Category: Mainstream Entertainment

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Space Jam was a thing that happened and I remembered going to the movie theater to see the film when I was a younger fellow. I don’t know why… well, actually I do remember. One of my cousins who happened to be my older brother’s godchild wanted to see the movie and so he offered to take and I tagged along.

iWith things starting to open up, there eventually comes a point where movie theaters will allow full capacity and there’s going to be the ever-present question of whether anyone would show up. And I’m not going to speak for everyone, because everyone has a different answer. Some would more than welcome the opportunity, others could care less, and some wouldn’t consider the idea as long as it meant supporting the cesspole that is Hollywood nowadays.

As far as I’m concerned, I have no interest in going back to theatres any time soon.

I hadn’t had the urge to do so long before this pandemic hit, there was nothing that warranted it, and quite frankly, with the past year showing the true colors of those in the movie business and how they really feel about the common moviegoer, I really don’t want to support that kind of attitude and if I’m going to be looked down upon and treated like a worthless commodity by the people who make this stuff, then why should I support them in a monetary fashion?

I would claim that if a movie came out that peaked my interest, I’d wait until it hits Netflix… but I let my Netflix subscription expire last month and didn’t miss it one bit. Anything that I would’ve wanted to check out, I already have on DVD, Blu-Ray, or even VHS, which still works. So, all I got left is the WWE Network and the Crave service that comes with Bell… and I can get by with those along just fine.

This isn’t a hard stance, by the way. Chances are I’ll jump back on the Netflix train down the line if there’s some retro content worth checking out and if my brother fancies a film worth the big screen experience, I might bite… but for now, I am more than content to stick with other means of getting my cinematic fix… from 20-30 years ago when movies didn’t suck.

This dog is more entertaining than SNL.

So a couple folks I used to associate with before everything went to shit had asked (via e-mail) if I had seen the SNL skit with rich dude Elon Musk. I told them that I hadn’t watched a single bit of SNL since Will Ferrell stopped doing those Celebrity Jeopardy skits ages ago… for those wanting a timeline, that was a long ass time ago.

So I ask them what the fuck they’re talking about and they sent me this link to a Youtube video (which I am not providing here; chances are you’ve already saw it and if you haven’t, then consider yourself extremely fortunate) that features Elon Musk dressed in a Wario costume in court. My first response would be to ask if Nintendo sent a cease-and-desist to NBC for this blatant infringement on their intellectual property.

So I watched the clip in question… I kinda wish I hadn’t.

I don’t regularly watch late-night comedy shows; usually I make a point of it whenever someone is making an appearance there. And even on that point, it’s a genuine struggle to stay through the whole show and watch a series of really bad skits that aren’t funny. And this was twenty years ago.

I watch a clip like this and I find myself wondering how things have gotten so bad that this comedy bits make the worst Irate Gamer comedy seem like Carlin in comparison. I’ve seen old Nostalgia Critic skits from a DECADE ago that are funnier than this and that’s not exactly high praise, either. I mean, it’s amazing that they got these performers in these accurate-looking costumes, including one who is a billionaire dude of sorts, and produce the absolute worst dreck imaginable… actually, now that I think about it, I can imagine far worse dreck and this doesn’t come close to scratching that particular surface.

How is it that I watch something so inane and yet I’m able to type out a couple short paragraphs out of this? Is this really that bad?

And so, after watching the clip, I e-mail the fellow back and let them know my feelings… and I will just end it there.

No Time To Die, the 25th James Bond feature film and rumored to be the final film featuring Daniel Craig as the title character, is apparently going to be delayed for the umpteenth time from an Easter release to later this fall, because apparently the studio really want people to come to theatres to see this really, totally awesome movie, you blokes you.