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.

Why The Fuck Does The World Need A Call Of Duty Movie?

Source: https://filmstories.co.uk/news/call-of-duty-movie-officially-in-the-works-at-paramount/

Are we really that desperate for movie ideas that we’re going to make a movie about soldiers in a war – a concept that has been developed into movie HUNDREDS OF TIMES before and more than likely inspired this video game concept? And also, how many of these fucking games have they made already? Which one is getting the movie treatment?

That’s like someone getting a license to do an After Burner movie, when someone with a brain can point out that there’s already an “After Burner” movie of sorts; it’s called TOP GUN.

Did people test this shitty licensing deal before they released it?

Obviously not.

Should I Even Care?

So they announce that they’re bringing back Robert Downey Jr. into the MCU fold that he could play not Tony Stark a.k.a. Iron Man a.k.a. the role he made famous, but rather Doctor Doom – the arch nemesis of the Fantastic Four… a casting choice that was made shortly after their originally intended villain – Kang The Whoever – was dropped because the guy who played him in some Ant-Man movie was dealing with some legal issues.

And then they put out a live stream that had people waiting for a trailer that showed a bunch of chairs with people’s names on it. Apparently, this was enough to get the MCU diehards excited while anyone with a functioning brain would sit back and go… “huh?”

And then as the weeks pass, they announce other possible names added to this already bloated production that apparently doesn’t even have a finished script. Exactly how many people do really need to tell a good story that’s worth telling? What the fuck are we doing here?

The more I hear about this production, the more weary I become over the whole deal. It’s clear that Disney and Marvel wants to lure back some of the folks who dropped on the MCU train after Endgame by bringing back some of these old faces. This implies a severe lack of confidence in this new wave of characters to carry the franchise on their own. It’s also pretty clear that they want this to be the biggest and bestest Marvel movie of all time and… I say “good luck with that, pal. You’re gonna need it.”

It’s been no secret that my feelings towards the current MCU product has been largely ambivalent. I haven’t cared enough about what they’ve been putting out to actually sit down and give these things a watch. However, I can’t help but feel a bit of a perverse interest in the behind the scenes stuff that’s been going on. Sure, there’s some negative noise being bandied about here and there… but it is an Avengers movie. It’s usually a big deal and I’m sure that thing will make some bank and people will praise it to the high heavens.

With that in mind… I actually, sincerely hope that this movie bombs. Like absolutely totally fail at the box office to recoup its massively overblown budget to bring back all these talents that I’m pretty sure didn’t come cheap. I just want to see this thing fail miserably… if only because I’m interested in seeing what the aftermath of that whole deal is going to be. Having a couple smaller things crap out here and there – it’ll be business as usual and there’ll be some words about things changing when nothing actually did… but if an Avengers movie were to bomb – an Avengers movie with a massively bloated budget to account for all those overpriced actors, mind you – what would happen afterwards? Would we see a change in leadership? Would we scrap the whole deal and start anew? Do we give this thing a rest and let absence make the heart grow fonder?

And look, if it ends up being a success – which I’m sure it will be – then you know what? Cool, whatever. We all move on with our lives. But if it ends up being a failure… I don’t know. What happens afterwards? Where do we go from there? That feels like a more intriguing scenario than anything the monkeys writing these things could come up with.

That’s the strange mindset I have with this movie. I don’t care enough to watch it when it comes out in theaters, but I’m fascinated by any potential fallout that would come as a result of the massive failure of a major Avengers event film. That would be the more interesting story and potentially a better narrative than any scripted piece of MCU entertainment scripted in the past decade or so.

Anyway, I’m done. I’m going to get some shawarma.

Later.

Did I Mention That Superman Was A Good Movie?

I feel the need to mention that.

I also feel the need to mention that I had a good time in the movie theater for the first time in a long time.

Is the humor and quip machine getting tiresome? Sure… seems like every movie has it. Sometimes, however, you can almost forgive that if the more wholesome parts of the film are done well… and I feel that’s the case here.

Maybe I’ll revisit the movie at home whenever I can get the chance to see if it holds up… but so far, I want to hold on to the happy memory of Krypto saving the whole movie… not that it really needed saving.

No, Seriously, Superman Is Good…

No full review or anything like that. No deep dive… if I feel like it, we’ll do one towards the end of the year… but I will say this much. It’s nice to have a Superman movie that isn’t ashamed of being a Superman movie. It’s nice to see a comic book movie embrace the absurdity of the universe it’s establishing. It’s nice to see a movie that isn’t five hours long.

Does it have issues? Sure, there are some emotional bits that are undercut by a stray joke here and there. You could make the argument that they may have crammed in too much, but I thought they did a fine job of balancing everything out. You’ve got a good Superman, you’ve got a good Luthor, the side characters have their moments… and then there’s the dog.

The dog is the best part of the movie.

No doubt it’ll be the best part of [REDACTED.]

So, yes, Superman is good.

Superpwn

For those wondering, no, I have not seen the movie yet. We’ll see about doing that later today if there’s time. However, word of mouth has generally been positive… with some reservations. And there’s the usual white noise from certain political circles.

I had a post here that was going to touch on one thing in particular, but decided against actually posting it. That’s veering into territory that I would rather not touch on and also it’s a horrible way to start off a wonderful weekend with some wonderful weather… or so I’m told.

I don’t know… I’m gonna wash the car in the morning and go from there.

Later.

The Street Fighter 2026 Movie Cast… meh.

Source: https://www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv-movie-lists/street-fighter-cast-reboot-1235374639/50-cent-as-balrog-1235374707/

So far, your current cast listing for the upcoming Street Fighter movie.

You have actor Andrew Koji portraying Ryu and will presumably be the main character. There’s also Callina Liang being the third live actor to play Chun Li (following Ming-Na in the 1994 movie and Kristen Kreuk in the best forgotten Legend Of Chun Li flick), Jason Momoa will be playing Blanka (what, you couldn’t get him to play Ken instead of this Noah dude?), Orville Peck is cast as Vega, and Balrog will be played by 50 Cent, who I assume will be try to act like a boxer rather than “generic black tough guy” that was the case for Michael Duncan Clarke when he played Balrog in that Chun Li movie everyone wants to forget. They also cast their Dan, but I forget the guy’s name.

Oh, and playing the role of Akuma?

Your tribal chief, Roman Reigns.

I laughed. That gave me a good chuckle. On the bright side, though, if they can get Roman to do nothing but mean mugs and say nothing, that would probably be the best portrayal of Akuma in a live-action movie.

I can’t help but feel somewhat ambivalent over this one. On the one hand, it’ll probably be nice for Street Fighter to have a live-action movie that’s more closer to the lore of the games than the previous efforts were. On the other hand, just because something is accurate to the source mateial doesn’t automatically make it a good movie. There’s something to be said about the 1994 movie that deviates from what was established in the games (which wasn’t saying much; most of the filler was through supplementary material like mangas and things of that nature), but nonetheless provided an entertaining little flick. On the flip side, I watch something like the recent Mortal Kombat film, which is more true to whatever lore it’s currently following right now, but is a generally dull film as a result. Even Annihilation – a generally bad movie – had its fun moments… for all the wrong reasons, but sometimes, you’ve got to take what you can get, no matter how little it is.

So, as much as I’d like to have a film adaptation that’s the best of both worlds, I’d much rather have a fun and enjoyable movie that deviates from the norm than a deathly dull movie that’s a slave to following lore. Hopefully, this Street Fighter movie strikes that nice balance. It’s been on the cheesy side, it’s been on the dull side… let’s go for somewhere down the middle. Thanks.

There Should Be Only One…

Source: https://filmstories.co.uk/news/russell-crowe-to-join-henry-cavill-in-highlander/

So we’ve got a British guy who’s presumably assuming the role of a Scottish immortal, who was originally played by a Frenchman (Cavill) and now we’ve got another Brit (Butler) who’s going to presumably play a Egyptain-born Spaniard immortal, who was originally played by a Scotsman. It almost gets to be a bit funny when you realize that these are the same guys who played the Last Son Of Krypton and his father respectively in Man Of Steel.

No word on who is playing the Kurgan, but if I’d have to venture a guess… they’ll probably cast a petite woman or no-bi individual… someone who we’re supposed to buy as a major threat, but is played by someone who is about as much of a threat as a cream pie to the face. Unless she’s playing the sorcerer or something. I don’t know. I’m not sure I really care.

I’ll be honest; the idea of a Highlander remake does not appeal to me in the slightest. This is based on the fact that they tried to make a bunch of Highlander sequels in the past and they all sucked to varying degrees. I’m still sour over The Source and I have a feeling that this remake will turn out even WORSE than that pile of shit. I want to be wrong about this. I want to give this a fair shake… but nothing about this inspires me with much confidence.

I suppose I’ll reserve judgment until they eventually release a trailer for this thing… but really, folks? There really should have been only one.

Just Give Me The News, You Donkey!

So I’m visiting this entertainment website whose name I shall not reveal, but they generally… occasionally well, okay, I mostly visit for the luls. But what doesn’t bring me the LULZ is that whenever they discuss comics, they will often copy and paste bits and pieces of a source article and then proceed to write a nine-hundred page editorial expressing their opinions on this thing. More often than not, it’s the same tired rhetoric about [insert film brand here], [insert comic company there], or anything involving the ol’ webhead.

Anyone remember the days when news articles mostly gave you the news and that’s it? If you wanted an opinion on something, you’d read an editorial or commentary piece. And these things would give you something to think about, but hopefully not give you something to parrot like a lemming. Now it’s like “Hey, so-so is doing this. What’s going on?” and then you click on the article to get about fifty words worth of news and the rest of the eight-hundred and fifty words is dedicated to why so-so sucks or is an insult to one’s intelligence. You know what’s insulting my intelligence? Trying to pass yourselves off as a news site when all you’re doing is copying and pasting other people’s words before tossing in your own half-baked opinions and rhetorics that I’m pretty sure was copied and pasted from whatever backlog of opinions you have on hand to reuse and regurgitate whenever you have the chance. Dreadful.

Just so that we’re clear on things, dtm666.com is not a news site. This is a blog where I post stuff of interest and then I talk about it. None of this stuff is ever passed for news (I’ll source you the original article, so you can read for yourself) and virtually everything is an opinion piece of some sort. If you’re going to an entertainment news site or something that claims to be that, you just want to read the news and not a five-thousand word opinion piece on something that should have taken less than 500 words tops to report.

If you want to write an opinion piece, write a fucking column. Otherwise, just report the news and fuck off, will you?