I've got nothing against them so let me explain why I don't think their cinematic universe is going to work. The biggest reason for me is their competition DC and Marvel. They are both killing it with their movies and I don't think Valiant will stand a change against them. Mainly because general audiences are more familiar with superheroes like Superman and Spider-Man then they are with Bloodshot or X-O Manowar. But hey if they can pull it off more power to them.







#3. The Hanna-Barbera Cinematic Universe

Now this is one I think might kind of work but it's on this list for one reason. That reason being the people behind this universe better do these characters justice or there will be hell to pay. Because there are generations that grew up with these characters and if the filmmakers get them wrong they'll never hear the end of it. So I actually hope they do well but the studios absolutely need to find the right directors, actors, and writers for this universe. One thing they better not do is make it live-action whenever a cartoon is made into a live-action movie it always spells trouble.







#2. The Hasbro Cinematic Universe

Yeah that picture above that I'm using isn't a joke, Hasbro is actually considering making their own cinematic universe. Now a crossover between Hasbro properties has happened before there's a comic series titled Transformers vs. G.I. Joe. They are thinking about doing a crossover like that but they also want to include M.A.S.K., Micronauts, Rom, and Visionaries. They also confirmed they have writers for their cinematic universe and it was reported that a script for a Transformers and G.I. Joe crossover is being written. So they'll get some butts in seats with the Transformers/G.I. Joe movie but the other stuff. I don't know. But in all honest I wish them they best of luck.








#1. The Call of Duty Cinematic Universe


Alright now this is one cinematic universe out of all them that I find stupid! It's just...why? Of all the video game franchises to make a cinematic universe out of why Call of Duty? From what I've heard about the games is that they all sound like the same thing. So Activision you better get some damn good writers, directors, and actors for this film series because if you don't this will blow up in your face. I'll give this cinematic universe the benefit of the doubt but until we see some footage, this idea sounds awful.


So that's all I have to say and come back on Thursday when I tell you about my plans for next month.

State of The Project (Sept 11th - Sept 28th)

Sept 11th - Cinematic Disasters - Captain America (1990)

Sept 14th - Things to Read/Watch Before Seeing Justice League

Sept 18th - Raiders of The Lost Media - Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Adventures - The Forever War

Sept 21st - Differences Between Captain America: Civil War and Marvel Comics' Civil War

Sept 23rd - The Lego Ninjago Movie Review

Sept 25th - The Top 4 Cinematic Universes That I'm Skeptical About

Sept 28th - Plans for October

NOTE: IF ANYTHING CHANGES I WILL TELL YOU.

The Lego Ninjago Movie Review

The Lego Ninjago Movie is a 3D animated action comedy marital arts film. It's the first film to be based on an original Lego property, while also being the second spin-off of The Lego Movie. The Lego Ninjago Movie is produced by Warner Animation Group, Lin Pictures, Vertigo Entertainment, and Animal Logic. The movie's distributor is Warner Bros. Pictures. The Lego Ninjago Movie is written by Bob Logan, Paul Fisher, William Wheeler, Tom Wheeler, Jared Stern, and John Whittington and directed by Charlie Bean, Bob Logan, and Paul Fisher.



The story is six teenage ninjas defend the city of Ninjago against Lord Garmadon, who is also Lloyd's aka The Green Ninja's dad. Pitting father against son the team must learn to pull together to unleash the true power of the ninja.

• Negatives

One of my biggest complaints with the movie is a giant realistic cat that helped Garmadon destroy the city is part of the main plot. If any of you watched the trailers or TV spots you know what I'm talking about. It was so stupid. I understand that's the joke but it was not a very good joke...or plot point.

My other problem with The Lego Ninjago Movie is Lloyd's story with his father Garmadon is predictable. Once one or both of them get sentimental you know something good will happen to them.

• Mix

The humor in this movie is in a very grey area. Don't worry the there were a lot of times that I did laugh but other times not so much. Some of the jokes can be predictable. One joke that really didn't get me to laugh was two quick montage sequences regrading an ultimate weapon and kung-fu movies had me thinking "was I suppose to find that funny"?

• Positives

One thing I praise the movie for is the writers changed a lot of stuff from the show Lego Ninjago: Masters of Spinjitzu. I thought it was a smart move because then there's no confusing between the two continuities. And at the same time if your a fan of Ninjago you'll still know who's who and what's what.

Once again this is another Lego movie with great animation. Besides story that's another reason to see these Lego movies.

The performances in the movie were also good. I especially loved Jackie Chan as Master Wu and Justin Theroux as Lord Garmadon. Not only did they do a great job playing these characters but they were also hilarious as them too.

The Lego Ninjago Movie's best qualities are changing things from the show but still remaining recognizable, spectacular animation, and even better voice performances. The humor isn't bad but at the same time could've used more work. The weakest parts are the father/son story between Lloyd and Lord Garmadon and that stupid cat being a plot point rather than just a one time joke.

My final rating is Okay

State of The Project ( Sept 9th - Sept 25th)

Sept 9th - It Review

Sept 11th - Cinematic Disasters - Captain America (1990)

Sept 14th - Things to Read/Watch Before Seeing Justice League

Sept 18th - Raiders of The Lost Media - Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Adventures - The Forever War

Sept 21st - Differences Between Captain America: Civil War and Marvel Comics' Civil War

Sept 23rd - The Lego Ninjago Movie Review

Sept 25th - The Top 4 Cinematic Universes That I'm Skeptical About

NOTE: IF ANYTHING CHANGES I WILL TELL YOU.

Differences Between Captain America: Civil War & Marvel Comics' Civil War

Hey everybody so if you read my review for Captain America (1990) you would know two things. One I found that movie to be awful and two I wanted to something else involving Captain America. So I decided to do another Differences Between. And just like my differences between Jurassic Park the movie and Jurassic Park the novel I'm just doing this for fun.







One of the many differences between the film and the comic is Spider-Man. Throughout Captain America: Civil War he does appear but not in his Iron Spider armor it was just he's regular costume. In the Civil War event comic however he does wear the Iron Spider armor to show he's divided loyalty between Iron Man and Captain America.





Another change to Spider-Man is him revealing his secret identity. In Captain America: Civil War this doesn't happen because this Spider-Man is new and Tony didn't want him to reveal his identity to the public. In the Civil War story arc Peter reveals himself to be Spider-Man because under the registering act you have to reveal your secret identity. Not only did Peter do that because it was the law but it was also because Tony Stark had convinced him that this was the right way to move forward.







The main reason for people changing their opinions on the heroes is in Captain America: Civil War it was because of the heroes previous battles in The Avengers, Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Avengers: Age of Ultron, and then Cap's team assaulting Crossbones which ended with a building blowing up thus causing a lot of damage and loss of life. In the Civil War comic event it was because the New Warriors were fighting a villain called Nitro who made an explosion leveling the surrounding city which also included a nearby elementary school. It also didn't help that the New Warriors didn't call for back up.






The team roasters are also quite different. In Captain America: Civil War Captain America's team is himself, Hawkeye, Ant-Man (Scott Lang), The Winter Soldier, Scarlet Witch, and Falcon and Iron Man's team is himself, War Machine, Vision, Spider-Man, Black Panther, and Black Widow. In the Civil War storyline Team Iron Man is himself, Spider-Man, Hank Pym (the original Ant-Man), Reed Richards (leader of the Fantastic Four), The Thing (one of the members of the Fantastic Four), She-Hulk, and Black Widow among others. Captain America's team is himself, Falcon, Daredevil, Hercules, Invisible Woman and Human Torch (the other members of the Fantastic Four), Luke Cage, Spider-Woman, and The Punisher among others including Vision. Also Hawkeye and Scarlet Witch were not part of the story like they were in the movie.





The people who enforced the Accords changed as well. In Civil War it was S.H.I.E.L.D. that enforces the Superhero Registration Act. For Captain America: Civil War the head of the Accords is U.S. Secretary of State Thaddeus "Thunderbolt" Ross, who aims to enforce the new law with the U.N. committee.





In Captain America: Civil War the real reason for the heroes fighting each other was because of a villain pulling the strings from behind the scenes that being Zemo. In Civil War there is no villain it was an actual conflict between two different ideals between superheroes.







Since were on the topic of villains let's talk about their part in all of this. Now there weren't any villains involved in Captain America: Civil War since some of them are either out of commission or dead. In Civil War however Team Iron Man recruits a team of "reformed" villains to show just how far he's fallen and how far he's willing to win this war.






Both Thor and Hulk's reasons for not being in both Civil Wars are also different. In the Civil War storyline the Hulk wasn't there because other heroes launched him into space because they thought he was too dangerous leading into the Planet Hulk storyline. In the Marvel Cinematic Universe Hulk went off the grid because it was his choice at the end of Avengers: Age of Ultron. In the Civil War comic we did have a Thor but it wasn't the real Thor it was an overly aggressive cyborg clone of Thor. Wow both saying that out loud and writing that sounded really weird. Now Thor was brought up in Captain America: Civil War but nobody including the Avengers know where he is.






Now in the Civil War comic event there were tons of Marvel characters thus making this feel like a war. In Captain America: Civil War there weren't they many which isn't too bad after all the MCU hasn't introduced a lot of characters to be involved in that movie and some characters such as the Fantastic Four and the X-Men, Marvel doesn't own the film rights to.





Captain America's reason for being anti-registration are also different. In the original Civil War story Steve is against the registration because one of the rules is the superheroes revealing the true identity, which Cap saw as a time honored tradition that kept them out from under government control. That didn't sit well with him at all, but while that was bad S.H.I.E.L.D. made it even worse by stating that they were going to hunt down unregistered heroes and they assumed Captain America would lead the charge. In Captain America: Civil War he's reason is he doesn't want the government to tell him where or when he's allowed to save people. The other reason is his longtime best friend Bucky Barnes aka the Winter Soldier is a wanted man who is being hunted down by the government and Team Iron Man for a bombing he didn't commit.






Now in Captain America: Civil War The Winter Soldier plays a very big role in the story. In the movie were shown his struggles with his brainwashing and his on the run when a bomb went off at a conference in Vienna. In the Civil War story while he is on Captain America's team he doesn't play that much of a role. The only time he was really involved was tie-in comics.






Another big differences between the two properties is Black Panther's origin. Decades before the Civil War story arc T'Challa became Black Panther because his father King T'Chaka is killed by the mercenary Ulysses Klaw who was seeking the Vibranium in their African nation of Wakanda. In Captain America: Civil War T'Chaka is killed but in a different way that way being a bombing during a conference in Vienna. Then after the bombing T'Challa becomes the Black Panther seeking vengeance for his father's demise.






The prison holding the rogue superheroes is drastically different from one another. In Captain America: Civil War Cap's team is held in an underwater detention center called The Raft, a multi-level maximum security prison on an island near New York's Riker's Island. In Civil War the prison is much worse, the heroes are transported through a portal from Riker's to Prison 42, a prison engineered by Tony Stark and Reed Richards, and housed inside The Negative Zone, making it inescapable.





Both the outcomes from these two properties have been altered but slightly. In Civil War Iron Man's team won and anybody who was against his team or refused to sign the registration are now fugitives or hiding out. In Captain America: Civil War while Iron Man's team still won and Cap's side is fugitives, the only positive note is Steve is still out there fighting a good fight.





Another differences is Captain America's fate. In Captain America: Civil War Steve doesn't die he survives the whole experience. In the aftermath of Civil War Steve is shot and killed in Captain America #25 in the storyline The Death of Captain America.



So those were some of the differences between Captain America: Civil War and Civil War. I hoped you enjoyed this. I might do another one of these I just don't know with what movie and story and the month, but when that happens you'll see it in the schedule down below.

State of The Project (Sept 7th - Sept 22nd)

Sept 7th - What You Probably Didn't Know About Stephen King

Sept 9th - It Review

Sept 11th - Cinematic Disasters - Captain America (1990)

Sept 14th - Things to Read/Watch Before Seeing Justice League

Sept 18th - Raiders of The Lost Media - Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Adventures - The Forever War

Sept 21st - Differences Between Captain America: Civil War and Marvel Comics' Civil War

Sept 23rd - The Lego Ninjago Movie Review

NOTE: IF ANYTHING CHANGES I WILL TELL YOU.