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 Thought About… Under Siege

Last night, Space channel was showing an old Steven Seagal flick from the 90s called Under Siege. What a damn good movie that was and I might actually consider picking up a DVD or BluRay if I come across it for dirt cheap. Light on plot, but the action was top-notch for the time and it was a thrill watching it. No complaints in that regard; I was thouroughly entertained throughout the film.

Anyway, it just occurred to me some time later that the name of Seagal’s character in that movie is Casey Ryback and that he’s a cook. Interestingly enough, in WWE, there is a character called Ryback whose catchphrase involves feeding him more… stuff.

So work with me here. In the 90s, a character named Ryback is a cook. In the 2010s, a character named Ryback likes to eat… go figure.

I wonder if there’s someone on the creative team who was a fan of Under Siege and… nah, that’d be giving those monkeys too much credit.

Random Thoughts On… The AVGN Movie Teaser Poster

So Cinemassacre posted the artwork for the teaser poster for the upcoming Angry Video Game Nerd movie that is coming this lifetime or something. It’s a nice looking poster. Mostly monochrome, mostly dark, but I rather like it.

Unfortunately, the poster does a good job of misleading me into believing that this is going to be something of a dark horror comedy sort of film rather than the schlock that the teaser trailer has been showcasing. In fact, a dark horror comedy film starring the Nerd character has the potential to be the much more interesting film that could potentially give that franchise a worthwhile production. I know Rolfe could pull it off if he wanted to… but he won’t.

And it’s a shame, because in my mind, that’s probably what he’s best at.

The Hobbit… In Few Words

Kevin Smith has more walking scenes to mimic in his future public speaking ventures if he wants to mock the Rings once more.

In all honesty, it looks decent. The battles were as well done as million dollar CG will allow, and the story was alright for the most part. However, it tends to drag at times and there were a couple of occasions where I was falling asleep. Sometimes, story decompression isn’t such a good idea.

Not a bad flick, but could have been shorter. We’ll see about the next one.

Ponies? No thanks…

Early in the morning, I decided to check out Netflix… Netflix apparently had the new My Little Pony animated series that are making so-called bronies everywhere act like jabronies. Feeling a bit bored, I decided to sample an episode of the show… and promptly shut it off after about five minutes…

I guess I’m not a bronie… I’ll stick with that other girly show about magical girls in sailor suits. At least it’s part of the same species…

Now… upon further study, I realize the above post needs a bit more context, so here’s the deal. This is not a “hate” thing or anything like that. I sampled about five minutes of a twenty minute episode of the show and decided that it was not for me. Kudos to all involved for producing a show that people like enough to gain some popularity; I’m just not one of those folks.

So I Saw Dark Knight Rises

Generally speaking, it’s almost on par with the previous two films in Nolan’s Bat trilogy. A near-three-hour movie might seem long, but there was never an instance where I felt like falling asleep and even the duller moments kept me interested in what was going on. Bale’s Batman still sounds like crap, but Tom Hardy did a good job with Bane, who finally got a proper cinematic treatment compared to the character’s butchering by Joel Shoemaker in Batman & Robin. And the movie’s end (won’t spoil it here) is a fitting, almost appropriate closure to the trilogy while leaving the door open for a possible return to that universe. Let’s hope that doesn’t happen.

So yeah. Rises was pretty damn good.