Excited about upcoming movies...

Well, this weekend I've been left to myself since all my friends either went home or with the BSM to the Fall Retreat, I wanted to try to do something that I haven't in a while. So I went and rented a movie. Now the question came down to what movie to rent. Well, most of the movies that are out on DVD either I've seen already or they didn't have any available. So I started to think, what movie have I been wanting to see for some time now. Ah, then it hit me! The Ultimate Avengers movies. Ever since I've always enjoyed these superhero stories, whether it be through the recent Marvel and DC comics movies or back in the day when we had the good Spider-man, X-men, Batman, and Superman Animated series. For some in these characters I kinda saw myself or wanted to be. In X-men and Spider-man I felt different than everyone else around me and kinda of an outcast. As for Batman and Superman, well there were just cool (to me I've always favored Batman). With Batman, he was just a normal human using his intellegence and problem solving capabilities to stop supervillans.

Anyways, as I was watching The Ultimate Avengers, I got learn some background or meet some characters I've seen but never really get to have a better understanding. For one, I never understood or knew Captain America's history, and that is the primary focus for the first Ultimate Avengers movie. Also going to Walmart or some toystore, I try to check out the action figure section just to see if I can find a sweet looking action figure to have on my desk, and I came across Giant Man and Ant Man. Well aparantly Giant Man is one of the original Avenger members, his power is the ability to grow up to 60' tall or shrink down to as small as an ant (hint Ant Man). Though when I was watching this movie I was hoping to see Red Skull, Captain America's arch nemisis. However the two Ultimate Avenger movies do deliver on the story and action. I didn't realize this, but at first I was quite surprised to see that these two movies are rated PG-13. After watching the movies, and I could see the reason for the rating due to the action and potential real life connections. So all in all, I was rather pleased with these two movies and would recommend them to fellow comic book fans.

Now after watching these movies, made me excited about some upcoming Marvel movies that are in the works. First that Spider-man 3 coming out in May 2007. Then after watching Avengers, I really got even more excited about Iron Man coming out in 2008. For those that don't know about this Marvel hero, well here is some brief information on him. Iron Man, aka Anthony Starks, is a brilliant and wealthy engineer that was struck with heart failure. So in order to save his life, Tony created this suit that would keep his heart working. In the process he started adding on military weapons that he designed and started to fight crime. Though initially he was kind of a loner, but he eventually becomes a team player when he joins the Avengers, and has a partner join him (known as War Machine). Right now for the live action movie of Iron-man they have Robert Downey Jr. signed on to play Tony Starks, and Terrance Howard as Jim Rhodes/War Machine. And to direct this movie you have Jon Favreau, you might recognize him from Daredevil as Matt Murdock's best friend. Below is the teaser posters for the movie: