Funny thing is, I saw Beware! when I was a toddler on the late night movie and it scared the fucking bejeezus out of me. At that age I was pretty cool with monsters, I wasn’t scared of Dracula, Frankenstein (okay, Frankenstein’s Monster), or the Mummy because they weren’t real and also they were just dudes. Like you…

So basically The Stuff, but for the 2020s wellness/self-care movement.

Everyone should see the 1988 Blob remake; that is all.

Crystal Skull wasn’t widely loved, but it was still the third top-grossing movie of 2008, after Dark Knight and Iron Man. I don’t know if younger viewers don’t know who Indiana Jones is, necessarily, it’s just the case that they’re not interested in the franchise.

Interestingly enough, I read an article (and I can’t find it now) that states Fiege wants people to write for the Marvel movies that aren’t fans of/readers of Marvel books.

What’s been interesting for me recently has been watching the anime My Hero Academia, which initially starts as a sort of prototypical shonen deal but slowly turns into a sort of sprawling alternative to Marvel/DC and it’s doing a vastly better job because it doesn’t fall into all the classic Marvel/DC traps of…

It was a gift to Marvel that they didn’t control the screen rights to Spider-Man or the X-Men, because if they had, they would’ve almost certainly made standalones with those characters rather than trying to do a shared universe. There would’ve probably never been an Avengers movie, and there definitely wouldn’t have…

We’re all cravin’ Morbius 2: More-Bius!

Yeah, it was a sequel to one other movie that had come out thirteen years earlier. That’s two years less than the time between Crystal Skull and Dial.

Been thinking about this a lot lately

Eh, Raiders is the only one I’d take to the desert island.

I knew plenty of people when I was a teenager who would absolutely use a tape recorder of the damned as a party trick.

I imagine that after Star Wars Driver is done with major franchises.

I am actually looking forward to the musical SNW episode, but the bit with the Great American Songbook reminds me of Tom Scharpling and John Hodgman’s observation that there is zero popular culture in the future of Star Trek, just Gilbert & Sullivan, Shakespeare, Sherlock Holmes, generic blues or jazz, and whatever…

My feeling is that the only good FF movie that ever existed (in reality or potentiality) was the one Peyton Reed pitched to Fox in the early 2000s, which would’ve been a period piece set in the ‘60s, reuniting Renee Zellweger and Ewan McGregor from Reed’s previous hit Down With Love.

Even an Indiana Jones movie had lackluster performance.

This afternoon I saw an article about Mattel wanting to make a movie with MGM about Viewmaster — and that’s not even really a toy! (Also, like, seriously, they still make those?)

The MCU reaching the “Vanessa was a Fembot all along” phase of its continuity, I see.

Also it’s hard to type when you’re wearing sock puppets.

Yeah, there is a certain hollowness to his careerism. He realized that his military life was over so he sought a new life in diplomacy. But that was simply another way to exercise his political ambitions, in an era when lasting peace between the Federation and the Klingons might be the new normal.