Videos produced by other people and posted on the blog because I feel that they’re worth watching. A volatile category due to videos sometimes going offline for various external reasons.
Then 42-year old David Ayers – zamboni driver for the Toronto Maple Leafs at the time – was made emergency goalie for the Carolina Hurricanes and pulled off the performance of his lifetime. Most importantly, it made me aware of the calm, soothing baritone of one Steven Dangle.
I’m not a hockey guy… yeah, I know – guy lives in Montreal who isn’t a hockey fan; perish the thought. But watching Steve Dangle lose his shit over continual LEAF failure always put a smile on my face… but sometimes, you want the guy to be happy too…
The trailer for the upcoming Fantastic Four movie… which is, what, the fourth take on bringing these characters a quality film?
So, there was the unreleased Roger Corman film from the 90s that only saw bootlegs out in the wild and it is a Roger Corman film – cheaply efficient and efficiently cheap. Then came the Tim Story-directed duology of the 2000s that I thought were okay for the most part… and if nothing else, gave a young Chris Evans some pocket change before he played a more famous Marvel Super Hero. And then there was Fan-4-Stick or whatever that 2015 version was called… that was atrocious in every conceivable metric possible.
And now we’ve got this… which kinda… sorta… looks the part… I do like the retro-futuristic look of the whole thing… but I don’t know… for some reason I’m not really feeling this one. I want to like this. I want to give this a chance. It looks distinct and not at all rehashed from the usual Marvel Studios table scraps that comprise the post-Endgame output… but I’ve got this… I don’t know, call it a “Spider-Sense” if you will… that this might not be as glossy as the exterior seems to be.
I’ve said this before, I’ll say it again until the sun dies out – I lost interest in anything Marvel after Endgame and probably saw one or two things at most. Everything else seems like “been there, done that” and anything that seems remotely different ends up being not. I want to say that I’m looking forward to the next Captain America move – I enjoyed Sam Wilson as a character and want to see that character grow and evolve – but I’m not quite confident that this is going to match the quality of past films. Same deal with Born Again; I enjoyed the old Daredevil show and this looks to be along those same lines, but Born Again was subject to reshoots and overhauls and I’m not quite confident that this will be as good as that earlier work.
So… eh, I don’t know. Hopefully, this Fantastic Four fourmake will be good and all my worrying is for naught… but Marvel hasn’t exactly had the best track record as of late and I’m afraid this won’t change things for the better. Still, wait and see seems to be the best approach.
Fantastic Four: First Steps arrives in theaters July 2025.
Well, it was bound to happen sooner or later. Might as well get it out of the way now.
There’s a bunch of jokes to be made about the guy spearheading the Hall Of Fame putting himself in the Hall Of Fame, sleeping his way to the top, and all that, but honestly, when you look at his resume and everything he’s done – both positive and negative – is there any reason why he shouldn’t be in there? Sure, the pseudo-induction as part of DX was nice, but the man is more than leading an influential faction. Hell, what he’s doing now behind the scenes is actually more vital to the development of WWE than his in-ring career ever was… and that’s saying something when you’ve had an impressive in-ring career.
Whatever the case may be… we’re in the mood to celebrate the greatness that is Paul Levesque. Might as well give him an HOF nod and get that out of the way. The man has more than earned his flowers.
Listen, I’m not a Minecraft player. I know nothing about Minecraft. The appeal of Minecraft is not foreign to me, but it’s just not something that I ever found myself tempted to play. As such, I have no real interest in the Minecraft movie starring Jack Black as Puppet Steve.
That having been said… this looks like every comedy movie where kids get sucked into another reality and meet a kooky character to try and escape this world or learn to live with it. It’s nothing we haven’t seen done better or worse before. It looks like harmless fare that you take the kids who are more into Minecraft than you are to watch. If this popped up on Netflix somewhere and I had nothing better to do, I’d probably pop this up as background noise or something to keep me occupied or something.
Honestly, this looks like typical kids fare. Not much to say about that. I’ve seen worse video game movie outings. Hell, I’ve seen worse movie outings. This doesn’t look like any of that. It’ll either be a big hit or it’ll be quickly forgotten about save for the couple memes some moron on Twitter might pull out of it, but either way, it’s a thing that’s happening and then everyone moves on.
A Minecraft Movie hits theaters in April of this year.
Paramount released another trailer for their Section 31 movie that’s coming out next January… and I will give them credit on delivering a better second trailer that gives me more of a sense of what this thing might be about. I’m still not sold on this movie, it still looks like low-rent trash and not the good kind that’s fun to make fun of, but at the very least, they’ve got a better sales pitch with this second trailer.
Am I more likely to watching this after having seen this trailer? Probably not – right now, I’m more than likely going to be holding out on word of mouth. If people say that it’s better than the trailers make it out to be, then maybe I’ll give it a watch. Otherwise, I’ve got a pup to house train and she doesn’t care about Suction 62.
Just because it says Star Trek on the tin doesn’t mean I’m guaranteed to watch it.
EDIT: Premature posting meant wrong video embed. That’s been fixed. Also, while I generally don’t do this, I was curious about the like/dislike ratio for this thing on Youtube and…
To the 2.4K folks who liked this, I truly hope you get a film worth your time. To the rest of you… well, there’s always the old shit to rewatch. That’s what I tend to do these days.
Pushing today’s scheduled review a day later so that I can share this little gem. Billy Corgan’s NWA (remember them) are doing a Samhain 2 show… no one knows if it’s going to be a PPV or a special edition of their weekly Powerrrrrrrr show that’s on the CW app that nobody uses.
For those who don’t recall, the first Samhain PPV was the show with Sinister Minister James Mitchell’s cocaine line being aired live on PPV. Apparently, this is what prompted CW to go from “Let’s have NWA on our Network” to “Let’s have NXT on our network and… I guess we’ll give Billy a slot on our CW apps. I’m sure he’ll be fine with that.”
I actually did a musings on that show. I remember it being largely terrible… but it did end the terrible NWA World title reign of Brodus “Tyrus” Clay, so that’s one good… thing… I guess?
Here’s the musings for anyone who cares. NWA Samhain
From the November 6th, 2019 episode of AEW Dynamite, Cody (not yet Rhodes again) cuts a promo for his upcoming Full Gear 2019 match with then-AEW Champion Chris Jericho stipulating that if he doesn’t win the title, then he will never challenge for said title again. For those who don’t know, Cody would lose said match against Jericho and would never get another shot at the AEW World title ever again.
It’d be a stretch to say that this promo “changed things.” At the time, Cody was simply trying to avoid the pitfalls of management putting themselves in hot angles. Jeff Jarrett as NWA Champion in TNA when he owned the company comes to mind. HHH as multiple time WWE Champion and getting favorable treatment after marrying into the family. Just about any mom-and-pop promotion who opts to book family as the top stars because you know they’re never leaving… allegedly. So this is Cody eliminating himself from that discussion and he’d go on to have a decent TNT title run before things fell off the wayside for a variety of reasons.
Cut to a few years later and Cody Rhodes left AEW for WWE. And despite a couple hiccups here or there, Cody’s WWE run FAR eclipsed anything he was doing in AEW. He even got to win the WWE title and finish that story.
Would any of this have been possible had Cody not cut this promo? Perhaps… perhaps things would’ve turned out the same and Cody still would’ve left for WWE to bring about a new era to that promotion (among other factors, of course.) But considering that the Young Bucks have had multiple tag-team runs and even Kenny Omega got a decent AEW World title run to his credit… maybe Cody jumped the gun in this case.
Rewatching this promo after everything that has happened… one of the comments said it best; this does hit differently now with hindsight in mind.
Three years ago, on this very day, Arn Anderson cut one of his most memeworthy promos on AEW television. Wrestling fans of an older generation know him as the Enforcer of the Four Horseman, constant associate of “Nature Boy” Ric Flair, and a hell of a wrestler in his own right. But to a new generation of fans, he’s the guy who threatened to pull out a gun and spill Cody’s brains all over the concrete in an effort to motivate the bastard.
Hey, it took about three years, but he finally got through.
Now, he’s ready for the Rock at Mania… or maybe Jacob Fatu… probably even Zilla…
Just don’t give us another Solo match. The math simply doesn’t work.
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