Monthly Archives - July 2024

RE:View Time Bandits

"Removing his helmet reveals himself to be none other than Sean Connery or an actor of equal but cheaper stature."   This joke, made on a golf course is more or less how got Time Bandits got greenlit.  The Joke was made to Sean Connery himself, and he liked it.  It was the start of trend for him during the eighties.  Highlander, Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves and a few others.  Time Bandits is the most inexplicable kids’ film of all time. Possibly...

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Appendix N: A Martian Odyssey by Stanley G. Weinbaum

The year was 1989. Young Idiot College Student Herald was nosing through The Merchant of Venus when he came upon a shrink-wrapped paperback that was at least twenty years old judging from the acid rock cover art. The title was The Best of Stanley G. Weinbaum.  I snatched it off the shelf greedily. I had to sacrifice that week's Prizzao fund to buy it. No regrets it's still sitting on my library shelf. In that day and age, luck was...

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Tiana’s Tunnel of Terror

"WE ARE SORRY BUT WE ARE UNABLE TO CONTINUE OUR ADVENTURE ON TIANA'S..." Tiana’s Biayu Adventure is now officially a black eye for Disney.  The beloved Splash Mountain has been reimagined into a ride that is, to put it mildly, “troubled.”   It’s breaking down constantly.  Emergency evacuations are now a daily occurrence, the animatronics, what few there are, simply do not work reliably. Now the screens are failing. What has gone wrong? Honestly, the reason is pretty simple.  The DEI Imagineers have no idea...

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