It's Universal classic monsters meets Castlevania.
I suspect they're giving "Morbius" the finger by one-upping it in quality, which isn't very difficult.
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They bring back and re-canonize Man-Thing!
All the extant characters are in-house now.
So, is that all of phase 4?
Or do I have to do the Guardians stuff?
I dunno, I was in this whole journey for She-Hulk.
And because Kevin Feige said I'd need these shows to understand the movies.
The latter turned out to be a lie, and the former is accomplished.
I think I can bail until She-Hulk season 2.
It isn't slated in phase 5, so...I've got a while.
So, bail? Yeah, bail.
See you for "Wakanda Forever" cuz that's a movie.
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The 1947 "Nightmare Alley" is a decent noir movie, better than Guillermo Del Toro's 2021 remake, which is far too long and takes far too much interest in the sub-Tim Burton carnival stuff that makes up the book's opening act. The book (from 1946) is better than either movie. The book is less notable IMO for its plot (about a carnival barker who becomes a fake spiritualist/mentalist con man and goes too far) than for its total dirtiness, bitterness, nihilism and filthiness, the most explicit book I've read from before the advent of William S. Burroughs except for Henry Miller's "Tropic Of Cancer" (which got Miller into a huge battle with censors anyway.)
How bitter was the guy who wrote the book? William Lindsay Gresham was an alcoholic who checked into a hotel and killed himself in 1962 at the age of 53 after his wife left him for...
.....*drum roll*......
.....you ready for this?....
.....C. S. LEWIS.
I AM NOT MAKING THIS UP. CLIVE STAPLES MOTHER FUCKING LEWIS.
She went from being married to a total nihilist to marrying the biggest Christian apologist who ever wrote.
That's like if whatsherbutt left Gene Simmons tomorrow for Chris Pratt.
Uh, not recommending the Guillermo del Toro movie though, that's my point. Another good looking but underwhelming Del Toro flick.
Just so you know.
I also read "Fahrenheit 451," which is high school lit, but it did have a few amusingly weird ideas about it, like Bradbury blowing through the nuclear war at the end in about four pages.
I'll answer everything, I promise.
Right now, I'm fighting off the last little bit of 'rona.
Had it since last Saturday.
Sense of smell is still messed up, but not as bad as yesterday.
It's not diminished smell so much as channel changed.
A-1 is soapy, pizza cheese is plastic-y, just everything's a bit off
Coffee cuts through it, cranberry cuts through it, a few things are reliable, but anything non-synthetic, and more complex than a plant can't be trusted.
No hurry. Get better bro!!!!
Re: Coolio/Gangster's Paradise/Dangerous Minds.
"Dangerous Minds" is white savior as fuck.
It's the "Green Book" of its day.
At least we've gotten to where "Green Book" got blasted right when it was out.
Re: "Has Weird Al ever been blasted as offensive?".
Nope, his image has always been squeaky clean. Even though, he did sneak a masturbation metaphor into "one more minute..".
"I'm stranded all alone, in the gas station of love, and I have to use the self-service pumps!".
No one ever caught that.
There was never a stink.
Re: William Lindsay Gresham/C.S. Lewis
Wow, they never mention that little tidbit in "Shadowlands"!
Re: Ray Bradbury.
Still can't think of him without the "fuck me, Ray Bradbury" song playing in my head.
The 90s high school inner city teacher genre was big enough in the 90s to be parodied by Jon Lovitz's "High School High." "Lean On Me," "The Substitute," "Stand And Deliver," "Freeway," etc. I wonder if anyone's still watching that one. If I found out that people only remembered "Dangerous Minds" for the Coolio tune and nobody has ever actually watched it in the last 15 years, I wouldn't actually be surprised.
You watched "Shadowlands"?!?
Re: Shadowlands. It was back when the blog was more atheism focused, and I was on my "fuck C.S. Lewis" phase, and I think it was on basic cable or something, so I checked it out.
Total fairy tale.
Re: "High School High".
The Wikipedia page says the soundtrack did better than the movie.
Irony!
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