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Post by BlackoutCreature on May 16, 2023 10:40:22 GMT -5
Ok I am way out of the loop with Marvel and DC. So this person that died should I know who they are? Or are they a modern character that appeared after I gave up on the big 2 back in 98ish. {Spoiler}Kamala Khan/Ms. Marvel is probably the most popular new character to come out of comics in the last twenty years. If you've never heard of her then you are really out of the loop.
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Post by BlackoutCreature on May 16, 2023 7:12:03 GMT -5
44. DC League of Super-Pets (2022) 45. Seven (1979) 46. Twister (1996)Latest arrival from Netflix. Man, these tornado special effects must've been really impressive for its day because this movie kinda sucks otherwise. Not a single likeable character in the whole thing. Just a bunch of unlikeable assholes running around trying to be the first person to get killed by a tornado. Honestly the most logical ending for the entire movie would've been Bill Paxton's fiancé beating up Helen Hunt with a 2x4.
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Post by BlackoutCreature on May 15, 2023 7:21:50 GMT -5
Just give everybody William Regal's old "Man's Man" entrance theme. It'll totally work for the entire roster.
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Post by BlackoutCreature on May 15, 2023 7:01:51 GMT -5
Late to the party with this, but -
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Post by BlackoutCreature on May 14, 2023 16:56:33 GMT -5
43. Jurassic Park Dominion (2022) 44. DC League of Super-Pets (2022) 45. Seven (1979)Hey, remember the 1995 film with Brad Pitt and Morgan Freeman? Yeah, this isn't it. This is a 70's low-budget spy thriller starring Luca Brasi, John Kreese and Vampirella. Found it on YouTube and was actually planning on watching it during my down time at work. That was a mistake because like ten minutes in some naked boobies showed up. And from the way the scene played out it doesn't even feel like it was scripted, the actress just decided to take off her top and the Director just decided to roll with it. For those not familiar, Lenny Montana is a Hawaiian super-mobster called The Kahuna who's putting together an alliance of all the other mobsters on Hawaii in order to take over the islands. Some nameless government agency puts together a team of seven specialists in order to stop him. There's some decent action here and there, but the plot's convoluted, the characters are uninteresting and it takes forever for anything to happen. The only interesting thing in this whole mess were the naked boobies, but they were too few and far between to be any kind of saving grace.
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Post by BlackoutCreature on May 14, 2023 15:35:08 GMT -5
also, did the criminal in the dark knight who throws the bomb trigger out the boat window get time off his sentence for saving both boats or did the guards not mention him doing so? Because of his heroism he was allowed to participate in an experimental cryogenics program. When he awoke a century and a half later he was released, given a fresh start and turned his life around to rise up through society be elected Galactic President.
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Post by BlackoutCreature on May 14, 2023 11:34:19 GMT -5
Honestly, I think Xena is another example of people confusing "difficult to find now" with "no staying power". It has a very strong cult following among fantasy fans and the LGBTQ community, it's easily available on streaming and for years after it ended it was a staple on cable channels like Oxygen, Logo and Syfy. Heck, while not a regular part of its line-up, marathons of Xena still show up on Syfy. I never really followed Baywatch and can't say for sure the same about it, I would be surprised if it also still didn't have a strong cult following and was pretty easy to find on streaming and even novelty cable channels if you knew where to look. Both have left a noticeable pop cultural footprint. If anything, the Hercules series that Xena spun-off from leaves less of a cultural footprint save for one meme. Yes, and that leaves me terribly Sorry, couldn't resist.
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Post by BlackoutCreature on May 14, 2023 11:20:30 GMT -5
Xena: Warrior Princess. Was incredibly huge back in the day and was seen as one of the best fantasy shows on tv, but now it's almost forgotten. Speaking of syndicated tv that was once huge, Baywatch. Now we all know the reason that show was popular but it lasted an EXTREMELY long time, to the point where you even had parodies of the show (ie, Son of the Beach). But now, the show has lost any significance it once had, and the movie bombed (didnt help that both shows were in syndication, so every station who aired them showed them at different time slots). Honestly, I think Xena is another example of people confusing "difficult to find now" with "no staying power". It has a very strong cult following among fantasy fans and the LGBTQ community, it's easily available on streaming and for years after it ended it was a staple on cable channels like Oxygen, Logo and Syfy. Heck, while not a regular part of its line-up, marathons of Xena still show up on Syfy. I never really followed Baywatch and can't say for sure the same about it, but I would be very surprised if it also still didn't have a strong cult following and was pretty easy to find on streaming and even novelty cable channels if you knew where to look. Both have left a noticeable pop cultural footprint.
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Post by BlackoutCreature on May 14, 2023 7:25:30 GMT -5
Can we PLEASE get a Black Adam 2 already?
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Post by BlackoutCreature on May 13, 2023 23:02:49 GMT -5
Watched the first two episode. It's ok. I was kinda hoping Nora would continue with the lying and hustling. It would probably be more entertaining then the whole "we're gonna buck the entire music industry by finding success through being genuine" thing that the show now feels like it's going for. If nothing else I get the impression the show is gonna be really stretching to find material to fill out eight more episodes.
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Post by BlackoutCreature on May 13, 2023 21:08:57 GMT -5
Drawn Together, 3 seasons and a movie; and I don't think there is a mention of it. In the same vein, Duckman. Man, Drawn Together was a show that seemed like it was specifically designed to have as little staying power as possible. I can't imagine it appealing to anybody but 14 year old edgelords, and even in that regard it aged poorly. How they managed to get three seasons out of it is one of the greatest mysteries of the universe.
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Post by BlackoutCreature on May 13, 2023 12:50:22 GMT -5
Sabu. Yes he’s a pretty big star, but him with the WWE machine behind him, reigned in a bit, and off the drugs and he would have been a bigger star. Granted Vince would almost certainly have f***ed it up, but it’s fun to dream. Vince would've almost certainly dumped him into that "he doesn't cut promos? Then he's useless" pile that he's been cultivating for the last twenty-something years.
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Post by BlackoutCreature on May 12, 2023 22:13:38 GMT -5
I've been kicking around an idea for a new Star Wars movie that would canonize both the Ewok TV movies as well as The Freemaker Adventures. In it an adult Cindel Towani (I'm thinking Dove Cameron maybe?), having constant nightmares from her childhood trauma, returns to Endor believing her brother might still be alive. After re-connecting with Wicket they meet young Jedi Rowan Freemaker and his faithful Droid companion R0-GR who are investigating the Moon after sensing disturbances in the Force there. Together they discover that Charal is not as defeated Cindel thought, and our young heroes have to stop her from reuniting the pieces of the Sunstar-Shadowstone and threatening the galaxy with it.
I don't know. Anybody think it would work? If you do don't be afraid to kick it along to Dave Filoni.
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Post by BlackoutCreature on May 12, 2023 13:05:33 GMT -5
As a kid I always thought that Adventures was meant to be a prequel to SatAM. I figured at some point Robotnik got sick of being embarrassed, ditched Grounder and Scratch, got his stuff together and conquered the planet.
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Post by BlackoutCreature on May 12, 2023 12:57:01 GMT -5
Pauly Shore voicing Pinocchio...I don't see how anything could go wrong. "I'm a real boy, buh-dee"
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Post by BlackoutCreature on May 12, 2023 10:59:38 GMT -5
I mean, Arquette would be good for goofy sidekick roles, the kind of parts they used to give guys like Rob Schneider. He should not be a lead though.
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Post by BlackoutCreature on May 12, 2023 7:11:10 GMT -5
Man, so many ideas. Right now though the one in the forefront of my mind is my Batman alien abduction movie. Basically Batman, Spoiler, Cluemaster, Mr. Freeze, Solomon Grundy, Nocturna and a bunch of innocent Gotham civilians are kidnapped by the alien Dominators and brought aboard their spaceship for experimentation in preparation for a massive alien invasion. Batman has to escape, team-up with the villains, rescue the civilians, seize control of the ship and return to Earth to warn of the invasion plans. No more of this "I want a Batman that could exist in the real world" crap. This is a Batman that fights swamp monsters and punches aliens.
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Post by BlackoutCreature on May 11, 2023 16:13:56 GMT -5
42. Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 (2023) 43. Jurassic Park Dominion (2022) 44. DC League of Super-Pets (2022)Latest arrival from Netflix. Honestly not much to say here. It's a fun piece of fluff family movie that your kids will enjoy and you won't hate having to sit through and everybody will forget about the next day.
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Post by BlackoutCreature on May 11, 2023 12:32:45 GMT -5
I no longer see the SNL thread, assume it was deleted for reasons? Well, since I can assume the season is prematurely over, what do you think worked/didn't, especially with a mostly new cast in place? officialfan.proboards.com/thread/547065/saturday-night-live-writers-strikeWith its production shut down due to the writer's strike and not much news to report about it the thread didn't get much traffic and just fell back a few pages.
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Post by BlackoutCreature on May 11, 2023 12:22:13 GMT -5
Some of the people who work on the show acknowledged this. It was originally intended to be centered on Bart. However, they started to run low on ideas and came to the realization that with Homer there were far more stories they could tell due to him being an adult who was not necessarily the brightest. shame they only seem to come up with the same few stories, Homer gets fired then gets his old job back, Homer and Marge are looking like they're splitting up but dont, Homer is suddenly good at doing something then screws it up, Homer learns something new about one of his kids and it's never brought up again, Homer meets celebrity of the week, Homer breaks the time continuum explaining how anyone in Springfield never ages and him and Marge manage to be mid to late teens in the 70's, 80's, 90's (soon to be early 2000's) all at the same time. I always felt that at some point The Simpsons should've done a time skip. Right after the movie would've been perfect actually. Just have Bart and Lisa as teenagers in High School, with Maggie now a Grade School student so we can keep the Springfield Elementary characters around. Then the characters can start earnestly exploring things like dating, employment, etc. in ways that you just can't do for an eight and ten year old. Instead Simpsons decided to just stick with "status quo is God" and, in their defense, I can't see the transition not being greeted by fan and critic pushback. I’d argue that the DC universe has gotten way over saturated by Batman The new 52 only had like 40 bat books that's not over saturated<_< I've been hearing that the DCU is oversaturated with Bat books for more than 25 years now. The more things change I guess.
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