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Post by jdredd on Apr 9, 2018 1:55:25 GMT -5
So "A Quiet Place" raked in the big bucks this weekend, easily outdistancing Spielberg's "Ready Player One". I don't care that much for horror flicks, I never saw "It". But horror movies are so much cheaper to make than my favorites, superhero movies, so we will probably see a lot more horror.
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Post by jdredd on Apr 15, 2018 23:26:02 GMT -5
So "Rampage" has knocked "AQP" off the top spot this week. I seriously don't know what the appeal of Dwayne Johnson is, but so be it.
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Post by jdredd on Apr 20, 2018 11:42:07 GMT -5
The news is so boring right now, the only thing to look forward to is "Avengers Infinity War". Anything with Thanos must be fun, right? I hope they don't screw it up like they did "Age of Ultron". Lots of people are looking forward to "Deadpool 2" but I'm not that big a Deadpool fan.
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Post by jdredd on Apr 29, 2018 16:02:47 GMT -5
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Post by jdredd on Apr 30, 2018 10:49:42 GMT -5
Trying to recover from seeing "Avengers". It was pretty intense for an old guy like me who takes it way too seriously. I did enjoy watching Thanos kick ass, though.
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Post by jdredd on Jul 19, 2018 1:47:42 GMT -5
Comic-con has begun! I was down there people watching, and as I've said before, it's a very diverse crowd. "Diverce" being a bad word for righties, of course. But now I'm being political, and Comic-con is totally devoid of politics.
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Post by jdredd on Jul 23, 2018 4:12:50 GMT -5
If you read the New York Times this week you'd never know that Comic-con was on. They completely ignored it. Why? Not East Coast? Who knows. Not that it makes any difference to the Con, they do just fine without the NYT, thank you. But I do believe they are doing their readers a disservice.
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Post by jdredd on Aug 13, 2018 0:35:49 GMT -5
www.nytimes.com/2018/08/11/opinion/sunday/nerds-lebron-james-elon-musk.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fopinion&action=click&contentCollection=opinion®ion=stream&module=stream_unit&version=latest&contentPlacement=6&pgtype=sectionfront"I used to love nerds. Or at least, I loved the idea of nerds. In the ’80s, ’90s and 2000s, there was an endless stream of movies and media, from “Revenge of the Nerds” to “Spider-Man” to “Beauty and the Geek,” dedicated to telling women that they’d be better off with nerds than with the arrogant jocks who would grunt cavemanlike in response to anything women said, before kicking sand in a nerd’s face. Nerds were smart and decent underdogs who just needed a good-hearted lady to notice them and maybe get them a pair of contact lenses. Boy, that stereotype does not hold up in 2018. These days, stories of misogyny in nerd-world — and allegations of sexual harassment in tech companies — have become incredibly common. If I see someone in a Batman T-shirt, I no longer assume they’re a sensitive soul. Instead, I wonder if they harassed women during Gamergate or hang out on incel message boards talking about how Elliot Rodger was right to kill “blonde sorority sluts.” The most realistic part of “Revenge of the Nerds” now seems to be the creepy scene where the nerd protagonist tricks a woman into sex." Uh-oh, the Jock Empire Strikes Back. It was bound to happen. All I gotta say is how often does a sports movie make a gazillion dollars? This is almost as stupid as blaming Trump on superhero movies.
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Post by jdredd on Feb 25, 2019 4:31:35 GMT -5
Oops, missed the Oscars. Of course, what do I care? The movie I thought was the best of what I saw was Avengers Infinity War (Sorry, Black Panther) and Josh Brolin should have got an Oscar for his awesome portrayal of Thanos. Superheroes are still the bright spot in the cultural boredom of this era IMHO. Green Book? Never heard of it.
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Post by jdredd on Dec 29, 2019 3:11:28 GMT -5
I guess I'm going to have to turn in my Geek Card. I haven't seen the new Star Wars, and I may not. Maybe I'm just getting old.
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Post by jdredd on Jan 5, 2020 12:59:40 GMT -5
On the other hand, I'm not going to bother watching the Oscars as the only movie that mattered in 2019 was Avengers: Endgame, and I bet it will be totally ignored.
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Post by jdredd on Apr 28, 2020 14:29:45 GMT -5
A year ago today both the Night King and Thanos met their end (I just happened to see "Endgame" on the same night as the GOT episode). Since then, nothing has happened in the movies or on TV. And of course no Comic-con in this accursed year.
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Post by jdredd on Jun 10, 2020 1:15:47 GMT -5
Since nothing has happened in movies for geeks since last year, I am taking refuge in anime. Japanese cartoons are so much better than American.
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Post by jdredd on Jun 26, 2020 19:57:23 GMT -5
I actually finally saw "Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker". I actually kind of liked it. Of course it helped that people I talked to said "meh" about it so my expectations were low. The fact is that I've always thought SW was always just kind of an updated "Buck Rogers" serial. The dialogue has always been rather less than deep. But the special effects have always been awesome.
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Post by jdredd on Jul 3, 2020 12:51:32 GMT -5
sandiegoscene.proboards.com/thread/1222/geek-culture-history?page=2"Perhaps 2020 was going to be a little different. A year after the fake Gotterdammerung of “Avengers: Endgame,” Marvel was going to scale down a bit, spinning out stories of individual superheroes, like magazine profiles of lesser CEOs. But of course a real-world catastrophe intervened, and we find ourselves facing the likely prospect of a summer with no blockbusters, no franchise episodes demanding our presence and our attention on designated weekends, no aggressive marketing flooding our home screens. And maybe, as we use this time to rethink many of the other systems that have seemed so immutable, so natural, so much a part of the way things just are, we can reflect on why we thought we needed all those heroes in the first place, or how they were foisted on us. Eventually, we’ll go back to the movies, but maybe we’ll be less docile, less obedient, when we do. I’m not necessarily saying that we should abolish the Avengers, or defund the DC universe, but fantasies of power are connected to the actual forms that power takes. What feels like a loss in this superhero-free summer might be liberation."
I googled this guy. For what it's worth A.O. Scott is a Gen Xer, the child of academics, and doesn't live in Hollywood. And while he is all grown up now and part of the media elite, perhaps he is forgetting that the major impetus of superheroes is not crypto-fascism but the feeling of powerlessness on adolescents IMHO. So what cinema does he appreciate? Feel good pro-family flicks? Talk about grossing teenagers out. Maybe cheesy rom-coms. But the era of superhero cinema is probably on the wane. "Nothing lasts" (Thank you GOT).
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