Ah, shit.
Well, knew this was coming, she's been in rough health for awhile now.
Still, heavy heart on this one. 😥
Well, if Margaret had lived, she'd tell her stories.
BUT! I've got 'em.
From her Facebook journal...
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Sunday, July 31, 2022
Tuesday, July 26, 2022
Birthday loot 2022 update.
Last time, I said...
Also, ordered a 2 pack of "Tron" and "Tron Legacy" but that hasn't arrived yet.
Stay tuned!
Boom, it dropped in the mailbox the very next day!
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Sunday, July 24, 2022
Bullmoose/Birthday haul.
Hybrid of 2 hauls, cuz I dragged my feet, but...dragging my feet actually worked out, cuz now these get lumped together in a helpful way!
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Friday, July 15, 2022
Happy 6th anniversary, Ghostbusters: Answer The Call!
Previously-
What's happened since last year...
Unless Jason Reitman announces that "Afterlife 2: Firehouse" is a "Multiverse Of Madness" style crossover, this little alterni-verse cul-de-sac seems pretty much done.
We got the movie, two comic crossovers, and two straight comic sequels.
That's it.
Bummer.
Hmm, y'know, I think if Afterlife had come out first (cuz we know now it was in development), and then ATC, and the Channing Tatum one, and the animated one all came out, but Sony openly MARKETED them as Elseworlds, like "Joker" and "The Batman" I think fans would have been okay.
It was keeping Afterlife top secret, and acting like ATC was the only iteration of Ghostbusters we were getting that made fans heads explode.
Or Hell, release ATC first, but just cop to that Afterlife was also coming.
Either way.
Some entertainment media pundits say is was our fault for fighting the CHUDs.
No, CHUDs suck, we weren't wrong, you don't roll over to bullies, it's that once fans got seduced into CHUD movements, it was already too late (for the film).
Sony needed to prevent the CHUDs.
Being so secret about Afterlife was their mistake.
Transparent and better marketing was the fix.
We can see that now in hindsight.
Can the damage be reversed?
Well, maybe the ATC crew can come back in "Firehouse" as the opposites of the cameo characters in ATC.
Kristen can be the cabbie.
Melissa can be the skeptic.
Leslie can be the hearse driver.
Kate can be the physicist (you can even give her a throw away line about parallel dimensions!).
Chris can be the hotel receptionist.
Plus there's the animated movie and series you could drop them into too.
Plenty of chances for comebacks.
A comeback re-habilitated Andrew Garfield's Spidey.
People are lapping up the Obi-Wan show, and it's a sequel to the dreaded prequels.
I think the same can happen for ATC.
We just need the girls back in something neutral and fun.
Speaking of, I guess I can give cast/director updates.
-Leslie Jones is still hosting "Supermarket Sweep" and was in "Coming To America 2".
-Melissa McCarthy is Fake-Hela in "Love And Thunder" and is gonna be Ursula in "The Little Mermaid" live-action remake.
-Kristen Wiig's latest couple movies were WW84, and "Barb and Star Go To Vista Del Mar".
Plus she was in "Bless The Harts".
-Kate McKinnon just left SNL. Now she's Carole Baskin in "Joe vs Carole"
-Paul Feig is doing "A Simple Favor 2".
-Chris Hemsworth is Thor, I think he's gonna be all right.
So, pretty good!
Everyone's holding up.
GB:ATC didn't "destroy" anyone.
Well, that's it!
See you next time!
Saturday, July 9, 2022
Sunday, July 3, 2022
Happy 10th Anniversary, The Amazing Spider-Man!
Tanker-truck of hindsight, this one is as, if not more, pivotal than Raimi-Spidey.
Yes, I'm going to explain. Buckle up.
Previously....
From the first link....
Mike Stoklasa from Red Letter Media summed it up thusly.
"It fell flat on its fucking face!".
Fuck Mike Stoklasa, fuck Red Letter Media, and fuck anyone connected to them.
They got on that whole anti-SJW hate train; Rich is an Armored Skeptic fanboy, and armored Skeptic ripped his mask off as a white supremacist; fuck all racist/sexist CHUDs.
That anti-feminist stealth-Trumper bullshit ruined practically everything I used to like online from the 2010's. Fuck you sneaky swastika kissing phony fucks.
Anyway!!
I said it best in the second link...
I didn't get the boiling hate Red Letter Media dished out on it.
I mean, yeah, Sony are cynical assholes, but you can't take that out on the art.
Yeah, it had a lot to live up to with Raimi-Spidey, but it's fine.
It's a Spidey cartoon turned to flesh.
Raimi sprinkled his weirdo signature style sauce on it, where Webb played it pretty faithful and straight.
Nothing wrong with that at all.
I was just bitter when I thought it had robbed me of an Avengers crossover, but we got all that, and more.
It all worked out fine.
If anything, having Andrew and his villains in "No Way Home" made it so much better.
Hell, without Webb-verse to pad out the villain count, "No Way home" might not have even been a thing.
The stars aligned just right, and Sony's blunder became our boon.
Couldn't have happened better if they'd actually planned it that way.
I'd argue Webb-verse flat out saved Spider-Man.
We probably don't get Holland-Spidey in MCU without Amazing 2 crashing.
And Amazing 2 wasn't even bad, it just went up against fucking "Guardians", "Winter Soldier", and "Future Past" for fuck sakes.
Stacked fucking year.
I mean, the Sony hacks/leaks put it over the top, but they were secretly putting out MCU-crossover feelers before that.
Yeah, there it is, you have Webb and Garfield to thank for "No Way Home".
Think about that next time you want to get snotty about any goddamned movie.
In 10 years, you'll be eating crow.
With chopsticks, and without napkins.
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