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21MayMay 21, 2024

Why Did the Star Wars Hotel Fail? (Part One)

When the Walt Disney Company finally collapses and its various parts are cut off and auctioned away, people will be asking, “When did its fall begin?”That’s an easy question with an extremely complex answer. It’s like answering, “When did Rome fall?” With 476AD. It’s accurate so far as it goes but doesn’t begin to tell the whole story.The accurate so far as it goes answer to the question of “When did Disney’s fall begin?” Will probably be the opening of...

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20MayMay 20, 2024

We Was Samurai

This has literally been presented as proof“When Cleopatra was forced to commit suicide for being a black woman when she was supposed to be Yugoslavian, her eldest son and heir Black Caesar fled to the Far East where he settled in Nippon which had been colonized by black people after the Fall of Atlantis, these were the original Japanese. Who were then driven out of Japan by racist Polynesians. They fled to Mozambique, where they fiercely maintained their Samurai traditions. ...

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18MayMay 18, 2024

Marvel Is Going to Concentrate on Quality

No, I couldn’t keep a straight face when I wrote that. They could play numbers games with the other Marvel movies. Most people are Tinsel Town math innumerate and can be told the budget for Antman 3 was $200 million (*snort* yeah, right!) and it pulled in $460 million at the box office, so it made $260 million in profit. Assuming Marvel wasn’t lying about the budget and they were, it lost at least $100 million at a minimum. But low information...

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17MayMay 17, 2024

Trailer Drop Thursday: The Return of the Rangz

FIRST Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power Season 2I've got three trailers for you today and for once I was looking forward to seeing all three. Granted, I was only looking forward to this first one in the same way you look forward to a root canal. You know it's going to hurt and you just want to get it over with. The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power was honestly kind of impressive in that it got every… single… thing… wrong....

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15MayMay 15, 2024

Roger Corman RIP

In 1947 after getting his degree in Industrial Engineering at Stanford Roger Corman got his first job at US Electrical Motors. He started on Monday and quit on Thursday telling his boss he had made a terrible mistake. The next week he got a job in mailroom at 20th Century Fox making $32 a week. He eventually worked his way up to script reader and did a lot of rewrites on a Greggory Peck film called The Gunfighter. He received absolutely...

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15MayMay 15, 2024

Anime is Great… It’s the Fans That Suck: Urusei Yatsura 2022

A few years ago, Emilia Clarke was making a backdoor pitch for a superheroine movie by means of a comic book that she claimed she had written. She hadn’t and the project was still born. However, she or rather her publicist put out some statistics that I thought were hilarious at the time. Queen Dani: “In doing my research, I found that 16% of comic book creators are female, according to a 2019 study, and only 30% of comic book characters...

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13MayMay 13, 2024

Doctor Whoke

I know, I said I wasn’t going to watch this again but it's kind of like having a quart of milk in the refrigerator that you know has to be bad. I mean it was stuck behind something for two months and you forgot that it was there. Gallons of milk have come and gone since that one quart was forgotten about. There is no possibility whatsoever that it is fit for human consumption. And you still have to smell...

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11MayMay 11, 2024

The Dark Herald Recommends: Midway

I thought I should do something for Pearl Harbor Day.In 1976 WWII was about as far away for audiences as the Gulf War is for us. Midway was that fresh of a memory when the Charleton Heston film with that title hit the theaters.I was seriously considering a Does Not Recommend rating for this film. It’s borderline.Roland Emmerich loves him some epic spectacle. The kind of films he loves making are the BIG ones. The sort of screen grandeur you...

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09MayMay 9, 2024

It Just Keeps Getting Worse for Middle Earth

Warner Brothers has decided to feed off of the massive success of the Gollum game. Apparently. With Lord of the Rings: The Hunt for GollumOh, it came and went so fast you don't remember it?It was this one. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w0acyYZAfio They are making a movie about Smeagal. The most pathetic creature on all of Middle Earth.“For over two decades, moviegoers have embraced the ‘Lord of the Rings’ film trilogy because of the undeniable devotion Peter, Fran and Philippa have shown towards protecting the legacy of...

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09MayMay 9, 2024

Disney to Pay $100 Billion for Hulu?!?!

Of course, that title is clickbait but it's not entirely inaccurate.All of the studios have been so badly burned by the streaming wars that it was just announced that Disney+ and Warner Brothers' Max would be bundled together on Hulu. I have a feeling Zaslav is getting the better end of that deal. He won't be paying for Hulu for a start.Quick reminder, Disney was originally an equal partner with Fox and Universal for Hulu. When they bought up Fox they got the...

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