Previously-
Yep, that was sweet!
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Sunday, December 31, 2023
Wednesday, December 27, 2023
Monday, December 25, 2023
Christmas loot 2023
No issues with Amazon this year for a change!!
Last year was a goddamned Three Stooges short.
Also, I'm not doing goofy themed titles anymore.
Anyway!
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Christmas 2023.
Pretend those Vulcanoids are Elves. 😉😏
Yeah, I'm just gonna do generic, like the Halloweens.
Anyway!
Previously-
Saturday, December 16, 2023
Thursday, December 7, 2023
RIP Norman Lear.
If somehow you missed it, he's the guy behind "All In The Family" "Maude" "The Jeffersons" and "Good Times".
And the largely forgotten and almost never rerun "Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman" that makes "All In The Family" look like Fox News.
He passed Tuesday.
Well, he made it to 101, so he outlived Henry-fucking-Kissinger.
I don't know if that balances the universe or anything, but the symmetry makes me smile.
METV is supposed to cobble together a special and a marathon dedicated to him this upcoming Sunday.
I'll be watching.
Tuesday, December 5, 2023
Marvel viewing order update 1.5.
Previously-
Okay!! So!! Leaked set photos for Deadpool 3 show Fantastic Four Easter eggs*.
Hot damn, that's good enough for me!!
*They also give away plot spoilers, so ixnay on those.
Google 'em yourself.
Adding Fantastic Four to the MCU/Fox/Sony timeline!
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Sunday, December 3, 2023
Thoughts on lethal vs non-lethal superheroes.
So, this was spurred on by "Black Adam".
I didn't put it in the review, because I wanted it to be a quickie, and I struggled over whether to even jot this shit down.
Eh, what the hell? I'll pound it out in notepad, and if it comes out okay, I'll post it.
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Friday, December 1, 2023
Thursday, November 30, 2023
Black Adam (2022)
Previously with the DCEU/Snyder-verse...
There! Finally catching up on the last few DCs before the big reboot.
Well....super short version, I didn't hate it.
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Tuesday, November 28, 2023
X-Men viewing order 2: "Whatever MCU does with them".
Sunday, November 26, 2023
Marvel viewing order update 2.
Previously-
Okay! So 2023 is finally done for Marvel; let's tally it up!
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Saturday, November 25, 2023
Wednesday, November 22, 2023
"Superman legacy" casting #5.
These dropped the same day I posted the last bunch.
But, I waited a day...just because.
Anyway!! Now the sidekicks!
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Tuesday, November 21, 2023
"Superman Legacy" casting resumes.
Sunday, November 19, 2023
Happy 2nd anniversary, Ghostbusters: Afterlife!
Gotta say, I love having these winter dates to catch Ghostbusters news year round!
Building up to today.....
What's happened since last year....
-Ghostbusters 4 delayed by the fucking strikes. 😡
-New GB4 release date is March 29th, 2024. 🥺
Yep, it's gonna be all about Frozen Empire for a bit!
Thursday, November 16, 2023
Wednesday, November 15, 2023
Madame Web trailer.
It's "Glass Ceiling"!
Madame Web is the central character, but it's a female spider-based mini-Avengers.
Which is what "Glass Ceiling" was going to be.
Damn, that took 9 years!
Sony is tenacious I'll give them that!!
So...
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Tuesday, November 14, 2023
Saturday, November 11, 2023
Problematic shit in X-Men 2, and my fix.
I raved about it there, but there's a B-story I always block from my mind, or deliberately don't pay enough attention to.
Starz has been playing it like crazy along with part 1 and 3 because of the leak that Beast is in "The Marvels".
Just like all 5 original Spideys played when "No Way Home" came out.
Anyway, because of its repeating, I can't ignore it anymore.
Gotta deal with it.
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Thursday, November 9, 2023
Wednesday, November 8, 2023
All right, let's talk that GBFE trailer.
All right, last time, the identity of our cast even was a mystery; we don't have that this time.
But! There's a lot more going on this time!
So, the GBFE trailer dropped today (go see it if you haven't!), let's look under the hood!
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Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire (TRAILER!!)
It's here!!!!
So, yep, that confirms the title!
I'll do dissection later.
Short reaction: wow, fucking dark!
Ghostbusters versus hard-PG-13 homicidal Elsa from "Frozen".
Tuesday, November 7, 2023
Monday, November 6, 2023
Saturday, November 4, 2023
Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire!
Is supposedly what the title for Ghostbusters 4 (AKA Ghostusters: Firehouse) is going to be.
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Thursday, November 2, 2023
Star Trek: Lower Decks, season 4 review.
Lotta life shit been going on distracting me.
But here we go....
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Tuesday, October 31, 2023
Halloween 2023!
So, two years ago, I backed into a fascism theme.
Last year, I pulled off having no theme, and it seems I've nailed it again this year.
Either there wasn't a lot of horror news, or I just didn't keep up on it.
Or else, there wasn't much that interested me to keep up on.
*Google skims*
Well, there was a lot for you if you liked franchises I don't like.
Or are obsessed with Catholic possession movies.
Fneh.
Previous years-
All the horror stuff from this year...
-Oh, and Scream and Saw made yet another lap around the track.
-Speaking of Saw, Starz has them all, so I gave in and binged.
The real villains are the insurance companies.
-And mostly, it was all about "Cocaine Bear". I gotta see that someday.
-Update Oh!! And there's a new sequel/remake of the top 100 scariest moments documentary, but now it's 101, and on AMC instead of Bravo. Some of the old movies, a bunch of new, and all new celebrity hosts. And they can say f-bombs on AMC. Fun stuff.
-'Nother update Also, saw "The Blackening" and "Summoning Sylvia".
And finally, song time!
And, as always...
Merry Deathmas!
And a happy new candy! :-D
Monday, October 30, 2023
Spidey vs Venom tidbit.
A quickie rumor, but quickie rumors have panned out in the past, so you never know which ones will stick.
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Sunday, October 29, 2023
Wednesday, October 25, 2023
Friday, October 20, 2023
Sunday, October 15, 2023
MCU Phase 4 compilation.
There, just like with Infinity Saga, I won't have to write the list again and again during phase 5.
Oh, and phases 4-6 are The Multiverse Saga.
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MCU Blu-ray catch up.
Got these yesterday.
Just finished up today.
I'm all caught up to Marvel now.
..until "The Marvels" drops in a couple weeks.
Friday, October 6, 2023
Tuesday, September 26, 2023
Birthday loot 2023 (Part 5).
Hey!! Got this on Tuesday, and got through the binge the same day!!
First time I didn't fiddle-fuck until Thursday.
Friday, September 22, 2023
Wednesday, September 20, 2023
Retroactive post #7.
Added a belated memorial that I just found out about.
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I wasn't going to at first, but it nagged and nagged at me, and that always means something, so I caved in.
Sunday, September 17, 2023
A couple more deleted posts.
Got rid of "Sneerfest: John Travolta" and the update to it about "Gotti" bombing.
It was just petty hate, and no one liked it.
Including me. I thought it would be catharsis, and it was just diarrhea.
Hate-catharsis is an illusion.
It never helps.
You look at how the MAGA dorks wrap their shit in self-righteousness, and delusional grievance, and it's all the same shit.
Fuck that.
So, yeah, I'm out of that whole "shock jock" game.
Monday, September 11, 2023
Picard-a-thon!!!
I said last time...
And I need to marathon "Encounter At Farpoint" "All Good Things.." "First Contact" and then from this "Vox" and "The Last Generation".
Well, I did it! And then some!!
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Friday, September 8, 2023
Thursday, September 7, 2023
Birthday loot 2023 (Part 4).
Saturday, September 2, 2023
RIP Jimmy Buffet.
Well, shit.
"Margaritaville" was my dad's theme song through the 70's-80's.
Grew up with that.
Along with James Taylor, and America.
Well, he lived a sweet life, and he was a billionaire off his music.
He literally built the world described in the song around himself.
He was the good-guy opposite of Scott Adams.
Wish we had more like him.
Friday, September 1, 2023
2020-2022 the corona/covid years.
There.
Hopefully, my interaction with this disease is done forever.
All the other stuff covid messed up.
The summer movies of 2020 were wiped out.
I did "what I would have thought" sorta-reviews.
Celebrities got sick. A handful passed.
Celebrities picked plague times to rip their masks of as anti-vaxxers and bigots.
The holidays of 2020 were ruined.
Well...tarnished.
I caught the fucking thing! Symptoms were minor.
In hindsight. As it was happening, it was scary.
Thursday, August 31, 2023
Monday, August 28, 2023
...but the plague had other plans: Final.
Saturday, August 26, 2023
I love the EeeDees (Part 2)!!
-Evil Dead 1-3 (and other stuff)
-Evil Dead (2013) (reviewed)
-Evil Dead (2013) (acquired)
-Ash vs Evil Dead, Season 1 (reviewed)
-Ash vs Evil Dead, Season 1 (acquired)
-Ash vs Evil Dead, Season 2 (reviewed)
-Ash vs Evil Dead, Season 2 (acquired)
-Ash vs Evil Dead, Season 3 (reviewed)
-Ash vs Evil Dead, Season 3 (acquired)
-Evil Dead Rise (acquired/reviewed)
-Doctor Strange In The Multiverse Of Madness (reviewed)
-Doctor Strange In The Multiverse Of Madness (acquired)
There! All up to date!!
Why Doctor Strange? I said it in the review; it's so chock full of ED Easter eggs and callbacks, it may as well be Evil Dead 3.5.
Well, with ED2013 canonized, I guess it bumps up to 4.5.
Thursday, August 24, 2023
Tuesday, August 22, 2023
What I read this year (2023).
I said then...
Next, the Sandman comics, and then I'm gonna hurl myself into my own book.
Says the me of 2022.
We'll see where we are when we come back here next year.
Stay tuned!
I'd say I'm coming along pretty well with that.
Plus, I collected the Sandmans, and got and read "The Exile", "The Overneath","The Way Home", and "A Fine And Private Place".
And now, after six years, I won't do this anniversary anymore.
It's in the rearview.
Loot and literature can cover it now.
To the future!
Monday, August 21, 2023
Happy 25th anniversary, Blade!
Sent back by my future self in 8/15/24.
Thanks to "Deadpool & Wolverine" this is retroactively the first MCU movie.
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Sunday, August 20, 2023
Story deletion.
Deleted "The Vengeance Saga", AKA "The Emergence Saga", AKA "Hello again, and goodbye again, Harry Hembock".
It felt cathartic at the time of writing it, but the longer it was up, the more cringe it felt.
Someone might say "if you killed that, you ought to kill this, and this, and this...".
Yeah, but then I'm doing mutilation surgery on the whole blog, which is what stopped me killing "Vengeance Saga" all this time in the first place.
Finally, I was like, fuck it, the other stuff is scars, but that's gangrene for sure.
So, I finally cut out the gangrene.
Wednesday, August 16, 2023
Hey, remember that Toxic Avenger reboot?!!?
The one starring Peter Dinklage that finished shooting two whole fucking years ago?!?!?!
Forgot about that, didn't ya??
Well!!!
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Tuesday, August 15, 2023
Happy 20th anniversary, Freddy vs Jason!
Been awhile since I celebrated this.
The 20th seems about right to give it a bump.
My review 20 years out?
Still like it.
The super-saturated color makes it like a comic, and it actually kind of blends with the aesthetic of the 00's pre-MCU Marvel movies.
Right down to the cheesy 00's metal soundtrack.
Daredevil, Punisher, Ghost Rider, FvJ, they're all of a weird little time capsule sub-genre.
FvJ is as much an 00's time capsule as the other Freddys are an 80's time capsule.
Oh, the WAY I enjoy it has changed.
I appreciate it with a lemon bite of irony and humor, and some big thick nostalgia goggles, where as a 20-something I un-ironically thought it was in the pantheon of cinematic greatness.
But yeah, I'll definitely go to my grave having a pet-like affection for this weird little movie.
Lessee, what happened in the Freddy/Jason franchises since the 14th anniversary?
Scream Queen came out.
Even though it's doesn't connect to FvJ, it connects to "Never Sleep Again" which covers FvJ.
Um, yeah, that's it.
Freddy & Jason have been frozen in a block of ice since their respective flopped reboots.
I don't know why.
Sony didn't fuck around with Spider-Man, they kept trying.
I dunno what New Line/Warners is waiting for to revive these characters.
The hunger for 80's nostalgia horror is there.
The Chucky series, for Chrissakes!
Maybe they think if they use actual Freddy & Jason, it won't be nostalgic, and ironic, and hip?
Freddy has always been about meta, and self-parody, and dark humor.
The layering of self awareness had started kicking in by the third and fourth entries in the series.
It was on overload in six.
Friday/Jason was goofing in itself by part 4, but really went all out in 10.
And I repeat, the Chucky series, fer Chrissakes!!
Oh, yeah, Robert Englund played Freddy one last time in a dream sequence in an episode of "The Goldbergs".
Well, New Line??!!?!?
WELL?!?!!?
Didn't Adam Goldberg having to pay a fee for Freddy to cross into ABC/Disney territory indicate some fucking interest?!!?
No!?!?
So frustrating.
Well, I've got the existing flicks, including this one, and my memories.
Just woulda liked a Freddy 8, or Jason 13 before I croak.
Especially with superhero media granting all our nostalgia wishes with "No Way Home" "Multiverse Of Madness" Deadpool 3, "Crisis On Infinite Earths" "The Flash" etc, etc.
They get it!!
And I double repeat, the Chucky series, fer Chrissakes!!
Take the goddamned hint!!!
What do the suits need to see??
Ah, well.
Happy birthday, FvJ.
You come from a time when horror fans dreams came true, and faith and perseverance were rewarded.
Who knows if/when that time will come again?
Monday, August 14, 2023
Shitload of new tags/labels!!
They accumulated gradually, and some were just to help me chew through this giant blog in my control panel; but what the Hell, why not share...
Sunday, August 13, 2023
Retroactive post #5.
Added a couple more belated movie anniversaries that I missed.
10th instead of 20th.
From oldest to newest....
Retroactive post #4.
Saturday, August 12, 2023
Retroactive post #3.
Added some belated memorials that it was bugging me that I didn't do.
From oldest to newest....
More Deadpool 3 rumors.
Beware of possible spoilers!
Friday, August 11, 2023
Wednesday, August 9, 2023
Meanwhile, in Sony-Spidey-land!
I heard about this awhile ago, but there was no hard confirmation.
The news outlets were wishy-washy.
Well, now an interview in Variety drives it home casually like it was the weather.
So, here we go.....
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Tuesday, August 8, 2023
Another Deadpool 3 rumor.
Multiple outlets are running with this one, so it seems pretty solid.
Beware of possible spoilers!
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Monday, August 7, 2023
Retroactive post #2.
Added the very belated eleventh Harry books anniversary, but sent it back in time to June 21st where it goes.
Retroactive post #1.
Saturday, August 5, 2023
Deadpool 3 rumors.
After all, the "No Way Home" rumors were about 98% true, so let's just go for it!
Beware of possible spoilers!
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Thursday, August 3, 2023
Marvel DC crossover: Update!
So in that aforementioned last time, I showed how Kevin Smith and Stan Lee link Marvel and DC together through both Mallrats, and Smith and Mewes as Jay & Silent Bob in The Flash.
That connection just got a booster shot!
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Tuesday, August 1, 2023
Disney/Fox Part 1.36: Marvel viewing order update.
Okay, so a few weeks ago, it became known that Elektra is going to be in Deadpool 3.
The actor's strike shut down any further news, so let's play around with that knowledge.
This canonizes Daredevil and Elektra into the MCU multiverse.
So!! if you're a newbie bingeing all this stuff...
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Sunday, July 30, 2023
Happy 48th birthday to myself!
Added a birthday tag, so future ones won't need a link back.
*As for not celebrating...I dunno...I think Nichelle Nichols dying re-activated my Margaret grief, so I was probably drowning my sorrows in prezzies, and I absent-mindedly forgot the actual birthday part.
Yeah, that seems like me.
Probably what I did.
By way of needing inspiration, let's see what 39 year old me was saying...
Last year, I navel gazed about how I no longer give a shit about society's opinion.
Now, I don't even give a shit that I don't give a shit.
There's no longer a speck of me left that's on the defensive, and I feel even pluckier about not taking anyone's shit.
Good advice.
May need it this year.
And that year was also the year I quested for all those lost movies and comics.
Thanks, past-me.
Future-you needed the pick-me-up.
I knew storing those acorns would be handy.
Why not 38th to be an even 10 years?
Because my finger missed, and 39th was better anyway. 😜
Oh, and here will be the placeholder for the loot reviews.
Stay tuned.
RIP Paul Reubens
(Sent back in time from my future-self in August, cuz of all the analysis-paralysis bullshit I mentioned in the Alan Arkin one; plus, the Sinead O'Connor death was still fresh; plus it was my birthday, and a lot of shit was going on)
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I think I've said it all before...
From here.
Pee Wee's Big Adventure
A celebration of pure joyous weirdness.
My people needed this movie in a big way.
Came just in time.
Course, it just makes me think...Cyndi Lauper was doing her thing, Pee-Wee was on the rise, Goonies had its message of being a proud misfit, Weird Al was huge...I was under the illusion this cultural atmosphere would last.
...nope...dark times were ahead...
*Sighs*
But, in this little window of time, I was truly happy, and in my full power.
Confident, secure, excited about life, active, social, things were really great.
And then....
I think I went on to trail off into moaning and groaning about how the 90's sucked in comparison.
With a big water truckload of hindsight, on a lot of levels, my teenhood was dogshit, but I still lived through some amazing pop culture and history regardless.
I just missed the wacky weirdo stuff of my childhood.
But, I'm finding out in the write-ups for Paul's death, a lot of us feel that way.
On that note!
And from comments in my birthday post...
I miss him already.
I wish some cable network somewhere would syndicate Pee-Wee's Playhouse.
His second and third Pee-Wee movies are ass, but "Big Adventure" is still a masterpiece.
He saved Tim Burton's career from the garbage bin, you know!
The first iteration of "Frankenweenie" bombed so hard, Burton was on the way out, but Reubens demanded him for "Big Adventure" and it was a hit, and the rest is history for Burton.
I mean, yeah, Burton is like a used up boxer now, but we got his good ones.
"Pee-Wee's Big Adventure" "Edwards Scissorhands" "Beetlejuice" "Batman" "Batman Returns".
"Ed Wood". I've always liked "Mars Attacks". I'm part of that small cult.
I see it as an unintentional parody of "Independence Day" that stands the test of time better than "Independence Day".
We have Pee-Wee to thank for all of those.
Without his intervention, Tim Burton ends up in a dumpster with a banana peel on his head.
Also, he was Penguin's dad in both "Batman Returns" and "Gotham".
And! He was Terry's dad in "Reno 911!: Miami".
That character was even weirder than Pee-Wee!
His last words were...
“Please accept my apology for not going public with what I’ve been facing the last six years. I have always felt a huge amount of love and respect from my friends, fans and supporters. I have loved you all so much and enjoyed making art for you.”
Thank you for the art, Paul.
It was a pleasure.
You will be deeply missed.
Wednesday, July 26, 2023
RIP Sinead O'Connor
(Sent back in time from my future-self in August, cuz of all the analysis-paralysis bullshit I mentioned in the Alan Arkin one)
From my Facebook at the time....
Shit. I liked her. No cause of death. A lot of people couldn't handle her...neuro-divergence.
I have loopier relatives, and I've got my issues, so nothing she did really bothered me.
I'd take hanging out with her over someone like Marjorie Taylor fucking Greene any fucking day.
The people who were outraged by her, and thought she was a bad person, are the kind of people that derive thumb sucking comfort from some fucking evil status quos.
She was right about everything when it came to the Catholic Church.
They didn't wanna hear that shit.
At least those assholes had their political hangups as an excuse, the rest went after her for her hair and clothes like a bunch of girl-bullies in a high school locker room out of "Carrie".
No one I ever respected hated her.
Frank Sinatra said some shit when he was still breathing.
Fuck your ashes, you mafia prick.
Enough politics, she had a gorgeous set of pipes.
Her last thing she did was the updated theme song for Outlander season 7.
And the first thing I ever heard her do, even before "Nothing Compares 2 U" was "I Want Your Hands On Me" from closing credits of "A Nightmare On Elm Street 4: The Dream Master".
Yep, Rachel Talalay was a Sinead fangirl before she broke big, and finagled the single for the soundtrack.
No one remembers that.
They remember "Dream Warriors" by Dokken.
They remember "Why Was I Born?" by Iggy Pop.
They forget the Sinead track.
Go give it a spin.
It's nice.
Sexy, but you can dance to it.
Anyway, goodbye, Sinead.
You are missed.
Saturday, July 15, 2023
Happy 7th anniversary, Ghostbusters: Answer The Call!
Previously-
-Year 1 (Comics crossover)
-Year 2 (Ultimate comics crossover)
-Year 3 (35th anniversary comic)
-Year 4 (No real news)
-Year 5 (Ditto)
-Year 6 (Afterlife was in development at the same time. CHUDs are liars)
What's happened since last year...
Trump just got indicted!!
So, I can go ahead, and bump this evergreen post!
And! 6/15, saw ATC on MTV2, and it's the extended director's cut!
So, it's still chugging along!
Update- GB: Spirits Unleashed added a DLC pack of the ATC uniforms, packs, and traps.
Unless the girls pop up as opposites of the ATC cameo characters in Firehouse/Hell's Kitchen, another quiet year.
Next year will be the 40th for Ghostbusters overall, and the 8th for ATC, and as I said here...
I think it'll lay low until GB2020 (now Afterlife) is in the rear-view mirror, and they've made their money, and it's on home video....and then ramping up towards and up to the 40th anniversary, the girls will be rolled back out again.
40th, definitely.
Which'll be the 8th anniversary of ATC.
Two years later, we'll hear some 10th anniversary stuff, hopefully the fan atmosphere will have lightened up a bit.
The scars for the actresses and Paul Feig should have healed by then.
Maybe we'll get some belated making-of stuff.
Speaking of scars healing, now for cast/director updates.
-Kristen Wiig is going to be in Palm Royale.
-Melissa McCarthy's in Little Mermaid. ...and an annoying Booking.Com ad. And an episode of Hot Ones.
-Kate McKinnon is in Barbie.
-Leslie Jones guest hosted Daily Show, and guest starred on "Our Flag Means Death".
-Chris Hemsworth is in Extraction 2, and is going to voice Optimus in "Transformers: One".
-Paul Feig is working on Spy 2, and he's executive producer on "Minx".
They're still ticking!
See you next year!
Wednesday, July 12, 2023
Tuesday, July 11, 2023
Friday, July 7, 2023
Finally some new Deadpool 3 news!
So, it looks like Ryan Reynolds isn't just bringing in Wolverine, he's assembling the whole Fox-Marvel-verse.
And he's starting with....
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Friday, June 30, 2023
Looking back on DC Snyder-verse: Part 1.6, the DCEU that ALMOST wasn't.
I covered the films that were made, the films that weren't made, here are the ones that looked like they'd be in Development Hell forever, and yet finally crawled to the finish line!
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Looking back on DC Snyder-verse: Part 1.5, the DCEU that wasn't.
Part 1.5, because I want part 2 to be when I finally see all the remaining DCEU movies, and rank them.
I've got 3 to go out of the 4.
Anyway, so far, I've only talked about the DCEU movies Warners/DC actually did make.
They managed not to make way more than they did.
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Thursday, June 29, 2023
RIP Alan Arkin
(Sent back in time from my future-self in August, cuz after I missed the Angela Lansury one, I was all out of whack, and didn't think I could ever catch up, and didn't know about the time warp thing Blogger can do. Therefore I was in a "if I can't do all of them, why do any of them?" kind of snit. Which is dumb, I know, but now I'm fixing it)
Yhep, poor Alan Arkin.
Another "The Last Unicorn" alumnus gone.
Him, Angela Lansbury, and Christopher Lee.
Jeff Bridges and Mia Farrow are still around though.
LU and "The Return Of Captain Invincible" are the two biggest things I know Mr. Arkin from.
Didn't get into the "Little Miss Sunshine" cult.
Shmendrick lives in the movie, and the books.
At least there's those.
Wish we'd gotten further animated sequels with Alan, but Peter Beagle's writer's block and side distractions didn't cooperate.
I can relate.
Fifteen years of Shmegalamonga!!!
This one is late. Really late. But, I wound the time stamp back.
Which is why I reference things that happened after.
The colors for the 2022-2023 logo accidentally came out having a pasta and sauce look.
Which...I guess goes with the spaghetti-time scene in "The Flash" which was the only movie I've seen this year so far.
Saw "Thor: Love And Thunder" for the remainder of last year.
Gotta say...Marvel phase 4-5 aren't doing it for me like phases 1-3.
I'm getting picky with them.
Not sure if I even wanna Blu-ray half of 'em.
I'm in it for the multiverse stuff. Like Deadpool 3. That's the one I'm waiting for.
Nothing else in their future lineup is doing it for me.
Although...Captain America 4 looks like it's a back-door Hulk 3 the way Ragnarok was back-door Hulk 2. Might check that one out if it is in fact Hulk-y enough.
Corona seems to be in the rear view mirror.
Mostly.
Trump inches closer to jail, but also closer to the nomination and the presidency.
So, that's a terrifying slow motion snail race to watch unfold.
Supreme Court keeps being exposed as more and more corrupt and rotten.
...fuck pretending, it's Thomas.
It's all the Republican ones, but holy shit, is it Thomas.
Writer and actor strikes are fucking up Hollywood, so Ghostbuster 4 is in limbo, just like Afterlife was thanks to covid.
Krazyfool's Den Of Delusion turned 24.
Harry Hembock: Dark Designs turned 14.
Paul Reubens and Sinead O'Conner died. 😥
Did two more book-a-thons
The latter of which made me collect all the Sandmans.
The former gave me a craving for more Peter Beagle, so I got "The Overneath" and "A Fine And Private Place". Might be getting some more Beagle (hint hint, wink, wink...).
Yeah, all that stuff kept me happy instead of the movie stuff.
That, and working on my own writing.
My movie ticket money went into Sandman, and I don't even feel bad about it.
Feels like three years worth of stuff happened, but wow, that was all one year, huh?
Keeping my head down getting through it made it all blur, I guess.
I think it was more good than bad.
Fingers crossed for Trump in jail.
Oh yeah, and here's the year 15 logo for posterity.
I've gone through the whole rainbow, so I guess that leaves greyscale.
After that?
Eh...I'll think of something.
Tuesday, June 27, 2023
"Superman Legacy" casting.
Wild! Right on the 10 year anniversary of me going to see "Man Of Steel" the new Superman and Lois (for the James Gunn reboot-iverse) just got casted!
David Corenswet and Rachel Brosnahan.
Good choices.
Corenswet has that Cavill jawline, and the blue eyes.
Likewise, Brosnahan looks like 80's/90's comic book Lois.
I gave my speculation on "Superman Legacy" here.
Short version; I think they're doing Superman Family.
Superman, Supergirl, Superboy, and Krypto.
Gunn has leaked Krypto is going to be there, so I think I'm on the right track.
Stay tuned!
Happy 10th anniversary, "Man Of Steel"!!!
Yep, 10 years to the day, I reviewed "Man Of Steel".
Three days after the actual release date. Not too bad.
This and "Evil Dead 2013" were the start of my theater movie reviews.
I covered all my thoughts on how the Snyder-verse turned out in "Looking back on DC Snyder-verse" and my review of "The Flash".
So, check those out if you haven't.
Friday, June 23, 2023
Wednesday, June 21, 2023
Superman Lives!: A long ass journey!
Or, Post-Flash 2.
Spoilers for a bunch of old movies, and one new movie.
Abandon if you're a big fat spoiler-baby.
The (eleventh) YEAR Of Hembock!
Since last time...
-Krazyfool Show turned 23.
-Krazyfool's Den Of Delusion turned 24.
Been two years since Margaret passed.
She'll always be linked to these books, cuz she pushed me to put 'em out there.
Only made DVD shopping money off 'em.
I don't care.
I used to.
It used to bug me.
Gotta be philosophical about it.
It's more attention than they would have gotten not published.
And it's more money than my so-called friends made on the comic they put out in the 90's, and left me out of. After lying to my face that I'd be in it.
Just "surprise! Here it is!".
"Ope, I'm not in it; fuck you".
So, yeah. Sold more than them.
It's not about the money, it's about the eyeballs, and if it brought joy to those eyeballs.
James Gunn said in the commentary for "Super" if only one person sees "Super" and loves it, he made it for that person.
I feel the same with Harry.
I know in my marrow those books are funny.
If someone laughed, I win.
Margaret used to tell me she knew "a friend" in his 80's-90's who let a bunch of screenplays, and a whole musical about Thomas Paine, and a raft of cartoons just sit in a drawer.
I often thought she made this person up to motivate me.
I later found out the "friend" was her partner, Jack Donner.
He played Tal on the Star Trek TOS episode "The Enterprise Incident".
They met at a convention.
Apparently, he was a secret multi-talent.
Secret, cuz he wouldn't even scan and Amazon that shit.
I wish I saw his stuff.
But its gotta be gone now.
Even if Margaret saved it after he died, which I doubt, when she passed, her kids would have chucked it. That's too many filters to make it through.
It got landfilled.
Poor Jack.
Jesus.
So, hey, Harry has more of an immortality than Jack's cartoons.
There's that, I guess.
Well, Jack's got his acting immortality, anyway.
I salute and grin every time "Enterprise Incident" is on.
Aaand, I'm working on my new book.
I keep chunking away on it year after year.
A book's only 300-400 pages.
It can't be written forever.
I have to get there someday.
Stay tuned!
Monday, June 19, 2023
Post-Flash spoiler review of my predictions.
Follow-up to "Flash movie timeline speculation".
After having seen "The Flash".
Spoilers. Proceed with caution.
Read More......
Sunday, June 18, 2023
Saturday, June 17, 2023
Happy 20th Anniversary, Hulk!
So, Fox and Sony up and running, Universal jumped into the fray....
Read More......
...and as fans, we got two good Hulk movies.
As a studio, Universal got treated like the husband in a cuckhold porn.
There's really no prettier way to put it.
Covered most of this before in the following links.
Now, the update on all that, is that just as "Thor Ragnarok" is backdoor MCU-Hulk 2, "Captain America: Brave New World" is backdoor MCU-Hulk 3.
And it makes sense.
Hulk is a fully realized super-soldier.
They made him while trying to re-create Captain America.
The only drawback to Hulk, is he's a rage monster the Army can't control.
But since "Avengers: Endgame" he's Smart-Hulk.
And then in "She-Hulk" both She-Hulk and Abomination are intelligent, and can control their change.
And Banner can change back with a gamma wristband doohickey.
So Hulks are perfected.
They're the next evolution of Captain Americas/Winter Soldiers.
And The Leader is the villain for Cap 4.
Who better to pick up where Zola from Cap 1 &2 left off?
But, here's where the cuckhold-y part comes in.
As much as MCU is using the continuity, and characters, and actors of "The Incredible Hulk" so long as they put Hulk in a movie with any other title but "something, something, Hulk" Universal has to watch.
And poor little just plain "Hulk" gets no canon references.
"Hulk" gets treated like, well, like "Ghost Rider" frankly.
And that just isn't right.
I dunno, maybe there's secret backstory that makes this make sense.
Maybe a Universal studio head fucked Kevin Feige's girlfriend or something.
From the outside in, it just makes Marvel look a little petty.
ANYWAY! All that said, as a Hulk fan, and a cinema fan, I get to ignore all of that, and enjoy this movie for the weird experimental piece of cinema art that it is.
On the Ang Lee front, his very next movie was "Brokeback Mountain" and I find it interesting that those gay cowboys ended up becoming Joker and Mysterio.
😄
Friday, June 16, 2023
Happy 34th anniversary, Ghostbusters 2!!
-27th (Mere observance)
-28th (Ditto)
-29th (I observe the IDW comics pick up from TVG)
-30th (GB2 and ATC align politically)
-31st (Brownstone Boy to direct Afterlife)
-32nd (Afterlife delayed by covid)
-33rd (Afterlife arrived, Firehouse announced)
And the 14th for GBTVG.
Well, we know from the teaser poster that Firehouse/Hell's Kitchen probably isn't a Vigo sequel.
Although! There was a set touring video, and a Ghostbusters 2 thermal mug was in the background of the firehouse rec-room; so Ghostbusters 2 did indeed happen in Afterlife/Firehouse continuity!
As for the video game, it keeps getting ported to new platforms, and its still chugging along strong!
Even though Spirits Unleashed dominates the GB news cycle.
Should I do a Spirits Unleashed anniversary tradition?
Ehh...I just don't wanna.
So...all for now!
See you next time!
Friday, June 9, 2023
Ghostbusters news from yesterday.
So!! Here's what we got!
Thursday, June 8, 2023
Say "hi" to Satan, Pat Robertson.
I've got a tag for all the shitheads now, so I don't need back links.
The culture wars and bigotries he stoked can't easily be listed.
Although, it's funny, he went after Harry Potter, and it turns out he and JK Rowling are like this 🤞 on trans people.
Who knew?
Who. Fucking. Knew?
Here's the updated grid of dead monster carcasses.
Threw in Lorraine Warren, cuz, well, fuck her too.
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