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tyrantisterror · 3 months

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My Personal History with My Good Friend, Satan

My first encounter with The Devil - that I can remember, at least - came when I was about three or so. My mom liked to borrow VHS tapes from libraries to show me and my siblings a lot, and one of the libraries she used was the one at our church. It was a small and obviously very religion-centric collection, but it left a notable mark on me - like, that's where I saw this weird, kinda shitty cartoon version of The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe which might be responsible for irreconcilably fucking up my taste in women? I just have this distinct memory of watching the scene where Edmund is tempted by the White Witch and thinking, "Yeah, he's making the right call." If anything I was frustrated that he hesitated - three year old me was already simping for this woman. Just imagine a child channeling Ernie Hudson in Ghostbusters and growling, "When a terrifying and beautiful woman offers you candy and a private sleigh ride, you say YES!" and that's basically me as a kid.

Where was I? Right, Satan. So, the other video from that library I remember was this cartoon retelling of Bible stories, and really I just remember the Adam and Eve part. The temptation scene had this huge, super gnarly-looking demonic red snake in it, and he was so cool and badass and I was already predisposed to like snakes anyway, so of course he was my instant favorite. But, like almost all media featuring reptiles that captured my little child heart, he turned out to be the bad guy - literally The Devil, in this case - and was punished at the end of the story. And that pissed me off.

Sometime shortly thereafter - or at least that's how I remember it, this was over thirty years ago so things might be smushed closer together than they really were by the fog of ages - some of the kids in my preschool chastised me for liking snakes. "Don't you know the devil is a snake? Snakes are evil!" I remembered the movie, and it made me angry.

Because snakes aren't evil, and as a kid I knew that because my parents taught me it. Snakes were just animals, they don't know right from wrong, and to call them evil it to judge them for what they are, not what they do. That experience taught me a very important lesson: The Devil is a tool to make people hate the innocent. And as I'd later learn, snakes were far from the only innocents people would vilify because of a demonic association.

The second time I met the devil came a few years later, when I was six or seven or so. My Grampa and Grams liked to take us up North to Mackinac City and the Upper Peninsula each summer, and I have a lot of fond memories of those trips, but there was one in particular that's relevant to this discussion. We saw a sign for a "laser light show" in the shopping district, and I got to stay up late to see it with my family. The show in question was basically a cartoon projected into the night sky adapting the song The Devil Went Down to Georgia. It was super primitive and hokey and cornball and terrible and I loved every second of it. I was enchanted, absolutely delighted with the spectacle and the silly song where the devil was less a force of evil and more a comically bumbling inept supervillain - one of my favorite archetypes, even back then. So that's the second lesson about the devil I learned: The Devil can be fun sometimes.

Now, Godzilla, one of the few reptile characters I encountered as a kid who didn't end up a villain (at least not in the first movie of his I saw, Godzilla vs. Megalon), had already set me on the path to loving monsters of all stripes and, by extension, horror fiction in general, so as I grew up I had many more encounters with the devil. But while I warmed up quickly to most monster archetypes, like vampires, zombies, werewolves, etc., I always felt dismissive of demons. It kind of coincided with me becoming disillusioned with Christianity as a whole, in fact. A story about fighting evil, Christian-style demons is ultimately an allegory for fighting evil as defined by Christianity, and Christianity's definition of what evil is, well, sucks. It's bad! They got some things right, but some things horribly wrong. The devil is the tool Christianity uses to make you hate the innocent, and I struggled to enjoy a lot of demon stories because of that. Still do with some, in fact.

There were exceptions, of course - I loved The Evil Dead series as soon as I saw it at too-early-of-an-age, but then, the demons in it aren't super Christian. They aren't repelled by holy water or crucifixes or prayer, and in fact God and Jesus barely get mentioned in the series and never come up as a potential solution. They're kind of secular as demons go, and maybe that made them easier to stomach. But overall, demons ranked pretty low in the hierarchy of monsters to me - they were too tainted by the religion that spawned them for me to enjoy.

Until college, anyway. I quietly renounced my faith during my Freshmen year, and then, as if seeking one last chance at redemption in my eyes, the devil came to me again the following year. That's when I had a class on Medieval literature, and was exposed to far older devil stories than I had ever seen before. And Medieval devils kick ass. They have so much more personality and variety than I had come to expect, and some are downright affable, even sympathetic to a degree. It was one of many moments in college when I realized there was much more to a topic I'd previously written off as boring and trite.

This is when I read Dante's The Divine Comedy and Milton's Paradise Lost and Marlowe's Faust and Ben Johnson's The Devil Is An Ass. It's when I read early Gothic Horror novels like Matthew Gregory Lewis's The Monk, and dived into The Twilight Zone, which has more than a few episodes that are updates of medieval-style devil folktales in a more modern (i.e. 1960's) setting. And so many of these works presented the Devil not as a stand-in for everything Christianity hates, but as a person - a deeply flawed person, yes, but a person with actual wants and feelings and thoughts of his own, a person who was interesting and compelling - and sometimes funny, and sometimes charming, and sometimes really sad. There was, dare I say... sympathy for the devil growing in my heart.

In the last year of my undergraduate studies, I attended my college's yearly Medieval Studies Congress, where people from all over the world came to Kalamazoo just to share their research papers on medieval history and literature. One girl's thesis paper was on the subject of "rueful devils," i.e. depictions of demons in literature where they wanted to repent their sins and redeem themselves, which uniformly ended with the devils' hopes being dashed as they could not fully repent. This idea... possessed me. The idea that the devil could repent, or at least try to - that there could be hope even in the most debauched sinner. It was such a good narrative trope in my eyes - why did it die out centuries ago?

Well, because the church didn't like it, you see. If the devil can repent - if the Absolute King of Evil can choose to become a good person - then he's not very useful as a tool to make people hate the innocent anymore. The devil MUST be "pure evil" to work as intended. A rueful devil, a repentant devil, a devil that can be redeemed, forces us to be more forgiving and kind. It forces us to be better. It prevents us from hating people because an old book says so. And some people just couldn't have that, and so the trope died.

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After I got my bachelor's degree, I entered the job market and, after applying to fifty different places or so, was finally hired as a high school english teacher about two weeks before the school year started. Said school year was the worst year of my life. Like, I've had extreme self loathing issues and suicidal ideation since, like, sixth grade, but holy shit it was NEVER as bad as it was in that nine month stretch between 2012 and 2013. There was this bridge I had to cross on the way to work each morning, and about two months in the job was so stressful that part of my morning routine was thinking, "You know, if I just swerve to the right, this can all be over and I'll never have to worry again." About halfway in I began drastically losing weight despite not changing my diet or getting more exercise and it was so traumatic that to this day whenever my weight starts to drop my initial reaction is dread rather than excitement. I impulse bought the first two Kung-Fu Panda movies and, after watching each for the first time and crying hideously, proceeded to watch them on repeat for an entire weekend while sobbing myself hoarse for reasons I couldn't comprehend at the time.

I was in Hell. And the devil met me there.

I started writing a story during that year. I didn't get very far, just a couple chapters, but it was one of the few things that gave me a sense of accomplishment. Despite all the stress and sadness and misery, I made something. It was a story about demons, and Hell, and trying to make your life better even when the world around you seems deadset on making you suffer as much as possible.

When my bosses called me into their office at the end of that year and told me that I had to quit my job so the assistant principal could take my teaching position and survive the downsizing they'd get next year, and that if I didn't quit they'd give me the lowest teacher evaluation they could and make it supremely difficult for me to get hired elsewhere... I was relieved. I'd been let out of Hell. After a handful of months left to finish out the year, I was free.

And then I went home, with nothing. No job, no desire to pursue the career for which I'd spent five years and an ungodly amount of money getting a degree to pursue, no nest egg, nothing. Nothing except a few chapters of a book.

The years that followed were hard. I did a lot of temp work, it took me a very long time to find something that worked for me. I may have left the worst year of my life, but there was still a lot of misery waiting for me. And through it all, I felt the need to accomplish... something, ANYTHING. I had to make something to prove I had a reason to exist, even if it was something that only had value to me.

With three years of work, those chapters became my first novel, No Sympathies: A Tale of Those Who Trespass Against Us. It was about the devil, and Hell, and finding salvation even when things seem inescapably bleak. It was my first novel, and now, eight years later, it's the first of five.

The devil saved my life. He saw me at my lowest, lifted me up, whispered, "It'll be ok. You have to keep going. I'll be with you, but you have to keep going," and goddammit, he kept me from swerving right.

That's when I learned the greatest truth about the devil, at least to me. The devil is a tool to make people hate the innocent, yes, this is true, but because of that, the devil can be a savior for the broken, the beaten, and the damned. You can feel like you're worthless, wretched, and doomed. But if the devil can rise from Hell, if the devil can choose to change, if people are willing to pray for the one sinner who needs it most - then there's hope for you too, isn't there?

Demons are creatures of rebellion - against God, against nature, against the powers that be, against doom and damnation itself. They were made to be a tool to hurt the innocent, but that's not what they have to be. Devils can lift us up, because no matter how far you fall, no one can say whether it's the end for you except you.

...I would like to point out that I am being figurative here. The devil does not literally exist, at least not in my view of things. He's a fictional character, nothing more. But he's a prolific fictional character, and how we portray him can say so much about us. And, to me, he is a dear friend, despite being imaginary, because the devil was there for me when I was low, and it was on his wings that I rose from doom.

...again, figuratively, not literally.

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astoundingbeyondbelief · 3 months

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Kaiju Week in Review (January 7-13, 2024)

Hard to talk about the Monarch: Legacy of Monsters finale without spoilers, so if you haven't watched it yet, skip ahead to the next item. No flashbacks this time (time dilation aside), just our surviving heroes finally all on the same page to solve a seemingly impossible problem. The momentous reunion between Lee and Keiko got the space it deserved, although I was a touch disappointed that the obvious budding romance between Cate and May got shortchanged. And of course we finally got our first kaiju fight of the series, with Godzilla dispatching the Ion Dragon in a quick but ferocious battle. Fun to see this version of the character take on a low-stakes, low-power challenger for a change. I am routinely frustrated by TV seasons ending on cliffhangers (some of which are then never resolved), but they managed to conclude this season's storyline while setting up the next one, should they have the chance to tell it. Good to have some payoff to the Apex episode earlier in the series. I'm wondering if the series is planning to pivot to Kong now. Since Godzilla: King of the Monsters still hasn't happened yet, the Big G still can't make any public appearances without breaking continuity, which is quite the writing complication.

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@bog-o-bones has blessed us with an excellent feature-length video essay on the history of the kaiju genre. Even for a walking encyclopedia like me, it was fun to have it all laid out so cleanly—the way the three genre pillars of Godzilla, Gamera, and Ultraman rise and fall in popularity, never entirely in sync and consequently keeping us steadily entertained over the decades. So many narratives about the genre in print are decades out of date and/or act like barely anything past the sixties was worth making. This one's up-to-the-minute and gives the seismic influence of films like Cloverfield and Pacific Rim their due. I have my quibbles (last-minute re-records accidentally omitted GAMERA -Rebirth-; the original Mothra deserved more attention), but I acknowledge the amount of works covered here is staggering and every fan would tell this story a little bit differently. Highly recommended.

IDW's biggest Godzilla comic ever is coming in May, a one-shot anthology called Godzilla: 70th Anniversary. It'll have nine stories over 100 pages, with the writers including Joëlle Jones, Michael W. Conrad, Matt Frank, James Stokoe, Adam Gorham, and Dan DiDio. (Some of these folks will presumably be illustrating their comics as well.) The solicitation doesn't offer many plot hints, given that scope: "From the American Old West to modern Tokyo and beyond, this collection features stories of the King of the Monsters fighting with its allies like Mothra, against old enemies like the terrible Mechagodzilla, and reshaping the lives of all who fall in its path!" I'm surprised they're not waiting until November—hopefully it doesn't get delayed into November.

Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire will now release in the U.S. two weeks early—March 29. It's taking the place of Bong Joon-ho's Mickey 17, which is now undated. I can hardly complain about being able to see it earlier, though the move comes with some risk, as it's now opening the week after Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire.

SRS Cinema has opened preorders for their Yuzo the Biggest Battle in Tokyo Blu-ray. Or is it Yuzo: The Biggest Battle on Tokyo? That's what the product page says, but on the cover the title's unchanged. Oh, SRS. Anyway, bonus features are scant: just trailers and something called "A Brief Introduction To Ishii Yoshikazu."

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Here's the teaser trailer for Volcanodon, a short film from Taiwan's Creator Union of Tokusatsu. They're aiming to have it uploaded to YouTube sometime this year, and I'll happily watch it. Obviously low-budget, but it's well-shot and it's nice to see a kaiju movie outside of Japan go all-in on practical effects.

#kaiju week in review #kaiju #godzilla #monarch legacy of monsters #volcanodon #yuzo the biggest battle in tokyo #godzilla x kong the new empire #idw

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twiststreet · 2 months

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Some tasteless guys got over-excited about a new AI toy (it looks like a fun toy, but just a toy). So other people are all angry at them, again, and talking about “art.”

Sometimes people say things about art that’s really inspiring, in these conversations, and that’s really cool. But then other times, despite all that, I find myself wondering if underlying premise-- that "something being art instead of computer generated pap matters”... If that premise doesn’t presuppose a world where images and words have meaning and significance, because we listen to one another, because we're in a community with one another, and are not profoundly alienated from one another while under the thumb of larger forces that are openly hostile to our actual interests.

After the last five months of world news, that seems like a pretty silly thing to think. After the last five months, it seems like we’re not in any kind of community, at all-- that we’re the entirely powerless and disconnected subjects of a psychopathic state that ignore the “will of the electorate” as a rule not an exception, where “art” is more often than not just content meant to distract us from the fact that the very act of believing in a common humanity has been rendered entirely laughable, among other things.

Put another way, I’m not sure I can convince myself as much as other people can that it matters if AI wrote the final season of a hypothetical Netflix television show, either way, if the hypothetical Netflix actors spent the last five months supporting the incessant murder of children. Hypothetically. An AI might be preferable to imagine, rather than contemplating the kind of person who would soldier on under those circumstances, or their brother.

It seems strange to leave out “what’s the state of the world” when pretending that art exists in some truly meaningful and ongoing way, which people in these conversations assume. Is that a good assumption to make anymore? I don’t know, that’s just something I wonder about sometimes. I’m probably wrong. Luckily we have the movies of 2024 to prove I don’t know what I’m talking about, and prove that art still matters, like Kung Fu Panda 4, Road House: The Remake, Ghostbusters 5, Godzilla vs King Kong 3, The Omen: The Prequel, Woody Woodpecker 3D, The Fall Guy: The Movie Based on the 1980's TV Show, Planet of the Apes: Another One, The Strangers: The Prequel, Mad Max: 5, The Garfield Movie Reboot, Inside Out 2, Bad Boys 4, Quiet Place: The Prequel, Despicable Me 4, Beverly Hills Cop 4, Twister 2, Deadpool 3, Borderlands: The Movie Based on the Video Game Franchise, Alien: Another One, Kraven the Spider-Man Villain, Beetlejuice 2, Transformers: The Prequel, Saw 11, Joker 2, Venom 3, Gladiator 2, Moana 2, Wizard of Oz: the Prequel, The Lord of the Rings 4, Karate Kid 6, Sonic the Hedgehog 3, or Lion King: The Prequel. Sounds like a lot of art’s happening!!!! Let’s goooooo!

#i don't remember why i saved this gif

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knightlysong · 26 days

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About 7 months ago I bought myself a Regal membership as a way to motivate myself go see a few movies at the cinema as I haven't done that in a long time.

It's been incredible fun since! I've decided to keep my membership and at least once a week or every other week I'll go and watch a random movie. Been a great way for me to destress and reignited my passion for 'em. My favorites I've seen so far have been Blue Beetle, Barbie, FNAF, Argylle, Kung Fu Panda 4, The Marvels, Ghostbusters Frozen Empire and Godzilla x Kong The New Empire.

And a few photos I took for fun.

First time I saw a 4dx movie, and it was the new Ghostbusters! Great movie and 4dx experience. I had already seen it normally a few days prior, but the beginning chase scene and the ending ghost fight were made even more intense with 4dx. Absolutely loved it.

Second 4dx experience + first 3d movie, the Godzilla x Kong movie! Saw it yesterday and had an absolute blast. There were sooo much more monster fighting in it and the human parts were actually quite interesting to see! I was hooked the whole way through, definitely my current favorite of the franchise.

I was also a bit nervous initially as I wasn't sure if the 3d glasses would stay on over my normal ones, but thankfully they were a fine fit and didn't have any trouble with them as the seats moved around. The 3d effects with the 4dx experience was incredible.

Forgot to also take a photo of it while inside the theater, but I did take this. These movies made me love Kong ❤️

I also don't really add up selfies much anymore, but I like this silly double glasses look lol

#; rambles #; photo #bit of a life update I suppose!#still been sick but trying to have fun in the meantime

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thegayfangrrl · 4 months

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Killers I'd Like to Step On Me for Valentines Day

KILSOM Valentines (Round One)

Witches bracket:

the Grand High Witch (The Witches) vs. Zelda Spellman (The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina) Winifred Sanderson (Hocus Pocus) vs. Witch (Into the Woods) the Witch (The Witch) vs. Fiona Goode (American Horror Story Coven) Jadis (The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe) vs. Melisandre (Game of Thrones)

Vampires bracket:

Carmilla von Karnstein (Carmilla) vs. Father Paul (Midnight Mass) Count Dracula (Dracula) vs. Armand (Interview with the Vampire) Eve (Only Lovers Left Alive) vs. Miriam Blaylock (The Hunger) Spike (Buffy the Vampire Slayer) vs. Lady Alcina Dimitrescu (Resident Evil)

Brains bracket:

Villanelle (Killing Eve) vs. Hannibal Lecter (Hannibal) Lucille Sharpe (Crimson Peak) vs. Dexter Morgan (Dexter) Annie Wilkes (Misery) vs. John Kramer (Saw) Khan Noonien Singh (Star Trek) vs. Harley Quinn (DC Comics)

Slashers bracket:

Norman Bates (Psycho) vs. Michael Myers (Halloween) Jason Voorhees (Friday the 13th) vs. Freddy Krueger (A Nightmare on Elm Street) Angela Baker (Sleepaway Camp) vs. Leatherface (The Texas Chainsaw Massacre) Ghostface (Scream) vs. Pearl (Pearl)

Machines bracket:

HAL 9000 (2001: A Space Odyssey) vs. WOPR (WarGames) GLaDOS (Portal) vs. Hexadecimal (ReBoot) Number Six (Battlestar Galactica) vs. Skynet (The Terminator) the Puppeteer (Ghost in the Shell) vs. the Red Queen (Resident Evil)

Fairytales bracket:

Maleficent (Sleeping Beauty) vs. Cruella de Vil (101 Dalmatians) Yzma (The Emperor's New Groove) vs. Scar (The Lion King) Jafar (Aladdin) vs. Chernobog (Fantasia) Ursula (The Little Mermaid) vs. Shan Yu (Mulan)

Kaiju braket:

Mothra (Mothra) vs. Kong (King Kong) Godzilla (Godzilla) vs. Clover (Cloverfield) the Shark (Jaws) vs. Stay Puft Marshmallow Man (Ghostbusters) Crocodile (Crocodile) vs. Sandworm (Dune)

Aliens bracket:

Venom (Marvel Comics) vs. Predator (Predator) Ra (Stargate) vs. Xenomorph Queen (Alien) Jean Jacket (Nope) vs. Rose Quartz (Steven Universe) Pennywise (It) vs. The Master (Doctor Who)

#kilsom valentines #horror movies #villains

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gritsandbrits · 1 month

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Ok if modern ghostbusters gets to have a 2nd chance After 2016, and Dragon Ball gets to have a 2nd chance after Evolution, if Danny Phantom can get a 2nd chance with A Glitch in Time after Phantom Planet, AND IF FREAKING 1998 GODZILLA - mind you one of the most HATED characters in cinema - can get another shot with the 2000 series - then why can't Wish? Heck even Dreamworks gave Shrek more chances with Forever After and the Puss in Boots movies, and recently acknowledges Shrek the Third. But how come its JUST Wish that isn't allowed the same grace? Why does it deserve to be written off as a lost cause when other poorly received works are allowed to grow and get better?

Mind you Cars got more chances with its third movie and spinoffs after the disaster that was cars 2. So why can't wish? Fuck if TTG manages to score a hit with its movie, why can't wish get a second chance? Feels like people just do NOT want to give wish a chance. i dunno. Is is because everyone hates the modern princesses (because it's the cool thing now) or just write off anything flawed, especially with a black girl in it. No growth, no letting other writers tackle it or give it the grace and story it needs.

#ugh #hate hate HATE cartoontwt

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r3d-m3dic · 16 days

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new pinned post ? ! ?

hi call me Lex.

he/they pronouns!

trans and pan!

also aegosexual :D

Autism, ADHD, OCD, and potentially depression.

I get hyperfixations! They will change.

hyperfixations, in order from my earliest memory of hyperfixating

Jurassic Park (Summer 2022)

Ghostbusters (Halloween time, 2022)

TF2 (Beginning of 2023 to halfway through summer)

Night at the Museum (Ending of summer 2023)

The Stanley Parable (Some point during NATM hyperfixation)

MHA (End of summer, into fall 2023)

Spiderverse (Fall 2023)

COD (End-ish of fall 2023 to end of November? Or October.)

LOTR and The Hobbit (December, January, February 2024)

SCP (March-April.)

Pacific drive (Some point during SCP hyperfixation. It has ended.)

One Piece (It's definitely forming. April-Now)

I also like Godzilla, The Beekeeper, Wobbledogs, raft, phasmophobia, and many other things I can't remember.

Favorite Characters

Jurassic Park: Ian Malcom

Ghostbusters: Egon Spengler

Tf2: Medic

NATM: Jedediah and Octavius

Stanley Parable: Narrator

MHA: Denki

Spiderverse: Spider-Noir, Hobie Brown, and Pavitr

COD: Graves

LOTR: Boromir

Hobbit: Kili

SCP: Dr. Alto Clef

Pacific Drive: Tobias

One Piece: Zoro

NO SPOILERS ON ANYTHING. NONE.

Here's some stuff to help in how to not spoil stuff :D

I haven't watched past season 2 i believe in MHA.

I haven't finished Pacific Drive, but it already got spoiled

I have read volume one and two of One Piece

I've finished LOTR and The Hobbit :)

Watched both spiderverse movies entirely :)

Played all of the modern CODs.

Watched the entirety of NATM

Read all the tf2 comics, watched the official and bunch of non official SFMs. I have watched Emesis blue! Very good.

I have played Stanley Parable.

my artstyle is up to change. currently it's more chibi.

I'm definitely clef irl guys.

I'm a hoarder, my cardboard collection is insane.

Have watched everything Jurassic park. Played Jurassic World Evolution 2. I've also played the entirety of Jurassic World Aftermath

Have watched all of the Ghostbusters movies.

Kinda hard to spoil SCP since there's no official story :)

please interact! I'd love to talk to the Tumblr sillies.

My discord is commander_graves.

please dm and ask before sending a friend request tho, so I know who you are :)

bye bye enjoy the silly

#intro post

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fiddles-ifs · 8 months

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I just imagine Fury going full Mechagodzilla 3/Kiryu from Godzilla vs Mechagodzilla and Tokyo S.O.S (Japan has alot of Kaiju movies) when Kiryu went berserk because they had a flashback of Riders final moments.

Backstory for Kiryu aka Mechagodzilla 3 Millennium Era :

This version of Mechagodzilla was made by the GDF The Godzilla Defense Force using the bones of the original Godzilla which was killed using the oxygen destroyer.

during the test trial Mechagodzilla went berserk the moment it saw Godzilla it had a flashblack of when it was killed by the oxygen destroyer and went on a rampage destroying multiple buildings before shutting down due to running out of power.

You may be wondering where's Mechagozilla 1 and 2 for those who dont watch kaiju/monster movies:

Mechagodzilla 1 the original and 2 Showa Era:

Its was made by aliens....it was made by fucking aliens.

They came in with Mechagodzilla disguised as Godzilla to invade Japan until the real Godzilla showed up. long story short it got destroyed after Godzilla turned himself into a fucking magnet and ripped its head off (don't question it)

After it got destroyed they rebuilt it and got another monster which was sleeping at the bottom of the ocean for help. during the battle its head got ripped off but instead of being out off commission they learnt from last time and it had a secondary head.

they thought a human interface was a good idea when rebuilding it and they didnt account the human interface would kill itself to stop them, Mechagodzilla became a sitting duck and got blown the fuck up again.

Mechagodzilla/Super Mechagodzilla Heisei Era:

This one was made by the GDF using technology scavenged from Mechakinghidorah (after it pulled a whole if i'm dying your coming with me and dunked itself with Godzilla into the ocean) to combat Godzilla and finally put a stop to Godzilla destroying Japan (every single fucking month like goddamn it would be fucking annoying having to rebuild half the fucking city every month because a giant lizard had a temper tantrum for humans being fucking idiots)

First battle: Godzilla turns into a Power outlet and Mechagodzilla puts a fork into it killing itself and having to get flown back to base for repairs.

Second battle and Final battle: Mechagodzilla gets double teamed by a giant fucking pterodactyl (Rodan) and Godzilla before it decides to cheat and put the Ghostbusters proton pack on and start blasting.

It pulls out its taser fork again and shoots it into Godzilla again and this time it turns Godzilla into another victim of the "american health system" (got crippled and cant pay the hospitalbill) until Rodan pulls some Darksouls 3 Father Ariendal Sister Friede type bullshit and activities the boss second phase.

And Godzilla proceeds to turn into a proton pack and cross streams with Mechagodzilla before it get overwhelmed and forgets what a proton stream does to a Robot before it gets blown the fuck up.

(Sorry for the rant im a nerd when it comes to giant robots and monsters.)

This is awesome but I'm keeping it real with you I saw a Dark Souls 3 reference and got so excited I threw up in my mouth a little and couldn't think of anything else.

#fury in the askbox #long post #ASHES OF ARIANDEL SPOTTED IN THE WILD

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mathieuauclair · 1 year

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Godzilla in the storm. Prismacolor on black paper. 2023.

I love monsters . I always have.

Space creatures, ghoulish creepers, science experiments, supernatural spooks.

And then there's the big ones.

One of the biggest is the King of all of them. Godzilla.

There's just something fascinating about large and massive creatures that captures your attention. It might be Mr. Stay-puft from 'Ghostbusters', the Rancor from 'Return Of The Jedi' or even simply an animal like an elephant. They all capture your attention.

Godzilla is no exception. His design is simple. He looks like a dinosaur. But with features that evoke a mythical dragon. His origins are directly linked to nuclear power.

I wanted to reference his original design but accentuate his power. Being lit by lightning and appearing only as a shadow make him imposing immediately.

#artwork #art #drawing #Godzilla #giant monsters #kaiju #monsters #monster movies

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lisaplant4 · 23 days

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Movie Review

Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire

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Let me state for the record, I LOVED this film! I haven't laughed that hard at a film in I don't know how long. The cast is perfect (I particularly enjoyed the addition of James Acaster), the writing is hysterical and witty, the action and effects are amazing. It has scares, laughs, romance, and so, so much heart. The OG Busters, and the next gen Busters all get a chance to shine. The Firehouse is back, Peck is back, Slimer is back! This is the best movie I've seen in some time. 9/10

Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire

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It was okay. Lots of action. I don't like seeing animals get hurt, not even giant ones, so these films don't make the most comfortable viewing for me. However, you can't help but root for Kong and Godzilla to beat the new big (and I do mean BIG) bad. I liked the new character played by Dan Stevens, a Titan vet who is sort of Ace Ventura mixed with Crocodile Dundee, he was fun, and had great chemistry with Brian Tyree Henry's character Bernie. It was entertaining enough, but I can't really recall what happened in the previous Godzilla movies, and I fear this one won't be any more memorable. 6/10

#film review #ghostbusters #godzilla #kong

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My media this week (24-30 Mar 2024)

📚 STUFF I READ 📚

😊 Murder at the Island Hotel (Miss Underhay Mystery #15) (Helena Dixon, author; Karen Cass, narrator) - Kitty & Alice go to an island hotel to certify it for the local hotel owners assn & of course murder happens.

😍 Operation: Gros Michel (SquadOfCats) - 358K, stucky recovery fic - incredible, phenomenal fic - really digging in to trauma & recovery but in a way that doesn't feel too heavy/dark for very long - Steve's POV so we see his healing & recovery, and his finding purpose again. Amazing OCs. Plus a lot of really, really yummy sexy times. Reminds you that hope is an action, hope is hard, and hope has many manifestations of being. also makes you love Florida at least a little bit.

😊 Where The Inevitable Isn't (Survivah) - 41K, sterek, alternate dimension AU - enjoyable dimension hopping fic with Stiles Prime portaling to a more dystopic/gritty dimension where he & D are super together. I really liked the aspect that they could ping pong back & forth between dimensions, it wasn't just a one-time thing

💖💖 +121K of shorter fic so shout out to these I really loved 💖💖

Deep Sea Diving (AidaRonan) - MCU: shrunkyclunks, 5K - forever fave, comfort read

The Salt is All the Same (the_deep_magic) - The Eagle of the Ninth: Marcus/Esca, 23K - a really good omegaverse AU

📺 STUFF I WATCHED 📺

D20: Adventuring Party - s2, e1-2 [Pirates of Leviathan]

Game Changer - s6, e4

Um, Actually - s9, e3

D20: Fantasy High: Junior Year - "Baron's Game" (s21, e12)

D20: Adventuring Party - "Big Clue Energy" (s16, e12)

D20: Mice & Murder - "It Was a Dark and Stormy Night" (s9, e1)

D20: Mice & Murder - "A Scandal in Britannia" (s9, e2)

D20: Mice & Murder - "A Time For Clues" (s9, e3)

D20: Adventuring Party - s4, e1-3 [Mice & Murder]

🎧 PODCASTS 🎧

The Allusionist - 191. Hypochondria

Worlds Beyond Number - WWW #3: The Charter

Worlds Beyond Number - WWW #4: In the Drink

Worlds Beyond Number: Fireside - Fireside Chat for WWW ep3 "The Charter" and ep4 "In the Drink"

Imaginary Worlds - Doctor Who's Power of Regeneration

The Atlas Obscura Podcast - Vent Haven Museum

Pop Culture Happy Hour - Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire

Short Wave - What's It Like To Live In Space? One Astronaut Says It Changes Her Dreams

WikiHole - Battle of the Bay (with Moshe Kasher, Guy Branum and Grace Kuhlenschmidt)

Worlds Beyond Number - WWW #5: Water, Water Everywhere

Worlds Beyond Number: Fireside - Fireside Chat for WWW ep5 "Water, Water Everywhere"

Pop Culture Happy Hour - Quiet On Set: The Dark Side Of Kids TV

The Atlas Obscura Podcast - Ganvie Lake Village

⭐ Death, Sex & Money - The Very Hot Marriage of Niecy Nash and Jessica Betts

Vibe Check - Welcome to the Chaos

Ologies with Alie Ward - Disgustology (REPULSION TO GROSS STUFF) with Paul Rozin

Code Switch - Who does language belong to? A fight over the Lakota Language

99% Invisible #575 - Autism Pleasantville

Wiser Than Me with Julia Louis-Dreyfus - Julia Gets Wise with Sally Field

Fansplaining - Episode 219: Tropefest Speedrun

The Atlas Obscura Podcast - A Journey Around the World with Sebastian Modak

Shedunnit - Bonus: Thoughts on Spoilers

I Said No Gifts! - Harvey Guillén Disobeys Bridger

Imaginary Worlds- Class of '84: Rise of The Villains

Worlds Beyond Number - WWW #6: Fresh Fish

Pop Culture Happy Hour - Godzilla x Kong, Godzilla Minus One And What's Making Us Happy

Dear Prudence - My Partner Sticks Her Finger in Food to Taste Test It. Help!

Endless Thread - Shaq Time: Is Shaq OK?

Smart Podcast, Trashy Books - 608. Women as Shields and Scapegoats: Talking Kate Middleton with Melissa Blue

Consider This from NPR - A new biopic on Shirley Chisolm fills in the picture on a woman who broke barriers

Worlds Beyond Number: Fireside - Fireside Chat for WWW ep6 "Fresh Fish"

You're Dead to Me - Mozart

I Said No Gifts! - "Weird Al" Yankovic Disobeys Bridger

🎶 MUSIC 🎶

Chappell Roan

Disco 2024

Presenting Rob Zombie

Metal Radio • Pump-up

COWBOY CARTER [Beyoncé] {2024}

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tmnt/ghostbusters #1-4

this was a cute little miniseries! i love that we live in a time when even silly crossovers like this have enough effort put into them that the worst case scenario is usually that they'll be perfectly good but not great.

like, this isn't batman/ninja turtles good, but it's godzilla/power rangers good, and that's a comparison i can make because in this one very specific context at least we're allowed to have good things!

#tmnt #teenage mutant ninja turtles #idw tmnt #idw #ghostbusters #tmnt/ghostbusters #comic review #reviews #comics

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my dream crossovers

this was another patreon-exclusive post that i'm posting here now because i'm not on patreon anymore. this one was from august of 2022.

i’ve been reading a lot of crossover comics lately between my alien vs. predator reviews and i also recently read (and really enjoyed) the teenage mutant ninja turtles/batman crossover.

on that note, i will say that there are a few i would definitely do if they didn’t already exist? including the aforementioned batman/teenage mutant ninja turtles crossover, as well as teenage mutant ninja turtles/power rangers (i would totally redo this one if it were only the next mutation/power rangers in space crossover, but there’s also a comic book that has the mighty morphin power rangers meeting the ninja turtles), king kong vs. planet of the apes, star trek/planet of the apes and teenage mutant ninja turtles/ghostbusters.

i also probably would’ve wanted to do like a star trek vs. star wars type deal back when i was way more into star wars, but i’m just so apathetic about the star wars franchise at this point that it really just doesn’t seem like a good thing for me to try to weigh in on. or any other star wars crossover, for that matter.

so! with all of those being cleared out of the way, let’s get into my dream crossovers that i would love to see become a reality.

godzilla vs. gamera

this is literally the first one that always occurs to me when this topic comes up, and the bitch of it is it almost happened. kadokawa actually approached toho in 2002 and offered to co-produce the mega-crossover, but unfortunately toho declined. the two did battle each other in a stage show in 1970, but otherwise the standard bearers for their respective kaiju universes have yet to properly meet.

thinking about what form this epic showdown could take, obviously the difficulty curve on a comic book feels like it should be the lowest, and is often where these kinds of crossovers start. unfortunately i’m actually not really super versed in godzilla’s comic book exploits, so i can’t really meaningfully comment on this. but considering godzilla vs. charles barkley was a thing back in the 90s and godzilla vs. the mighty morphin power rangers is a thing today, it feels like he should be able to take gamera on in comic book form, right?

the ultimate goal would be a live-action movie, though. and as much as i do love legendary’s cgi godzilla movies this would obviously be a suitmation affair. the plot will work itself out, i mean, it’s godzilla vs. gamera. as long as you give me what it promises on the tin, we’re gonna be fine.

sonic the hedgehog/teenage mutant ninja turtles

my starting point here is that a lot of the characters just match up very well. shads and leo are very serious and dedicated. knux and raph are angy and strong in so many ways. donnie and tails do machines. mikey and sonic are extremely silly and have absolutely the biggest, kindest hearts on their respective teams.

you lose this a bit with the primary villains as eggman is much more comically inept than literally any version of shredder other than the 1987 cartoon or next mutation. but if you bring satam eggman energy to the character you can probably have them coexist either as rival bad guys or teaming up to make everyone’s lives miserable.

obviously eggman is going to make all kinds of turtle-themed robots for this shit, fuck. probably mecha or metal versions of all the turtles, too. dude has one move and he’s gonna use it.

teenage mutant ninja turtles vs. x-men

the only acceptable medium for this is an animated movie, the overall look of which will be based on the 90s arcade games. the x-men team will be composed of the characters you’re able to select from in the arcade game: cyclops, colossus, wolverine, storm, nightcrawler, and dazzler.

the story will be very simple. the turtles and x-men will start off fighting through shredder/magneto’s minions separately and end up fighting each other at first but then end up teaming up when they realize shredder and magneto are working together. these will be the arcade game versions of both villains, so shredder will basically be a less pathetic version of his cartoon self and magneto will have no real character other than being evil and powerful.

teen titans/teenage mutant ninja turtles

look i know this list is very heavy with ninja turtles, but it’s just kind of amazing how many high profile mashups with the ninja turtles have been left on the table. also in the x-men crossover they had “mutant” in common, and in this one they have “teenage” in common, so we’re staying on theme, alright?

for this crossover i’m thinking we get the dc animated movie universe version of the teen titans. y’know, the ones from justice league vs. teen titans and teen titans: the judas contract. i just love this lineup with nightwing and starfire as their fearless leaders, i’d love more time to develop damian wayne robin and raven’s relationship, and beast boy and blue beetle are just the absolute best boys.

cyborg can come too.

sonic the hedgehog/batman

on paper there’s absolutely no reason this should work, but i’m sorry i just need sonic fanboying all over bats, shads trying to out-edgy him, knux taking damian or jason under his wing, tails bonding with tim drake over brain stuff and/or dick grayson over favorite sidekick stuff, and alfred just being sassy about literally everything.

also maybe flash can make a cameo just to set up the obvious race between him and sonic.

x-files vs. resident evil

you really think a zombie outbreak happens in a major city without fox mulder catching wind of it and bursting into the office that morning with a hearty “scully you’re not gonna believe this”?

given that i’m referencing the larger raccoon city outbreak i’d want this to be set around when resident evil 2 came out (1998), which places it around when season 6 of the x-files and the x-files movie came out. so obviously live-action is right out, so we’d be looking at either a comic book or cgi movie.

my thinking here is that mulder hears about the early stages of the outbreak from either the lone gunmen or one of his other sources. mysterious outbreak, corporate and police overreach, does this not sound like exactly the setup for an x-files episode? scully rolls her eyes at all his insinuations that they’re about to be in a real-life zombie movie but is happy to go along to try to deal with the weird police state bullshit happening, they see some creepy stuff early on and then get caught in the thick of the huge outbreak.

eventually they meet up with leon and claire and kick all kinds of zombie ass before making a desperate escape on the train and then we get some patented mulder/scully field note typing voiceovers (or text boxes if it’s a comic) to close things out.

out of all of these, this might be the one i have the clearest idea in my head of what it would be like. even though it’s probably not a crossover that would occur to most people unprompted, it feels kind of like a no-brainer when you think about it.

she-ra (2018) vs. thundercats (2011)

due to the tragic cancellation of the extremely fun thundercats reboot after just one season, this is the least likely one to actually happen. but, c’mon! the main hero has a sword with superpowers, there’s furries, this one is kinda obvious!

i think our catboys think the horde are the good guys at first because animal people are much more well-represented there, setting up the lion-o vs. adora fight. but when they figure out the horde are the bad guys, we get lion-o vs. catra! also mumm-ra teams up with the horde probably.

honorable mentions

star trek/ninja turtles

i don’t have much of a justification for this or an idea of how it would work, but idw owns both licenses and there were action figures depicting all the turtles as star trek characters so obviously i’m not the first one to have this thought!

teenage mutant ninja turtles vs. universal monsters

another one there were crossover action figures of. make it happen!

teenage mutant ninja turtles/kung fu panda

i didn’t super want to go to the trouble of fleshing this one out, but it feels like another no-brainer. and obviously mikey would have the biggest crush on tigress after she beat him up. obviously.

james bond vs. mission: impossible

another one i didn’t super want to flesh out, but ethan hunt’s real superpower is having friends so he’d kick james bond’s ass.

the owl house/she-ra (2018)

sadly i wasn’t really able to come up with a super concrete idea for this one, but both of these cartoons hit such similar spots that it really feels like there should be something here.

#godzilla #gamera #sonic the hedgehog #teenage mutant ninja turtles #x-men #teen titans #batman #x-files #resident evil #she-ra #thundercats #thundercats 2011 #star trek #universal monsters #kung fu panda #james bond #mission: impossible #the owl house

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weclassybouquetfun · 1 year

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It's as if we just exited film awards season and now we are in Emmy For Your Consideration (FYC) season and there is already talk about possible 2024 Oscar nominees with the excellent Ben Affleck directed AIR (an interesting and engaging look at how the Michael Jordan collaboration changed the landscape for Nike and athlete campaigns forever) being bandied about. Cannes Film Festival is in May, but before that we can see some of the more pedestrian films that will be adorning theater marquees in coming months thanks CinemaCon - the annual showcase for theater owners.

Hopefully no one will be getting served with legal papers this year!

CinemaCon's schedule

April 24 is International Day where there will be panels discussing the global disruption due to the pandemic, global box office and movie marketing.

Honored during International Day will be producer Barbara and her brother Andres "Andy" Muschietti (THE FLASH) as International Filmmakers of the Year and AVATAR: THE WAY OF WATER will be honored with the Comscore International Box Office Achievement Award.

Sony Pictures is the studio to kick off the event. While they have not named a spotlight film, it's likely films that will be touted are: SPIDERMAN: ACROSS THE SPIDER-VERSE and SPIDERMAN: BEYOND THE SPIDERVERSE

(trailer for the former will drop Tuesday) ,the sex comedy NO HARD FEELINGS starring Jennifer Lawrence, the live-action HAROLD AND THE PURPLE CRAYON, Neil Bomkamp's GRAN TURISMO live-action adaptation that stars Orlando Bloom so you know it will be pants, EQUALIZER 3, KRAVEN THE HUNTER, the untitled GHOSTBUSTERS sequel, Dakota Johnson's MADAME WEB

The rest of the sked

Tuesday: Will be Warner Bros. who are celebrating their 100th anniversary.

Films likely to be showcased include no-brainers like BARBIE, MEG 2: THE TRENCH, THE NUN 2, BLUE BEETLE,

Whose trailer drops tomorrow

AQUAMAN AND THE LOST KINGDOM, a Timothee Chalamet double-header with DUNE PART TWO

and the musical WONKA, THE COLOR PURPLE, the sequel to GODZILLA vs. KONG, Bong-Joon Ho's MICKEY 17 starring the very talented, but face like a parking meter Robert Pattinson.

They will have a special screening and it will likely be THE FLASH.

Wednesday will be The Walt Disney Company. Thanks to their acquisitions Disney doesn't just mean their Disney branding but 20th Century and Searchlight.

Films likely to be showcased: A HAUNTING IN VENICE, Gareth Edwards TRUE LOVE, Taika Waititi's NEXT GOAL WINS, Jonathan Majors MAGAZINE DREAMS, PETER PAN & WENDY, GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY VOL. 3, THE LITTLE MERMAID, ELEMENTAL, INDIANA JONES AND THE DIAL OF DESTINY (which will premiere at Cannes), THEATER CAMP, THE HAUNTED MANSION, THE MARVELS

and SNOW WHITE.

The evening Universal and Focus Features will highlight their upcoming slate.

Films likely to be showcased: OPPENHEIMER, FAST X, STRAYS, POLITE SOCIETY, Alexander Payne's THE HOLDOVERS, BOOK CLUB: THE NEXT CHAPTER, the animated RUBY GELMAN: TEENAGE KRAKEN, the adaptation of the 80s series THE FALL GUY cleverly titled THE FALL GUY starring Ryan Gosling, KUNG FU PANDA 4, the untitled PLEASE DON'T DESTROY film featuring the comedy trio of SNL writers Ben Marshall, John Higgins, and Martin Herlihy (the latter two being sons of SNL writers Tim Herlihey and Steve Higgins). Essentially they are the new Lonely Island, but not funny and no rapping skills.

and Wes Anderson's stacked ASTEROID CITY

Paramount will close out the night with a reception celebration TRANSFORMERS: RISE OF THE BEASTS.

Thursday Paramount is back at the gate highlighting their upcoming slate. Likely to be showcase: The Tom Cruise juggernaut MISSION IMPOSSIBLE 8: DEAD RECKONING Part One(with a very likely teaser for Part 2), TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES: MUTANT MAYHEM, A QUIET PLACE DAY ONE (which comes out in 2024 but will be released before 2024's CinemaCon)

Director John Kasinski and his cast: Djimon Hounsou, Alex Wolff, Lupita Nyong'o Joseph Quinn.

*I remember when A QUIET PLACE came out and everyone praised that an original concept was having a success - that finally, no established IP was heading up the box office. Now there's sequels and prequels to this bish.

Lionsgate will have a special presentation of their slate.

The seminal literary masterpiece turned schalmatzy film, ARE YOU THERE, GOD, IT'S ME MARGARET , THE BLACKENING (with one of the best taglines I've seen).

*The skit it is based on

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THE EXPENDABLES 4, WHITE BIRD: A WONDER STORY (yes, there is a WONDER universe now), SAW X, THE HUNGER GAMES: THE BALLAD OF SONGBIRDS AND SNAKES and the DIRTY DANCING sequel.

including a screening of the raunchy comedy, JOYRIDE starring whose cast is being honoured as Best Comedy Ensemble at the event.

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Robot Chicken #43: “Squaw Bury Shortcake” | August 19, 2007 - 11:30PM | S03E02

Sorry this is late. Friday nights are easy for me to miss. Sorry it missed Saturday Night’s deadline too; tumblr seemed to go down right as I was about to post it. Here it is roughly one day and one hour later than it should be.

Let’s just fucking do this: “Tiny’s Big Problem” is a sketch where a big fat guy on a superhero team that I barely recognize has to lose weight, and he does, and then the punchline is one of his teammates kills him out of jealousy. The fat guy absent-mindedly eating the cardboard that the microwave pizza comes on is a pretty solid fat joke, though.

“Masturbation MythBusters” doesn’t really make that much sense. They are Mythbusters but they have Ghostbusters proton packs and they suck up a child who is masturbating to bust the myth that he’ll go blind? What’s even supposed to be funny about this? Like, okay, sure, on some basic level the idea of Ghostbusters coming in and zapping a child for jacking off is funny, but the logic here isn’t even pleasingly tortured. Just make them be Ghostbusters and maybe the sperms have little ghosts that need to be busted!!

“Popeye Intervention” is about Popeye having an intervention for–what else?--heroin. I mean, spinach. Popeye is voiced by Dave Coulier (who also voiced “Tiny” in the other sketch). They put an old scratchy film effect over it, spitting in the face of the restoration work currently being done for the Fleischer Bros. cartoon film library.

“King of the Monsters” This is a parody of Training Day with Ethan Hawke, who voices Godzilla Jr. in this. I’ve never actually seen Training Day, but I know the line “King Kong ain’t got shit on me” which figures into the punchline of the sketch. It’s fine. I guess. I mean, I hated it, but it’s fine.

“Council of Evil Tables” A guy fights Tables. Pretty simple. I don’t hate it but: did I laugh? NO!

“Give a Mouse a Cookie” A mom tells her child a freaking ~tWiStEd~ version of “If You GIve a Mouse a Cookie”, where the Mouse is vampiric and world is nuked into oblivion as a desperate measure to stop the spread of vampires. Could this be a metaphor for the rampant spread of socialism and the mutually assured destruction it will cause? I don’t know! (By the way I’m not a socialist anymore, I’m just going back to being “just some guy”)

“Feel Lucky, Punk?” Is a pretty basic take-off of Dirty Harry asking a “punk” if he feels lucky, and he does! So he goes and has a very luck-luck-lucky crime spree. Seth Green calls this a bad sketch on the commentary. Don’t worry Seth, they are all bad. The wiki says a gag similar to this appeared on Family Guy. I should Family TRY to watch that.

“Bob Barker’s New Gig” is about Bob Barker retiring from Price is Right and becoming a vigilante castrator for stray (and not-so-stray) animals. Snoop Dogg plays himself, transforming from a dog to a human (reference to this music video). Bob sure does sound like Bob, but it’s a soundalike. Commentary reveals that they tried to get him to play himself but he passed… AWAY!!! Hahaha! No, actually, they make that joke on the commentary and he wasn’t dead yet. Sorry everyone. I stole from Robot Chicken. This sketch exemplifies the value of the original DVDs, because the DVD is vastly uncensored and the HBOMax versions are not. Good news for those of you wishing to see mangled stop-motion animal genitals.

Well, I guess I have to keep watching these for a while. Robot Chicken continues to get charitable bits of faint praise from me. What else is new.

EPHEMERA CORNER

Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film for Theaters DVD marathon (August 13, 2007)

The two-disc version of Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film for Theaters came out on DVD on Tuesday, August 14, 2007. But those who tuned in on Monday Night were treated to an Aqua Teen Hunger Force marathon with episodes interspersed with various things that appeared on the DVD. This included music videos, the “fake endings” and a bunch of other promotional stuff. The second disc of the DVD release contained the Deleted Movie which consisted of deleted material and– oh. FUCK. I promised to review that I’m pretty sure.

Okay, everyone. This post was a day late, so here’s a BONUS review of THE DELETED MOVIE:

Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film for Theaters: The Deleted Movie (August 14, 2007)

This was a more interesting watch than I thought it would be, and it’s also a vastly less enjoyable watch. This is an assembly of the movie using predominantly deleted scenes in an exceptionally less-produced state. That means segments from the “Deleted Scenes” episode which were animated fully (perhaps FOR the episode?), are seen here in a less-finished form. Scenes that play out like normal seem to sometimes get a cool alternate view, like the pencil test versions of animation that actually did wind up in the movie.

The story notably starts with the Dr. Weird scene; the one where he talks about his lair being turned into “fucking condos”. It follows the pattern of a typical Aqua Teen episode that way with it’s own Dr. Weird cold open. It goes from said Dr. Weird scene into the opening sequence that we see in the main movie, it just has a bad Dana Synder song playing over it instead. I sincerely wonder if they actually would have used this as the movie opener because it really sucks.

This version also misses the Egypt prologue as well as the “Let’s All Go Out to the Lobby” bit (and boy do I mean “misses them”). I’m not sure I really made this connection last time, but boy, does this movie ever feel like a sequel to Rabbot. The story is very Rabbot-esque, and it even includes an interlude where Shake ditches the mission at hand to undergo some sort of cosmetic conditioning. In Rabbot it’s getting his hair done. In this it’s getting a tan and teeth whitening.

This version is also less censored, and some Meatwad’s potty-mouth moments sorta delighted me, I’m not gonna lie. Also neat was seeing a bit in the middle that was just a filmed table-read; apparently there was supposed to be a live-action sequence with an early version of the Bible Fruits as an educational program that appeared on the ATHF TV. This was likely a nod to the puppet shows that Meatwad regularly enjoyed on the TV series. The Bible Fruits were going to be portrayed by actors in costumes, much like the Fruit of the Loom ads that probably no longer exist or are relevant.

A lot of alternate punchlines, and almost everything in the main movie is better. I can’t think of an example of a scene or jokes that were in here but I wished were in the main film. The movie itself had an alternate punchline: the entire thing turns out to be Meatwad playing with his dolls; like a St. Elsewhere-esque reveal. Meatwad actually has a cup with a crudely-drawn face on it; this was Shake. Dr. Weird turns out to be his father, and then the post-credits scene would’ve featured the same grotesque female Frylock we see in the post-credits scene of the actual movie. So he’s Meatwad’s mom, you see. That’s where the whole “Frylock is a woman” thing was supposed to go. It’s much less explained in the real movie.

I had hoped there was going to be a Dave and Matt commentary on this thing, bug I guess there’s not. The actual movie itself on DVD has a commentary track with Dana Snyder, Fred Armisen, Todd Hansen, and Patti Smith for some reason (she’s a big fan). Typically when you record the commentary track for a motion picture it comes off the tail end of finishing the movie, so the prospect of rewatching it yet again is probably not an attractive one.

Honestly, watching the Deleted Scenes episode is more fun than this, and this doesn’t offer much more than that episode. Sort of an interesting curiosity, but not that enjoyable to watch.

#adult swim #robot chicken #adultswim2021 #pizza

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I think a very revealing line in The Force Awakens is Han Solo’s first line, when he enters the Millennium Falcon: “Chewy, we’re home.”

That’s the thing with these types of movies, what I’ll call “legacy franchises” – the new Halloween movies are guilty of this, same with Ghostbusters Afterlife – the original source material and the cultural impact and the fandom around them have proxies in the universe of the movie. Within the new Star Wars universe, Han Solo is a legend, and the Millennium Falcon is a legend, and Luke Skywalker is a legend, and all these characters have heard of them and are fans of them and they’re so important in their legacy. It’s just become Star Wars about Star Wars. Ghostbusters about Ghostbusters. Who the fuck wants that? We’re watching a movie about how much we liked the previous movie. What the fuck is that? I know I liked the previous movie! I could just watch the previous movie! It’s really irritating and it’s really sad because I’m not strictly anti-nostalgia. It’s nice to go back and revisit the things you love, and the distance between you now and you then, it’s all good. But this is wallowing and refusing to do anything else. And it’s this reverence for these key elements of the past, that were so in awe of them that we don’t want to do anything different or better. We can imagine tweaking or correcting them, or putting more lesbians in them, but we can’t imagine surpassing them. We can’t imagine a better Star Wars and we definitely can’t imagine doing something that’s not Star Wars that’s better than Star Wars. We’re so in awe that we can’t get out from under its shadow and do our own thing culturally.

In a reboot, you’re trying to appease the people who want a sequel and trying to appease the people who think they want something different, and trying to do both at the same time. Or, appearing to do both at the same time, but just doing the former. The Thing reboot was released as Thing in 2011, which functionally worked as a remake but was also canonical to the first movie. I guess they call those “soft reboots”. It’s not even driven by markets per se, because with enough money and cultural influence you can decide what the market it. People will watch what you give them if it’s adequately entertaining. I don’t want to say that this is what people want, it’s a matter of what people will accept. These are very different things. They can’t consume anything better. Maybe they would, but they’re not really being given an informed choice. Studios are so afraid of it that they won’t do promotion. There’s a very conservative and risk averse mindset among the capitalist class making decisions, at least in this instance.

2015 and 2016 were very pivotal years in the popular culture landscape, especially the one that I’ve been posting about for the past… 2 and a half hours? Oh god. There were two other reboots of IP franchises at around the same time – Mad Max: Fury Road came out earlier in 2015 and Shin Godzilla in 2016. I think those are both great movies. But the interesting difference between them, and I’m kind of curious how this happened in that era of Hollywood, is that Fury Road was a passion project driven by George Miller. An actual movie by a guy who wanted to make movies, who made the original movies. He was looking not to cash in on what he’d done before, but thematically add to the level of spectacle and scope and outdo what he’d done in the 70s and 80s… Like an actual artist! And he did! It’s a perfect movie! And Shin Godzilla, it’s not the same guy, but that’s the same impulse driving it to a large extent. You watch the first episode of Evangelion, and it’s obvious that Anno is a huge Godzilla fan. He wants to do what the first Godzilla was to the post-WWII atomic bombings, which is an important thing to keep in mind with the original Godzilla. It’s an allegory for an atomic bomb in an abstract way, but it came out less than 10 years after those bombings. All the people in the theater watching the first Godzilla, watching those buildings falling, lived not just through the atomic bombings, but the harrowing convection and napalm bombings that leveled the whole cities before they dropped the a-bombs. Shin Godzilla is that, but for the post-Fukushima moment. It’s not in a cynical way, the going through the checklist of the discourse way, but a genuine response to the period way. Modernizing something in the sense of a difference product line for new sensibilities, versus reinterpreting a text artistically for a new context. The new Star Wars is the former. Fury Road and Shin Godzilla aren’t devoid of commercial influence, but they’re much more so the second direction. Truly great older blockbusters have some counterbalancing the commercial side with sincere artistic influence. Take this against things that are so lopsidedly commercial that whatever creative impulse and craftsmanship is there is drowned out, or filtered, or banded, or never present in the first place.

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