Above Average Joe Blogs

So here we are 10 years after the original Iron Man movie and my initial response from that film: "That was pretty average, it won't catch on." Well colour me very very wrong, at least on the second part of that sentence. We've had 17 other Marvel films of varying quality since then and now they all culminate in the 19th film - Infinity War, with a plot that has had its various threads slowly (and not always deftly) woven into the preceding 18 films. Full disclosure (although you may have already gathered from the above paragraph) I'm not a massive Marvel movies fan. I've enjoyed quite a few of them (The first two Captain America movies, the original Thor, Doctor Strange, Spider-Man: Homecoming) but I've also seen a fair few I just have not liked or have thought are blisteringly average (Iron Man 2, Guardian of the Galaxy, Civil War, Black Panther). Why I list these movies for you is to give you a basis for this subjective criticism as I imagine that f...

Much like the subject matter of the film, director Alex Garland's film Annihilation has come to us in various different forms around the world. In the US it was deemed that the average American could handle its topics from the comfort of a plush cinema seat, whereas us plebs in other countries were deemed too dense to delve into its depravities outside the comfort of our beds and sofas, binging the film on Netflix. By way of an introductory rant, whilst I applaud Netflix for picking up this gem of a film, it is a worrying trend that big studios were not willing to front up and back a brave, unique, twisted, and weird sci-fi film, and stick it on the big screen. Although the film is great irregardless of its confines on your laptop, tv, tablet, phone (select applicable Netflix providing gadget) I can't help but feel the impact of the film would have only been heightened seeing it on a big screen. But anyway, I digress...Annihilation is Alex Garland's second feature fil...