Short version: this was a big, sloppy, double-handful of meta-humor, bites-of-the-hands-that-fed-them, and gleeful fanservice, squeezed together into a movie and thrown at the cinema screen. …It was GLORIOUS. I hope it makes a billion dollars at the box office, if only so that I can watch Ryan Reynolds say whatever he wants to Disney’s face for a while.
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A new clip from BATMAN: CAPED CRUSADER.
It’s interesting. What was Batman prepared to do if the dude was too drunk to give up the information?
That’s not a criticism of BATMAN: CAPED CRUSADER, by the way. There’s a whole bunch of ways they’ve portrayed the character, and obviously they’re not gonna have him straight-up murder an unarmed guy who isn’t a supervillain. I suppose I’m just wondering whether this is going to be Just Starting Out Batman, Hard-Edged Batman, or a combination of both.
It looks good, any which way. Mind you, I like Batman shows, so I’m easy to please.
Man, they are cracking DOWN on the FANTASTIC FOUR: FIRST STEPS trailer.
I mean, it’s just not there. Even the leaked stuff for FANTASTIC FOUR: FIRST STEPS is mostly stills and low-res captures that aren’t actually worth watching. I assume they’re dropping the actual trailer at some point in the near future, but for right now Marvel’s being pretty danged hardcore about keeping it under wraps.
Moe Lane
PS: The stills look… retro? 1960s aesthetic, pre-Beatles and pre-hippies. I can live with that.
Tweet of the Day, Some Men Just Want To Watch The Internet Burn edition.
Sonny would pay five thousand dollars to see this happen, just for the reactions on social media. I’m not happy with some of the stuff this actor has pulled, but… it would be an event, wouldn’t it? Right up to the moment that all the servers were spontaneously possessed.
Yeah, yeah, I’m talking myself into it.
Tweet of the Day, …Well, Sh*t edition.
First look at STAR TREK: STRANGE NEW WORLDS, Season 3.
Look, I know that everybody’s got different opinions about the various versions of Star Trek going on around there. I am not here to tell you that you are wrong to like or not like any particular show. I am here to tell you that I laughed all throughout this entire clip of the temporarily-transformed STAR TREK: STRANGE NEW WORLDS crew busting Spock’s [testicles] for him not being Vulcan enough. We do not have nearly enough “Vulcans can be real [anuses] sometimes” content in the Star Trek universe, and it’s funny every time some of it shows up.
At least to me.
#commissionearned
PS: Remember, that soundtrack’s classical music to those folks. Which is also funny to me.
The HUNDREDS OF BEAVERS trailer.
…What is this? Well, yes, hundreds of beavers, obviously. But what is this?
The LET’S PLAY: MERP / ROLEMASTER SECOND AGE HOMEBREW second season trailer.
And ohhhhhh but the new season of THE RINGS OF POWER is gonna make people’s eyes twitch, veins in foreheads throb, and possibly even get a mouth or two to froth. Honestly, I respect that. It means that people haven’t completely accepted the Doom that has come unto them, and I salute their bravery against the Shadow.
DEADPOOL & WOLVERINE looks like it’ll be all right.
I saw some people freaking out about reviews for DEADPOOL & WOLVERINE. I’m not entirely certain why:
A 80/97 split on Rotten Tomatoes is absolutely good news, going in. That translates to, “It’s a crowd-pleaser that the critics will begrudgingly admit is put together well.” That’s all I wanted! I want something fun that I can watch after I have a beer and some wings with my future sister-in-law-in-law (it’s complicated). I’ll be happy to get it, too.
The ‘tentatively awesome’ A COMPLETE UNKNON teaser trailer.
A COMPLETE UNKNOWN is directed by the same guy who did WALK THE LINE. If this means we’re just getting a folk version of that movie, that’s fine. WALK THE LINE was excellent. If he’s up for the challenge, I’ll happily listen to Timothee Chalamet channel Bob Dylan for a couple of hours*.
So, you know, this had better not suck.
*It doesn’t have to be perfect, it just has to fool my ear for the length of the film. Joachim Phoenix wasn’t quite Johnny Cash, but he was able to sustain it until the end credits. That’ll do.
#commissionearned