On the one hand - rushing headlong into a dystopian hellscape where all economic activity is controlled by one company, a company which exerts total control over all world governments and every aspect of our lives.

I spent my two movie nights this week with troublesome titles. First there was Fellini’s 8-1/2, presumably titled because it was his 8th feature, with the 1/2 referring to his contribution to the omnibus Boccaccio ‘70. This, however, adds up to 9-1/2, and it has been argued that he did not include Variety Lights which…

Predator again

It’s as though the cockles of my heart have been struck by a leaping side thrust kick of pure joy! I can feel my jaded cynicism tapping out after being rapidly pinned by this ikkyo of boyish enthusiasm.

No not really. Super Jesus totally murdered that guy.

Doesn’t he just say he loves her? He says, “Wanna make a baby?” But it’s in the future scene.

Why don’t we stay on daylight saving time? I’m now daily dashing home through the forest with the sun quickly setting behind the trees and I will eventually get stuck out there in the dark, I do at least once each year! To make matters worse, it is also hunting season so I am forced to wear a FLUORESCENT ORANGE TOQUE.…

Predator again

I get why that could matter, but JLI is JLI canon, and contains within itself a large enough story. What people since then have done cannot erase that.

It’s all here. Basically Blue Beetle and Killowog find out Guy and Ice are going to a date at the Ice Capades and arrange a prank to humiliate Guy. Hilarity ensues:

OF COURSE Batman waxes his own asshole

I like when Batman was recruiting Hawkman for the team and Hawkman feels that the team tends to joke a lot, Batman just responds, “Carter, in all the years you have known me, have you ever heard me tell a joke?”

This would have worked a lot better if I wasn’t in the grays

“Gutter loss”! I love it. You know something is at leastbeing considered as a real problem when it gets its own name.

It recently got referenced in Green Lanterns, so I think so, yes.

Predator again

I saw both Thor Ragnarok and Justice League.

I fell asleep while watching the 2003 Riverworld adaption. What’s the deal with that weird boat? Things come out of nowhere when you’ve been dozing off.

I watched Fellini’s Casanova this week with a big bowl of leftover Halloween candy. Mostly Coffee Crisps. The movie told the same story as La dolce vita, more or less, of a dissatisfied playboy who considers himself culturally superior to his debauched bourgeois companions. There’s a lot of Satyricon in it as well,…

“Justice League actually succeeds at stoking viewer sympathy for these house-wrecking, super-powered titans: They deserve better movies.”