Legend of the Galactic Heroes: Die Neue These - Stellar War Part 1

 Time for some good hard science fiction anime, as we continue with the Die Neue These reboot of Legend of the Galactic Heroes.

 

The second season, Stellar War, was actually made as three cinematic movies, later each split in short series of 4 episodes each.

 

Only downside being I only seem to find a dubbed version online overhere, but heck, while not ideal it doesn't distract from once again the fantastic visuals and strong story. 

 

Following immediatly after the huge battle at the end of the first season, the remnants of the fleets are gathering together after their failed invasion.  While Yang keeps organiszing a fighting withdrawal, the losses are catastrophic and shifts the momentum of the war to the Empire.  But when the Kaiser dies without naming an heir, civil war stirs underneath their successes, buying the Alliance time. But the losses also have taken a toll on Alliance leadership, and unrest stirs between the surface there as well...

 

This first part of the second season / first movie kicks off intensely, with the huge battle, but also the politics behind two galactic forces adding a layer of intrigue.

 

I look forward to watching the next instalment for sure! 

Mortal Kombat II

 Time for some good gory entertainment on a saturday night with the classic of classic franchises: Mortal Kombat.

 

Now, I liked the previous film, and now at last Johnny Cage (yeah, I always played him when able) has arrived.

 

The downside, it still features that "superhero out of nowhere" from the first film, Cole Young, ugh. The story begins with a flashback of how Shao Khan took over Edenia, and now Earthrealm is one defeat away from suffering the same fate.  Raiden and his champions (Cole Young, Liu Kang, Jax and Sonya Blade) are looking to recruit a fifth champion, and Johnny Cage, a washed up actor, is chosen.  Now to be honest, I liked the Linden Ashby version of the 90s movie better.  Nothing against Karl Urban, he is a fantastic actor and I loved him both as Eomer as well as as Bones McCoy, but he just feels to old to play "the game version of our national hero JCVD".  Yeah, that's an actual fact btw that Johnny Cage was based on Jean-Claude Van Damme.

 

Now, Johnny does add some great lines to the film for sure (like "your spooky halloween horror babies" when talking to Baraka about the inhabitants of his village) and while adding comedy also brings in some nice action scenes, even though he feels out of the water most of the time compared to the others powers.  

 

But the movie delivers all what you expect: intense battle scenes and goy fatalities, and yeah, I was kind of happy when Cole's head was pulverised, though suprised Liu Kang falls.  Though this might set him up for a possible third movie and him becoming the fire god champion of the later games as a result.  Kano as well was hilarious, chosing "jack and coke" over the Outerworld lifestyle, and plans are made to bring back the fallen champions after Shao Khan is defeated in the end.

 

This is just what you like to see at times, good fun entertainment without to much thought, visual spectacles and of course that age-less "Mortal Kombaaaaaaaaat" soundtrack. 

Daggers Inn

 So, a british movie styled after Knives Out, which are enjoyable mystery flicks.

 

The question though, is this film as enjoyable?

 

Well, the jury is out on that.  I actually found it okay, Noshi found it totally rubbish.  And it seems the critics are in her camp as well.  The movie is about a pretty but strange woman arriving in a town "strangleheld" by the local wealthy law firm.  She is there to investigate the murder of her sister, and get revenge on who did it.

 

The woman has strange powers of suggestion, seemingly able to influence the mind of others.  And a bad mannered young partner in the law firm that offends everyone on every turn.  The rest are side characters that appear for no reason and whose actual roles are weird at times, the film feeling like a stageplay by an amateur company put on film.  And that somehow makes it incredibly fascinating, as you just want to see how it will play out, what weird director's desicions are made, and who will overact next.

 

So did I feel like I wasted about 1.5 hours of my life watching this?  Yes, because it is a bad movie, but also no, because it has that charm that just grips you and keeps you watching.  A true oddity!

 

And no answers on where she got her powers from... 

A Minecraft Movie

 Saturday night movie night with Noshi, and while I settled down at the big table for some glueing of figures, we opted for A Minecraft Movie.

 

This movie was rather well received when it came out, and seeing Jason Momoa so far out of his regular roles seemed like fun.

 

And fun it was in this visually stunningly made movie.  Steve, played by Jack Black, lives in the Minecraft world, after hiding a cubical orb in our world to prevent pig-queen Malgosha take over the world.  Years later, gamer of the year 1989 and now washed out game store owner Garett "the Garbage Man" Garrison gets Steve's old possessions including the orb at a garage sale.  In his store, a boy named Henry discover and unlocks the orb's power. 

 

Together with Garrett, his sister Natalie and Dawn, a friend of the house, they are pulled in the world of Minecraft where they must find a replacement orb to both get home and stop Malgosha.  This results in a lot of very fun made battles and events, and in the end they manage to overcome the evil overlord.  Here they pick up their lives and make it more succesful then before.

 

So yeah, of course this hasn't has Shakespeare level of story, but never the less it is a good fun movie.  I laughed quite a bit, something in recent movies is hard with all it's "correct" humour in the industry (aka bland and boring jokes), while this has some good old 90s vibe dad jokes humour.  Which is of course right up my personality. 

 

So yeah, there are worse things to waste your time at for sure! 

The Legend of The Five

 Time for an australian made family fantasy flick this afternoon, and so we selected The Legend of The Five.

 

Now, this movie only seems to score around 50% on most rating sites, so it might be a hidden gem or a railway disaster, let's find out! 

 

So basically this is your average, thirteen in a dozen teenage fantasy movie.  Five high school students, all with their varied character traits (the jock, the nerd, the beauty,... you know the tropes) go on a school trip and end up in a fantasy world due to twiddling with some artifact.

 

In their, they are bestowed with powerful elemental abilities and recruited by an ancient tree spirit to save the world from the Sorceress, an ancient evil.  However, this Sorceress turns out to be their teacher and she gains the assistance of the lead character, Zoe, misguiding her to bring down the barriers.  She nearly succeeds in this, but by the power of friendship is stopped in the end...

 

Nothing to fancy there as such, means we are getting that sort of amusing but not standing out sunday afternoon family movie.   The acting and the effects aren't to bad considering the budget on these sorts of films, but it brings like totally nothing new or innovative to the movie table.

 

Does this warrant it's low rating?  Probably for a large part, though it is not because the movie is bad, it's just, well, "there". 

Mortal Kombat Legends: Cage Match

 Sometimes all you need on a rainy saturday afternoon is some good violent animated fun.

 

And what is more gory, violent and hilariously over the top then Mortal Kombat?

 

From the animated Legends series, comes Cage Match, which follows the adventures of our beloved movie star Johnny Cage.  In this movie, Johnny, still a C-list actor at that point, tries to save his co-star Jennifer Grey (voiced by herself) from a secret society plotting the destruction of Earthrealm.  He unknowingly becomes involved in one of the conflicts between a protector of Earthrealm, Ashrah, who was send by Lord Raiden, and Kia, a demonic follower of Shinnok.  Johnny kills the later hilariously with a tour bus he hijacked by the way...

 

It soon turns out there might be more to it all then a simple kidnapping, and he decides to infiltrate the Magical Mansion for a gathering, where he and Ashrah are attacked by Jataaka, the second of three assassins send to Earthrealm by Shinnok, with Jennifer actually being the final one.  As Cage possesses the blood of Gods, they want to sacrifice him, but he escapes.  Unfortunatly, enough of his blood had been spilled, bringing Shinnok into our world, and Johnny needs to face him.  He unleashes his inner mystical powers, and manages to banish Shinnok back to Netherrealm.  His career soares and declines, but is then seen packing up to go make a new film on a remote island...

 

This was so much fun in a simple way.  The humour is great, the animation is okay and the gory deaths are just that what MK is all about: sheer insane over the top violent fun.  

 

Definitly worth the watch! 

Avatar: Fire and Ash

 So, the third instalment in the Avatar movie franchise, and bigger then before...

 

... which is why I didn't like it.

 

You see, I find these movies all carbon copies of one another, except the setting always gets bigger, but the story and story sequence remains identical.  Calm life is disturbed, natives gather and infiltrate, humans get revenge.  Then they gather a bigger force to withstand the humans, are pushed back with some personal loss of a side character, and the world awakens to bring all the wildlife to battle and beat the humans.  

 

The difference is that going from movie to movie we had a skrimish with a raiding force, a battle around a ship and now confronting a whole fleet.  But you can put the above over each of them, and it clicks solid into place like an overlay.  The first movie was awesome, because all new and stuff, but the two that came after, meh.   

 

 The story is basically the mourning Sully family, after losing their son in the second film, and Spider who stays with them but is bound to wearing masks to breathe.  He must return to the humans to survive, even though he doesn't want to.  Add in an aggressive fire clan, the Mangkwan led by Varang, and an attack leads to Kiri infusing Spider with fungi, resulting in him to be able to breath Pandora air... and making him a prime research target.

 

Jake on the other hand is captured and scheduled for execution while the RDA wants to find out what causes Spider to breathe exactly.  As they escape, the RDA mobilises en masse, resulting in the Na'Vi gathering their forces as well and a huge battle ensues.

 

In the end, the Na'Vi are succesfull, Quaritch sacrificing himself to save Spider and leaving him in the custody of Jake, as Spider is inducted in the Na'Vi spirit tree world.

 

So yeah, big blockbuster, fantastic special effects, but as I said above, nothing new.  Just bigger, and for that not necessarily better.  There is talks there are more parts still to come, but give it a few years time to create a new hype, because like so many theatre franchises it is suffering from the streaming competition.

 

It was fun, but for me, the stress in that sentence is on "was"... 

Spaceman

 The latest movie I have been watching, this is a science-fiction drama, produced by Netflix and based on the book Spaceman of Bohemia.

 

And Adam Sandler is actually doing a good "serious" performance in this film...

 

The story is about a czech astronaut who is investigating a strange spacecloud that has appeared behind Jupiter.  But isolation takes his toll, and soon he sees a strange spacespider that telepathically talks to him.  He misses his wife, who actually wants to leave him as he is to focussed on his career, but this information is withheld from him for his sanity by mission command.

 

The spider however is real, and called Hanus by him, the last of his species and who wishes to understand humanity.  When he learns how Jakub lived his life, he is disappointed and leaves, leaving Jakub distressed.  When he asks forgiveness from his wife, Hanus returns and tells him his entire species was wiped out by a parasitic infection, and he wants to go to the cloud to die as time exists simultaneously there.  In the cloud, Jakub concludes he just wants to live his life with his wife, before being rescued, as hanus passes away from his infection.

 

This was actually a really good movie.  Don't expect flashy space action, but a great story and good filmatographic experience on self-reflection.  Truly enjoying this movie, and as I said at the beginning a great toned down performance from Adam Sandler, makes it one of those films that gets you thinking and reflecting yourself.

 

Definitly one of the hidden gems Netflix produced over the years, so it is well worth to go and check it out! 

 

Black Panther: Wakanda Forever

 Okay, first of all, I stopped counting how many times "Wakanda forever" is shouted in the movie, but I guess you can be pretty certain you are watching the right movie...

 

That said, let's keep slowly catching up on all the missed Marvel movies and series with the second movie of the Black Panther.

 

Which starts with a heartbreaking farewell to the late Chadwick Boseman, who played T'Challa before sadly passing away from cancer at age 43.  And then we get a movie basically about african tribes fighting mayan tribes, as namor is introduced and his whole esthetic is Mayan in nature, including his blue skinned people.  The movie is a big mixture of on the one hand the trade issues for the vibranium which T'Challa had promised and the current ruler is unhappy to oblige to, the fact the "not Atlanteans" also have the metal but need more and want trade with Wakanda, and as the Wakandans refuse a war breaking out between the two mythical nations.

 

They set up various characters for the next phase of the MCU in this film, as the new Black Panther, but also the introduction of Iron Heart (I dread the day I need to watch that series for completionist sake) and of course Namor himself.  The film isn't to bad at all, being rather action packed for some brainless entertainment, but to say it is the cream of the crop is overstating by quite a lot.

 

But then again, I'm one of those people who are waiting for the X-Men, never having cared much about the Avengers and their allies even back in my comic days... 

 

Only about a half a year to go... 

 

Barbarian Queen

 Nothing says lazy painting saturday afternoon as an 80s (semi) fantasy movie, and this time it was Barbarian Queen from 1985.

 

Which is full of exposure to boot, so best not watch it with young kids around...

 

The plot, for as far as these movies really had one bar "show nudity, do poorly co-ordinated swordfights with slow motion movements" is that a barbarian village prepares for the wedding of Queen Amethea and prince Argan.  But the forces of Lord Arrakur attack, including gang-raping the queen's younger sister Taramis, who together witht he prince is taken prisoner.

 

Together with two other survivors, Estrild and Tiniara, Amathea sets out on a quest for vengeance, and come in contact with an underground resistance to the evil overlord.  She reunites with Argan who serves in the gladiator pits, and even though captured and tortured (yes, she kills her torturer by squeezing her vagina so hard...) they escape and lead an uprising, killing lord Arrakur and freeing the lands.

 

So yeaaaaaah, you can see where that went.  And still, even with all the nudity, it was actually an enjoyable albeit short (it runs for an hour and a quarter) movie from the era, I definitly saw worse of these kind of flicks.  But it is what you can expect from these Roger Corman movies that where strife in the 80s, and the "thigh fu" scene has to be seen to be believed.

 

Good fun, but don't expect high acting quality from this B-movie fantasy story! 

 

 

The Old Guard 2

 Okay, so I found the original film of a bunch of immortal mercenary warriors actually enjoyable, so when Netflix released the sequel, me and Noshi sat down to have a look.

 

After all, brainless entertainment was welcome at the end of the holiday season and to many busy evenings...

 

And it begins with the introduction of Quyhn, another immortal and seemingly love intrest of Andromache.  Who, like every lover after 500 years, kind off forgot about her and just moved on instead of combing the seabed.  And Booker is also brought back, keeping up our Belgian pride.  Even more immortals join the fray, with Tuah, a sage and who saved Andromache when Quyhn was tossed into the sea.  Inside an Iron Maiden just to keep her down.

 

But of course, the lover has an issue with Andy now, and decided to work together with Discord.  A mortal now, it turns out that Nile can remove people's immortality when wounding them, and that is what happened to Andy.  Luckily, another seemingly can pass his immortality willingly to another immortal, and Booker does this.  Which gives me a loop issue: if when Nile wounds someone, which Booker tried out, and so removes their immortality, then how can he pass it to Andromache a short while later while his wounds don't heal????

 

When they go to stop Discord in a nuclear plant, Booker, now a mortal, sacrifices himself for Andy, who finds an injured Quyhn after a fight with Nile.  Nile and others have been captured by Discord, who wants to reinstate her immortality through Nile's powers, while Andy and her lover reconsile and set out to free them...

 

... and there it ends.  No third movie so far has been confirmed (luckily Matthias is busy getting his driver's license back, bit of a celebrity scandal here in Belgium as he drove without a permit, and Booker is dead now), so no idea if we ever going to learn if they succeed.

 

Was it fun brainless entertainment?  Definitly!  Was it as fun as the first one?  Definitly not! 

Anaconda

 When I saw the trailer of this "reboot parody" of Anaconda, with Jack Black fleeing from a snake with a living boar strapped to it's back, I just wanted to watch this movie!

 

So when it hit Netflix earlier this month, me an Noshi sat down for hopefully some laughs.

 

Now, the original was an okay action horror starring J-Lo and Ice Cube, and this is like the 7th movie in the franchise (meaning I didn't saw the five between the original and this one...), and serves as a reboot that is not a reboot.

 

A bunch of friends are not happy by the way their life has gone, and decide to chase their childhood dream of making a feature film, a reboot of Anaconda.  One of them claims (Paul Rudd) that he aquired the rights to the franchise, so they set out to the amazon rainforest to make a new entry in the franchise.  Which soon starts to go down as their snake is killed during filming, and while searching for a new one things go bad, as the beast is huge!  Add to that a beautiful illegal gold smuggler, government agents chasing her and by extension them, and you have the recipy for some fun hours of laughs and action.

 

Except the movie doesn't deliver at all.  The scene from the trailer is about the only one in the whole movie that I could laugh with, for the rest not even a giggle.  Surely, the cameo's of Ice Cube and in a lesser extent J-Lo are fun additions, but basically the only funny thing for the rest was the end title screen and what happened to the characters, so that is saying something.

 

It does have some nice action sequences, zero horror scenes and near nothing is funny, so it is right to say that this movie failed to deliver on a lot of it's promises, and to be honest, even Jack Black fails big time in this thing.

 

Just avoid it, and let the very first original movie be the only one you might vaguely remember from this franchise... 

War Machine

 A recent science fiction movie that appeared on Netflix, this is actually quite an enjoyable one!

 

And it seems to be setting up for a sequel, which I don't mind at all.

 

Released back in march, the movie follows an unnamed staff sergeant who loses his brother during a Taliban ambush in Afghanistan.  As a promise they made when younger, he joins the RASP to become an Army Ranger, enlisting in the harsh training.

 

He and the recruits that made it through basic training start on the final mission, called a "death march" in which they must locate a downed aircraft.  But during the exercise, they stumble upon a strange crashed vessel, which activates to become a giant robot that hunts them down.  Unarmed, they must get through the jungle to safety, but the recruits, who are unarmed, are easy pickings and one by one they are killed by the machine.  In the end, only he and another recuit (who has been like injured and mishandled as such during the whole movie, I guess that bloke wanted that he was killed in the first contact I guess) make it back, only to learn an alien invasion is on the way.

 

This is just what 90s action movies used to be: pure, heavy metal action without to much morality lessons, and not to much relations and drama.  Just guns blazing of a group of soldiers trying to survive something they don't understand, nor can defeat without going far out of the box.

 

The special effects are well done, and yeah, the movie has some serious gore as the recruits are blasted apart in the most spectacular ways possible.  But at times, that is just fine to watch, no frills, just thrills.

 

A good evening watch for certain! 

Wizards of the Lost Kingdom

 Before "that" trilogy by Peter Jackson, fantasy movies where a rather obscure thing.

 

But in the 80s, Sword and Sorcery was a genre all in itself, with a lot of movies reaching cult status like Ladyhawke, Highlander, Conan, Krull, ...

 

So drawing from that huge library of movies, I spend a lazy sunday afternoon to have a look at the argentinian - american production Wizards of the Lost Kingdom.  And the intro alone promised everything that is great in those times: cheesy narration, a Sword of Power and a Ring of Magic, the former lost, as King Tyler rules a kingdom, Axeholme, where wizard used to fight wizard and warrior fought warrior before he installed peace.

 

The pacing is incredible in this movie though, within the first 20 minutes the kingdom is overthrown, Simon, son of the king's sorcerer ran in the wild and met the legendary hero, lost the ring, found the sword... and learned advanced magic.  And of course, expect all the 80s special effects, with "drawn" spells, animatronics and guys in big white furry suits.

 

But actually, the movie is enjoyable, even though on the short side with an hour and 15 minutes runtime, and this probably also explains the high speed pacing.  But it is that sort of innocent adventure movie, of a young kid finding tutelage of an experienced warrior, and through their adventures learns the needed skills to defeat the evil wizard and free his kingdom.

 

So yeah, if you are in for a dose of campy 80s fantasy, make sure to give the movie a look.  And yes, the score music sounds VERY familiar, giving a serious, and I mean borderedge used, Wrath of Khan feel...

 

But judge that for yourself! 

Wake up dead man: A knives out mystery

 Sometimes, a good who dunnit movie is ideal for a lousy evening of television.

 

And so Noshi and me sat down to watch Wake up dead man on Netflix, the latest instalment in their A Knives Out Mystery series.

 

Starring Daniel Craig and Josh Brolin, this one is about an eccentric priest that rules, and blackmails, people in his parish.  A young priest, former boxer, is send to the parish to help out and observe what is actually happening there, and he immediatly gets an idea because the cross is removed from the wall.  It seems the father's mom was a whore, and he interprets faith "slighty" different.

 

Now, it is actually quite a fun way how it builds to the setting of the murder with all the flawed parishians, like a writer down on his luck, a depressed alcoholic daughter, a bastard son for the priest and more.  This all gives them motive (of course, at first the young priest is the suspect), and the flamboyant Daniel Craig out there to solve the mystery.  

 

But as the story progresses and more mysteries unravel in the small village, it soon becomes apparant that not only it was all a set-up that was manipulated into a true murder, but that it was the maid behind it all.  Because of course, it's always the house staff is it not.  She was a witness to what transpired all those years ago, and as she saw the priest stray from true faith took it all in her own hands.  Especially because a fortune is also on the line, an inheritance of the priest's father and something everyone seemed to be looking out for...

 

So while the actual murderer might be a bit predictable (great performance by Glenn Close), the story is actually really enjoyable to follow, and you might get sidetracked once or twice during the chase and the reasons behind it.

 

So that makes it for me an enjoyable murder mystery film! 

The Rats: A Witcher Tale

 Straight behind the fourth season of The Witcher, Netflix released this feature film, centering around the Rats.

 

You know, those loving misfits we saw slaughtered by Leo Bonhart at the end of the season...

 

Now, it does answer one of the cliffhangers from that season in it's first minute: Leo didn't kill Ciri (well, as far as that would have been a suprise).  But we do get him to tell the tale of how he ran into The Rats and why he had a score to settle with them.

 

Basically, down on their funds, they took a job which involved on the one hand a figure from Mistle's past, and on the other Leo's "sort of cousin" who runs illegal gambling arena's.  As they plan a heist, and enlist the help of an aged and drunken Witcher called Brehen, their past cross.  Brehen being played by Dolph Ludgren and making a better one then Liam... nah, let's not go there this time.

 

The movie is a great adventure, and the Rats get away, though we know that this is only for a short period of grace, because Leo is on their tail.

 

If you love the Leo character depiction (and who doesn't, this is one of the biggest villains I ever read in a book, and he is portrayed just as ruthless on screen), make sure to check this out.  If you like The Witcher series, you don't go wrong with this series.  And if you rooted for The Rats and where shocked by their fate, enjoy this final trip with them...

 

Good fun to watch! 

Troll 2

 Troll was a bit of a surprise hit in the past years on Netflix, the norwegian fantasy movie being great fun and a really good film.

 

And in december, the sequel hit, so me and Noshi sat down and gave it a look recently.

 

Unfortunatly, Isaksen provides a prophecy early in the movie, as he states "a sequel never lives up to the original".  Granted, somethimes this isn't true (Empire Strikes Back, Aliens, etc...) but more often than not it is indeed so.

 

We come back to our heroine of the first movie, Nora, now living remotely in the wilds three years after her encounter with the Troll king.  But she is recruited by her friend to come to a goverment facility for a new discovery: another troll is being held there!  She accidentally awakens him, and where the first movie was about a troll just wanting to get home, this one wants to level Norway.  Soon a second troll appears, as Nora had contact with the son of the Troll King and had hid him, and the army must try to stop the monster that seems impervious to all weapons and countermeasures.

 

Add in a crazy old coot... I mean archeologist, and a mystical water source of King Olaf, who was held responsible for removing the trolls in the middle ages from Norway.  And then a document shows up, and it was all a misunderstanding in that the trolls didn't needed to be killed but given a home, but the chruch opposed this.  Epic battle with huge trolls take 2, magical water and finally a sacrifice of one of the leads and the big one is brought down...  

 

Yeah, that's a lot going on compared to the mysterious monster movie that was the original Troll.  They had a big budget (so far the biggest ever in Norwegian cinema) and wanted to go big.  Unfortunatly, it doesn't deliver, and feels more like a copy of King Kong vs Godzilla, but just, well, not that good.

 

A missed chance for sure, seeing how great the original was and what they served us in this second course... 

The Fantastic Four: First Steps

 So the First Family FINALLY arrives in the MCU, meaning we only are missing the most anticipated team in there... please bring that Doomsday movie forward.

 

Now, this movie didn't do that well at all in the box office, and basically I don't get it, this one was, compared to all previous iterations, actually good.

 

First off, I love the 60s vibe both the technology (The Eclipse, their car,...) gives off, as well as that 60s style theme music.  But what about the casting and the story?  Well, they face Galactus and the Silver Surfer again, like in the older movies with Jessica Alba.  The first thing Noshi noted was that they made the Silver Surfer female, and I had to bring her in the know.  There are more Surfers, some female, but we all are used to Norin Rad, the one we know from most comics.

 

Also a bit of comic knowledge, neutral viewers had on the one hand issues with the "superbaby", and with Reed being significantly older.  Well, Franklin IS the single most powerful mutant in the whole Marvelverse, basically they haven't seen anything yet.  And Reed never was a young scientist actually, being the senior of Susan, who is actually casted on the rather young side in all movies.

 

But that aside, the story is the traditional: Galactus is on course to Earth, and want to destroy it.  The Fantastic Four set out to talk to him, and he notices the unborn baby as his salvation, as it carries the Power Cosmic.  They try to stop him but fail, with Franklin being born in the process.  A plan is hatched to teleport Earth, but is stopped by the Silver Surfer, so using the final space bridge they plan on teleporting Galactus far away.  They nearly succeed, but as he goes after Franklin Sue holds him back, and the Silver Surfer in the end saves Earth to atone for her sins by pushing Galactus in the portal.

 

Now, and then there is the end-scene... a green hooded man holding a metal mask has appeared in the Baxter building, and we all know who that is, as Doctor Victor Von Doom will appear as the main villain in Doomsday.  

 

As will "that team" I talked about in the opening line... and I for one cannot wait this time for an actual Marvel release, and I can say that has been a LONG time.