Category: Musings

My Space Jam Story

I may have told this story before, but I figured why not.

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.

So we arrive at the movie theater, we buy our tickets, grabbed some popcorn and refreshments, and then headed into the movie hall. The striking thing about this hall was that it was completely empty with nigh a soul in sight… well, save for the three chuckleheads who walked in. So we figured we showed up a bit early, took some good seats, and talked amongst ourselves.
Roughly a moment later, the lights dimmed and the screen began to flicker the usual preshow commercials and trailers. Turns out we were the only ones to be watching Space Jam in this empty movie theater. We got a good laugh out of it. It ended up being one of the more memorable movie going experiences I ever had.
Anyway, we saw the movie alone in that big hall. I think we enjoyed it at the time. I could barely remember the damn thing now.
So is the new one any good?

For Anyone Interested, WWE Blood Money With A Vengeance Comes To Saudi Arabia October 21st

Source: https://www.f4wonline.com/wwe-news/wwe-returning-saudi-arabia-october-21-348201

Welp… you’d figure that it would only be a matter of time before WWE returned to the progressively progressive kingdom of Saudi Arabia, where they will present yet another GREATEST [insert word here] EVER! Whatever it takes to get some of that sweet Saudi blood money. Hopefully, nobody gets assassinated before the show takes place. Wouldn’t that be embarrassing?!
In other news, I think after last night’s RAW, Nikki ASH needs to change her name to Nikki SAG… because she’s Still A Geek. So, congratulations, Kana-chan. You’re off the hook!

The Maple Leaf Pandemic Of Choking The Big One

I don’t normally touch on hockey around these parts, but I can’t help but comment on this.

So this past week, Game 6 of the Stanley Cup playoff series between les Canadiens de Montreal and the Toronto Maple Leafs took place in front of paying fans at the Bell Centre and the Habs celebrated the return of fans to the arena by winning an overtime game to push the series to Game 7. Not to be outdone, Toronto gave away free tickets to fully-vacced health care workers to attend said game at whatever arena they play in these days; I don’t keep track.

There was an article around these parts in the local paper where the writer was chastising Montreal for charging fans to attend their Game 6 while Toronto did the noble and moral thing to give free tickets to first responders as thanks for all they have done during these trying times. And at first, I thought that there was some semblance of merit, especially since the Habs won in Game 6 and it would’ve been a nice feelgood moment for the crowd… and given how much shit those workers had to deal with, it would’ve been a nice gesture. So, clearly, Toronto has the moral high ground.

Unfortunately, those health care workers in Toronto saw the Leafs eat a 3-1 loss to le Bleu, Blanc, et Rouge in the deciding final game. As such, Montreal advances to the next round in the playoffs while Toronto wallows in misery through another post season of failure.

Honestly, I don’t know what’s worse. Montreal charging fans for a fun, winning game or Toronto giving first responders a free look at how a hockey club lives up to its legacy of choking. Who came out happier out of that exchange?

Final verdict? Nobody wins the morality war… but the Habs move up. We’ll see how far that goes.

No Need For Theatres

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.

DLC Disguised As Plastic Toys

Source: https://www.engadget.com/legend-of-zelda-skyward-sword-hd-zelda-loftwing-amiibo-183316002.html

Nintendo sells plastic toy that unlocks feature in game, making feature locked behind a pay toy. If there is any example of the devil hidden in plain sight, there you go. Everyone will complain about the multitude of lootboxes and needless DLCs from the other third-party companies, but Nintendo gets a free pass because the toys are cute.

To put it another way, the video game industry is a bunch of Malibu Stacy dolls, but Nintendo has a hat.

Figure that one out, kids. I’m out.

The Rumored Superman Film And The Trap It Faces

This is a rough transcript of something I talked about on the last episode of the DTM-Cast, but for those who want a more clear descriptor, here it is. If you don’t know what I’m talking about, I try my best to explain it, but otherwise, there are places that could bring you up to speed better than I could.

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AEW Moving To TBS In 2022, New AEW Rampage Show Debuts In August

Source: https://www.f4wonline.com/aew-news/aew-moving-tbs-2022-four-tnt-specials-new-show-announced-341826

Wasn’t able to catch last night’s Dynamite show, but heard it was a good push towards the PPV and featured Rebel in a match… the same Rebel who had that match with Shelley in TNA ages ago. The less said, the better. On the flip side, Serena Deeb made her return to action and didn’t miss a beat. So I’ll try and catch the show during the weekend… anything to cleanse the pallet of the zombies.
Instead, I want to touch on the news regarding AEW moving to TBS next year, which a lot of people have mixed feelings about. I don’t know if I’m ready to wave the white flag yet. Yes, TNA has switched networks over the years to diminishing returns, but so has Smackdown, going from UPN to CW to SciFi (I refuse to called SiFy or whatever) to USA to its current home on FOX. Hell, even RAW left USA Network for TNN (later Spike, later Paramount? I think…) and then back to USA. As I recall, those moves have been relatively positive. So no, AEW to TBS isn’t going to be a bad thing, especially if it means not getting pre-emptied by basketball and hockey, which were more than likely on TNT, as evident by next week’s show taking place on a Friday.
Besides, TNT isn’t going to be left out of the dust; they’re getting FOUR quarterly specials; presumably the special editions of Dynamite that AEW would normally host. So that’s more programming for AEW… and that’s not even bringing up the debut of the mythical third hour of AEW called Rampage… all the jokes I will make on this one…
For the moment, I think things are looking up for the next year. As far as beyond is concerned, we’ll see. But for now, everything is just fine.
Um… wrong choice of words, perhaps.
Later/

A Reminder Of The Long-Defunct Vidme

So while digging through this old tablet thing, I came across this update post dated November 2017 entitled “Vidme Progress Report”. Vidme, for those who don’t know, was an alternative video site that I came across and began adopting as a back-up for the Youtube and Dailymotion pages, since those had… issues. I recall uploading quite a bit of material on there until the site eventually shut down due to lack of funds.

To the best of my knowledge, only one or two videos that were part of the Vidme run failed to make the cut. I still have most of the videos from on there, including alternate cuts of older reviews and it’s my hope that those videos will eventually see the light of day once more.

Anyway, here’s the post in question… for old times sake:

“For those who care for this sort of thing…

“I just finished uploading the last twenty or so reviews of last year (501 to 520) onto the Vidme channel and they’ll be “shared” online on a daily basis when there isn’t new content. Sad to say that the conversion and slight editing of this older content to prep it for re-upload on this alternate video sharing service is what’s been taking up most of my time as of late. And this is one of the few things I’ll be addressing on the Sunday vlog.”

Did I mention how much I miss Vidme?