Friday, May 20, 2022

Biography updates.

Haven't updated my biography section in ages.
About 5 years exactly.

I thought I'd have to throw a million links in there, but my blog anniversary posts and birthday posts boil everything down pretty well.

Then, I thought I had to throw 5 years worth of those in there, but my past-self had the foresight to moosh the links down on the last two birthdays/anniversaries, so it amounted to four measly links.

Thank you, past-me, you're a genius!

😎👍


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Thursday, May 19, 2022

Reading list update.

Added my reviews of Margaret's books (part 1, part 2) to the reading list.



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Wednesday, May 18, 2022

Media tidbits #10.

Part 9.

Yeah, I know, that was quick.


-Ghostbusters: Afterlife arrives on Starz today!


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The 4 (main) X-Men timelines.

-or-

I nailed the viewing order the first time, but now I feel the need to keep track of the timelines in the wake of "Multiverse Of Madness".

Oh, right, spoilers for "Multiverse of Madness".
And "Days Of Future Past" and "Logan" come to think of it.
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Tuesday, May 17, 2022

Aftermath of Multiverse Of Madness.

-or-
Disney/Fox Part 11.8: The road ahead part 5. 

Warning, heavy Doctor Strange In The Multiverse Of Madness spoilers ahead.
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Prelude to post-MCU Spidey (part 2)



Warning, heavy Spider-Man: No Way Home and Morbius spoilers ahead.
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Media tidbits #9


Fell behind on all of this during my Margaret book-a-thons.
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Monday, May 16, 2022

Happy 20th Anniversary, Star Wars: Attack Of The Clones!!



Yep, the second new Star Wars movie since "Return Of The Jedi" and "The Phantom Menace".

Now we get Star Wars content forever.
Like Trek.
The movie franchise is....kind of on hold.
It's mostly shows now.
Like Trek!


It'll be interesting to see how "The Rise Of Skywalker", goes down with "the fandom", and how all 9 saga movies are digested by generation Z when they all turn 40.

Well TROS didn't go down well.
Just like TLJ, people loved it at first, then turned on it like baby chicks thrown to alligators.
Then "the fanbase" have turned on all the sequels, and have rewritten history to say they always hated all three.
Hence why Lucasfilm is scared to do a movie now.
Patty Jenkins would rather do Wonder Woman 3 than Rogue Squadron.
We'll see if that movie ever even happens.
If not, I'll just ret-con the Clone Wars movie as the third of the "Solo" & "Rogue One" trilogy.

So!! Let's instead go back to the halcyon days of prequel hatred!!

My original review of AOTC is in "I Love Star Wars".

And my re-appraisal is in "I don't h8 The Prequels anymore (Part 1)".

And, I guess this post will count as Part 3.
TPM anniversary being part 2.

Interestingly, the next big Star Wars thing everyone's creaming with anticipation for, is the Obi-Wan Kenobi series that's a sequel to the prequels with Ewan McGregor back as Obi.

There's a lot of stuff to nitpick the prequels for, but Ewan's Obi, and Ian's Palpatine are aces.
No one, not even the haters ever faulted them.

If this lands right, will people finally cool their fucking jets over the prequels?
We'll see!

Anyway, this one was definitely better than TPM.
Except the love dialog stuff.
But, I saw a YT video where psychologist movie fans diagnose Anakin with borderline personality disorder, and seen through that lens, Clones and Sith make a lot more sense.
I'm easing up on AOTC.

And hey, without AOTC, you don't get Clone Wars, you don't get Rebels, and then you don't get Asohka in Mandolorian, Book Of Boba-Fett, and her upcoming spinoff.
Also, without Rebels, you don't get Inquisitors in the Obi show!

Here's the crusher, without AOTC, you don't get your precious "Vader: Shards Of The Past" fan-film.

So, hey, how about some fuggin' gratitude, huh?

This movie planted a lot of important seeds in Star Wars lore.
It took awhile for them to bear fruit, but here we are harvesting, ain't we?

Well, like clone-babies in vats of blue shit!

What do you say to Uncle George, kids?
(Grudging tone of voice) "thhaaaank yooouuu 🙄😒". 

All right then!
*Crosses arms smugly*

Attack Of The Clones.
The meat and veggies you had to eat to get your ice cream.
😏



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Friday, May 13, 2022

Star Trek: Picard, season 2 review!

This is late, I've been distracted.
I don't have a fancier excuse than that.
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Tuesday, May 10, 2022

"Moon Knight" review.

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Friday, May 6, 2022

Doctor Strange In The Multiverse Of Madness (2022)


Finally, the other half of the crossover duology with "Spider-Man: No Way Home".
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Wednesday, May 4, 2022

Happy fifteenth Star Wars day!




Shitload of content this year!

-Star Wars: Visions (didn't watch it).
-Star Wars: The Bad Batch (watched it, didn't review it, wasn't very into it).
-And upcoming; Star Wars: Obi-Wan Kenobi, which looks like it's finally gonna deliver the goods!
Edit- And the trailer and poster just dropped today!
-Also, Mandalorian season 3 by Christmas, but...that's far out, and there's no poster yet.

In other news...

"Rogue Squadron" has been bumped to 2023.

"Rangers Of The New Republic" got killed cuz Gina Carano is a transphobic anti-vax piece of Nazi shit.
They should just make a Bo Katan series.
I never fucking wanted a Cara Dune show.
Gimme Bo Katan, dammit!

Christopher Lloyd is in Mando season 3!

"Tales Of The Jedi" anthology series!

All for now...



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Happy 10th Anniversary, The Avengers!


The first (planned) crossover mashup of superhero all-stars.
And still one of the best.



Pasted from the second link...

I knew at the time that it was a game changer, and a history maker.

I got the same buzz off it that I did seeing "Empire Strikes Back", and "Return Of The Jedi", as a kid.

I knew they were special, and I knew "Avengers", was special.

All Marvel's success since then has only seemed right and proper.

Anyway, I considered waiting for the 10th for it to be more of a balanced number, but with a global plague going on, you dunno how things are gonna go, so may as well leap onto today.

Yeah, I really thought I'd get the 'rona and croak, so I was getting that shit in early.

The Avengers movies only got better and better.
And "Endgame" even looped back to the first.

I think they should just keep looping.
Have the animated Spider-people, and Tom Holland Spidey, and Deadpool, and Wolverine, and Tim Story Fantastic Four, all fight in different parts of New York at the Avengers final act.

Then have everyone at different tables at the shawarma restaurant.

Do it, Marvel.
Do it.


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Tuesday, May 3, 2022

Happy 20th Anniversary, Spider-Man!


If X-Men got the Marvel universe up on its feet, then it was jumping and swinging at this point.
Literally and figuratively.


I said way back 11 years ago (!!!!) in the old review.

I dug it okay, but I remember Harry Knowles saying he went to the bathroom and cried after seeing it.
...crying?
Fuckin' come on, man.

"Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark", now that, you can cry about.
Cry, and puke.
And pee a little.

Well, if 2022 future-me went back and told 2011 me that Toby-Spidey would culminate as part of the MCU in "No Way Home" and all these movies would truly come together, I would have wept for joy in the bathroom too!!!

Too bad Harry Knowles turned out to be a groper, we could have made up and been friends.
The universe takes some crazy fucking turns.

So, yeah, in uber-hindsight, once Spidey was on the chessboard, Marvel had basically already checkmated, and just had to wait long enough.

By the time Spidey 3 came out, we were one year from Iron Man, and the rest is history.
MCU/Disney talks about their phases, but this pre-MCU Phase 0 was where the plan was really already taking form.

And oh yeah, Spidey 1 still holds up as a nifty little movie.


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Prelude to 15th Star Wars day.


Here's the first 14.
Just wanted to crunch them all down to one link for tomorrow.

-First to fourth. (Missed out)
-Fifth. (Series recap)
-Sixth. (Disney deal)
-Seventh. (Ep 7/TFA started)
-Eighth. (Ep 7/TFA wrapped)
-Ninth. (The Force Awakens)
-Tenth. (Rogue One)
-Eleventh. (The Last Jedi)
-Twelfth. (Solo)
-Thirteenth (The Rise Of Skywalker/The Mandolorian)
-Fourteenth (Mandalorian season 2)


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Latest Bullmoose haul.

I got these Wednesday, April the 27th.
Sorry I'm late, but...well, I'll explain further down.
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