Part 5.
Here we go...
Wonder Woman (2017)
See here.
DC's up to date until Justice League comes out on video.
Spider-Man Homecoming (2017)
See here.
And Marvel's up to date until Thor: Ragnarok comes out.
Batman:
Return Of The
Caped Crusaders (2016)
See here.
Really late on this one.
I dunno why.
Batman vs Two-Face (2017)
The last thing by Adam West.
Well....I think there's some Family Guys left, but...y'know.
Bill Shatner is Two-Face, and they draw him as his young 60's Captain Kirk self.
Two-Face is the one famous villain they didn't get to do on the old show.
And Batman and Classic Star Trek were on at the same time, and Shatner and West have had similar career paths, and places in pop culture, but they never got to team up until now.
So, a lot of dreams come true in this.
They find a clever way to sneak Lee Meriwether in as an alternate Catwoman.
AND!!
(Spoiler highlight)
They introduce Harley Quinn into the Adam West-verse!!
There's a nice Comic-Con panel in the bonuses on Adam West's life.
Burt Ward has hinted they might continue these without Adam somehow...but I dunno....
Where else could you go, but to turn West-verse Robin into Nightwing, or something?
Maybe Nightwing meets Lynda Carter Wonder Woman in the 70's?
Hmmm...THAT could work....
The Lego Batman Movie (2017)
See here.
Love it.
I see more Easter eggs every time I watch it.
Ghostbusters Ectomobile
Owner's Workshop Manual (2017)
Perfect trifecta with "Ghosts From Our Past", and "Tobin's Spirit Guide".
This is my favorite thing.
Another book I wish had come out when the original films and cartoon were still hot.
It says it's just a guide to the cars, but they loophole it that you can put all the gear in the car, so it's really the whole damned Ghostbusters technical manual.
And to keep it from being all dry and techno-babble-y, and to remind you, dammit, these films are comedies, Winston and Peter interject through funny post-it notes.
And Egon through unintentionally funny ones.
The main voice of the book is Ray.
When they get to "Answer The Call", I guess they just assume you know the universes were merged through "Ghostbusters 101".
The graphic novel of GB101 is out now, I gotta go out and get that....
And while I'm out, what the Hell, I've put it off long enough, the DVDs of "The Real Ghostbusters".
Stay tuned for those...
Aaand, the rest was clothes and candy.
THE END.
Thursday, December 28, 2017
My Christmas Loot: Part 6, Loot In Space.
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Butthuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuurrrrrrtttt!!!!!!
http://www.change.org/p/the-walt-disney-company-have-disney-strike-star-wars-episode-viii-from-the-official-canon
Yeah, the flick is closing in on a billion already, and the author of that petition subsists on Chef Boyardee and tears, I'm sure they'll take those ideas under advisement.
(Lol!!)
:)
If you give a rat's ass, here's what I actually had to say about the movie, which I basically liked.
http://mb.boardhost.com/babble/msg/1513707289.html
The only things that I really disagree with-
1.Yes, Jedi DO give up, look at Obi-Wan in ANH, and Yoda in ESB.
(Although, I'm really vicariously disagreeing with Mark Hamill there)
2. I had to contain a yell and a fist pump when Yoda showed up.
Sorry if it didn't land for you.
Oh, well.
But, we both dug he flick overall, so, whatever.
Also, pretty much all of this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpoUN_A12Eg
...*crickets*...
Helloooo?
Dammit, I did something wrong, and I don't know what.
Hmmmm? oh no, I have nothing to say to loot/anniversary posts in general. Never really have.
I watched the 1968 movie "Candy." It wasn't very good!!! Richard Linklater's "Bernie" starring Jack Black was fairly amusing though. Not a lot of movies lately.
TV wise, I'm going through "24" and finished third season of that, and am making my way through the new "Twin Peaks" which I got for Christmas. It draws weirdly on unexpected elements of mythology from the original show (like, stuff that wasn't even popular with fans) and LOTS of stuff from "Fire Walk With Me" and most of the old characters are just there for cameos, the rest of it is some weird adventure involving Cooper coming back from the Black Lodge and ending up in place of some guy named "Dougie" and he's completely retarded and catatonic, while his evil Gene Simmons looking doppelganger goes around causing trouble. Weird alien/time travel shit that the old show barely hinted at is being used to work into a bizarre plot involving love affairs, a principal in South Dakota played by a weird, aged-looking Matthew Lillard who might have murdered somebody, gangsters who want to kill "Dougie," some punk kid who runs over toddlers, and Laura Palmer and BOB being tied somehow to the detonation of the first nuclear bomb in 1945. It is not interested in soap opera parody like the old show and most of it doesn't even take place in the town of Twin Peaks anymore. It's clearly a product of the post-"Lost Highway" Lynch and a different thing from the original show.
Laura Dern turns up again and if you thought her Star Wars performance was a weird one, this time she's "Diane," the "Diane" Cooper was talking to on his recording device on the original show, and she acts like a bitchy teenage girl in a white 1920s wig.
Uh, so if you're, like, interested in that, go for it, or uh don't. But Lynch can still direct competently. And if you like musical acts, he has lots of those, too.
Honestly after "The Dark Tower" and "It" my to-watch list will finally be totally crossed off. I've got nothing left to watch, movie-wise! Hell, I'm almost done finally watching through all the AVGNs, too--thank God for the silliness of the games because James Rolfe kinda does the same thing all the time. I mean I don't mind him but the "ugh, this game is such a puddle of FUCK!!!" stuff is the same thing every time. I guess I liked the guy who played the Joker in his Batman reviews. The games themselves are usually pretty hilariously bad though, so I'd say he has a higher batting average than MST3K.
I finished the fourth Dark Tower book and these things are really starting to slog. There is no way that book should have been 669 pages long. I kind of don't feel like finishing the other three. I read the first four all in a row.
Star Wars: somebody on another board pointed out that Obi-Wan and Qui-Gon both run away superspeedy from something at the beginning of "The Phantom Menace" and we never hear or see any example of this ever happening ever again with any Jedi, even though there would be a million examples of situations where it could have been useful. I kind of had that in mind when watching "The Last Jedi."
That's all that's going on with me....no you didn't do anything wrong.
What order should I watch "Twin Peaks", in?
It was my understanding that "Fire Walk With Me", was a prequel, but you reacted in bafflement that I started with that.
If that's not the starting point, then where does it go?
Yeah, AVGN gets repetitive, and the movie was...mehhhh...
I'm liking Nostalgia Critic better these days.
More stuff he can tap into.
And he's better at it.
Jedi super speed...yeah...someone should have written a comic or something explaining that you need a lot of juice to use that, and it drains your health meter, or something.
Some kind of rule for it to make sense.
20 years later next year, and no one could come up with anything.
But...it's Phantom Menace. *shrug*
There's the contradiction right within the movie of them having super breath holding powers for the poison gas, but then needing breathing filter thingies for underwater.
"...no you didn't do anything wrong".
Sorry, it's just that Hyla disappeared himself from the whole internet, and was very behind-my-back about it, so now I'm just queasily paranoid.
"Twin Peaks": Watch the original show all the way through starting with the pilot (the best thing Lynch ever directed), then watch "Fire Walk With Me," then the new season. FWWM draws on lots of stuff you learn in the original 30 episodes of the show, and the new 2017 season draws LOTS on "Fire Walk With Me." FWWM won't make a terrible lot of sense if you watch it before the original show.
Hah, I just got to the parts of the new show that would have had David Bowie had he lived. Wait, no I didn't: Bowie told them to overdub his voice with somebody who would do a better Southern accent. Well, it's Bowie's *character* all the same, but I...uh, won't spoil it.
I mean, I only disliked maybe a couple of AVGNs out of the 100 or so of these I've watched, so he still has a really good batting average...
Hyla's a guy? Thought that was a girl. Who am I thinking of? I don't know these people well. (oopsie!)
Twin Peaks- Y'know? I think I'll give it a whirl.
AVGN- Well....I hope you like his movie better than I did.
I actually think some of his reviews are better than that.
Hyla- Lol! He's had female cartoon avatars, that might've thrown you off.
TP - The pilot blows "Blue Velvet" away. After the murder plot is resolved be advised that the show went more or less completely to crap for 10 episodes until Lynch showed back up to direct the 1991 series finale, the infamous Black Lodge thing that people had no idea what the hell was going on.
I have no idea how much you'll like it. It won't take you very long to watch all of it.
The new series concentrates very little on the town of Twin Peaks, with action taking place in Las Vegas, South Dakota, and New York City. I just finished it. I liked it but was not blown away by it, though the eighth episode ("Gotta Light?") is a bit of a surreal corker.
AVGN - I'll probably pass on the movie. He really did find a lot of hilariously bad games though.
Yeah the Hyla avatar thing must've thrown me off.
Just burnt through classic TP and "Fire Walk With Me".
I love it!!
WTF was wrong with me?
It's Lynch's masterpiece!
Seeing FWWM the first time, and knowing who the killer was beforehand actually enhanced my enjoyment of TP, because all the misdirects didn't work on me, and I could follow along without all the clue-solving shit the 90's fanbase went through, only to have their theories turned to poop and flushed.
Then seeing how TP mated back up to FWWM was like seeing how "Rogue One", hooks back up to ANH.
Y'know?
Also, I wouldn't have had the patience to watch this week by week back then.
It needs to be binged, so you can keep everything fresh in your head.
And you can't jump into it midstream, you need it all from the start.
But there was no streaming or anything so you could go back and get the ones you missed.
It was one and done, and then gone.
Fucking 90's.
Anyhoo, onto the new ones!!
I hope there's an ultimate box set of everything, cuz I just might buy this!
(Up to episode 8)
OMFG!! Trent Reznor looks like Rob Halford!!
(Just finished it off)
Oh, come on!!
Are they gonna wait ANOTHER 25 years?!?!?
Everyone will be fuckin' dead!!
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