I do think we’ll get an announcement in the next year or so that Fiege will step back from running the show full time, probably with a successor named as well.
That way they can promote Secret Wars as being another finale to his whole tenure and whatever comes next as a “new era”.
The Penguin has been a pleasant surprise with how good it is. My favourite thing about it is that they haven’t tried to pull a Sony and make Oz into some kind of antihero. He is still very much a villain and he’s doing awful things to achieve power.
My only nitpick with it is that no one has mentioned Batman. The Bat would be the talk of the villain community so it’s kind of unbelievable that they wouldn’t be talking about him.
At least there will be some kind of conclusion and they’re not pulling a Netflix.
It’s shocking because they really seemed to think they had something here. Opening at Venice and dropping the review embargo weeks before release, Gaga doing a companion album and just doing it at all after saying they wouldn’t..It’s funny to see so much misplaced confidence be so roundly rejected.
All while having a much bigger firefighter standing behind you, with a much larger firehose that will fight all your fires for you.
The Katy Perry album was a PR disaster. Not only were the songs a bit shit, but making a “female empowerment album” produced by a guy thats been accused of rape, is a crazy thing to think people won’t pull you up on in 2024.
We know Trump loves a good fictional serial killer, so could he be getting migrants mixed up with famous dog eater Michael Myers?🤨.
Watched the second season of Interview with the Vampirethat just went up on the iPlayer and it’s just as good as the first. It’s really well written, especially the way it plays with the fact that this is a story that’s being told, sometimes from different points of view. And the acting is top notch, especially Sam Reid as Lestat, who actually isn’t in this season very much but is fantastic when he shows up.
Its a bit of a shame this is kind of buried away on the BBC in the uk because I think it’s one of the best shows on at the moment that people don’t talk about.
I think it’s quite clever because they needed a new villain after the Kang/Majors mess and Doom always seemed like the obvious choice. But him coming out of nowhere and being an Avengers level threat right away is a bit of a stretch. But casting RDJ means the audience will have a connection with the character straight away and then playing with that connection and him being a villain could be really fun to see.
I think he’ll definitely show up in Fantastic Four. Him being the villain of that world and then the FF coming to the MCU to see he’s a hero could be a nice concept. I just hope they’ll let him be an actual full on villain and not try and do some kind of redemption arc.
Although they’ll now have a RDJ shaped body back in the MCU again. Sure would be nice if Tony Stark somehow managed to back up his brain before he died🤷♂️.
And talking of the FF, the footage they showed looked really promising. I’m loving the retro future style they’re going with.
Personally I don’t see anything noble about him and all the “Oh, isn’t he a hero for stepping down and putting the party first” talking heads are cringy as fuck.
Trump didn’t want to let go of power and neither does Biden, which is why he’s spent the last three weeks trying to gaslight everyone into to thinking his brain isn’t fried.
I really want Beetlejuice Beetlejuice to be good, but it just has that whiff of latter-day Tim Burton to it. I was getting a lot of Dark Shadows vibes from it, which I thought was a bit of a mess.
Hmm, adventures with 13 and just her one companion Yas..Neat idea, they should have made a tv show about that.
Trump will be acting like a right hard man now that he’s survived an assassination attempt. But I’ve heard that Biden stays up past 9:00pm some nights…Yep, you read that right. 9..P..M😎🇺🇸🫡.
Well at least no one will be talking about senile Biden anymore and there’s no chance he’ll stand down after this🙄.
This will definitely boost Trumps campaign. That image of him covered in blood surround by secret service, will be on a million t shirts by Monday.
France left wing leader Melenchon who might be up for prime minister wants talks with Putin. Also, he is a certified nutter. Interesting weeks ahead in France.
It’s a good thing there’s no massive sporting event coming up that they’ll have to deal with as well😬😬..
Yeah I felt the same about The Bear unfortunately. The episode in the hospital with Jamie Lee Curtis, might be the most cringy self indulgent bullshit I’ve ever seen. It felt like an SNL parody of the show.
Just noticed that Galloway lost his seat already😂😂. Glad the voters saw through his fuckery pretty quickly.
Feels about right for the Tories. The under 100 seats polls always felt like wishful thinking to me.
The SNP collapse isn’t a surprise unfortunately after the last couple years. I’ve voted SNP for years, but I didn’t today.
It’s all so very sad. Boris having to stump for the man that helped start off the wave or resignations that led to him standing down. And Sunak fucking his campaign so badly that he’s had to wheel this shambles of a man out..It’s a fittingly comical end to this whole mess.
I think it’s clear that Biden is just a normal 81 year old man, who has trouble forming coherent sentences, mixes up words, gets confused etc. It’s just common behavior for his age. The problem is democrats are only now realizing that that might not be appealing to the voter. They’re fucking idiots
There are plenty of 80 year olds that can still string a thought and sentence together and still look like they can get around by themselves. I watched a video earlier of Biden debating Trump in 2020 and it’s like a completely different person. His decline over the last 4 years is crazy to see.
Okay, this looks much better than that first image. Terrific looks straight from the comics.
Bet Sutekh was sitting there loving all the drama of this will they won’t they.
They should have had the Doctor change the channel on the tv screen that was playing Pyramids of Mars and give the Two Doctors a quick watch.
Well at least I didn’t go and see one of the midnight cinema showings. That would have been brutal.
Man, I was really hoping this would be good, but the whole thing left me feeling rather cold.
In the end Sutekh seemed to be dealt with quite easily and everything he did was undone, so what was the point?. He’s been attached to the Tardis for years but it’s only when the Doctor blew a whistle that it finally fought back?. They can’t seem to decide if the Tardis is just some Time Machine or a kind of sentient being/machine that is in it with the Doctor.
The Susan tease came to nothing, as did the Ruby mystery. I get not wanting to make her another Amy/Clara where all of time and space swirls around her. But They leaned soooooooo hard into the tease that the actual pay off landed with a massive thud.
Who is Mrs Flood?…I don’t really give a toss anymore to be honest🤷♂️. She’ll probably just be another random god, the god of storytelling probably.. It’s not the mystery I was really that invested in because the pay off seems so obvious and boring.
And don’t forget the universe was dying and 14 was just out there chilling with Donna in his perfectly functioning Tardis that doesn’t have an evil god attched to it I guess?🙄.. And I’m really gonna need this Doctor to stop crying. I think he’s done it pretty much every episode now and it’s just way too much. That should be a real moment, but it just comes off to me as extremely overdramatic and a bit of a drama school shortcut to show emotion.
I’ve been split on this season, but this capper makes me lean into it being a bit of a flop overall which is a real bummer.
I’d be more excited about that if Batman 2 was already to come out, but since we’re years away from that, it feels odd to have this out in the wilderness as part of something there’s not a lot of buzz for.
That was fun. Definitely a ton of setup and the first half felt like I was being hit with a bunch of information I already knew. But the ramp up to the end reveal was cool and reminded me of the old RTD days.
Susan has to show up in some fashion in the finale. There’s no way they dig up that plot thread and just use it as a fake out. And Ruby has to be some kind of demigod at this point, If only to give the Doctor some kind of weapon/advantage over the other gods. Because I’ll be pissed if he beats Sutekh with another silly game.
Looking forward to the next week. Hoping it’ll be big and flashy considering they’re doing the cinema screenings.
I don’t think Labour really have to wow with their manifesto or policies because they’re basically being gifted No 10 because the Tories have fucked up so badly and people want some kind of change, even if it’s not as extreme as some would like.
Personally I just don’t have the energy to be thinking about the possible party compositions five years from now. For all we know the economy could see a sudden upswing, Starmer could be really popular and lead us into a golden age, another plane might finish Farage off for good or we might get Covid Part 2 that puts us all out of our misery🤷♂️.
Yeah that felt like a complete waste of time to me. We’ve had years of the Doctor being this basically sexless being, So I don’t really buy him seemingly falling in love in the space of an episode. Especially with such a boring and forgettable character🤷♂️.. I also have zero interest in Brigerton or that particular period setting, so this episode was not made for me at all. Hopefully the two part finale will save this series from being a total bore.
I just guessed it would be 3 seasons since there’s 3 books, but good to know there’s a plan and that we’ll get the whole thing. I’m hoping they’ll film it all together so it won’t take an age to see it wrap up.
I enjoyed that. I was thinking about halfway through that there had to be some kind of twist and I though it was when the Lindy sold the dancer guy out to get away, so the reveal that they were all racists was unexpected and quite well done..I especially like how it reframes the rest of the episode you just watched.
And we finally get Ruby and The Doctor acknowledging Susan Twist keeps popping up. Interested to see what the larger plot is going to be here.
Yeah that was a frustrating one. Started off well with a nice creepy atmosphere but I zoned out a bit when it became obvious everything we were seeing was going to be undone by the end.
What was future Ruby saying to make everyone scared?, what was with the weird hand gestures from future Ruby?, why 73 yards? so has Albion not actually been stopped then since this never happened? and why was it even happening at all?!?🤷♂️… It feels like RTD thought “oh, that was Ruby all along” is the only explanation needed, but for me it just brings up more questions. I don’t need everything spoon fed to me, but there’s a fine line between being mysterious and just not bothering to answer questions because you don’t actually have the answers.
Looks like we’re headed for a uk election in July.
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Oh I’ll have to pick that up. Ron Marz and Darryl Banks doing a Kyle Rayner book again is definite buy for me.
Hawkeye was my favourite of the Disney+ shows, but I don’t think we need another season. A Young Avengers movie seems like the natural next step for those characters to me.
I’m fully expecting Ironheart to get the Echo treatment. Black Panther 2 was awful and that character was extremely unmemorable in it, so I don’t see much excitement for a spinoff series.
Saw Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning, and two things stand out for me:
1. Fuck, this movie has a lot of exposition. It’s like a third of the movie is spent on explaining a needlessly complicated plot.
2. Mission Impossible really has become a pretty unremarkable James Bond clone, hasn’t it? This movie pretty much copies the Bond formula step by step, and apart from some nice action setpieces I kept wondering why I was even watching this predictable, bland movie. Fallout was saved by Cavill’s performance, I suppose, but at this point, I think the Cruise/McQuarrie combination is delivering fare that is very much just (slightly sub-)standard.
Also, Cruise’s age is really showing. They’re kind of at the point where they can’t keep just ignoring it, and they really should make it part of the story that he’s way past his prime.
I put my initial disappointment with it down to my cinema experience being a bit crap. But watching it again at home I think it’s on the weaker side of the franchise.
The AI villain was to big of step into sci-fi for me. The universe has always been heightened, but that was a bit of shark jump moment. The retcons of the IMF agents being criminals, Ethans secret pre MI1 love interest who was killed by some big bad we’ve never heard of..It all feels like a franchise running on fumes.
Well another year done..Roll on 2025!
Not a bad winner overall
Aww, Ireland should have done better there.
Oof
UK getting fuck all this year again😂
Ireland doing well so far
I’m going to try and see Apes next week. Zero interest in Furiosa though.
AI Nightmare fuel.
Ireland, Norway or Switzerland for me.
Feel like I should be slaughtering some vampires right now.
Good voice, but his toxic relationship with the cameraman is making me uncomfortable
One of those songs that’s not awful but doesn’t really stand a chance at winning.
New Mortal Kombat character unlocked.
Feels like that’s bonkers enough to win
It’s actually quite fun. Like turn tab,e thing.
The deleted Inception ending.
This KKK rebrand just isn’t landing folks.
This new season of Moon Knight is confusing.
The Austin Powers gag feels like an afterthought to cover for a mediocre song
It’s like the single ladies video….But shite.
Lots of laying on the floor tonight. Hope they’re cleaning it well between songs.
The presentation is cool. But the song and his voice is quite weak.
That had potential milkmaid quality…But she seemed to be holding back.
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I don’t think this is who Ireland was trying to summon.
Mr Worldwide joining the Blue Man Group was not something I was expecting
This is great
Best staging so far
Not enough sleeves to go around.
Come get yer maw!!. She’s singing again.
Love this missile strike graphic they keep using😂
Pass the poppers😜
For all the fuss, that was a forgettable song.
Chevron 7 locked.
Expecting Isreal to decimate their completion tonight…Really blast the other singers until the cant take anymore
Little hand wave through the fire there…Proper hard man.
I don’t think this is what Ukraine meant when they said they wanted bombs.
They look like they should have a prank channel on YouTube.
Grahams in a cupboard apparently
And it begins!!
Didn’t love Space babies. It was all a bit silly, the ending trying to make me care about the snot monster didn’t land and i just found the babies voices to be quite grating.
The Devils Chord started well, I liked the setup and the villain. But the mystery of Ruby is being sold a bit to hard, it feels like Clara 2.0. And I hope the Pantheon don’t just show up and battle the Doctor in some silly game all the time. This was way too repetitive of the 60th special with the game of catch.
So a mixed bag, but I’m interested to see if we see Susan, what’s up with the Tardis and why have two references to the Time Lord genocide?🤷♂️.
I’m prepared to have my mind changed by seeing better images..But just from this, i kind of hate it.
The fact they’re taking inspiration from the New 52 is an immediate red flag. It also looks very much like a MCU style costume by trying to make it look like real fabric.
Still looking forward to seeing what Gunn does. But that’s a weird first image to show imo.
New Doctor Who and Eurovision on the same day!..No way this place won’t burst into flames.
I’ve only heard our entry and it sounds like a bit of a dud. I kind of expected Olly Alexander to go all out, but it feels weirdly toned down…Maybe the staging will sell it more🤷.
It’s a very well put together trailer. It’ll be interesting to see how this measures up to the first one.
https://variety.com/2024/film/news/matrix-5-lana-wachowski-executive-producing-1235959174/
Resurrections was a disaster but I like Goddard and I think there’s plenty of potential in the Matrix universe, so I’m cautiously optimistic about this…Let’s just add the Wachowskis to the list of writers/directors that should be kept away from their creations.
The whole thing is a shit show.
I’ve worked with younger people before at my last job and I’ll occasional think oh I wonder what so and so is up to now. But as a 39 year old guy, I’d never actually reach out to make contact because I’d feel super weird and I know the optics of me messaging a 17-20 year old girl are not good.
So while I think he made a huge lapse in judgment by even making contact with her, I don’t see anything illegal from the “evidence” that was shared. Yeah his back and fourth with her looks a bit problematic, it’s also cut to ribbons with zero context. And the fact she calls herself a “slut for lineart” in the same texts shes using against him, makes me think that’s just how they spoke with each other.
She can say she wasn’t out to “cancel” him but thats bullshit. We all know how the internet works by now. Innocent until proven guilty is a myth at this point. Even people that have been proven innocent in court are still pariahs. He could’ve pleaded his case all day long but the damage was clearly already done.
You consider multiple long running tv shows and the last movie he was in making over 800 million and being a critical success, a flop magnet?🤨..That last movie was GoTG 3 by the way, also written and directed by James Gunn.
If you want a real flop magnet, just look at Henry Cavills IMDB😬.
