My thoughts
Friday, October 4, 2024
This is as low as I've ever felt.
Sunday, May 19, 2024
Dissecting all the idiotic and disgusting things in Butker's speech
Sunday, December 31, 2023
Movies 2023
2/17 Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania...wasn't as good as the 1st 2 films but I enjoyed it and I loved Kathryn Newton as the new Cassie Lang
3/10 65...watched it on streaming...Adam Driver played a space pilot from a distant planet who crash lands on Earth....65 million years ago...not long before the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs hit. He and the lone survivor among his passengers, a little girl who doesn't share his language, must escape the planet while escaping the dinosaurs....I thought it was pretty well done
3/17 Shazam Fury Of The Gods...watched it on streaming and it was mostly forgettable
5/5 Guardians Of The Galaxy Volume 3...If you saw it and didn't love it, I question if you have a soul
6/16 The Flash...better than I expected but still extremely flawed...Michael Keaton and Sasha Callie were great in their roles but Ezra Miller wasn't believable
6/30 Indiana Jones and The Dial of Destiny..obviously not as good as the 1st trio of movies but far superior to the Crystal Skull movie...I liked it better than Temple Of Doom myself
7/21 Barbie...watched it on streaming and it was silly...but it also had a good message behind it...to not let yourself be defined by your relationships, your job, or how others see you
9/18 Blue Beetle..watched it on streaming and it was actually one of the better DCEU movies introducing Jamie Reyes and his family
11/10 The Marvels...loved it....gave us a look at what Carol Danvers was doing between leaving Earth in the 90s and coming back after Fury paged her...brought her and Lt Trouble back together and brought Kamala Khan and her family out of New Jersey and into the greater MCU
12/22 Aquaman and The Lost Kingdom...while it wasn't on the level of the original...which was the 2nd best of all DCEU films..it was still outstanding but I do hope that deleted scenes are released when the movie comes to streaming because Mera and Atlanna barely showed up in the movie that showed up in theaters
Sunday, January 1, 2023
Wing sauces
2 1/2 wings out of 5
Thursday, December 29, 2022
A look ahead at 2023 movies
February 17 Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania...the 3rd in the franchise features Kang The Conquerer as the main villain and a new Cassie Lang portrayed by Supernatural alum Kathryn Newton
March 17 Shazam! Fury of the Gods....don't know if I'll see it in the theater but I'll see it once it hits HBO Max
May 5 Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3...they're saying this is the final film with this group of Guardians and rumor is that one of the Guardians won't survive
June 16 The Flash...we'll see if it actually hits theaters finally...keeps getting delayed...some rumor have said it would focus around the Flashpoint storyline and both Ben Affleck and Michael Keaton are supposed to appear as their versions of Batman
June 30 Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny...Harrison Ford's final movie as Henry Jones Jr...set in 1969 with the space race as the backdrop...Sallah is the only one who returns with Indy from past films
July 28 The Marvels...sequel to Captain Marvel and features Carol, Ms Marvel, Monica "Lt Trouble" Rambeau, Fury, and Goose....Carol, Kamala, and Monica keep swapping places when they use their powers and they must find out why
August 18 Blue Beetle...another I may not see in the theaters but it centers on the DC Comics character
September 22 The Expendables 4...haven't seen any of them in the theaters but they're always entertaining and exciting
October 6 Kraven The Hunter...centered on Spiderman's enemy not set in the MCU but in the Sonyverse along with the Venom movies and Morbius....some have said these movies are in the same universe as the Amazing Spiderman movies with Andrew Garfield
December 20 Ghostbusters 4...a little over 2 years since Ghostbusters Afterlife with little details available but it's supposed to be back in NYC....with Winston as a key figure as well as Egon's grandkids....Vigo may be returning
December 25 Aquaman and The Lost Kingdom...was supposed to be released a year sooner but Covid and other issues have pushed back the release....little is known except that Black Manta, a secondary villain in the 1st film, will be the primary villain in this one. There's been talk of reshoots and rewrites to remove Amber Heard from the movie and this may be Jason Momoa's last run as Aquaman so a recasting might not happen for Mera. Ben Affleck is said to be returning as Bruce Wayne
Monday, December 26, 2022
A look back at 2022 movies
March 4-The Batman..had its moments and Colin Farrel as the Penguin was ok...but Paul Dano was a terrible Riddler, IMO and Zoe Kravitz as Catwoman threw herself at Batman way too easily it seemed. Gotham I thought had the best versions of Penguin and Riddler and Anne Hathaway was my favorite Catwoman
May 6-Dr Strange and The Multiverse of Madness...was mindblowing though I will say I was disappointed that Wanda went so dark...I had hoped that the events of WandaVision had straightened her out
May 27-Top Gun Maverick....what can be said that hasn't been said already? Maybe have said it was better than the 1986 original and while I won't go that far, it was damn close. The mission was predictable but well-done and the callbacks to the original were plentiful without taking over the narrative
June 10-Jurassic World Dominion...I loved Beta and the interactions between the cast of the original Jurassic Park and the newer stars but the focus on locusts was a terrible storyline, IMO. What makes the Jurassic movies amazing has been the dinosaurs....insects should be a side character instead of a focus
July 8-Thor Love and Thunder I honestly found this to be the worst of the Thor movies and I hope Chris Hemsworth gets his wish..to get a 5th film with a more serious script. Outside of Jane's cancer, it seemed this was more of a comedy than any MCU film....even the Guardians original
October 21-Black Adam....I'm not that familiar with the character but I thought it was really good. Pierce Brosnan made an outstanding Doctor Fate and Aldis Hodge was incredible as Hawkman. Of course The Rock brings a lot to the screen as Black Adam
November 11-Wakanda Forever...loved it but the original was better...though with the death of T'Challa, there was virtually no chance of living up to that. Angela Bassett has been mentioned as an Oscar nominee for her role as the Queen Mother and while Namor has some comic inaccuracies, his motives made sense.
Moonfall...saw it on HBO a month or so ago...definitely an eye-opening disaster film with Halle Berry
The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent which I saw on TV a few weeks ago. It was pretty funny...Nick Cage seemingly made fun of his own idiosyncracies in playing a somewhat fictionalized version of himself.
League Of SuperPets which I saw on HBOMax....it was cute and funny...THe Rock as Krypto and Kevin Hart as Ace were highlights...they make a hell of a duo
Uncharted...just saw it on Netflix this weekend and I thought it was really good...kept me on the edge of my seat
Lost City....just saw it on EPIX and it was kinda silly...a romance novelist gets kidnapped and forced to look for a treasure she writes about it her latest book and the cover model for her books has to actually be the hero his character is
Morbius...just saw it on Netflix this weekend and it was ok but didn't excite me in the least...the release was delayed 6 times and while I didn't hate it, they could've kept delaying it