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Post by BlackoutCreature on Apr 17, 2024 15:55:47 GMT -5
58. Electric Dreams (1984) 59. Tower of Terror (1997)60. The Man Who Killed Hitler and Then the Bigfoot (2018) 61. Corvette Summer (1978)Another YouTube find, starring Mark Hamill. This was a weird movie in his career as it came out about a year after Star Wars made him a star, but before Star Wars became such a pop cultural phenomenon that he would be forever typecast as Luke Skywalker. Here he's a recent High School graduate heading to Las Vegas to try to retrieve his stolen (honestly gaudy looking) Corvette Stingray with the help of wannabe prostitute Annie Potts. It's an ok movie I guess. Hamill and Potts have decent chemistry together and it has some fun moments, but something about it just never came together and clicked with me. Maybe it's just how unashamedly 70's it is.
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Post by BlackoutCreature on Apr 16, 2024 18:53:57 GMT -5
I'm giving this a "like" simply because it subverted my expectations and wasn't about the special where Linus' girlfriend is dying of leukemia.
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Post by BlackoutCreature on Apr 16, 2024 15:51:47 GMT -5
Not where I was expecting them to go with the story after last week, but interesting none the less.
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Post by BlackoutCreature on Apr 15, 2024 19:01:11 GMT -5
Lewis Carrol's original Alice books would have been understood in their time as satirizing various moralistic children's books of the era. However, all that literature has long since been forgotten outside scholars while the Alice stories endured, so now they just come off as highly creative and surreal children's books rather than the pseudo parodies they were created as. I don't know how true this is, but I once read an article that claimed that Alice's Adventures in Wonderland was originally meant to be an angry and passionate rebut by Lewis Carroll against the recently accepted mathematical concept of imaginary numbers. Apparently Wonderland is what happens when you try to calculate the square root of -1.
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Post by BlackoutCreature on Apr 15, 2024 12:03:38 GMT -5
Does anyone under the age of 45 remember the Carol Burnett Show? Was watching something off Catchy Comedy channel,think it was Mama's Family,and ads for their nightly airings of Carol Burnett aired. And she had no clue what that show was. I'm right on the cusp of 40 and have never seen an episode of the Carol Burnett show. I've caught clips of it here and there, and just thought "people really found this funny?" I guess you just had to be there at the time. I'm 44 now and for the longest time whenever I'd see anybody mention The Carol Burnett Show I genuinely thought they were referring to her short-lived anthology show Carol & Company from like 1990. Which, while a solid enough time killer, felt like such an underwhelming show to praise, and at the time I dismissed as a rip-off of The Tracey Ullman Show. But it was literally the only thing I knew Burnett from. It wasn't until I was in my twenties that I learned she had another, much more popular and long running show in the 70's.
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Post by BlackoutCreature on Apr 14, 2024 20:47:23 GMT -5
I had to go with "Queen of Hearts". In the early-to-mid 2000's, when I was a young college graduate working stocking shelves at the local CVS, it was a regular on the music channel the store played and I became a fan of it.
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Post by BlackoutCreature on Apr 14, 2024 16:41:03 GMT -5
I wouldn't be surprised if this is a ploy to get more money/better push by Hook. I just can't see him leaving his dad to go to NXT and beat up Joe Gacy and a random ex-college kid every week for about a year or two. Reports last year were that Taz wants Hook to go to WWE though, so it's not like this news just came out of nowhere. Though I do wonder how things would go after the Jinder nonsense a few months back. Did Hook ever actually directly get involved in that mess? I seem to remember that was mostly Tony Khan.
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Post by BlackoutCreature on Apr 14, 2024 15:47:00 GMT -5
there's like 10-15 names but the problem is if there is enough room right now. the one i'd pick above all is Dijak though, he would be a real fun Cody challenger with the rocket on him and impress Raw crowds a lot. I've been enjoying Dijak's character work in NXT and his feuds are usually fun, but outside of Joe Gacy I can't think of a single one where he actually came out on top of. You never know what'll happen on the main roster and maybe he'll take off like LA Knight did, but I'm just not seeing Dijak-PLE Main Eventer/World Championship Contender in the cards.
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Post by BlackoutCreature on Apr 14, 2024 15:07:03 GMT -5
How long until he reviews Sonichu? That was also on his "I'll never review this" list... Technically the entry on the list wasn't for Sonichu specifically, but for webcomics in general. He crossed that off the list awhile ago as well. Actually, looking over the list, I'm really surprised he hasn't gotten a Patreon request for Archie Meets the Punisher yet. Although I guess reviewing that wouldn't really be breaking any new ground like it would've been back in the day.
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Post by BlackoutCreature on Apr 13, 2024 21:06:18 GMT -5
Perry and The Bucks were never going to escape the backstage stuff so they leaved into it. No different than Vince with the Bret stuff . Sometimes you can’t ignore the elephant in the room. Yeah, but the "Bret screwed Bret" stuff that Vince was doing was within a month of Montreal happening, when it was fresh and people cared the most. All In was nearly nine months ago. Most fans have moved on from it. Is it worth resurrecting the whole mess just for the benefit of the few fans who care about Punk's interview on Ariel Helwani?
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Post by BlackoutCreature on Apr 13, 2024 20:38:42 GMT -5
And now we are one step closer to getting Linkara to review Tarot: Witch of the Black Rose.
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Post by BlackoutCreature on Apr 13, 2024 18:24:12 GMT -5
I've been wanting to comment about this but been reluctant because I'm a pretty casual viewer of AEW and I didn't want to say anything if I was missing some important details, but I'm stuck home sick with nothing better to do so let's go for it.
I honestly don't see what the point of doing this was. I think it's been pretty well accepted by most (most, not all) wrestling fans that AEW did the right thing with the All In fallout. Punk was out of line and needed to go. And everybody, including the fans, have moved on from it. So what do they get out of reminding people of it now? Why re-litigate an argument that you were largely accepted as being in the right for? It really does feel petty.
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Post by BlackoutCreature on Apr 12, 2024 22:34:54 GMT -5
What would his NXT name be? Line? Sinker? Hookk
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Post by BlackoutCreature on Apr 11, 2024 16:25:00 GMT -5
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Post by BlackoutCreature on Apr 11, 2024 13:08:16 GMT -5
Sounds boring. Give me a Benjamin Franklin: Dinosaur Hunter movie instead.
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Post by BlackoutCreature on Apr 11, 2024 9:21:27 GMT -5
58. Electric Dreams (1984) 59. Tower of Terror (1997)This is an old Disney TV movie from back in the day used to advertise the (then) new ride at the Disney parks. It was recommended in another thread and I found it on YouTube. Quality is kinda meh so I'm guessing it's a straight VHS rip. For those not familiar, Steve Guttenberg plays a shady journalist and Kirsten Dunst is his teenage niece and they're investigating hauntings at the now abandoned Hollywood Tower Hotel where five people mysteriously disappeared in 1939. Ok enough movie, I guess. Kinda dry for my tastes, but it's one of those movies that I can see people who grew up with it would have nostalgia for it. 60. The Man Who Killed Hitler and Then the Bigfoot (2018)This is not a movie that was at all on my radar, but after coming across it on YouTube and seeing the title I just had to check it out. For those not familiar, Sam Elliott plays an American veteran who was apart of a secret mission during World War II to kill Hitler, and then in 1987 he's re-commissioned to hunt down and kill a sick Bigfoot in Canada before he can unleash a plague on the rest of the world. And that description, while completely accurate, is also probably the most misleading description I could give you for the movie. You are probably thinking this to be some cheep, cheesy B-movie with goofy action sequences, too much CGI and bad one-liners. I know I was. It's not. It is a slow, heart-wrenching drama about a PTSD-riddled old soldier doing his duty one last time while dejectedly reminiscing about his past and how his life did not turn out like he hoped. It just happens to include a twenty minute stretch of him gunning down a Bigfoot as well. I'm not saying this is a bad movie, as it is very well made and I can easily see it finding an audience, but I am so not that audience and it is not the movie I was expecting it to be.
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Post by BlackoutCreature on Apr 11, 2024 9:13:51 GMT -5
{Spoiler}{Spoiler}{SPOILER: CLICK TO SHOW} It was kind of funny that Cable wanted them to turn off the music rather than run for their lives. Also weird that he wasn't able to go back earlier to warn them or that he was pulled back to his time. I kinda half wondered if they would retcon this, but based on other posts it seems not.
This was a lot. {Spoiler}I'm kinda wondering if they're somehow gonna use this to explain Cable's appearance in the original Genosha arc all the way back in season one of the original series, which was always pretty incongruous compared to everything we know about Cable and his motivations from his later appearances.
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Post by BlackoutCreature on Apr 10, 2024 18:50:16 GMT -5
{Spoiler}So I saw Boom Boom showing up when they arrived in Genosha. Anybody catch if she was one of the dead bodies during the big fight? I hope they didn't kill her, I liked the character on X-Men: Evolution.
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Post by BlackoutCreature on Apr 10, 2024 17:33:36 GMT -5
If this movie turns out to be anything more than two hours of delusional visions all in the mind of an institutionalized Arthur Fleck, I'll be stunned. Not a single second of that trailer has swayed me from this theory. No no no, there is absolutely no way this movie will just be two hours of delusional visions all in the mind of an institutionalized Arthur Fleck. If I know anything about modern movies, I know this, it will be THREE HOURS of delusional visions all in the mind of an institutionalized Arthur Fleck. Three and a half when they release the director's cut on Blu-Ray.
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Post by BlackoutCreature on Apr 8, 2024 12:34:30 GMT -5
My cable company is listing a new Battle of the Belts on 4/13 directly after Collision. But it also doesn't have any information about this new Battle of the Belts so it's just re-using the description for the first Battle of the Belts and advertising Britt Baker vs. Riho and CODY RHODES DEFENDING HIS CHAMPIONSHIP! For some reason I don't think Cody is showing up in AEW on Saturday to defend his current championship, but if Tony Khan actually managed to pull that off it'll only make the "Who's the Worst Businessman" thread even more one-sided.
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