Turn up the lights!
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Friday, December 20, 2024
Saturday, December 14, 2024
Thursday, December 12, 2024
TIL: Richard Matheson.
Previously-
Okay! Billdude mentioned Matheson in the comments, and I know how prolific Matheson is, and how much of his stuff I've already reviewed here.
So, I figured I'd pull it all together like the other TILs.
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Wednesday, December 11, 2024
Evil Dead Burn!
Yeah, I said here that I was throwing in the towel on all the old 80's horror franchises, but I'll stick it through for Evil Dead until I at least know the titles.
Well, the one pitched by Sebastien Vanicek is now called "Evil Dead Burn" and is coming out first.
Thus, is officially Evil Dead 6.
Making the one by Francis Galluppi officially Evil Dead 7.
Which still hasn't picked a title, but I guess there's time.
Unless the world blows up or something.
Then we won't need horror movies, it'll be life.
Whee!!
Tuesday, December 10, 2024
MCU least-loved sequels revisit.
AKA: So, Marvel...Part 2.
My observations on these two flicks kind of evolved into a sequel.
This is more on the political/moral philosophy of Marvel rather than the business side of things.
Which makes it a better companion to the DC one.
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Monday, December 9, 2024
Trumpers: every accusation is a confession.
Only a matter of time until this post happened.
Put it right next to "Storm is a Nazi".
Here we fuckin' go!
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Monday, December 2, 2024
So, Marvel...
My reservations about future-Marvel aren't as bad as for DC, but they're there.
So much so, I don't think I'm gonna see them all in the theater.
But I was drifting way from that, anyway.
Saturday, November 30, 2024
Friday, November 29, 2024
So, Freddy, Jason, Ash, Chucky, Pinhead...
I made a tag so I don't have to list the previous ones anymore.
I've pretty much mumbled this sentiment in other posts, but let's make it formal.
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Tuesday, November 26, 2024
The post-modern post-mortem...post-mortem.
So, digging around for something else, I found this...
About "radfems".
It's all cringe.
I hate it.
I'm sorry.
Everything I was screaming about in 2012 was just junk.
Although...I was accidentally kinda right, but headed off in the wrong direction.
And I think me being lead the wrong way was by design.
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Wednesday, November 20, 2024
So, Transformers...
I've wanted to do this dissection for awhile, but didn't know how to tackle it.
My "so..." series lets me come at it the right way finally.
I've been hanging onto this franchise from a sense of childhood nostalgia....but...why?
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Tuesday, November 19, 2024
Happy 3rd anniversary, Ghostbusters: Afterlife!
Building up to today.....
What's happened since last year....
This year...
I said everything I wanted to about Afterlife in my quadrilogy and ATC comparison review I think.
Still no word on Ghostbusters 5.
Or the Netflix show, or the animated movie.
They're keeping everything top secret.
Come on, it's Ghostbusters, not DC/Marvel.
Show us something!
Ugh!
Monday, November 18, 2024
"Dogma" revisited.
So, "Hooray For Hollyweird!" made me take a look back at my religious movie reviews.
And that made me look at my old review of "Dogma" with a lot of painful cringing.
So, let's revisit that...
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Sunday, November 17, 2024
Elon is a sack of shit (and some more Dawkins stuff).
I can come fully clean now, and admit I was never impressed by Elon Musk, and I was always incredulous of privatizing space, and I was always suss of the left's gleeful embrace of privatizing space under anyone, much less Musk.
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Saturday, November 16, 2024
The Day Before The Revolution.
From last time....
I've got the PDF on the ol' HD, but I'd prefer a paper copy.
It comes in "The Wind's Twelve Quarters" along with "The Day Before The Revolution" a prequel to "The Dispossessed".
Well!!
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Thursday, November 14, 2024
Lee Greenwood is a dingleberry.
Let's dissect his crummy song that rednecks practically want to be the national anthem.
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Monday, November 11, 2024
I told you so!!!
Previously-
I said here...
Re: Commies and Libertarians teaming up in a Revolution vs Corporatists.
Yeah, no. This is never happening.
Libertarians side with capital to the bitter fucking end.
Yep, that anti-Trump Republican vote either ran home to Trump, or didn't show up at all.
Whomever came up with sidling up to the Chenys needs to never work a political campaign ever again.
Sunday, November 10, 2024
Saturday, November 9, 2024
Here's why voter ID is stupid.
I shouldn't have to explain this, but apparently, I'm surrounded by the dull-witted.
Backstory first!!
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Friday, November 8, 2024
Hooray for Hollyweird!!
So!! Some emboldened anonymous gentle-person saw fit to dig up one of my old dog whistle translation posts, and comment "Hollyweird deserves the ridicule it gets!".
I modded it into oblivion, because fuck you, it's my blog.
But! In a way, I agree, and I've been agreeing on this blog for a helluva while.
Just probably not in the way that person would agree with or respect.
Anyway! Here's all that!
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Wednesday, November 6, 2024
Sunday, November 3, 2024
Thomas Jane update.
Well, I was wrong.
He's not a Trumper.
He hates Trump.
He thinks he'll win, but he hates him.
But! He's still pro-gun; he did a weird "let's kill school shooters" movie that got distributed by The Daily Wire, and he's "just asking questions" about covid vaccines.
So, still enough of a nut he's off my love list.
And that and MAGA-love still ruin Punisher for me.
Lily Cade is a fucking monster.
Way back here, I praised Lily Cade.
Redhead lesbian pornstar. Absolutely will not do guys.
Well!! She's a transphobe.
Not dog-whistle transphobe either.
She's outright called for the death of trans people by hanging.
She's fucking evil.
The tag below says it. Whoops, my bad.
I updated this on Facebook, but forgot to get around to it here.
Covid was raging, and Trump was president; I had other things on my mind.
There's apparently a lot of TERF-hood in the lesbian community that I hadn't heard about.
Makes sense. They'd get indoctrinated with the same "you might find a pee-pee!!" fear as hetero men.
Everyone's got some weird irrationality in them that can be twisted.
Oh, and she has assault allegations from other lady pornstars.
So, yeah, no more Lily Cade for me.
Jesus, porn is hazardous.
Lily Cade's a rapey lynch-bigot. Mercedes Carrera is a pedo. Ron Jeremy is a rapist. Brandi Love is a Trumper.
It's a bummer.
Well, actually, when you think of it, porn has a lower percentage of evil wackos than straight Hollywood.
Earth is an odd place. No wonder we frighten the aliens.
Saturday, November 2, 2024
So, DC...
Previously...
I couldn't avoid doing this one without deluding myself, or going into a vortex of raw denial.
Thursday, October 31, 2024
Halloween 2024!
So! Three years ago now, I backed into a fascism theme.
The "liberal establishment" failed miserably to get Trump into a cell before now, and he's running for president again, and half the country wants his dictator ass.
So, I might be dead next year.
Or wishing I was.
So, yeah, that's fun. Not.
But, I already did fash-aween, so, here's a normal boring Halloween.
If I'm gonna go out, I'll go out as myself.
No capitulation.
Tuesday, October 29, 2024
So, Alien...
Wednesday, October 23, 2024
Birthday loot 2024, Part 6.
Well!! From not knowing at all what I wanted for my birthday, and not particularly giving a shit about my birthday, to now, its been quite the surprising saga!
I re-became a Le Guin fan; it helped put the cherry on top of changing my worldview, and now these home stretch cleanup movies.
Tuesday, October 22, 2024
Punisher revisit.
So, I said last time....
If I ever view these again, it will be to give MST3K commentary.
I can never take them at intended face value anymore.
That's been ruined for me.
Its probably a good thing.
I immediately wanted to do that.
I wanted to re-watch, and see what, if anything, was salvageable from the clutches of MAGA scum.
Hell, if I could find good things about "Madame Web", "Elektra", the Ghost Riders, and "Morbius", why not give these a go?
Look at 'em through new eyes as it were.
So, here we go!!
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Monday, October 21, 2024
Fixed Jade-shade.
I've struggled over whether to tear that whole thing the fuck down, like I did Emergence Saga, or what.
I decided the better fix was a little more art.
So, I wrote "Quantum Defrag" as an extra quickie final chapter, and added it to the Harry Hembock and Jade-Shade pages.
I guess I was working through some shit when I started that thing.
I've grown since then.
Painfully, but I got there.
That one little note Volcano Guru leaves sums it all up.
QD:Season 3, Chapter 1. (Quantum Defrag)
2013
January 14th
The Volcano Guru materialized in Dusty Irwin's apartment, and made some adjustments, and left.
Dusty awoke from a nightmare.
The usual one.
"Fuckin memories...fuckin life", he mumbled.
Dustin "Dusty", Irwin lay on his fold-away bed in his rat hole apartment staring up at the ceiling.
It was all but decided at this point.
Maybe the world was too fucked up to fix.
Maybe nothing we do matters.
Maybe ideals are pathetic past a certain age.
Maybe what "you're supposed to do", is sell out, and have your dumb safe little life.
Dusty shook his head for the fiftieth time this afternoon, and whispered "I just can't do it", for the thirtieth.
"If it doesn't matter...then I can do what I want anyway", Dusty grumbled.
He rolled over, and looked at the the kitchen chair expecting the Jade-Shade costume to be there.
Instead, there was a note.
"Only peace brings peace. Only just acts create justice -The Volcano Guru".
Dusty looked at the note, and rethought his whole plan.
2024
October 21st.
Volcano Guru watched Dusty's violent path vanish, and another take shape.
A better one.
One without bloodthirsty crypto-fascist vigilantes.
Volcano Guru put his fists on his hips, and said "there, that's done".
THE END.
Sunday, October 20, 2024
Prelude to the DC Gunn-verse relaunch.
So, this is easily as big as the Marvel-Fox crossovers, but for DC.
May as well slap one of these together for that.
Gunn-verse home stretch news.
Saturday, October 19, 2024
The ultimate monster!
Most powerful horror movie monster/killer?
Freddy? Pinhead? Chucky? Babadook? Samara?
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Marvel Legacy Movies 3.
Previously-
So!! "Deadpool & Wolverine" came out, and canonized almost everything.
Certainly the Fox stuff.
What's left?
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Friday, October 18, 2024
So, Punisher...
Similar in theme to "So, Star Wars...".
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I wanna do one about canonizing the remaining Marvel films, but this side-topic of Punisher is nagging at me, so I'll make it separate, and link it.
Thursday, October 17, 2024
Wednesday, October 16, 2024
Dammit, DCEU. Here we go again.
Previously-
Um...okay, I'll make this number 1.5, so the title of part 2 isn't so ridiculous.
Yeah. Yeah, that's the ticket.
So, anyway!!
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Tuesday, October 15, 2024
Monday, October 14, 2024
Birthday loot 2024, Part 5.
Grabbed this on the 8th; got started on the 12th; finished last night.
Once I got going, I blasted right through.
Thursday, October 10, 2024
Birthday loot 2024, Part 4.
There!! Finally finished these Sunday the 6th!
-Warning-
Mild to moderate spoilers. Since the basic plot of each sequel inevitably spoils the previous one a little.
Don't read the review at all if you want to go in clean.
Saturday, September 21, 2024
Friday, September 20, 2024
Thursday, September 19, 2024
X-Men viewing order 3: FINAL!
So!! Deadpool & Wolverine is out, and made a scadzillion dollars, so everyone has seen it.
Lets look at the aftermath to the timeline if any....
Hey, you know, I was already pretty much 99% there!
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Wednesday, September 18, 2024
Tuesday, September 17, 2024
Bye-bye to another war criminal.
William Calley Jr.
He croaked in April 28, 2024.
And it wasn't found out by the public until July, cuz he's the kind of guy where people (rightly, IMHO) want to unload a septic-sucker truck onto his grave.
Wednesday, September 11, 2024
Birthday loot 2024, Part 3.
Finally!! Got this way back on August 16th. Shortly after my 2000's Marvel binge, and well before I nabbed Discovery season 5.
Eeeeverything conspired to slow down my reading.
But!! Here I am!!
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Monday, September 9, 2024
RIP James Earl Jones
From my future self in 9/18/24.
Like I said in the Phil Donahue one, stop to read a book, everything happens.
Here's all his movies I reviewed.
-Star Wars (original trilogy, and Rogue One)
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...and, I wish now I had reviewed "Field Of Dreams" and "Roots: The Next Generations".
Cuz he's good in those.
And "Coming To America".
Not looking forward to a future of AI Vader.
Nope.
Tuesday, September 3, 2024
Thursday, August 29, 2024
Birthday loot 2024, Part 2.
Got this Tuesday. Just finished the binge last night.
Needed to sleep it off to gather my thoughts.
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Wednesday, August 21, 2024
Sunday, August 18, 2024
RIP Phil Donahue.
From my future self in 9/18/24.
Jeez, stop to read one little book, and everything goes to shit.
Yep, us pinko liberals lost one of our best guys.
We never ever got a talk show as good as his ever again. In my humble opinion.
There are some podcasts that come close; but Phil was the king.
Towards the end, his show got more Jerry Springer-ish to claw for ratings.
That was a bummer. Fuck the 90's for its addiction to trash.
Then, he came back for a brief stint on MSNBC.
MSNBC weren't themselves yet; they were trying a mix of liberal and conservative leaning into conservative, and Phil got fired for being anti-war during the ratcheting up to Iraq.
Dennis Miller they fucking kept though. Ugh.
Maybe if Phil had been allowed to stick around, I wouldn't have drunk the "War On Terror" mind-poison.
Infuriating that the current uber-liberal MSNBC never got him back.
I can understand him wanting to give them the finger forever. I get it.
Well, I'm finally caught up to Phil anyway.
Every year older I get, the more anti-gun and anti-war I get.
When every war you try to believe in turns into a quagmire of atrocities, you start to clue in.
Unless you have a lot of concussions, or have lead in your pipes.
I have a theory, more a hunch, that the only reason conservatism continues to hold any sway in our political discourse at all is lead poisoning.
Anyway!! Full salute to the last great talk show host.
Alan Alda is gonna bum me out just as bad.
Not looking forward to that.
Wednesday, August 14, 2024
D&W prequel marathon.
Acquiring and watching the Ghostrider duology got me in a mood to revisit more 2000's Marvel.
So, I re-watched all the movies for all the guest-appearance characters in "Deadpool & Wolverine".
Spoilers ahead.
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Sunday, August 11, 2024
Saturday, August 3, 2024
Star Trek tech: Quantum Resolution Revisited.
Post-Deadpool 3 Marvel, Part 6.
The "Avengers: Doomsday" announcement being part 5.
Whole bunch of mystery Marvel movies got added to the schedule.
Thursday, August 1, 2024
Tuesday, July 30, 2024
Happy 49th birthday to myself!
(Sent back in time from 7/31/24)
The actual day was kinda boring.
Ate cake and ice cream.
Whoopidy doo.
Other than the birthday chow, it was my usual day of fighting trolls on boards, and Trek on TV.
Got all my "get out of the house" shit done the day before.
Renewing my license, cashing some checks, getting some groceries.
Well, saw a cute girl to make into a book character.
These poor random people don't know I'm putting a cut n' paste box around them and hitting "save". 😏
Saw "Deadpool & Wolverine" the previous Friday.
Yeah, I guess that was my big present to myself.
Got some loot shopping to do, but not much excites me.
It's gonna be a slow peck, peck, peck as I find stuff I like.
I think the actor's strike threw all the movies out of whack.
Usually I have a pile of flicks to collect around this time.
Nope, everything's finally fucking coming out in the theater now.
Bummed about almost being 50.
Well...not bummed.
Just...philosophically weirded out.
Half a century.
I do feel like an old wizard who's seen a lot of shit.
Have a grey stripe in my beard, so the wizard look is coming along.
I have a good memory for the history I've been through to tell the kiddies.
And I'm not a boring storyteller like the Grandpa Simpsons out there.
No one cares where the old fucking gas station was, get to the meat of the story, you dumb coot!!
Anyway!
I know how to rewind things going on now to their prequel, and tell it well with minimum bullshit.
I got that going for me.
That haunts me.
Well, add it to my wizard trauma pile.
Well, I lost them because they wouldn't listen to my wizard wisdom.
TERFism is the 80's gay/AIDS panic in new wrapping paper.
They don't "make good points". It's all old shit on repeat.
Why don't my fellow gen-xers remember this shit?
It's fucking infuriating.
Oh yeah, and last year, we lost Paul Reubins and Sinead O'Connor my birthday week.
Pee-Wee landed right on my friggin' birthday.
So I have that to remember forever.
Sheesh!
So, that's me at 49.
I'll put a link HERE for the loot hunt.
Stay tuned.
Monday, July 29, 2024
MCU Fantastic Four gets a title.
SCC revealed it with a bunch of trailers we don't get to see.
The "Captain America: Brave New World" trailer confirmed they're getting adamantium from the Tiamat carcass.
Also, they showed FF:FS test footage that confirmed they're in a 60's futurist alterni-verse.
All sounds very "Venture Bros" but without the dark satire.
Combined with the Dr. Doom announcement, I'm a happy camper.
Sunday, July 28, 2024
Marvel viewing order update 1.6.
Previously-
Okay!! So!! Finally saw "Deadpool & Wolverine" and some rumors were true, some were false, but this one's true.....
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Saturday, July 27, 2024
SDCC Star trek news.
Trailers/teasers.
Plus, Cillian O'Sullivan will play pre-android-ed Roger Corby.
EDIT-
Tig Notaro, Mary Wiseman, Oded Fehr, and Robert Picardo just were announced as joining the Starfleet Academy cast!
And finally...
Tawny Newsome (Mariner on LD) is going to co-showrun the 12th show (Starfleet Academy being 11) which will be the first live-action Trek comedy, and set in the 25th century.
So...guess we're getting this instead of Legacy.
I have a hard time being sad if it's gonna be a Tawny Newsome show.
Friday, July 26, 2024
Thursday, July 25, 2024
Prelude to Deadpool & Wolverine
Previously with these Fox crossover preludes...
Wednesday, July 24, 2024
Let's fast-forward: 15th anniversary revisit.
Wow, I went to update this (Let's fast-forward), and its been 15 years (and a month) to the day.
Nothing in here I'd change except a couple biggies.
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Tuesday, July 23, 2024
Monday, July 22, 2024
Sunday, July 21, 2024
Tuesday, July 16, 2024
Toxic Avenger remake. Final update.
Hey, remember a whole fucking year ago now that the Toxie remake/reboot was looking like it was ready to go right out the door?
Yeah, about that....
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Monday, July 15, 2024
Happy 8th 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)
-Year 7 (Trump indicted, ATC still on cable, video game DLC)
What's happened since last year...
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Sunday, July 14, 2024
And, now the RGB comparison mini-thon.
Watched just enough of my favorites to equal a movie.
It ended up being just the right ones for this.
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Saturday, July 13, 2024
Friday, July 12, 2024
Thursday, July 11, 2024
RIP Shelley Duvall
Well, shit.
Olive Oyl and Popeye (Robin Williams) are both gone now.
Here's my reviews of her best movies.
-Time Bandits (Pansy!! Pansy!! My problem!! I must have fruit!!)
If I add up the laughs and smiles from just those three, she brought a lot of joy into my life.
She is missed.
Monday, July 8, 2024
Monday, July 1, 2024
Saturday, June 29, 2024
Friday, June 28, 2024
Krazyfool forever!!!
Retro-added the 25th anniversary of Krazyfool's Den back in time to April.
Added a Krazyfool tag down at the bottom to go down memory lane with.
Wednesday, June 26, 2024
Friday, June 21, 2024
12 years of the Harry Hembock books!
Been three years since Margaret passed.
My grieving is finally all done.
That really beat the shit out of me.
I said it best about my philosophical reflection about the books last year.
Also said last year.....
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.
Well, shit, I must have about 300-400 pages in notes by now!
I just gotta roll up my sleeves, and convert that shit into prose.
Yeah, basically, I have the book in powdered mix form; just gotta mix and cook that sunna-bitch!
Stay tuned!!
Sunday, June 16, 2024
Happy 35th 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, Frozen Empire announced)
-34th (Frozen Empire teaser poster)
And the 15th for GBTVG.
..and now, next year, I can lump 27-35 together as this one link.
Yep, Frozen Empire had plenty of GB2 direct references and Easter eggs.
A clip of the walking Statue of Liberty on the news, mood slime, slime blowers being tested in the background of one scene, Ghostbusters 2 logo mugs, Ray's Occult Books again.
I only wish Jason Reitman had shown up as grownup Brownstone boy.
And, like I said in the GBFE review, this was the Ghostbusters 2 I wanted as a kid in 1989.
That being said, I'm glad this one existed to build off of, and I've grown to love it over the years.
It's a time capsule for where the fandom was, and a reunion for the cast.
Ain't nothing bad about that.
Oh, and they use the tech of keeping ghosts in proton charged aquariums introduced in GBTVG.
They don't acknowledge the events of the game, but that's a nice little nod to it.
So, yeah, finally respect for GB2 in the nick of time for year 35.
😎👍
Thursday, June 13, 2024
Post-Deadpool 3 Marvel, Part 4.
Word on this is a thin trickle, but that it even exists in Kevin Feige's head is important.
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Sunday, June 9, 2024
Ghostbuster day news from yesterday.
Saturday, June 8, 2024
Happy 40th anniversary, Ghostbusters!!
Previous years-
-30th anniversary (Talk shows, magazines, comic book)
-31st anniversary (Comic books)
-32nd anniversary (Answer The Call)
-33rd anniversary (ATC crossover comic)
-34th anniversary (Ultimate crossover comic)
-35th anniversary (Afterlife murmurings)
-36th anniversary (Covid delays Afterlife)
-37th anniversary (Afterlife!!)
-38th anniversary (Frozen Empire announced)
-39th anniversary (Frozen Empire first hints)
..and now, next year, I can lump 30-40 together as this one link.
What's happened since last year....
-Afterlife came to FX!
-Ghostbusters 4 delayed by the fucking strikes. 😡
-New GB4 release date is March 29th, 2024. 🥺
This year...
Coming up next-
-3rd anniversary of Afterlife!
-1st anniversary of Frozen Empire.
Wednesday, June 5, 2024
Spidey vs Venom tidbits part 4.
Well, the clues as to what's going on are all over the place.
Like a trail of Jimmies that keep getting up and moving, and turning out to be ants.
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Monday, June 3, 2024
Sunday, June 2, 2024
Post-Deadpool 3 Marvel, Part 3.
-Part 2.
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I haven't bothered to cover this, because its in Development Hell, but if I bothered with Thunderbolts, may as well.
Thursday, May 30, 2024
Tuesday, May 28, 2024
Post-Deadpool 3 Marvel, Part 2.
'Member when I said Bob Iger's whittled Marvel down to 2 movies a year?
There's a third 2025 movie that keeps slipping into my blind spot.
So, let's address it.
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Monday, May 27, 2024
Sunday, May 26, 2024
MCU X-Men stuff.
Kee-rist, there hasn't been any movement on this since my post "The Mutants! (?)" three friggin' years ago.
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Friday, May 24, 2024
Tuesday, May 21, 2024
Another bit of MCU Fantastic Four casting.
The FF casting keeps being the real deal.
Even though some of the roles are being kept hush-hush...for whatever reason.
ANYWAY!
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Sunday, May 19, 2024
Happy 25th Anniversary, Star Wars: The Phantom Menace!!
From my future self in 9/20/24
Last time-
Boy, that flew by, huh?
A quarter century!!
A baby born when the flick came out likely has their own kids!
Damn!
So where are we now?
Last time, I bitched about the internet howler monkeys; and now, even sites like "Honest Trailers" who used to cater to that crowd are sick of them.
Their "The Acolyte" review mocked how every single Star Wars thing since TPM is "the worst Star Wars ever that's killing the franchise".
Well, if Acolyte is the new worst thing ever, and it's set 20 years before TPM, then it's the new worst prequel.
Chronologically as well as in artistic merit.
Guess it's time to leave poor TPM alone, huh?
No? It doesn't work that way?
Because reasons?
Huh.
Yeah, Generation X just has to fucking die.
People born in '99 or later think the prequels are fine.
Oh, they like TPM least, and "Revenge Of The Sith" best, but no one's all "kill Jar-Jar!! Oh my gaaawwwwdd!! This movie raped meeee!!!!".
We're enough time out to see it really was/is just a Generation X problem.
And really only a screamy minority of my age cohort.
Hey, why don't all you brilliant discriminating sophisticates read Neil Gaiman and Ursula Le Guin?
No? Huh.
It was never about real criticism, and wanting things that are good, and more about tribal approval.
"Loudest monkey in the room" shit.
I called it then, but there's no wiggle room now.
The worm has finally turned on internet drama queens.
....I hope.
There's a pile of Star Wars flicks in development, but none of them really excite me.
And just like the prequels, I'll believe in them when I see them.
I'm not gonna stare at the calendar and the clock like with "Freddy vs Jason" ever again.
Nope.
Maybe I was just supposed to go along with the herd for the sake of having more friends.
Hate the prequels because I'm supposed to.
Worship "The Matrix" because I'm supposed to.
Worship Harry Potter because I'm supposed to.
Make excuses for JK Rowling because....yeah, that's where they lose me.
That's where it stops being hip and cute.
Driving Ahmed Best, Jake Lloyd, and Kelly Marie Tran to the brink of suicide wasn't hip and cute either.
Can we stop handing these miserable shitheels the "they just love the franchise so very much" card?
Can we just kick them out of the fandom, and cordon them off in some gutter?
Can we?
Is that a big ask?
Is pointing out "if you're that cruel and gross, you don't really love anything" so damned hard for the media?
We say it about fucking wife beaters.
Anti-fans are wife beaters of culture.
Let's kick 'em out and get restraining orders on them like wife beaters.
Really, if it's just about "I don't like this movie" they've had 25 years to get over it.
Christ, the Holiday Special is worse, and people have fun with that.
That's where it really all falls apart. Hipster fans are able to be ironic and goofy with the Holiday Special, but they turn around and act like TPM killed John Wick's puppy.
Die already.
Hmm, Holiday Special is 47.
Guess we have to wait 22 more years for it to cool all the way down?
I'll be 71 and having stents and a watchman installed.
Yipee.
See you then!! 😃.....😔
I'll retro link this to "Happy seventeenth Star Wars day".
Wednesday, May 15, 2024
Tuesday, May 14, 2024
MCU Phase X!
Counts as both Marvel viewing order update 3, and X-Men viewing order 2.5.
Yep, the two icebergs are merging!
Previously-
Yep, I know how to connect the X-Men-verse into the grand scheme now that enough movies are out.
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Sunday, May 12, 2024
RIP Roger Corman.
Well, he was 98, so he had a long life and career.
But, he'll still be missed.
The links say it all after that, really.
Friday, May 10, 2024
Wednesday, May 8, 2024
A couple more belated dead assholes.
I shoulda jumped on these, but I had so much in my post backlog, I just didn't juggle the plates fast enough.
Comes down to, this blog is recreation, I don't have a deadline, so fuck it.
ANYWAY!
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Tuesday, May 7, 2024
Retroactive post #8.
Still more Deadpool & Wolverine cameo rumors.
Jesus, according to the rumor mongers, this thing is the "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World" of superheroes.
In spite of other rumor mongers saying otherwise.
Ah, well, I'll log it all down for the "cameos yes" "cameos no" in the final movie review.
Its become a little game, and I enjoy it.
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The shape of post-Deadpool 3 Marvel.
Okay, this has been coming through in trickles, but the trickles have filled a bucket now so....
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Monday, May 6, 2024
"Superman '25" Superman!!
In case the title confuses you, I said last Gunn-verse update...
OH!! And I'm super late with this.
The title is no longer "Superman Legacy" but just "Superman".
That's just goddamned inconvenient.
Now we have to call this one "Superman '25" to separate it from "Superman '78".
Like "Batman '89" and "Batman '66".
Thanks, James Gunn.
*Eyeroll*
So, yeah.
ANYWAY!!!
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Sunday, May 5, 2024
Saturday, May 4, 2024
Happy seventeenth Star Wars day!
15th (Boba-Fett, Obi-Wan).
16th (Andor, Obi, Mando 3, Ahsoka)
Stuff since last time-
Man, I really haven't been keeping up....
-"Ahsoka" dropped.
-The placeholder title for the ancient prequel by James Mangold is "Rise of the Jedi".
-The official title for the Mando-verse Infinity War movie by Dave Filoni is simply "The Mandalorian and Grogu" and will be dropping first.
-The placeholder title for the post-TROS Rey movie by Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy is "New Jedi Order".
-The second series of "Tales of the Jedi" is "Tales of the Empire". That drops...today, it seems.
-Season 2 of Obi-Wan is dead.
-Season 2 of "Andor" is going ahead.
-"The Acolyte" is the next big (live-action) thing about to drop. I barely cared before, but its got Carrie Anne Moss as a Jedi, so now I'm interested.
-The Disney Star Wars stuff that was behind the iron Disney+ curtain has started dropping on disk.
Ditto the Marvel shows. Go figure.
-All 11 movies played non-stop on FX.
Update: Oh, shit! Next year is the 20th anniversary of "Revenge of the Sith" and the 10th for "The Force Awakens"!!
Thursday, May 2, 2024
Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga.
Another franchise I slacked off on.
Because, like "Tron: Ares" its been stuck in development Hell for a decade.
Well, Tron a little over, Furiosa a little under.
So, I guess I'm seeing this one.
Anya Taylor-Joy is the younger Furiosa.
Cuz Charlize Theron aged out of the role of her younger self.
Thanks, foot-dragging Hollywood suits.
Ah, well, Anya's cool too.
Chris Hemsworth and Yahya Abdul-Mateen II (Black Manta!!) are also in it.
Hemsworth is the main baddie.
It's baby-Furiosa vs Evil Thor.
Two trailers dropped. here's those.
So, we finally have good shit this summer out the other end of the covid tunnel.
Now, we just have to keep Trump from being re-elected so there'll still be a world next year.
Wednesday, May 1, 2024
Tron: Ares
Another franchise I slacked off on whilst obsessing on Deadpool & Wolverine....
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Tuesday, April 30, 2024
Untitled Alien FX series.
Produced by Noah Hawley (he of "Legion" fame).
Happens after Prometheus and Covenant, but doesn't reference them.
Series lead, Sydney Chandler.
Okay, what is it with all our post-Ripley Alien-verse lady protagonists being little elves?
Noomi Rapace, elf.
Katherine Waterston, elf.
Cailee Spaeny, elf.
Did they really break the mold when they made Sigourney Weaver?
They really don't make any more of those?
Hmm, okay. Not mad, just saying.
Anyway!! FX lets you have gore and f-bombs. It's the HBO of basic cable.
So, it won't be watered down at all.
The Craft: Legacy (2020)
Okay, there are other things I'd rather talk about than this, but I need to reference this to do so, but everyone doesn't know the backstory to get the references, so bear with me as we take this side-trip.
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Evil Dead 7!!
"Wait, did part 6 even come out yet?".
Nope. Here's that post.
Both are in development, and whichever one comes out first...wins?
I dunno.
ANYWAY!
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Saturday, April 27, 2024
Raunchy Hulk & Thor: together at last!!!
This one's really delayed. Another one I struggled over "should I even bother?".
Yeah, what the Hell, let's bother.
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Madame Web: additional thought.
Lest you want to plug your ears and hum, and deny the fevered glee in the box-office flop of Madame Web is CHUD/MAGA sexism, just consider: they've magically got a long ass memory for Supergirl, Catwoman, Elektra, and now Madame Web, but they have equally magical amnesia for.....
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Friday, April 26, 2024
Marvel DC crossover: Part 4!
This one's so easy, I almost didn't want to bother with it.
But, eh, fuck it, let's throw it in the pot.
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Thursday, April 25, 2024
More Deadpool & Wolverine character/plot stuff.
This stuff is flying fast and furious now.
Reminds me of when "Multiverse of Madness" was creeping closer.
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Tuesday, April 23, 2024
Monday, April 22, 2024
Friday, April 19, 2024
RIP Daniel Dennett.
The only remaining good one of the "Four Horsemen".
And he's gone, so so fucking much for horsemen.
Hitchens mongered "The War On Terror".
Which I also fell for, but his endorsement didn't fucking help.
And now he's gone.
Sam Harris is a bigot piece of shit.
Richard Dawkins is a bigot piece of shit.
In fact, he's gotten worse since I last posted about him!
He and JK Rowling are mis-gendering a cis woman for fuck's sakes!!
Non-conforming cis women are always next.
Always. It never stops at passive transphobia.
And it always starts with "just asking questions" and gets worse.
I've had an ex-friend go full Nazi that way, another go full-on conspiracy bonkers that way, and another (a Brit) go Brexit and "Hunters laptop" that way.
And I know two other idiots who are "just asking questions" concern-TERFs who are a strong breeze away from going ugly.
And all of these idiots before "Grima Wormtongue" came at me with his bullshit, and helped ruin two other friendships.
So, to say I'm sick of this alt-right bigot merry-go-round is an understatement.
I've scrubbed all traces of Grima from my life. He's dead to me.
So yeah, fuck the horseman shtick.
Dan Dennett was smart to quietly and deftly drift away from that whole thing.
I don't know why I didn't cover Dan's death in April when it happened.
May is when the whole TERF clusterfuck erupted on my social media, so that jackassery waylaid me.
Dunno what was going on in April.
I guess there were warning signs.
Grima was getting on me at every turn for defending "woke"
And/or not calling TERFs "gender critical" or "people with legitimate concerns" or whatever.
So, it was brewing.
Probably what subliminally egged me on to do my "Craft Legacy" review.
Anyway, Dennett didn't get sucked up into all that.
Indeed, again, he walked away from the horsemen club.
That proves he was the brilliant one.
Dawkins stole everything from Dennett, Darwin, and Bertrand Russell, anyway.
He was just a content repackager.
He was Dennett's pitbull.
Dennett didn't need a pitbull. At least not Dawkins, anyway.
Took a lot of painful hindsight to see all this though.
So, yeah, full Arnold Rimmer super-salute to the one horseman worth a damn.
Thursday, April 18, 2024
"Superman legacy" casting #7.
Previously-
A little late with these, but whatever.
I don't break news, I scrapbook, so....
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Tuesday, April 16, 2024
The Sony/MCU deal 10 years later.
Well, 9 and some change since the ink dried on the contract, but close enough.
Let's go all the way back to "Sony-Spidey cinematic universe updates (Part 4)".
I had vague predictions, and now I can fill in the details....
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