Continue reading Quote of the Day, Netflix Wants Those Eyes On Screens, Man edition.If the movie Rim of the World, which premiered on Netflix this week, looks a little familiar to you, that’s on purpose. It’s the story of four kids, thrown together at summer camp in the middle of an alien invasion, faced with the task of carrying the one object that can defeat the aliens across war-torn Los Angeles. It’s a fun ride through childhood friendship forged amid killer aliens and saving the world. Sound like a 1980s-style adventure, like what Steven Spielberg’s Amblin Entertainment used to make? Well, good.
Category: Movies
I would not be really down with a HYPOTHETICAL Deadpool/Spidey MCU movie.
Despite GeekTyrant’s reaction to the possibility. Wouldn’t really work, anyway. Spider-Man is still Sony, even if Deadpool is Disney/Marvel now; and I cannot imagine that Ryan Reynolds and his crew are going to be willing to do the PG-13 version that Sony would expect*. And, comes right down to it: the tone would be off. On both sides. I don’t know what the hell Spider-Man would do with a Deadpool. Shoot, I don’t know what Deadpool would do with a Spider-Man, and neither would he.
Mind you, if they want to release Deadpool Rifftrax or something to MCU and Spider-verse flicks, well, I could be down with that.
Moe Lane
*Neither side would wrong, by the way. Sony is doing well for itself by making Spider-Man movies that I could take my kids to see; and Reynolds et. al. are doing well for themselves by making hysterical R-rated Deadpool flicks. There’s no shame in the fact that there’s no overlap.
Regarding the Brazilian D&D car commercial.
The more I think about this…
…the more I ask myself: why don’t they make this show? Specifically, this:
Continue reading Regarding the Brazilian D&D car commercial.All right, I’ll ask: straight-up, what was the attraction of a live-action Aladdin?
Because I just ain’t seeing it: “The Walt Disney Co.’s live-action remake of “Aladdin” crushed the competition at the box office this Memorial Day weekend, earning more than $207 million worldwide since its debut.” But here’s the important thing: a live-action Aladdin clearly resonated with people, because it’s making money. And since I don’t know why, clearly I need to be told why, so that I can apparently become less ignorant.
So. What’s the draw here? Again, straight-up. No need to justify it, if you wanted to see it. Just tell me what I missed.
My mini-review of Detective Pikachu.
Short version: I liked it, and so did the kid. Well, one of them. The other one went home with Mom because this was an experiment.
Continue reading My mini-review of Detective Pikachu.Off to see Detective Pikachu! …Hopefully.
My kids want to see Detective Pikachu, but my kids also don’t like going to movie theaters. So this might be what we in the business call an ‘adventure.’ Wish me luck!
Rotten Tomatoes to limit fan rating to actual moviegoers.
Everything after the first sentence in this Variety article could and will probably be vehemently argued somewhere, so let’s just look at the sentence in question: “Rotten Tomatoes is dramatically changing its Audience Score methodology for movies: The site’s standard user rating will now reflect only moviegoers who can prove they’ve bought a ticket to see it in a theater.” For right now it’s specifically people who bought a ticket via Fandango (which mostly owns Rotten Tomatoes), but they’re already talking about bringing in theater-specific ticket services like Regal’s*. Which they will absolutely have to do if they want this to work.
Continue reading Rotten Tomatoes to limit fan rating to actual moviegoers.My mini-review of the “John Wick 3: Parabellum” Let’s Play! Public Viewing.
Short version: It Did Not Suck. I kind of want to play the FPS that it’s based off of, too. And yes, I know: there is no John Wick FPS series* in this universe. Alas.
Continue reading My mini-review of the “John Wick 3: Parabellum” Let’s Play! Public Viewing.The Terminator: Dark Fate trailer.
Or, as @EsotericCD put it: “Terminator 6: So very, very tired.”
Don’t get me wrong; if they Loganed this then Terminator: Dark Fate could very easily not suck. Or am I just being a sucker? I may be just being a sucker. All I know is, I’ve wanted just one more decent movie out of this franchise for a while now, and Linda Hamilton looks the part, at least. So hope springs eternal, what-what?
The ‘Freaks’ (no, not a remake) movie trailer.
I don’t think they’ll ever remake the 1932 Freaks. I don’t know if you honestly could without making it exploitative — and I mean actually exploitative, here. But the 2019 movie below does show some promise, based on the trailer. Via ComingSoon: