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1. I'm avoiding reviews of The Dark Phoenix in the same manner I avoided reviews of Avengers: Endgame. I plan on seeing it regardless. I saw X-Men: Apocalypse and liked it better than the critics did. Was it great, no. It's a loose adaptation of superhero comics..I have low expectations. The only good X-men films to date is "X-men: Days of Future Past" and "Logan". Everything else... is ...well better than most of the DC films, and definitely better than any Marvel flick prior to Iron Man.
So, low expectations. But will see anyhow. I saw X-men: Last Stand in the movie theater, as long as it is better than X-men Last Stand and Origins: Wolverine, we'll be fine. Those are the worst two films of the franchise, although to be fair you'd have to go a long way to beat out the Fantastic Four films which were atrocious. If there was a superhero franchise that needed to be successfully rebooted? It's the Fantastic Four.
I also am leery of it -- since it went from a three movie trilogy to one movie, and was re-shot after Disney was about to re-acquire the rights.
2. Was discussing Trek with a co-worker who is a serious fan. So serious that he is spending $20 a month to get it on CBS All Access. He said it's good, one of the better Treks. We discussed all the Treks. Neither of us are cult Trekkies -- in that we don't write fanfic, wear the costumes or go to the cons. But we've seen most of the episodes and series. At the end of the day, he told me in true Spock fashion to live long and prosper.
3. Truly Funny Review of the GodZilla Movie -- they gave it an F+ but said it was a fun bad movie. (Which to be honest is true of all Godzilla films, sort of the point of the films actually.)
I love how they mention that all the monsters are radioactive...see, if you know anything about Japanese Cinema, and if you grew up watching these films then gradually moved over to Japanese Anime, and have a knack for picking up patterns in things -- you'd realize all of this is how the Japanese internalized and handled surviving not one but two atomic bombs.
Did I mention that I grew up watching Godzilla movies on the Saturday Creature Feature Maintainee and on the Afternoon Afterschool Movie?( Read more... )
4. Finished watching the second episode of Songland which I liked better than the first, but this may be because I prefer the music of W.il.iam and the Black Eyed Peas to John Legend. (I'm not a huge fan of the belted pop song. It's rare that I like it -- why? It sounds cheesy.)
Although in this case much like Legend's they picked the song that I would not have picked. The song I loved this week and stopped to listen to was..
( Boxes by Josh Logan )
5. Picked up more comics...and read one of them.
Uncanny X-men #19 (2018) -- where we finally get to see Emma Frost's reaction to Scott Summers being alive and back, her Scott, not the boy from the past.
Unfortunately the art is crappy in this issue. Come back Salvadore Larroca or please get Adam Kubert of While Porticia or someone?
This is the problem with comics...the artists change constantly. The writer tends to stay constant, but the artists jump in and out. I remember when Joss Whedon took on the X-men, he insisted that he keep the same writer throughout his run. Mainly because that was his complaint as a reader -- he loved Grant Morrison's run until the art got wonky and they kept changing the artists. This can be jarring.
I don't know why they shift artists in and out but keep the same writer throughout.
Sometimes a writer/artist will form a bond and stick throughout. Such as Lee and Kirby, and Claremount and Kirby, and Claremount and Lee. But often that's not the case.
Ugh.
Also, another shout out about the book? We get a reprint of Stan Lee's soap box from 1968, where he does a lengthy speech about bigotry and racism, and how important it is to route that out. That we can't overlook it or tolerate it. That we shouldn't judge people on race or religion, but as individuals. It's a lovely speech, but he's not quite there yet on gender. Sigh. But still, close.
It's why I fell in love with the X-men and Marvel verse -- because the writers were progressive and very anti-racism and pro-human rights. A lot of great political commentary can be found in superhero comic books. Stan Lee was a progressive writer and fought racism with his pen. Maybe not always well, but he tried.
The story? It's interesting. ( Read more... )
Also picked up the latest issue of the Buffy comics and I think they changed artists on me. Why? The artist was good. The writer and plotter -- needed help. Don't change artists...bad comic book producers. Bad.
And I fear the writer/producers of this thing are shameful Bangle shippers and about to give me the adventures of Buffy/Angel against the world. No. No. Boom!Comics is making me miss the Dark Horse version.
So why'd I pick it up? Curiosity? And a desire to see if I'm right? Also...I wanted to see how Xander turns out as a vampire. Plus it's cheap.
So, low expectations. But will see anyhow. I saw X-men: Last Stand in the movie theater, as long as it is better than X-men Last Stand and Origins: Wolverine, we'll be fine. Those are the worst two films of the franchise, although to be fair you'd have to go a long way to beat out the Fantastic Four films which were atrocious. If there was a superhero franchise that needed to be successfully rebooted? It's the Fantastic Four.
I also am leery of it -- since it went from a three movie trilogy to one movie, and was re-shot after Disney was about to re-acquire the rights.
2. Was discussing Trek with a co-worker who is a serious fan. So serious that he is spending $20 a month to get it on CBS All Access. He said it's good, one of the better Treks. We discussed all the Treks. Neither of us are cult Trekkies -- in that we don't write fanfic, wear the costumes or go to the cons. But we've seen most of the episodes and series. At the end of the day, he told me in true Spock fashion to live long and prosper.
3. Truly Funny Review of the GodZilla Movie -- they gave it an F+ but said it was a fun bad movie. (Which to be honest is true of all Godzilla films, sort of the point of the films actually.)
I love how they mention that all the monsters are radioactive...see, if you know anything about Japanese Cinema, and if you grew up watching these films then gradually moved over to Japanese Anime, and have a knack for picking up patterns in things -- you'd realize all of this is how the Japanese internalized and handled surviving not one but two atomic bombs.
Did I mention that I grew up watching Godzilla movies on the Saturday Creature Feature Maintainee and on the Afternoon Afterschool Movie?( Read more... )
4. Finished watching the second episode of Songland which I liked better than the first, but this may be because I prefer the music of W.il.iam and the Black Eyed Peas to John Legend. (I'm not a huge fan of the belted pop song. It's rare that I like it -- why? It sounds cheesy.)
Although in this case much like Legend's they picked the song that I would not have picked. The song I loved this week and stopped to listen to was..
( Boxes by Josh Logan )
5. Picked up more comics...and read one of them.
Uncanny X-men #19 (2018) -- where we finally get to see Emma Frost's reaction to Scott Summers being alive and back, her Scott, not the boy from the past.
Unfortunately the art is crappy in this issue. Come back Salvadore Larroca or please get Adam Kubert of While Porticia or someone?
This is the problem with comics...the artists change constantly. The writer tends to stay constant, but the artists jump in and out. I remember when Joss Whedon took on the X-men, he insisted that he keep the same writer throughout his run. Mainly because that was his complaint as a reader -- he loved Grant Morrison's run until the art got wonky and they kept changing the artists. This can be jarring.
I don't know why they shift artists in and out but keep the same writer throughout.
Sometimes a writer/artist will form a bond and stick throughout. Such as Lee and Kirby, and Claremount and Kirby, and Claremount and Lee. But often that's not the case.
Ugh.
Also, another shout out about the book? We get a reprint of Stan Lee's soap box from 1968, where he does a lengthy speech about bigotry and racism, and how important it is to route that out. That we can't overlook it or tolerate it. That we shouldn't judge people on race or religion, but as individuals. It's a lovely speech, but he's not quite there yet on gender. Sigh. But still, close.
It's why I fell in love with the X-men and Marvel verse -- because the writers were progressive and very anti-racism and pro-human rights. A lot of great political commentary can be found in superhero comic books. Stan Lee was a progressive writer and fought racism with his pen. Maybe not always well, but he tried.
The story? It's interesting. ( Read more... )
Also picked up the latest issue of the Buffy comics and I think they changed artists on me. Why? The artist was good. The writer and plotter -- needed help. Don't change artists...bad comic book producers. Bad.
And I fear the writer/producers of this thing are shameful Bangle shippers and about to give me the adventures of Buffy/Angel against the world. No. No. Boom!Comics is making me miss the Dark Horse version.
So why'd I pick it up? Curiosity? And a desire to see if I'm right? Also...I wanted to see how Xander turns out as a vampire. Plus it's cheap.