Well, I knew it was going to be bad, and I didn't want to know how bad, but I do now.I wrote this a year ago."Continuing their rocket-powered Thelma and Louise style Evel Knievel jump off of a cliff face, Paramount has now handed another crown jewel to somebody who not only can’t be trusted with it. But it is insanely obvious to everyone and his second cousin that he can’t be trusted with it."I will grant that twenty years ago, Seth...
Jon Bernthal is joining the cast of Disney/Marvel's Daredevil.The reason there is the slightest hope it will be good is that Bernthal was on the record as only being willing to sign, if the character of the Punisher isn't damaged. It would have to be the same guy that was on Netflix. And he didn't sign with Disney for years.The reason it will be awful is it will be Disney/Marvel and they can't make anything good.They just can't.Look for...
Okay technically not the Kalends but not the Ides either. Quit complaining, you nearly didn’t get a post tonight.FIRSTSeth Rogan’s long-dreaded Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles show finally dropped its first trailer.It was so close to good. Right up until we get to see the new April O’Neil. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFpl4nG3bj8 Yep, Antifa O’Neil is now race-swapped, body positive, and beautiful in a different way. Granted I’m not a mutated amniote so maybe they do find her attractive, I hope not but it’s a Seth Rogen production so it...
There's good news for Jonathon Majors and bad news for Stallone. Creed III is performing well above expectations. The third film in the Creed saga is going to close out its opening weekend well above the $100 million mark globally, making it an all-time best opening weekend for the franchise. Michael B. Jordan's third outing as Adonis Creed was only budgeted at $75 million. Considering that MGM appears to have spent very little on the marketing, it is...
The next book in this series is going to press soon so I dug this old review up.It's hard not to envy Larry Correia's career. He was one of the last self-published authors that were able to go mainstream. Monster Hunter International was rejected by everyone in the business to include Baen books. Correia, being an accountant, crunched the numbers and worked out that if he self-published MHI he would make about five to maybe ten thousand dollars, (which is...
In fairness I need to start with this statement: I am not the target customer for this game.I never got into Harry Potter. My interest level was at best Culturalist and that was when the first Harry Potter wave was at its height back when the last of the movies were coming out. I wouldn’t even be a Flirt except I have children that are at Intentionalists level of interest. I know the major characters, the setting, and the houses,...
Heels vs Babyface hosted a discussion with The Legend Chuck Dixon.Fascinating stuff.Yes, this is the one Disney had blocked for making fun of Peter Pan and Wendy. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6eVskwMWT6o Discuss on Social Galactic
The start of the new season is no better than lackluster. This isn’t a surprise given the state of the trainwreck that is LucasFilm. The second season ended with a huge bang. Luke Skywalker, the real Luke Skywalker, not the broken-down hobo from Third Trilogy, made a cameo that blew the doors off. People were actually signing up for Disney Plus on the basis of it. It looked like Star Wars was starting to turn itself around.Which ended the second Gina Carano was fired...
I'd seen it repeatedly but never had a clue what RC stood forThe Reedy Creek Improvement District has now been formally dissolved and with it the Walt Disney company’s insane self-rule privileges. Given that WDW covers two counties and various precedents of settled Florida law, the creation of a new one was unavoidable. You will note that at no time did I ever say there wouldn’t be a Special Taxation District covering Walt Disney World’s property.The press is desperately trying to spin...
Three Hearts and Three Lions by Poul Anderson is the most influential book you’ve never heard of.Okay, given my readership that’s probably not true but for the gen-pop audience it certainly is. This book is vitally integral to the Dungeons and Dragons canon.* It’s not the backbone of it, that is still The Lord of the Rings. But it is, however, the very heart Appendix N. I’m quite serious about that. The spirit of this book is present in every player who has...
