Pop culture updates #33.

• Parts #1-30.
• Part 31. (Holidays)
• Part 32. (Talisman)

Way back in July of last year, I said...

Marvel fired James Gunn over some politically motivated bullshit engineered by the guy who invented "pizzagate".
Fuck this country.

Remember that shit?

Well, Disney/Marvel finally found the new director for Guardians 3, and it's.....

*Drumroll*

James Gunn!!

Yep, he's back.
The bullshit is over, and the Twitter Nazis lost.

He's still doing "Suicide Squad 2", for DC though.

Kudos to Alan Horn for taking the hit to his pride, and asking him back.
And kudos to Gunn for not telling him to go fuck himself.

It's a win for everybody.
For Disney, Gunn, Marvel, DC, the comic book genre, and us, the fans.

The future for comic book movies is going to be exciting.

Now, Captain Marvel just has to make a billion, and Episode 9 has to make 2 billion, and the trolls will truly be beaten back to their sewer.



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Pop culture updates #32.

• Parts #1-30.
• Part 31. (Holidays)

Updating "future franchises", specifically Stephen King.


The Talisman!!!

Yep, it's finally being adapted.
Steven Spielberg bought the rights for it back when the book came out in the 80's, he wanted to direct it, but it got caught up in development Hell, and he could never get it going, and other projects came along, and it just kept getting lost in the weeds.

Now, he's producing, and Mike Barker is directing.

The book is awesome.
Imagine Harry Potter flung into an R rated Legend Of Zelda.

Add that to the list with IT Chapter 2, Doctor Sleep, and Pet Sematary.



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Corrections/updates: Series 2, Part 6.

• Series 1.
• Series 2-
• Part 1. (Kricfalusi)
• Part 2. (Lego Joker)
• Part 3. (Walkers)
• Part 4. (Eternity)
• Part 5. (AOC comic)

A second correction to a correction!!

In "Corrections/updates Part 11", I claimed I never wrote a poem.

I did so!!
In "Postcards from Podsville #21"!!!

It's sloppy, and fell apart at the end, and I wasn't happy with it, and I forgot about it, but it's a poem.

I mooshed too much together in the last paragraph.
The ideas needed to be broken up into littler pieces.

So, I've fixed it!!
9 years later, I fixed my broken poem.
Here it is.


Somewhere, someone tells the one they love "I hate you!".

Somewhere, someone screams, shouts, and terrifies, in the name of "some goddamned peace and quiet".

Somewhere, someone drinks to forget unpleasant experiences brought on by alcohol consumption.

Somewhere, someone shoots up to take away the pain of being alienated by their addiction.

Somewhere, someone wire-taps and spies in the name of "liberty".

Somewhere, someone prays to God to finally return, and end all the gloom and horror in the world let loose by religion.

Somewhere, a factory farmer wears a cowboy hat, and misses the irony.

Somewhere an old man applies to the big box store that drove out his hardware store.

Somewhere, a diabetic in a gas guzzler stuffs their face full of fast food, then looks up at a polluted sky, and says "such a shame, but what can ya do?".

Things you can count on.
These things are always happening.
Somewhere.


There.
Did that.
:-)



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Pop culture updates #31.

Parts #1-30.


I folded "evolution of franchises", into this series, let's do some more folding in.

It all started with my Halloween horror reviews, so let's put the Halloweens in here.

Halloween.

• Happy Halloween!!!! (Hell yeah, ya fuckin boogins!!!!)
• Halloween Part 2: All the drugs in me, all the bugs in me!
• Halloween Part 3: Hi-jinks Ensue!!
• Halloween Part 4: Under the wire, and through a loophole!
• Halloween Part 4.5: Delayed gratification!
• Halloween Part 5: Back In Orange!
• Halloween Part 6: "Hold out your cups, kiddies!".
• Halloween Part 7: "That's why people soup is MMM-HMM goood!".
• Halloween Part 8: "I'll send yah to the bone yaaahhd!!".

There was some bleed over from Halloween to Thanksgiving, so let's chuck the Thanksgivings in there.

Thanksgiving.

• The 1st! (2010)
• The 2nd!! (2011)
• The 3rd!! (2012) (The one with the reviews and recipes)
• The 4th! (2013)
• The 5th! (2014)
• The 6th! (2015)
• The 7th. (2016)
• The 8th! (2017)
• The 9th! (2018)

And then that leads into Christmas, with my superhero stuff, so chuck those in...

Christmas.

• 8 maids a milking.
• Seven Schwans a swimming!!
• Six geese a laying!
• Fiiiiive golden riiiiings!!!!
• Four calling birds.
• Three French hens.
• Two turtledoves.
• And a partridge in a pear treeeee!!!!

And the Halloweens, Thanksgivings, and Christmases used to be bundled up as En-Mike-lopedia, so let's chuck those in.
Yeah, they're mostly a repeat of the above holidays, but there's some extra bits n' bobs n' bonuses to justify them.

En-Mike-lopedia.

• Volume 1 (2011)
• Volume 2 (2012)
• Volume 3 (2013)
• Volume 4 (2014)

And all of the above spun out of my documentary reviews, so let's chuck those in.

The Bigass Documentary Review Compilation.

And my movie BTS documentary compilation thingy is sorta the sequel, so chuck that in.

The great big geek documentary compilation!!


There, now I can just have this series drop in the little updates to the few franchises I actually give a shit about, and drop them into Halloween, Christmas, Star Wars day, and Ghostbusters anniversary, without being forced (by format, and self-imposed obligation) to cover every little news item for absolutely everything.

It can be nice and casual, like it always should have been.
I guess I had to go all the way around the learning curve to figure it out.
Now we start fresh!



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Pop culture updates #1-30 compilation.

Here they all are so far...

• Part 1 (Twin Peaks)
• Part 2 (Fangoria)
• Part 3 (GB games 1)
• Part 4 (Daria & Connors)
• Part 5 (Lando & Rachel)
• Part 6 (Comic-Con)
• Part 7 (Caligula)
• Part 8 (Picard series)
• Part 9 (No GB news til 2019)
• Part 10 (Scream Queen) 
• Part 11 (Mandalorian)
• Part 12 (Bubba Ho-Tep)
• Part 13 (Lower Decks)
• Part 14 (Joe Bob)
• Part 15 (GB games 2)
• Part 16 (Cassian)
• Part 17 (Section 31)
• Part 18 (GB 3??)
• Part 19 (GB IDW 35th)
• Part 20 (Toxie reboot)
• Part 21 (Ghostbusters 3!)
• Part 22 (GB/TF 1)
• Part 23 (GB/TF 2)
• Part 24 (GB/TF 3)
• Part 25 (GB/TF 4)
• Part 26 (Franchises)
• Part 27 (GB games 3)
• Part 28 (GB3 casting 1)
• Part 29 (GB3 casting 2)
• Part 30 (GB cereals)

Now, to link this to archives.


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Pop culture updates #30.

• Parts 1-11.
• Parts 12-19.
• Part 20 (Toxie reboot)
• Part 21 (Ghostbusters 3!)
• Part 22 (GB/TF 1)
• Part 23 (GB/TF 2)
• Part 24 (GB/TF 3)
• Part 25 (GB/TF 4)
• Part 26 (Franchises)
• Part 27 (GB games 3)
• Part 28 (GB3 casting 1)
• Part 29 (GB3 casting 2)

Another piece of Ghostbusters merchandise.

Ghostbusters The Cereals!!

"Moichendising!! Where the real money of the movie is made!!".

There!! And now I'm up to 30!! Time to do a compilation, and a dump to the archives!!



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Big 2019 Movies Part 2.

Part 1 (Glass)


After what seemed like a goddamned eternity, it's....


Captain Marvel (2019)

Previously on MCU phase 3....

• Captain America: Civil War
• Doctor Strange
• Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol 2
• Spider-Man Homecoming
• Thor Ragnarok
• Black Panther
• Avengers: Infinity War
• Ant-Man and The Wasp

Ahhhhh, there!!

• I dug it a lot.
• It's a slow burn in the first half, but I like world-building and character building stuff. If you didn't mind the farm stuff in Ultron, you'll be fine.
• Get there in time. They do something really special with the logo.
• Stan's cameo is fucking awesome.
• The continuity dots for a bunch of the movies are connected.
• Great selection of 90's girl-power songs.
• There's actually a scene that gives a finger to the "why doesn't she smile?", assholes.
• Carol Danvers is frigging great. Most super-hero-ey of the characters so far.
• Good overarching message of believing in yourself, and ignoring the controlling turds that say "you can't do it".
• Stay for both after credits scenes.
• You'll be even more pumped for Endgame!!
• Overall...not top tier with Infinity War, or Civil War, or Avengers 1, but...definitely among the Ant-Man, Dr. Strange, Guardians 2 tier.
• Fuck the trolls, they need to die. I hope this makes a billion.

Do I actually have to tell you to go see it?
It's Marvel, if you've stuck around this long, of course you're going to see it.


Next up for Marvel, Avengers: Endgame, and Spider-Man: Far From Home.

Next up for these, Shazam!!



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