Previously-
What's happened since last year...
- GB: ATC finally came to FX. (it's the extended cut)
- GB: Crossing Over wrapped up.
- GB: 35th anniversary miniseries announcement.
- GB: 35th anniversary miniseries came out.
- I got the GN of "Answer The Call: What Dreams May Come".
- I got the GN of "Crossing Over".
- I ranked the GB universe (that I've collected) so far.
- Ghostbusters World is canon! (and has ATC uniforms and packs)
- The director and cast of GB:ATC are doing okay.
- I simplified the timeline.
Buildup to today-
Not much going on in ATC land this year.
Except for the 35th anniversary one-shot comic.
Same old bullshit with the trolls.
The announcement of GB20 kicked up the dust a little bit with those dimwits.
Leslie Jones reacted negatively to GB20.
Melissa McCarthy and Paul Feig reacted positively.
I still love the flick.
It ages like a fine wine.
I still maintain the ATC cast will be back someday in something.
Even if a little girl who saw it in 2016 has to grow up into a director to make it happen.
Hey, that's how GB20 is happening, Jason Reitman became a director, and had an idea.
But, I think we'll get something before that, whether it's animated, or Lego, or whatever.
Like I said last year, if they keep making ATC stuff, I'll keep doing these anniversaries.
See you next year, probably.
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I don't know if you've already seen this movie, or were planning on seeing it, and I'm going to have to watch it a second time to really be sure, but the critically acclaimed 2018 Nicolas Cage film "Mandy" is possibly one of the nine or ten worst movies I've ever seen in my life and the worst I've seen in the last five or six years, worse even than "Suicide Squad," "The Dark Tower" and "Hesher."
More on this later.
Aw, really? I'd heard good things about that.
Like, it's not an Oscar contender, but I at least heard it was ironically funny.
I almost had it on both of my "movies I missed", list for 2018, but it got edged out by a smidge both times.
Give it a miss then, huh?
Okey-dokey.
Go ahead and see it if you want, obvs.--YMMV.
But for me, it was like someone took a 14 year old heavy metal fanatic, showed him a few David Lynch dream sequences, used CIA brainwashing techniques to make him think he was the new auteur director, gave him tens of millions of dollars to make a movie with, and then made him make a dumb super violent crazy Nicolas Cage revenge thriller.
The movie is drenched in bright red neon nightmare light; it's supposed to make you think of Lynch and nightmares but just makes it look like the whole damn thing was filmed inside an active volcano's lava lake.
The soundtrack is creepy string drones and sudden deafening noise blasts--again, a bit like any dark scene from "Mulholland Dr." but just repetitive and annoying.
The acting: Linus Roache (Bruce Wayne's dad from "Batman Begins") plays some creepy Jesus-Manson-LSD cult leader who leads some freaks (and some "Hellraiser" style psycho bikers) to kill Nicolas Cage's wife. He looks like a 1970s rock star and generally tries to conjure up Lynch demons like Willem Dafoe or Dennis Hopper (the Hopper line from Blue Velvet "DON'T YOU F***ING LOOK AT ME!!!" is used.) He could have been good, but the director gave him these long monologues that just bore you to tears because there's nothing of substance whatsoever in them.
Nicolas Cage meanwhile is totally dormant for the first hour of the film, then once the wife is killed, he just does his usual psycho raving crap, all of which go in the "Nic Cage Loses His S***" reel on Youtube.
The style: it's all crazy evil violent stuff from frame one to the end, it's set in 1983 Pacific Northwest for little discernable reason, and--again, like Lynch--the writer-director likes to throw in "whacky" ironic comedy moments like having Cage yell "Ya ripped mah SHIRT!!! Ya ripped mah SHIRT!!!" during a fight, or intertitles that look like 1970s/80s band logos, or other "badass" stuff. The end results comes far closer to "Hudson Hawk" than Lynch. Death scenes are, of course, as gory and torturous as you could imagine.
If I were still 12, this movie might have had some effect on me, but I thought it was beyond awful and the critical acclaim is inexplicable to me.
Again, your mileage may vary, but for me this is a new Zero.
Well....now I gotta see it even if it is horrible.
*Pastes it into list*
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