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09OctOctober 9, 2024

The Dark Herald Does Not Recommend – Rings of Power Season 2

The incompetence of the people that put this show together shines forth like the Silmarils. Normal humans keep wondering how did something this hilariously awful got made. Truthfully it’s the end result of a fifteen-year toboggan ride down an icy cliff face.It all goes back to the home video revolution in the 1980s. Disney as a perfect example was very leery about the possibility of killing the goose that lays golden eggs. Roy Disney and Jeffery Katzenberg were dead set...

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08OctOctober 8, 2024

Vampire Rules: The Last Voyage of the Demeter

It’s the last week of August which means that Halloween season is well underway. Spirit Halloween stores have now risen from the dead, once more inhabiting the husks of long-deceased Toys R’Us and Bed Bath & Beyond box stores everywhere. It also means it's time to visit films from the despised lesser genre of horror. This movie frankly had worse luck than it deserves. “Dream Works is going to be seriously gouged by this one. At a budget of $45...

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08OctOctober 8, 2024

The Horror of the Enlightenment

This is from my Kolchak post."Horror, began appropriately enough during the Reign of Terror. Religion was officially outlawed in France. The Catholic Church had been forced out of the country and if you were going to worship anything at all, it had to be the Goddess of Reason. Graveyards were filled with dead people who were, according to the First Republic, gone forever. They were in an eternal sleep from which there would be no waking.Into this government mandated...

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08OctOctober 8, 2024

Vampire Rules (Part IV): Kolchak – The Night Stalker

REPOST: It’s Halloween season so a few things are getting bumped for the next few days.********************A man in a cheap suit that would be the envy of every Millenial Hipster on the planet, walks into an office setting that they would envy even more. He is whistling a happy and carefree little tune while he pours himself a cup of coffee that no hipster would touch with a thousand-foot pole. The man throws his cheap straw, trilby at a hat rack, and...

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07OctOctober 7, 2024

Skull and Bones Cost $850 Million?!?!

IF true, then Yasuke is the least of Ubisoft's troubles. Sweet summer child that I am, I had thought that the disaster of Skull and Bones had at least been a manageable disaster. It had a reported budget of $200 million, which I had figured meant $400 million. Terrible but given my assumed strategic depth Ubisoft has, it was survivableAccording to a report from Endimyon the money spent was somewhere between $650 and $850 million. This is not survivable....

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06OctOctober 6, 2024

Know Your Place Echo Males!

Joker 2 (no I won't call it by its proper name) is a disaster at the box office and I'm pretty sure everyone is Hollywood is delighted.The Joker was a massive surprise hit Todd Phillips and Joaquin Phoenix had just wanted to make their own Martin Scorsese film. By putting Di Niro in it, the two were basically saying we are remaking Taxi Driver.Nobody would have funded that, so they made a superhero skinsuit movie. Just...

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05OctOctober 5, 2024

On the Verge of Renewal?

I thought the Rings of Power was hard-locked into five seasons.That's what Amazon has been saying for about five years now. https://twitter.com/THR/status/1842244114794058118 Discuss on SG

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05OctOctober 5, 2024

John C Wright Has a New Book Coming Out!

https://www.amazon.com/Starquest-Space-Pirates-Andromeda-12th-ebook/dp/B0DGYX8QPR?crid=13Z3E5Y0W3LNE&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.-RaaFLBjaaQJdLKvqoHKX-CqZ7BUkvlncgJPq6fMRAT5zYjKODA5n6PxViDZABmypiONrVJb_wFlUiqiOCImmZtVuGQ9adSivm9zS-BVgEDXpdm-N-dJSQtuCPTRIEapSiQTfk9wAnUheH_lyA19B8sjiNoD9WtePXFH7XrcuityGlOlovIIryXDxdORelXJekz4TOsw79ElHkjHdTTFElwBLH_f1vsECwu-u9FG6aw.JwxxoCJug0bGflraYNlw0uOvJL6zE7mJhIZqWSSUN0M&dib_tag=se&keywords=Space+Pirates+of+Andromeda&qid=1727988400&sprefix=space+pirates+of+andromeda,aps,329&sr=8-1&linkCode=sl1&tag=monshuntnati-20&linkId=489e43205eb97467516328da167145d7&language=en_US&ref_=as_li_ss_tl Space Opera must be Great! Gallant! Gigantic! Grandiose! This tale told by a Grandmaster vows to return the glory that was lost! Remember the days gone by, when science fiction was fun? Now new hope is here!If you are weary of weak, wan, woke and wasted works, your wait is ended!Here is an epic, as grand as any tale of old -- here you will hear wonders told!Of course there is a Space Princess, and Space Pirates galore, and an Evil Galactic Empire.Of course there is...

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04OctOctober 4, 2024

Ubisoft to be Bought Out?

Obviously, it's going to be bought out the only question has ever been by whom?Ubisoft is bloated. It has according to its own website more than 45 studios across the world and better than 20,000 employees.Currently.Severe cuts are unavoidable after the year it's had. That Park Place is predicting it could be as high as 40%. At a minimum, it will be around 4,000 heads rolling in the first rounds of cuts. The company has become...

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03OctOctober 3, 2024

RE:View Howl’s Moving Castle

“Calcifer,” Sophie said, “were you ever a falling star?”Calcifer opened one orange eye at her. “Of course,” he said. “I can talk about that if you know. The contract allows me to.”“And Howl caught you?” said Sophie… Roy Disney was the head of Disney’s animation department during the Eisener years. He grabbed that division when Eisner, Wells, and Katzenberg were dividing up the company when the new regime took over. The Last of the Disneys had a genuine appreciation...

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