REVIEW: NEW! IMAGINE DRAGON ALBUM "MERCURY RISING ACT 1"

 Ok so I wanted to take a bit of a break from catching up on all things regarding films,- and I'm guessing with the last posts I've put up on here you guys reading this could also do with a bit of a break from movie news,- and do a bit of a catch up on NEW! music that I've been listening to whilst in lockdown which you may or may not have heard.

Imagine Dragons released their NEW! album "Mercury Act 1" which if you haven't heard it yet I suggest you stop what your doing right now and buy this or download this album as I cannot stop listening to this as it is soooo addictive...now I know that this word "addictive" can be a bit of a double edge sword for some but I can't think of another word to describe this album as I heard the first song on this album "My Life" and those strings on this song just hooked me in, I just wanted to hear the second song on the album immediately after hearing this, and now I can't stop playing this album whenever I get a chance to hear it

Here is the Youtube.com link below if you want to have a little gander at this if you haven't heard this song yet or if you just want to listen to this song again you can listen to it below:

Imagine Dragons - My Life (Official Lyric Video) - YouTube

Just thinking about this now unlike other albums I've heard from Imagine Dragons as I am a massive fan of this band where I can say that here's a stand out track from "Night Visions", "Smoke and Mirrors", "Evolve" or "Origins" I don't really have any stand out tracks as soon as I think oh I love "Wrecked" or "Cutthroat" or "Follow You" or "Monday" I'm thinking "well what about "Lonely", or "It's Ok" or "Giants" etc, as I love all the songs on this NEW! album as they all have their own distinct sound and for me they also sound awesome and definitely well worth hitting the repeat button after you've listened to them after the first time.

If you haven't heard the already released singles "Cutthroat", "Follow You" or "Monday" or "Wrecked" from "Mercury Act 1" here is the Youtube.com link below to have a gander at the official music videos or if you just want to see the video again:

Imagine Dragons - Follow You (Official Music Video) - YouTube

Imagine Dragons - Wrecked (Official Music Video) - YouTube

Imagine Dragons - Monday (Official Music Video) - YouTube

Imagine Dragons - Cutthroat (Official Music Video) - YouTube

But at a push I definitely have to say that the stand out tracks from this album for me are "Wrecked", "Cutthroat", "It's Ok, "No Time For Toxic People", "Lonely", "Giants", "One Day", "Monday" and "#1". 

Here are the Youtube.com link below if you want to have a listen to these songs from the album if you've not heard them before:

Imagine Dragons - No Time For Toxic People (Official Lyric Video) - YouTube

Imagine Dragons - Lonely (Official Lyric Video) - YouTube

Imagine Dragons - Giants (Official Lyric Video) - YouTube

Imagine Dragons - One Day (Official Lyric Video) - YouTube

Imagine Dragons - Monday (Official Music Video) - YouTube

Imagine Dragons - #1 (Official Lyric Video) - YouTube

Imagine Dragons - It's Ok (Official Lyric Video) - YouTube

I just have to put this here that this might just be me but whenever I listen to "It's Ok" the laid back sounding guitar beat always reminds me of the song " Take A Walk On The Wild Side" by Lou Reed, here is the Youtube.com link to hear this and see what you think:

Lou Reed - Walk on the Wild Side (audio) - YouTube

CATCH UP PART 3, "The SUICIDE SQUAD" RECAP AND NEW! "THE FLASH" TEASER TRAILER!

I do realise that whilst I may have posted on my last post the NEW! teaser trailer for "The Flash" movie I didn't actually say anything about it more of just went on a rant about how I don't think James Gunn's "Peacemaker" looks good and how I thought that the James Gunn directed "Suicide Squad" film was shit and despite watching the home premiere of this movie on Amazon Prime despite this I thought the film was massively disappointing and really seemed to throw everything at this with having bad characters that had no point to them like "Bloodsport", "Weasel", "T.D.K" (aka The detachable kid), "Savant" etc as well as throwing a Kaiju,-if your unfamiliar with this term this is according to Wikipedia a Japanese genre of films and television featuring giant monsters-, into the mix and the only character the audience could kind of warm to was the Sylvester Stallone voiced character "King Shark".

If you haven't seen this film "The Suicide Squad" here's a recap:

The film opens with the character "Savant" walking through "Belle Reve" prison watching Idris Elba's character "BloodSport" cleaning the floors and toilets and Pete Davidson's character "Darkguard" walking out of the toilets making a comment to "BloodSport" whilst removing some toilet paper from his crocs, and "Savant" making his way to sitting outside in a concrete courtyard sitting on a bench throwing around a ball in the style of Steve McQueen "the cooler king" in the film "The Great Escape" and then him proceeding to kill a chirping bird with the ball like this, then in comes Viola Davis's character "Amanda Waller" who wants to get "Bloodsport" into "Task Force X" and he says he's not doing it but then she says that he has a visitor which turns out to be his daughter who has got caught shoplifting and charges will be filed and she'll go to an adult prison this time unless he helps her and only then will Amanda Waller think about helping his daughter. "BloodSport" gets angry and threatens her whilst putting a pencil to her neck she tells Captain Rick Flag and the rest of the army guarding her to stand down all the while telling "Bloodsport" that he's a leader or she'll make him one, then everyone gets introduced to each other saying they need to go to Corto Maltese to obtain information on "Project Starfish" but this goes horribly wrong as in everyone bar Harley Quinn gets killed and they have to bring in Team B which is headed up by "Bloodsport" but then they find out that Rick Flag isn't dead he has been taken to camp that is their point of contact and whilst there they find out Harley Quinn has been taken prisoner and they then go on to rescue her but it turns out that she doesn't need rescuing and that she's killed the dictator that took her hostage as well as all his guards. Then when the whole gang sneak into the city to look for the head scientist of "Project Starfish" at a local bar the thing they need to stop this project is in a massive tower and that they can't exactly blow the tower up as the tower houses "Project Starfish"...this turns out to be a massive Kaiju starfish that was found by astronauts from America who brought it back to Earth to do experiments on it and it killed loads of people and in the tower are these people with smaller tentacle kaiju stuck to their faces also having had experiments done on them as the bodies are still alive but they've been taken over by the starfish and the real purpose of them being there is to make sure a computer drive with everything on never sees the light of day but after Harley Quinn and team kill the now released Kaiju into the world "Bloodsport" threatens Amanda Waller with exposing the computer drive to the world unless she lets the team go and help his daughter.

So getting back to the task at hand...according to Digital Spy.com "The Flash" trailer sets up the DC multiverse and explains how "The Flash/Barry Allen" who is played by Ezra Miller can meet Michael Keaton's version of "Batman/Bruce Wayne" as you can hear in a voice over from Michael Keaton's version of "Batman" says:

"Tell me something. You can go anywhere you want, right? Any timeline. Any universe. Why do you want to stay and fight to save this one?"

This multiverse layout would also explain why in this NEW! teaser trailer you can see two "The Flash" and how Ben Affleck is according to IMDb.com's website going to appear in this movie as "Batman" which will be directed by Andy Muschietti and has been produced by Barbara Muschietti and Michael Disco and will be co-executive produced by Walter Hamada and Marianne Jenkins. But this layout would also explain why as according to Digital Spy.com's website:

"...this version of the Flash moves so quickly that he can travel to any universe at any point in its timeline..."

This NEW! teaser trailer also teases that "the Flash/Barry Allen" will find the original "Batmobile"...thank god as I think this car along with the "The Tumbler" from the Christopher Nolan directed "Batman" was the best looking cars...with "the Flash/Barry Allen" pulling back a dust sheet saying "Holy..."

This film is according to IMDB.com's website set to be released in the UK on 4th November 2022 and if you live anywhere else in the EU here is a link below to IMDb.com's website for other release dates:

 The Flash (2022) - Release Info - IMDb

 

PART 2 NEW! MOVIES AND FILM CATCH UP: NEW! "PEACEMAKER" TRAILER, NEW! "THE FLASH" TRAILER, NEW! "RESIDENT EVIL: WELCOME TO RACCOON CITY" AND SO MUCH MORE...

 !This article may contain spoilers so if you don't want to know and remain surprised when these get released please look away now!

Yesterday I saw that there was a NEW! trailer up for both James Gunn's NEW! spinoff series "The Peacemaker" with John Cena reprising the role of "The Peacemaker" from the James Gunn directed film "The Suicide Squad" and that there was a NEW! teaser trailer for "The Flash" film which will (surprisingly for many "Batman" fans like myself) star Michael Keaton who will reprise his role as "Batman/Bruce Wayne" from "Batman" that was directed by Tim Burton and stars Jack Nicholson who played the character "The Joker"...and from the looks of this teaser trailer the original "Batmobile" will be back as well.

PEACEMAKER Official Trailer (2022) - YouTube

THE FLASH Official Trailer (2022) - YouTube

I just have to get this off my chest, I tried to get around it but after seeing this teaser trailer for "Peacemaker" I just can't avoid it...I may be a bit biased saying this as I really enjoyed David Ayer's "Suicide Squad" film, it had an amazing soundtrack,- in my opinion for those who may not agree here-, it got an Oscar for the hair and makeup department even though the critics panned it...but I think we can all agree that film critics don't watch films for their main function which is to entertain audiences as they also panned "Venom",...and I know some people reading this next thing I'm about to say here may not agree but I'm going to say it Jared Leto did an amazing job playing "The Joker" as if you think about it this role has been played in all other "Batman" films by some amazing actors like Jack Nicholson who did in my opinion a stand out performance as this character in the film "Batman" that was directed by Tim Burton, Heath Ledger who played the role of "The Joker" in the film "The Dark Knight" that was directed by Christopher Nolan who got a posthumous Oscar award for this performance in this role...so big shoes to fill, also the casting of Margot Robbie to play the character Harley Quinn was great as this character got a spin off animated series and also gave Netflix "Bright" that was directed by David Ayer and starred Will Smith and Joel Edgerton and for the box office "Suicide Squad" made a load of money...so for continuity reasons I don't know why a new director was hired to make a new version of this when everything worked in the studios favour especially the casting as I thought that in "The Suicide Squad" the character "Peacemaker" was a shit character that did everything that Will Smith's character "Deadshot" from David Ayer's "Suicide Squad" film did but had for no reason what so ever had a shiny bright helmet on his head and just seem to shoot everything with a stupidly big gun.

And while I think about it what was the point of the character "Bloodsport" as he had the exact storyline as Will Smith's character in that he was an assassin that gets recruited into "Task Force X" via Amanda Waller using his daughter as leverage to make him help her...the only difference I could see in James Gunn's film was that instead of casting Will Smith it was Idris Elba. 

So with this being said I don't really know how James Gunn managed to get a mini series that according to Deadline.com will consist of eight episodes that were written by himself and that he directed five episodes. And having seen the trailer yesterday I have to say that the CGI for this looks really obvious and shit...just like in the NEW! "Resident Evil: Welcome To Raccoon City" film CGI zombie infected dogs.

Rant over...if you haven't seen the New! trailer for "Resident Evil: Welcome To Raccoon City" here's the Youtube.com link below:

RESIDENT EVIL: WELCOME TO RACCOON CITY - Official Trailer (HD) | In Theaters Nov 24 - YouTube

This film according to IMDb.com will be released in the UK on the 3rd December 2021 and if you live in the USA this will be released on the 24th November 2021 and if you live anywhere else in the EU here is the IMDb.com link below to see a full list of release dates:

Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City (2021) - Release Info - IMDb

Saying this "Peacemaker" will be according to Deadline.com's website released on HBO Max on January 13th 2022 and will be an origin story that will see "Peacemaker" as a vainglorious man who believes in peace at any cost, no matter how many people he has to kill to get it. 

James Gunn's Troll Court Entertainment, Peter Safran's The Safran Company in association with Warner Bros. Television will produce this series along with Matt Miller and John Cena co-executive producing this series according to IMDb.com's website. 

LET'S START CRANKING UP THAT OLD BLOGGING MACHINE AND LET'S GET READY FOR THE NEW! BATMAN FILM

God...it feels like an age since I was last on here,-I apologise to anyone who see's the "God" bit and may or may not feel offended by this but there was no offence intended,- and I apologise to everyone about that but there has been a lot going on so I felt the need to take a step back for a bit.

So this post and any others that follows this one is going to be a bit of catch up on NEW! music and films news, any home premiere's that you may have seen or not seen and movie suggestions for if your still stuck at home not knowing what to watch or in case there's nothing on the TV, that is going to ease me back into blogging.

So sorry if you may or may not have already heard this news before.

Yesterday I saw that there is now a full trailer for the NEW! R-Patz Batman and there is now a date of release for this movie,-well a pencilled in date of release at least, especially with all the delays this film has had due to COVID-19 stopping filming or R-Patz and another member of the film crew testing positive for the virus etc etc-, which I'll put the Youtube.com link below for you to have a little gander at if you've not seen it yet or if you just want to watch it again:

THE BATMAN – Main Trailer – Warner Bros. UK & Ireland - YouTube

And so we the audience have had to get by with still images of what this NEW! Batman will look like, what the NEW! Batmobile will look like and what the teaser trailer looks like...see Youtube.com link below if you haven't already seen this:

The Batman - DC FanDome Teaser - YouTube

So I think it's fair to say that all Batman fans including me have been on tenterhooks about this new Batman film and have been curious to know how this NEW! Batman film will all look like. 

Well...I have to say after seeing the NEW! Batmobile I was excited to see what else this film had in store, and after seeing this NEW! trailer for this film that will be directed by Matt Reeves and has been written by Matt Reeves, Peter Craig and according to IMDb.com Mattson Tomlin it did leave me with the immortal words in my head from "Gladiator":

"I will win the crowd, I will give them something they have never seen before..."

I might be paraphrasing here but it was interesting to see that this film does show a different side to Batman/Bruce Wayne's character like I've heard Matt Reeves say in interviews he's given about this film, saying that he wanted to show the detective side of the character more.

According to SlashFilm.com the story for this NEW! Batman is that:

"...Batman has been operating in Gotham City for over a year now, and while not everyone is used to the masked vigilante yet, he's clearly built a rapport with Commissioner Jim Gordon..."

Who will be played by Jeffrey Wright who you may or may not have seen in the James Bond film "Casino Royale" playing the character Felix Leiter, other newcomers to this film are Zoe Kravitz who will play the character of Selena Kyle/Catwoman, Paul Dano who will play the character The Riddler/Edward Nashton who you may or may not have seen in other films like "Prisoners" where he played the character Alex Jones or you may have seen him in "Knight and Day" where he played the character Simon Feck and new for this film Colin Farrell who will be playing the character of Oswald Cobblepot/The Penguin and the other villain of the piece John Tourturro who you may or may not have seen in "Transformers: Dark Of The Moon" where he played the character Simmons who was the ex FBI agent who worked in a diner after everyone thought he was crazy for believing in aliens trying to communicate with humans, who will play the character Carmine Falcone...and more importantly than this Andy Serkis will play the character of Alfred.

This film will be produced by Matt Reeves and Dylan Clark, and will be executive produced by Simon Emmanuel, Michael E. Uslan, Walter Hamada and Chantal Nong Vo.

The pencilled in date for this is 4th March 2022.