Author: dtm666

I ramble about things.

Only One Thing I Need To Know…

Whenever someone puts out a trailer for a new movie – particularly a new sequel, remake, reboot, redux, or whatever the case may be – there will be a number of websites and influencers who will put out these generic lists of x number of things you need to know about the upcoming movie. These things usually entail “What is this? When is this coming out? What it’s about?” and other basic bits and pieces.

Well, that’s all well and good, but it seems like every time I read or watch one of these lists of things that I absolutely, positively NEED TO KNOW about the movie in question, there is always one thing that I need to know about a movie that is never touched upon. One key thing that will sell me on a movie more than anything. One thing that I absolutely, positively, honest-to-goodness truly NEED TO KNOW in order to ascertain whether this is a movie that I’m going to pay attention for the next few months until release day or is it something that I can safely ignore and move on to something else.

And so, dear writers of these puff pieces that are clearly designed to sell you on this movie in the most softball manner possible in hopes of getting invited to a premiere or early screening… when you assholes can somehow manage to grow a pair, do me a favor and address the one thing that I really do need to know about this upcoming latest feature in a franchise that is long past its prime.

“Why?”

As in “Why does this exist?”

As in “Why does this NEED to exist?”

As in “Why does this HAVE to exist?”

As in “Why can’t you dipshits come up with something fresh and original?”

Now THAT’s a list of things I need to know about this movie.

Give me an article addressing these hard-hitting questions, possibly providing sufficiently adequate answers to these queries, and I may possibly consider subscribing to your social media accounts.

Until then, get off my space lawn.

Remembering Sacha… One Year Later

A year has passed since we had to put Sacha to sleep. We still miss the old girl. So to celebrate her life, we’ll be uploading two videos today and tomorrow. Today’s video was recorded about a week after we brought Sacha into our home back in 2010. It’s very brief, which is why there’s also a clip of Sacha jumping the couch for the very first time a couple months later.

TNA Bound For Glory 2024

Yeah, we’re doing this show.

So, I will be confess a bit here. I had a lot of this written down back in October when this show was taking place and I was mostly enjoying it until the main event finish that left me… well… so I canned this, held it off for later, and then something magical happened. Joe Hendry won the TNA World title at Genesis 2025 and then got the biggest pop of his career at the Royal Rumble. You know what? Good for Joe. He’s got a future in WWE once his TNA run is done.

So now we’re going back to this show when TNA had just one job and they bungled it. They eventually course-corrected because… well, let’s be honest. TNA World Champion DOLPH ZIGGLER wasn’t getting that big a pop. But we’re revisiting this show and we’re going to pretend that this show is still fresh in my mind… mostly because I’ve had emotion penned in and I don’t want to ruin that emotion just yet.

Anyhoo… here we go.

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Fourth Time’s The Charm… I guess?

The trailer for the upcoming Fantastic Four movie… which is, what, the fourth take on bringing these characters a quality film?

So, there was the unreleased Roger Corman film from the 90s that only saw bootlegs out in the wild and it is a Roger Corman film – cheaply efficient and efficiently cheap. Then came the Tim Story-directed duology of the 2000s that I thought were okay for the most part… and if nothing else, gave a young Chris Evans some pocket change before he played a more famous Marvel Super Hero. And then there was Fan-4-Stick or whatever that 2015 version was called… that was atrocious in every conceivable metric possible.

And now we’ve got this… which kinda… sorta… looks the part… I do like the retro-futuristic look of the whole thing… but I don’t know… for some reason I’m not really feeling this one. I want to like this. I want to give this a chance. It looks distinct and not at all rehashed from the usual Marvel Studios table scraps that comprise the post-Endgame output… but I’ve got this… I don’t know, call it a “Spider-Sense” if you will… that this might not be as glossy as the exterior seems to be.

I’ve said this before, I’ll say it again until the sun dies out – I lost interest in anything Marvel after Endgame and probably saw one or two things at most. Everything else seems like “been there, done that” and anything that seems remotely different ends up being not. I want to say that I’m looking forward to the next Captain America move – I enjoyed Sam Wilson as a character and want to see that character grow and evolve – but I’m not quite confident that this is going to match the quality of past films. Same deal with Born Again; I enjoyed the old Daredevil show and this looks to be along those same lines, but Born Again was subject to reshoots and overhauls and I’m not quite confident that this will be as good as that earlier work.

So… eh, I don’t know. Hopefully, this Fantastic Four fourmake will be good and all my worrying is for naught… but Marvel hasn’t exactly had the best track record as of late and I’m afraid this won’t change things for the better. Still, wait and see seems to be the best approach.

Fantastic Four: First Steps arrives in theaters July 2025.

Nintendo Shuts Down Zelda Fanfilm Asking For Money… Why Are You Surprised?

Source: https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2025/02/nintendo-shuts-down-live-action-zelda-fan-film-lost-in-hyrule

So stop me if you’ve heard this one before… but a few friends get together and decide that they want to make a Zelda fan film. Okay, cool… we’ll see if Nintendo is cool with that. But then they decide, “Hey, we need money. Why don’t we start a kickstarter?” Um… yeah, okay. Good luck with that, son. I give it about two weeks before Nintendo shuts you down.

Sure enough, two weeks later… Nintendo laid down the hammer and those fans can no longer make their Zelda fan film.

Forgive me for coming across as a prude here and part of me feel sorry for these folks who had their hearts in making this thing. Hopefully, they can pivot towards something else and pursue that instead.

But how stupid do you have to be to announce that you’re making a fan film based on a property owned by a company who is known to be quite protective of its intellectual property, for better or worse, and then to ask people to SEND YOU MONEY to help make this film? As soon as I heard that they were making this thing and then started a Kickstarter, I gave it a couple weeks before it got the axe and sure enough…

I remember a time ages ago when Star Trek fan films were a dime a dozen, almost getting to the point where the actual actors were even taking part in these. And then something happened involving one particular fan film punching above its weight class (I don’t recall the name) and Paramount/CBS (or whoever owned the property at the time) laid down the hammer and that golden age of fan film came to a halt.

Look, I’ve got nothing against fan films. I’ve seen a few fan films, I’ve enjoyed a few fan films. There’s nothing wrong with a bunch of kids getting together, making a silly movie pretending they’re their favorite characters from that thing or whatever, and having a bunch of fun in the process. We’ve seen some quality stuff out there and not so quality stuff. But there comes a point in making your fan works where you reach a certain line that you probably shouldn’t cross if you don’t want to risk the ire of the people who own the IP. Asking people to send you money to make a movie based on a property that you don’t own the rights to is probably not a smart idea and I’m not just saying that because it’s Nintendo.

You wanna make a film? Come up with something original. You wanna make a fan film. Do it out of pocket and on your own free time… and don’t show it to anybody or sell it or put it on Youtube or anything like that. That way, nobody will sue you unless they go over to your house and raid your tape library or something like that.

Hold on, what was I talking about, again?

Miro Gone From AEW

Source: https://www.f4wonline.com/news/aew/report-miro-released-from-aew/

Where the fuck is Miro? Who knows… but now we know where he isn’t.

How long before he crawls back to WWE, hoping for a fresh new run, and then realize he’s a small fish in a gigantic ocean?

Or maybe he takes a chance and goes to TNA.

Or maybe he goes back to his video games.

The world may know eventually… but hey, we can put this stupid meme to rest, I guess.