I haven't abandoned this place.
Never will, barring something bad happening.
It's just, for movie reviews, it's a long ass slow wait for the next couple superhero movies.
I miiiiiiiight check out the new Halloween.
I know I spat on that franchise previously, but the new one supposedly takes it back to what made the first one good, and critics are saying it's as good as the first.
Any time they bring back Jamie Lee, it's usually a good time.
Except Resurrection, where they killed her, but that doesn't count anymore.
If I see it, and like it, I might just collect all the Jamie Lee ones.
Minus Resurrection.
Plus 3.
Movie news has been a thin trickle.
At least of anything that would excite me enough to post.
I haven't been creatively inspired to do another big project like the 90's thing.
Been wracking my brain, and can't think of anything.
Eh, something will come to me.
All my creative energy has been going into my top secret story I want to publish for real.
Also, making preparations for the Harry/Jade-Shade combo book.
Bonus materials, and such.
Been chipping away at those.
Oh, shit, yeah, today's 9/11!
D'oh!
Anyway, yeah, checking in.
New posters for Transformers One
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The last movie I watched was "Freaked" from 1993, co-written by and co-starring and co-directed by Alex Winter, the half of Bill & Ted who isn't Keanu Reeves. Crazy midnight-movie humor and freaky prosthetics and effects used to tell a story about some douche actor (Winters) who ends up in some freaky circus led by evil Randy Quaid. It's only about 80 minutes long and resembles an early-90s MTV version of "Forbidden Zone," which is to say a lot of it comes across like "Pee-Wee's Playhouse" but for adults. I think it's probably a little better than "Forbidden Zone" but not by much. If you know anything about it, you probably know that Mr. T's in it, playing a bearded lady. Most of the good jokes are in the first 20 minutes, the best is this little obnoxious ginger kid with glasses getting hurt really badly repeatedly.
I don't know if it's the kind of thing that's up your alley, early-90s junk tends to amuse me just for the trip back, but that doesn't necessarily make it a good movie (see also: "Buffy The Vampire Slayer" the movie!!)
I know you told me to boycott Orson Scott Card over the gay marriage thing but I read "Ender's Game" anyway, I had to see what the big deal was. Uhm...it's...well, it has some interesting themes (about little gifted kids going through hell in the name of their service to humanity) but it doesn't really tell an interesting story and the whole thing at only 226 pages seems like the setup for a great big series more than a great novel in its own right. And, uh, they didn't seem like "kids" at all. Hell, most of the time they're under the age of 10 but don't come across like it in any way I know of. I don't think I'm going to read more--Card isn't a lackluster stylist either, but he's hardly a GREAT engaging writer.
Also, I got into a discussion about Card on another board which told me that someone out there compiled the number of moments in his books about little boys undressing, and that he wrote a version of "Hamlet" where Hamlet gets sent to hell to be molested for all eternity?!?
Re: "Halloween" - I was going to ignore it entirely after the 2007 fiasco (which contained a Malcolm McDowell performance that I usually cite as the worst acting I've ever seen by a name actor) but I noticed it's directed by David Gordon Green? Huh.
I saw "Halloween water" in theaters in 1998 because I was dumb enough to get interested in anything reminiscent of "Scream," or written by Kevin Williamson (arrrggghh!!!) and have seen it again since then on television and I don't know why I even cared at all. Total mediocrity from beginning to end.
Watching "Better Call Saul" season 2, it's okay, but I can't think of much to discuss about it.
Freaked you say??
https://dickynoo.blogspot.com/2017/06/i-dont-h8-90s-anymore-part-2.html
Right here, 22nd one down.
Yep, it's up my alley.
I own the DVD.
Re: Orson Scott Card/Ender's Game.
Ugh.
Yeah, I have the book, but have never worked up the willpower to tackle it.
So, you're braver than me there.
I've heard nothing but mediocre to bad reviews from people I trust, and yours adds to that pile.
I can't fathom why critics and trophy custodians went apeshit when it came out.
I can only guess the "bullied nerd makes good", theme gave geeks wet dreams.
Well, shit, if I knew it was THAT easy to win lit awards, I could have hammered something out in an afternoon.
Put a fake happy ending on my crummy life, and set it on a purple planet.
Boom, done.
But, Card has already done it, they'll see it coming now.
Fuck a dilly.
Re: Halloween.
Yep, directed by David Gordon Green, and written by Danny McBride.
Comedians are making cool horror lately.
I'll catch up to Better Call Saul when it catches up to Breaking Bad some more.
Shows with slow buildups, I like to be able to binge through, not get milked along for years.
Hell, I wish I could time travel ahead to get Game Of Thrones's last season in.
I should have figured you've have seen "Freaked" before I did.
EG isn't a very long book, but I found myself slogging through it. It's more about the psychology of the main character, a gifted kid becoming a savior/military supercommander before he's 10, and the total torture he has to go through from EVERYBODY before he gets there. It's not about space battles or anything (despite what the book cover tells you). The "buggers" who are the evil enemy are barely explored at all. The book is also full of supporting characters and threads that Card was obviously planning on expanding on in future books rather than fleshing them out in this one.
The character is bullied, but it's all part of making him tough enough to be a heroic commander who saves the world, not because he's a "nerd."
Any interest I got out of this book came from the main character's psychology, and whether or not he decides it's worth going through such hell in order to become that. Not really the "sci-fi" stuff.
I guess it appeals to what, uncourageous teenage boys who fantasize about being military badasses but can't work up the nerve? I'll have to research this more! I wasn't around in 1985, and it was supposedly a hit right away...
DANNY MCBRIDE?!?!?!?!? Huh?!? Wuhhh. Geez. That's even weirder than James Franco trying to make "As I Lay Dying" and "The Sound And The Fury" into movies (he did, and they're unwatchable.)
BCS - Well it's doling out those BrBa references slowly, and it takes place BEFORE BrBa, so if Aaron Paul turns up or something it'll have to be in those future Omaha scenes or something. (Jesse was 24-26 on BrBa; Paul was 33 at the time they finished shooting the show, and will be 40 next year, so they couldn't possibly have him turn up as young Jesse!)
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