Preview night of Comic-Con is upon us and my years of going are approaching 30 years — which is wild to me — and I find myself reflecting on it. One of the things that suck out to me is how I used to wait entire days to get into Hall H for the panel for Marvel Studios. An entire day out in the hot sun, fighting dehydration and becoming hangry at everyone around me.
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People who know me know I have a distaste for AI. Granted, I think it’s a very useful tool if used as such, but I’m a huge hater when uncreative, unartistic people use it to generate any form of art. Art is an expression of the human condition; writing prompts for an AI to scrape and cobble together from others’ art is not creative or expressive. So of course Spotify being a tech company, wanted to feel artsy and add an “About the Song” AI.
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I took a cursory glance at an article claiming Batman & Robin is one of the worst movies from the 1990s, and I was utterly appalled. I argue that Batman & Robin is one of the perfect films of the 90s. For all the wrong and right reasons.
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So before, I mentioned that Karl Urban felt like odd casting for Johnny Cage because Lewis Tan was a lot opportunity for the part. The movie has been out for a good while now, and I did end up watching it multiple times. I enjoyed it immensely. Urban was fun as an older, has-been Johnny Cage, and things played out in a way that made me okay with stuff I was concerned about before.
(more…)Okay, okay. I’ll admit it. At first I was kind of a hater on the new Mortal Kombat that’s coming out soon. The previous one was enjoyable, but it felt a little weird and not in a good way. Having the star of the film portray an original character instead of one of the plethora of characters he could have played was a choice. That choice felt even more weird when said star, Lewis Tan, basically played Johnny Cage in Cobra Kai. So I became bitter when Karl Urban was cast as Johnny Cage for Mortal Kombat II, rather than retroactively fixing the first by recasting Tan as Johnny.
(more…)DC Studios continues to differentiate itself by not following a set-in-stone timeline for their films, and instead going with what has a script officially ready. It’s an approach that I appreciate; it gives creatives time to actually be creative and come up with an engaging story. One of their upcoming movies is on the villain Clayface. And really, I am here for it.
(more…)I found it hard to imagine a Street Fighter that could outdo the fun of the original from the 1990s. Everybody — I mean everybody was chewing scenery. They knew the film was gonna be ridiculous and they leaned into it, yet still maintained a sense of sincerity. There was heart behind it. And Jean-Claude Van Damme and Raul Julia were taking turns stealing the show with their iconic scenes and one-liners.
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The conclusive season of The Boys is fast approaching, but showrunner Eric Kripke still has his claws in Supernatural star Jensen Ackles for the spinoff Vought Rising. For those who don’t know yet, it centers around Ackles’ Soldier Boy and his antics in the 1950s, and the horrible company surrounding him.
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