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shadowkat1. Zachery Levi (of all people) slams garbage coming out of Hollywood
Levi's comments, however, beg the question: Who decides what is good? Sure, 86 percent of audiences may have liked Shazam 2, but that's 86 percent of a relatively small group of people who probably wanted to see Shazam 2 in the first place.
And so will avoiding garbage really make Hollywood produce less garbage? Or does it just need to better market the garbage it already has?
It's in the eye of the beholder.
My brother is a conceptual artist. He's interested in the interaction with the art - that each time we interact with something, it changes and becomes something new. And all artists put something of themselves in their art.
My view is if it makes you or me happy, who are others to judge?
I can't control what others like, and they in turn can't control what I like.
2.Off-Topic. Audio Book. Killers of the Flower Moon
It's now gone into detail on poisons. Apparently in the 1920s, strychnine, arsenic and other poisons were popular - they could sneak them into moonshine. And no one would know - because there were so many deaths back then from bad moonshine. Also it wasn't easy to detect. They'd come up with a way to detect it - but didn't always use it, since deaths from moonshine were rather common.
Gotta love non-fiction books, I come away from them with all this knowledge about weird things. Like the fact that strychnine is a horrible way to die. Convulsions, seizures, entire body goes stiff, and you have excruciating pain. Arsenic isn't much better, but not quite as bad as strychnine. Also a lot of people are killed in this book.
Apparently Martin Scorsese is turning it into a movie - but I'm not sure about the movie. Scorsese's latest favorite actor is Leo DiCaprio, and I've mixed feelings about him.
3. Evil Marketing People
Apparently a musician decided to market her next album "Songs for a Horror Movie" by convincing followers to create a fake 1980s horror film, and via marketing platforms (aka Tik Tok, Youtube, etc) convince everyone it was real. Zepotha Fake Movie - Social Media Marketing Concept.
This kind of reminds me of marketing tactics that my brother used years ago, when he convinced the Columbus Ohio Press that he was giving arms to the homeless. (It was entirely fake.)
And currently there's a marketing tactic entitled "Not a Store" - where people exhibit clothing in a store - but you don't buy it in the store, you buy it online by special order. Pissing off the people who want to buy it in the store.
4. Today's question: 16 – Elvis Week: Are you, or were you, an Elvis Presley fan? (Stolen from slaymesoftly)
Hmmm, yes and no. I am not a fan of the "man" but I am a fan of the voice?
I don't worship humans. They are extremely flawed, and it bodes ill for all involved.
That said? I am a fan of his talent. And I really didn't get it until last year - when I got talked into watching "Elvis" by Baz Lurham. And was blown away. Then I downloaded his music - and discovered he could literally sing anything or perform anything. He was a consummate performer - and his need to perform kind of did him in? The man had extraordinary range - he was untaught, and figured it all out on his own.
Basically Lightening in a Bottle - who burned out too quickly too soon and under bad management. I can't help but wonder what would have happened if he'd gotten good material and better management - he came close a few times. But Vegas really did him in - along with the incessant touring schedule the Colonel put him on.
(And I've no interest in visiting Graceland - the idea of doing it makes me cringe.)
5. What does one say to grief? Nothing at all. I think. Grief is well just grief. It swallows you whole and then spits you out again. Then does it again ...a day, a month, a year later - often over something as minor as a word or phrase.
Beach walks did it to me today.
That and listening to a Jon Bon Jovi Song about well the pandemic.
So scrolling by others grief? I thought once again, what does one say? Nothing. There is nothing to say. No words can fill the empty space. All they do is make it seem more empty.
6. 15 – Relaxation Day: What are some of your favourite ways to relax?
Reading, watching television, cooking, painting/drawing, writing...surfing the net, taking long meandering walks...
7. Already answered the poll over in tv talk, but the difficulty with polls is they are rather limiting to what the pollster comes up with.
How do I watch Television?
* I stream, watch on my DVR, and depending on the show - live. (I watch NY1 live each morning on Cable, and the soap is either live, on DVR or on Hulu depending.)
* Do I watch more than one show at a time? Depends on what this means? I don't watch more than one at the same time. I do however, much like books, have more than one I'll watch each week. It used to be far more than I currently do - when we didn't have DVR's and streaming. Now? About three to four shows a week. The soap, NY1, and something on streaming or the DVR on the weekend. Not on the weekend? NY1 and the soap, that's it. On the weekend ? Anywhere from 1 -5 shows depending.
* What type of shows do I prefer? I'm moody. And it changes constantly.
It's easier to list the ones I don't like: reality shows (that aren't cooking demonstrations or house improvement or fashion design) - basically the Bachelor, Big Brother, Real Housewives etc - I won't watch that. Game shows that aren't Jeopardy. (I won't watch anything that isn't Jeopardy, and I no longer watch it.) I will watch Cooking competitions. I like Cooking competitions. Entertainment News (aka Fox, MSNBC, CNN, ) - I have no patience and it makes me want to kick people. So no. Situation Comedies (I don't find the current crop funny, so I don't watch). Police/Legal/Medical Procedurals - no, I get bored with the repetitive plotlines. (Although I did watch New Amsterdam.)
Everything else is pretty much fair game.
Prefer: I have a weakness for soap operas, superheroes, supernatural, fantasy, and sci-fi. I also like family dramas and workplace dramas. Workplace comedies also work for me. Historical dramas are hit or miss, as are book adaptations. And I like Anime. (Not so much cartoons which tend to annoy me on the account of the animation and they are well too much like situation comedies. Example? I loved Vox Machina, but I have no interest in watching The Family Guy, The Simpsons, Rick & Morty (nothing against Rick & Morty - I just don't like that sort of thing.))
8. Off Topic. Going to bed. Didn't sleep well last night. Kept getting leg cramps. And now, feel oddly wired and irritable.
Levi's comments, however, beg the question: Who decides what is good? Sure, 86 percent of audiences may have liked Shazam 2, but that's 86 percent of a relatively small group of people who probably wanted to see Shazam 2 in the first place.
And so will avoiding garbage really make Hollywood produce less garbage? Or does it just need to better market the garbage it already has?
It's in the eye of the beholder.
My brother is a conceptual artist. He's interested in the interaction with the art - that each time we interact with something, it changes and becomes something new. And all artists put something of themselves in their art.
My view is if it makes you or me happy, who are others to judge?
I can't control what others like, and they in turn can't control what I like.
2.Off-Topic. Audio Book. Killers of the Flower Moon
It's now gone into detail on poisons. Apparently in the 1920s, strychnine, arsenic and other poisons were popular - they could sneak them into moonshine. And no one would know - because there were so many deaths back then from bad moonshine. Also it wasn't easy to detect. They'd come up with a way to detect it - but didn't always use it, since deaths from moonshine were rather common.
Gotta love non-fiction books, I come away from them with all this knowledge about weird things. Like the fact that strychnine is a horrible way to die. Convulsions, seizures, entire body goes stiff, and you have excruciating pain. Arsenic isn't much better, but not quite as bad as strychnine. Also a lot of people are killed in this book.
Apparently Martin Scorsese is turning it into a movie - but I'm not sure about the movie. Scorsese's latest favorite actor is Leo DiCaprio, and I've mixed feelings about him.
3. Evil Marketing People
Apparently a musician decided to market her next album "Songs for a Horror Movie" by convincing followers to create a fake 1980s horror film, and via marketing platforms (aka Tik Tok, Youtube, etc) convince everyone it was real. Zepotha Fake Movie - Social Media Marketing Concept.
This kind of reminds me of marketing tactics that my brother used years ago, when he convinced the Columbus Ohio Press that he was giving arms to the homeless. (It was entirely fake.)
And currently there's a marketing tactic entitled "Not a Store" - where people exhibit clothing in a store - but you don't buy it in the store, you buy it online by special order. Pissing off the people who want to buy it in the store.
4. Today's question: 16 – Elvis Week: Are you, or were you, an Elvis Presley fan? (Stolen from slaymesoftly)
Hmmm, yes and no. I am not a fan of the "man" but I am a fan of the voice?
I don't worship humans. They are extremely flawed, and it bodes ill for all involved.
That said? I am a fan of his talent. And I really didn't get it until last year - when I got talked into watching "Elvis" by Baz Lurham. And was blown away. Then I downloaded his music - and discovered he could literally sing anything or perform anything. He was a consummate performer - and his need to perform kind of did him in? The man had extraordinary range - he was untaught, and figured it all out on his own.
Basically Lightening in a Bottle - who burned out too quickly too soon and under bad management. I can't help but wonder what would have happened if he'd gotten good material and better management - he came close a few times. But Vegas really did him in - along with the incessant touring schedule the Colonel put him on.
(And I've no interest in visiting Graceland - the idea of doing it makes me cringe.)
5. What does one say to grief? Nothing at all. I think. Grief is well just grief. It swallows you whole and then spits you out again. Then does it again ...a day, a month, a year later - often over something as minor as a word or phrase.
Beach walks did it to me today.
That and listening to a Jon Bon Jovi Song about well the pandemic.
So scrolling by others grief? I thought once again, what does one say? Nothing. There is nothing to say. No words can fill the empty space. All they do is make it seem more empty.
6. 15 – Relaxation Day: What are some of your favourite ways to relax?
Reading, watching television, cooking, painting/drawing, writing...surfing the net, taking long meandering walks...
7. Already answered the poll over in tv talk, but the difficulty with polls is they are rather limiting to what the pollster comes up with.
How do I watch Television?
* I stream, watch on my DVR, and depending on the show - live. (I watch NY1 live each morning on Cable, and the soap is either live, on DVR or on Hulu depending.)
* Do I watch more than one show at a time? Depends on what this means? I don't watch more than one at the same time. I do however, much like books, have more than one I'll watch each week. It used to be far more than I currently do - when we didn't have DVR's and streaming. Now? About three to four shows a week. The soap, NY1, and something on streaming or the DVR on the weekend. Not on the weekend? NY1 and the soap, that's it. On the weekend ? Anywhere from 1 -5 shows depending.
* What type of shows do I prefer? I'm moody. And it changes constantly.
It's easier to list the ones I don't like: reality shows (that aren't cooking demonstrations or house improvement or fashion design) - basically the Bachelor, Big Brother, Real Housewives etc - I won't watch that. Game shows that aren't Jeopardy. (I won't watch anything that isn't Jeopardy, and I no longer watch it.) I will watch Cooking competitions. I like Cooking competitions. Entertainment News (aka Fox, MSNBC, CNN, ) - I have no patience and it makes me want to kick people. So no. Situation Comedies (I don't find the current crop funny, so I don't watch). Police/Legal/Medical Procedurals - no, I get bored with the repetitive plotlines. (Although I did watch New Amsterdam.)
Everything else is pretty much fair game.
Prefer: I have a weakness for soap operas, superheroes, supernatural, fantasy, and sci-fi. I also like family dramas and workplace dramas. Workplace comedies also work for me. Historical dramas are hit or miss, as are book adaptations. And I like Anime. (Not so much cartoons which tend to annoy me on the account of the animation and they are well too much like situation comedies. Example? I loved Vox Machina, but I have no interest in watching The Family Guy, The Simpsons, Rick & Morty (nothing against Rick & Morty - I just don't like that sort of thing.))
8. Off Topic. Going to bed. Didn't sleep well last night. Kept getting leg cramps. And now, feel oddly wired and irritable.
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Date: 2023-08-19 02:30 am (UTC)Part of the difficulty with Shazam is audiences have burned out on the super-hero/CGI laden genre. If this summer tells us anything - it's that - super-hero fatigue has set in. There's been too many super-hero films. Some people - the people who just love super-hero films regardless, and are die-hard fans of the genre, will go. But other's will get burned out and do something else. (I've reached that point and I happen to love the genre. But it's kind of - I don't know, grown stale? I got bored in Guardians. Not that Quantumania was much better. And Black Adam...sigh. And I've yet to make it throw Secret Invasion or to attempt Loki. I think Marvel and DC burned me out finally? I've gone back to the comics.)
One of the many reasons Barbie and Oppenheimer have taken off is neither is CGI laden nor do they feature superheroes. Both are more, dare we say it, dialogue driven?