Montag's Movie Reviews

So where to begin? At first I was a little apprehensive when I found out that they had cast Chris Evans for the role of Cap, since I've never seen him in anything all that serious and lets face it, Captain America is a pretty big deal. But I must say, I was pleasantly surprised by how things turned out. In my opinion this may be the best Avengers movie yet. Blasphemy! I know! Thor didn't offer too much competition, but that really wasn't its fault since Thor has never had the most interesting plots anyway, unless you've got a real thing for Norse mythology or something. Please allow me to clarify though: Thor was not bad in any way really, it just wasn't great either and it just ended up somewhere in what I consider to be a respectable sort of middle area, being better than mediocre, but not as good as great. Anyhow, the Iron Man movies were good, but they didn't have one advantage Captain America uses to the fullest: a little thi

So there are some things that I liked about TF3 [that's transformers 3 and not team fortress 3 (sorry to the team fortress fans)], and a few things that I didn't like. Right now I'm feeling in a dessert first sort of mood so I'll start with the things I liked. Number one: No Megan Fox. Now this may seem like a really shallow thing to give a movie points for, but any movie that previously had a Megan Fox infestation and finally had the good sense to see the doctor and get a shot of good decision making deserves points in my book. Rumor has it that when initial contract negotiations were taking place, Megan Fox was demanding more money and Michael Bay was like "ha yeah right." So miss Fox threw a tantrum and was then disappointed to find out just how valuable she really was to the transformers franchise (and much to my joy they went with someone else, who I personally think is better looking and a better actress, pouty lips and all). The s