I’m not gonna lie: I don’t know whom I’m rooting for in DEATH OF A UNICORN. I know it’s supposed to be the evil corporate whoevers, but unicorns are bad. Like, really bad. Everything from Faerie is bad, which is why even the possibility that it is actually somehow real is enough of a justification to keep blanketing this planet with cold iron and electromagnetic radiation.
I dunno. Maybe everybody could die, except Jenny Ortega and Paul Rudd? That’d work for me.
GeekTyrant: “The Bear actress Ayo Edebiri has been hired to write the script and possibly star in the live-action Barney movie that is being made by Mattel and A24.”
Well, I do have one response: did any bits of Mattel and A24 ever come into direct contact with each other? Because I would have guessed that there would have been some kind of hypergolic** reaction if they had.
*Classical reference.
**Spelled it right on the first try!
#commissionearned
…it’s that Kathleen Kennedy is the reason why I don’t care about Lucasfilm anymore. I mean, she won, didn’t she? She won, she’s going to cash out her chips, and somebody else gets to be the one who’ll have to throw the bodies in the incinerator.
All I have left is detached professional respect for someone who turned out to be a really skilled creative saboteur. At least, I assume that all of that was intentional. It’d approach cosmic levels of horror to instead contemplate the possibility that everything she did was an accident.
I’ve never watched the show – this entire universe of Undead seems rather strange to me; they’re not very fast and don’t seem particularly immune to blunt force trauma. Why not just shoot and/or flamethrower them? – and I’m very confused as to why they’re coding the eventual fate of these zombies as somehow awful. Macabre I can see, but otherwise… yes. Yes, this seems like a sensible use of resources.
IF YOU DO A MARA JADE SERIES WITHOUT FIRST RESETTING EXISTING STAR WARS CANON, THEY WILL COME FOR YOU! LISTEN, AND UNDERSTAND! THOSE EXTENDED UNIVERSE FANS ARE OUT THERE. THEY CAN’T BE BARGAINED WITH. THEY CAN’T BE REASONED WITH. THEY DON’T FEEL PITY, OR REMORSE, OR FEAR! AND THEY WILL ABSOLUTELY WILL NOT STOP, EVER, UNTIL YOU ARE DIVESTED!
…So go for it, I guess?
Not entirely sure why: that version of WAR OF THE WORLDS has been coming across my screen a few times over the last week or so. It’s actually not a bad film, although it grapples with the usual problem of How do you make an almost entirely reactive protagonist heroic? that WotW movies have. I also remember being amused at the time at how Spielberg did everything to favorably portray American soldiers except put actual halos around their head. Given the absolute crap that passed for war movies in the Oughts, this was no small act of defiance.
#commissionearned
CHEECH & CHONG’S LAST MOVIE first drops April 20th. …Yes. Yes, of course it will. I would be disappointed in them if it released on any other date.
This is actually more a movie for people in their sixties and early seventies than it is for people in their mid-fifties. …Still. They’re looking well, aren’t they?
…it’s just that I think they kind of deserve each other: “Infamous director Uwe Boll is stirring up controversy again, this time refusing to change the title of his next movie, The Dark Knight, despite a warning from Warner Bros. Discovery.” It’s also going to star Armie Hammer, if you were looking for another reason to vaguely wish that all of these people would go off somewhere and iron everything out. Slowly. Over the course of several years.
Seriously, I don’t even want them getting hurt, not really. I’m not a monster. I just want them too busy to bother me.
THE GORGE is on Apple TV+, and so far it’s not half bad. Boy meets Girl, separated from each other by circumstances, and a Hellmouth. I can only watch movies in stages these days when I’m at home (one more reason to see movies in theaters), but I expect that I’ll finish this one quickly.
Interesting. Odd, though. Via GeekTyrant.
