Yearly Archives - 2022

Baby Yoda’s Choice

This to me, is both stupid and funny.I like Star Wars on the whole and indeed never missed a movie…completely.   I actually love the very first two movies but found Return of the Jedi to be pretty unsatisfying in many respects.  I admit I kind of walked away after Attack of Clones.  It wasn’t a good movie and the “love scenes” took cringe to levels unseen in science fiction and that is saying something. Although nowhere near as bad as the ones...

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Friday Night Open Thread

Talk about whatever you want so long as it relates to pop culture.All others get the ax.********************Jon Favreau appears to have saved his own ass. The lousy viewing numbers for the first four episodes of The Book of Boba Fett have been completely forgotten about so far as Mickey the Great and Terrible's senior servants are concerned. Episode Six has reportedly tripled the ratings of BBF's opening night. More importantly, much more importantly so far as the executives are concerned,...

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The Book of Bobalorian

Why did you go, Mando?Last week I wrote, “I think Favreau must not have had any real engagement with the show until a few months ago and that brief contact left him reeling. “Oh my god, what has Rodriguez done? This disaster is actually worse than any of the Marvel shows. I have to save this situation somehow or Kennedy is back in charge!“I was only half-joking when I wrote that.  I am no longer joking, I am now absolutely certain that...

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Zach Snyder’s Rebel Moon

For those of you that are remotely curious. no, it has absolutely nothing to do with Vox's game by that name.Here is the plot."The plot of Rebel Moon is “a peaceful colony on the edge of the galaxy is threatened by the armies of a tyrannical regent named Balisarius. Desperate, the colonists dispatch a young woman with a mysterious past to seek out warriors from neighboring planets to help them make a stand.”Oh, my Glob. This is the plot...

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The Dark Herald Barely Recommends – Foundation

This show is a borderline case.  There are elements that make it compelling from time to time but when all of these elements are taken together as a whole, it left me feeling empty.  This is not a feel-good show.  That would be okay if it was actually a good show and half of it isn’t.My rule of thumb for my Does Not Recommend rating is that there be no reason at all to watch it.  And there is reason to watch this show...

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Friday Night Open Thread

UPDATE: No, it isn't real. Although given how stupid the fashions were in the 1970s it's understandable.You know the rules.Don't break them.*********************Something for Markku https://twitter.com/dhtoomey/status/1481747171842183173?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1481747171842183173%7Ctwgr%5Ehb_2_8%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Face.mu.nu%2F ************************************Tom Holland is to be the new Ironman.Sort of.What I mean by that is he (according to some very reliable sources) is about to become the new face of the MCU.  A job that Kevin Feige had sworn to himself was going to belong to Brie Larson’s Captain Marvel.  Mostly because he had convinced himself that after the...

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Just Cancel It – Woke Snow White

Disney is trying to rip itself off again. The very first full-length animated movie in the world was Snow White and the Seven Dwarves. Walt Disney quite literally bet the house on this picture. If it had failed or even underperformed, he would have been completely ruined. But he won big and went on to found a company that he would want his name stripped off of if he could see it today.I suppose leaving this...

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Humpday Dump – The We Now Know Where Boba’s Budget Went Edition

I just enjoyed an Episode of Boba Fett?!?!? What the hell? How did that happen?Easily as it turned out. Step 1, make sure Boba Fett is NOT in his own show. At all. Not even a little bit.Step 2, make sure the Mandalorian is.Step 3, drain the effects budget from the rest of the series and pump it all into, what is basically, an HOUR-long episode of the Mandalorian. This is probably the best episode...

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Thirsty?

Never use a written language you don't read.Truth be told, I've seen the shoe on the other foot plenty of times. Guys who got Kanji tattoos because they thought it looked cool asked the Okinawan tattoo artist to write something that sounded "badass."Then later found out the symbols meant "rotting fart," which when you think about it does qualify as "badass."Although the most popular was "illiterate Gaijin."

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Yeah, It’s Gonna Suck – Amazon’s Lord of the Rings

Gary Boechler at Nerdrotic put this surprisingly detailed report together on Amazon's upcoming Woke disaster.There were a few hot takes that I didn't know about.First, the Tolkien Estate did not do this willingly. They got hurt in arbitration with Warner Brothers and part of the settlement is that they had to allow a Lord of the Rings TV series. Although, the estate did get to maintain a right of absolute veto over everything. And when Amazon was...

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