22Mar
Happy Birthday Captain Kirk
William Shatner turns 90 today. And looks better than Patrick Stewart who is younger than he is.
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22Mar
First Impressions: Falcon and the Winter Solider
“Bored now!”That was my reaction after the first ten minutes.Originally, the Marvel release order for 2020 was supposed to be Black Widow, Falcon and the Winter Solider, then Wanda Vision. I now know why they changed the launch dates. Black Widow cost several hundred million and they need to try and get that back from the theaters (if at all possible), fine and unavoidable in our plague year. But Wanda Vision was simply a more engaging show than this. While I certainly had...
19Mar
End of an Era
Opinions change with time. Below is an arbitrary listicle I whipped up for my old site. I am including the original preamble despite the fact that I am now going to contradict it at the end of the listicle. REPOST 3/19/21I had recently remarked that Avengers Infinity War was almost but not quite my new number one superhero film. Which naturally provoked the question of, what are my top five superhero movies?This arbitrary list is made up of the superhero films that...
18Mar
The Dark Herald Recommends: Zach Snyder’s Justice League
Let’s be clear this is a self-indulgent mess. A gorgeous self-indulgent mess to be sure but still a self-indulgent mess.I’ll start with the biggest question out there, is it better than the Joss Whedon version?Answer: Yes. Easily. It’s a much better version than Whedon’s. Even with its flaws this movie completely outclasses the Gamma Goblin’s take on itThis film is over four hours long and you really, really feel it. Also, this movie is a massive middle finger to Joss Whedon. Absolutely nothing that Whedon shot made...
17Mar
What’s Bad Reboot Wrecking Now?
The answer, of course is, everything it touches. Although you might want some specifics.Or you might not as they are likely to prove heartbreaking but forewarned is forearmed. You already knew that Superman is in the process of being destroyed by J.J Abrams. I am reasonably certain that a big part of reason that Abrams is going with black Supes is his standard practice of making sure that all characters are “noticeably 25% different.” This lets J.J. have a big slice of all the...
17Mar
Justice League: What’s at Stake
For us? Nothing. In the best of Generation-X tradition, we get to sit back and watch the world burn. But there are some things at stake here.The Snyder Cut comes out tomorrow and it’s no secret that the current Warner Brothers leadership wants it to fail. They are pissed at their bosses at AT&T. Efforts to sabotage the Snyder Cut are more obvious than Kathleen Kennedy’s attempts to kneecap The Mandalorian. The Snyder Cut is already out on high seas, and that data is...
17Mar
Forbes Puts Bob Chapek on Blast
This isn't Variety. This isn't The Hollywood Reporter. This is freaking Forbes."Disney’s Firing Of Gina Carano Is Confusing And Hypocritical – Lacking Sound Management"THAT'S THE HEADLINE!Producers read The Hollywood Reporter. Board members read Forbes. It doesn't matter when fans are angry. They mean nothing. It does matter when the money is mad and this article indicates that the major stockholders are furious.I haven't seen these kinds of headlines about Disney from major business publications since right before Michael Eisner...
15Mar
Conan The Barbarian: Issue 19
What the hell? A good Marvel comic? How did this happen?I suppose with a company as big as Disney something good can still get produced. By accident if nothing else. And this is indeed something good, (the Dark Herald shakes his head in disbelief). It feels like the old Savage Sword of Conan magazine’s from the 1970s.The fifties (reprint of Conan stories) created a new market for Conan in the Sixties. Fans of the savage Cimmerian began pelting Marvel with requests to run a...
15Mar
Was It Agatha All Along?
I’m not so sure.The family spent the weekend at my wife’s parents. I do them love dearly and I’m happy to spend time with them while we still have them with us. But they have reached the age where they are fairly cognitively rigid. And they watch Fox news CONSTANTLY. They know that Fox is the enemy at this point, but they just can’t change their ways. However, this problem can be circumvented by the strategic use of children’s television. And they still have a subscription to...
12Mar
Blogs and Ends: The Disney Downward Spiral Edition
The hits keep coming for Mickey the Great and Terrible. Their resources are huge and their stock prices are ludicrously over-inflated but they are too far down the Woke rabbit hole to be anything other than the biggest failure in the history of American entertainment. The only thing that has happened to Disney in the past year that wasn’t their fault is Rona-chan. Everything else that is collapsing on the House of Mouse they brought down on their own heads.Let’s startFIRSTThis has...