Category: Mainstream Entertainment

All posts relating to general happenings in mainstream entertainment, where it’d be movies, television, music, or other things that fall within that bubble.

Random Thoughts On… That Morphin Life Thing

You know, for a show about morphin, there sure isn’t a lot of it.

For some reason, I felt “compelled” (or rather, had nothing better to do) to check out JDF’s YouTube series that has him skydiving, doing the con thing, and the drama over his wife’s Muay Thai adventure… and I’m just “meh.” I suppose it’s nice to know there’s a tender side to JDF when he isn’t being a public douchebag and a cancer to Power Rangers and I suppose the show is good enough to appease both his supporters and the drones drinking the JDF Kool-Aid, but I got bored with this one pretty quickly. Nothing interesting, nothing worthwhile, nothing that can’t get out of some other reality-based documentary series with more appealing subject matter.

JDF fans might take a liking to it, but I’m gotta give the thumbs down on this one.

So… Turtles.

This one’s been out for a while, but I only got around to seeing this just now and… I am cautiously pessimistic.

Look, I know it’s “cool” to rag on Michael Bay after his Transformers movies and all that, but honestly, this doesn’t look utterly terrible. It doesn’t look good, either; feels a bit generic, almost unashamedly lifting plot elements from that Amazing Spider-Man film that I honestly didn’t care for, the whole thing seems completely cliched, and there seems to be a serious lack of ninjas here outside of those Turtle things… and there might be a few other things in mind… but other than that, I think it’s not half bad and I’m looking forward to it.

I’m holding out false hope here, aren’t I?

Waiting for the Blu-Ray, I guess.

New Flash Costume Revealed For Upcoming TV Show

Find the pictures here; http://www.mirror.co.uk/tv/tv-news/see-first-photo-grant-gustin-3232747

Ugh. Is it wrong for me to think the costume featured in the short-lived Flash TV show from the 1990s looks better than this thing? Looks hideous.

(2019 Update: Actually, I’d still prefer the old 90s suit. Actually looked sturdier than whatever they have on now.)

Dark Horse Comics Losing Star Wars License In 2015

http://kotaku.com/dark-horse-comics-is-losing-the-star-wars-license-shou-1493997099#

This shouldn’t come as a surprise. Disney owns Star Wars. Disney also owns Marvel. So why renew with a third party comic publisher when they have their own? One has to wonder what is going to happen when twenty years worth of Star Wars comics, though. Will they be reprinted under the Marvel banner? Or forgotten and cast aside in favor of a possible new universe?

Or does anyone really care here?

No More Blockbusters

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/dish-network-close-blockbuster-stores-193325822.html

A product of a bygone era, the last remnants of the “video store” era, has finally been put to rest. The funny thing is that I haven’t seen a Blockbuster store around these parts in years, as the one big store on Sherbrooke Street closed up shop back in the mid-2000s. The mom-and-pop shop close to home, on the other hand, is still alive and well.

Oh well. Goodbye, Blockbuster. You were slightly missed.