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05MarMarch 5, 2022

Friday Night Open Thread

I see Sparkly Batman has dropped.From everything I've heard, it's typical Bad Reboot filmmaking. The plot is Seven plus the Batman Long Halloween, plus Batman Year Two, plus Batman Hush. With some fashionable Woke washing.The reviewers that I'm willing to throw the dice on have all said that it's okay, but not great. It's not another Marvel movie, that's nice I guess.But it does have the standard Bad Reboot Wokeisms throughout. Aside from Batman, all the whites are...

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04MarMarch 4, 2022

LOLKotaku Writers On Strike

Nothing I can say will make this any funnier.But yeah, all of the writers for G/O Media's subsidiaries have gone on strike. Kotaku, Jalopnik, Jezebel, The A.V. Club, Lifehacker, and the rest of Gawker Media's bastard children who got turned out in the street after Mama Gawker got body-slammed in court by Hulk Hogan, are now on the (presumably virtual) picket line. As I've said repeatedly, the only thing these websites ever had going for them was venture capital. For...

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03MarMarch 3, 2022

The Dark Herald Recommends The King’s Man

This film was startlingly good.And I mean startling as in how did they get this one so right and the last one so wrong?I will grant that, Kingsmen the Golden Circle wasn’t unwatchabley bad. But compared to the first film it wasn’t worth watching either.The first Kingsmen movie was that rarest of things today, something original. It was both a loving tribute to Sean Connery-era James Bond and an intriguing story of class conflict. But it was also the coming-of-age story of...

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01MarMarch 1, 2022

Funimation Loses the Steaming Wars?

Crunchy Roll's San Francisco office.When Sony (the long-time owner of Funimation) bought off Crunchy Roll off of the wounded giant Warner Brothers, I and pretty much everyone else figured that was the end of Crunchy Roll.Not without reason. "Crunchy Roll started life as the Napster of Anime. Anyone was allowed to upload any Anime content they had, whether or not they had anything that even approached a legal right to so. Crunchyroll made enough money that in 2009 it went...

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01MarMarch 1, 2022

More Bad News For Pixar

Brad Bird the creator of The Incredibles and Ratatouille has quit working for Pixar and gone over to... You guessed it. Skydance Animation where he will be working for Jon Lasseter again.Pete Docter brought this one on himself when he said, 'the guys currently working here won't be making movies in ten years. It's the new people that are going to be the ones doing that.'Mostly they have been producing Woke and unwatchable tone pieces like Soul. "Pixar has...

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28FebFebruary 28, 2022

DC Comics Evicted From Their Offices

Two weeks ago there was a story circulating that DC Comics' few remaining employees that had been working from home, were told to come in to clean out their desks.It had to be explained to them that, "no, no, you still have jobs. Although, the assumption was understandable. However, DC Comics is simply not worth the office space that you currently inhabit in the prime real estate market of Burbank.Warner Brothers won't pay for that anymore. So...

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28FebFebruary 28, 2022

RE:View – Star Trek the Motion Picture (Part One)

One of my earliest memories is the landing of Apollo 11. My parents woke me up for it and dragged me downstairs so that I could wobble bleary-eyed on my father's lap as Eagle came down to rest at Tranquility Base. I couldn't make out what Armstrong said. The interference was bad that morning. But even at that age, I knew that I had just watched something that was supposed to be important. Because everyone kept telling me it was. Apollo 11 was...

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26FebFebruary 26, 2022

Friday Night Open Thread – The Star Wars LARP Edition

You know the rules by now. If you don't then ask one of my regular Darklings in the comments.Not much lead-in material tonight. An elderly relative trusted the nice young man on the phone from India to the tune of $30K. I’m going to be spending most of the night cleaning this mess up.NEXTThe embargo on Star Wars Galactic Cruise reviews has been lifted. As I said, there won’t be any honest reviews for a few weeks. Except those honest...

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25FebFebruary 25, 2022

Blogs and Ends – Peacemaker to Be the New Face of the DCU Edition

Clickbait! got you!That p-r-o-b-a-b-l-y isn't true. I say probably because who knows with Warner Brothers? However, there are a fair amount of smoke signals going up saying that James Gunn is suddenly on track to be DC's new chief executive officer. Sure that sounds nuts but let's look at the situation from David Zaslav's point of view. The Discovery CEO is about to become the Warner Brothers Discovery CEO. The first thing a turnaround CEO is...

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24FebFebruary 24, 2022

Star Wars Galactic Cruise Leaked Video

I wasn’t expecting much, and yet they still managed to disappoint me.Around ten years ago Mickey the Great and Terrible noticed there were a bunch of Mommy Bloggers who specialized in Disney Parks. They would give out tips and tricks for how to get the most out of your very expensive trip to Disney World/Land. They’d explain in autistic detail how the Fast Pass system worked and how to work that system. They would also review restaurants, resorts, and the various rides.Disney...

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