Saturday, September 28, 2024
Friday, September 27, 2024
THE SIMPSONS | Movie trailer (2024)
This is AI-generated. Pretty astonishing.
Neil Patrick Harris as Smithers is a pretty good joke. The show implies that both Smithers and Millhouse are gay.
Wednesday, September 25, 2024
Tuesday, September 24, 2024
Friday, September 20, 2024
The Jetsons - 1950s Super Panavision 70
What you can generate with AI these days, is just astonishing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZOnC8hdX8k
@frankpoperowitzmusic 2 days ago
I could watch two straight hours of Jane just strolling around the apartment.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZOnC8hdX8k
@frankpoperowitzmusic 2 days ago
I could watch two straight hours of Jane just strolling around the apartment.
Wednesday, September 18, 2024
Disney Plus: You paying more for less is their brilliant business strategy
Good video!
A Google search shows that Disney+ is offering three months for $1.99 per month. This is the version with ads.
Last year on Black Friday I got a combination of Disney+ and Hulu for a year for $3 per month.
There was a similar offer on HBO Max, now just called Max. It is my favorite streaming service.
Years ago, I got the Disney+ pre-start discount where I was paying around $4 per month by paying for three years in advance. The problem is that I didn't see a ton of new content that I wanted to watch. I had already seen most of the stuff worth watching.
Tuesday, September 17, 2024
Monday, September 16, 2024
Tuesday, September 10, 2024
Sunday, September 8, 2024
Saturday, August 24, 2024
STAR WARS JUST CANCELLED ANOTHER MOVIE! (maybe)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TCn_MhDQeCk
I liked the Acolyte better than most people, because most of the fans hated the show, but the finish failed to deliver and turned the series into a daytime soap opera. However, most YouTubers judged the show negatively before it even aired. The ratings were abysmal, and almost nobody watched this show.
Disney and Lucasfilm failed partly because their Star Wars shows pushed a woke agenda, which I can live with, but the shows mainly failed because the writing was weak.
However, Rogue One is a great movie, and Andor season one is a fantastic television spin-off of Rogue One and the best Star Wars Disney has made.
The Mandorian season 1 was pretty good and the second season was excellent. However, the third season was barely passable.
Monday, August 19, 2024
'The Acolyte' Canceled: Disney's Star Wars Spinoff Done After One Season
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/the-acolyte-canceled-star-wars-1235978593/
No surprise. Disney made a mediocre show that at best split the fans. I liked the first six episodes but the payoff wasn't great.
Best wishes,
John Coffey
No surprise. Disney made a mediocre show that at best split the fans. I liked the first six episodes but the payoff wasn't great.
Best wishes,
John Coffey
Friday, August 16, 2024
True Detective Night Country
I saw a great many commercials for season 4 of HBO Max's True Detective Night Country. It is Jodie Foster's first TV series in 50 years, and who wouldn't want to see Jodie Foster in a TV series? The streaming service Max is promoting the hell out of the show, and I suspect it attracts many people to the service, like me.
Each season of True Detective has different actors and a different story. I had seen a little of the first season with Matthew McConaughey, and it is interesting.
The 4th season is about a police detective working in the fictional town of Enis, Alaska, 100 miles north of the Arctic Circle. The town is enduring three months of darkness, making every scene look like it is shot a night, even though it might be day. Six scientists disappear from a scientific research station, and they are later found naked and frozen to death. The detective treats this as a murder investigation, and she resists her superiors trying to take the case away from her.
Like many shows today, it is female-centric, reminiscent of Fargo or The Silence of the Lambs.
Jodie Foster gives an interesting performance, but described her police detective character as, "Awful. An Alaskan Karen". The character is rude to just about everyone and has been sleeping with some townsfolk. She was transferred to Enis because nobody wanted to work with her. She has a mutual hatred with another policewoman, played by Kari Reis, over some mysterious past incident. Predictably, the case will allow the pair to resolve their differences and become friends.
The 4th season has a 93% rating on Rotten Tomatoes but only a 56% audience score. I binge-watched the season and found it slow, boring, and a mess. It tries to do too much, with too many characters, and drags out too long. It is not only a police procedural drama, but it has a bit of horror and science fiction thrown in. People have visions of dead people, which drive a couple of them to suicide, but they might just be going crazy from the long darkness.
The first couple of episodes set an eerie mood, but so little happens that I was questioning why anyone would want to watch the show.
I have great respect for Christopher Eccleston and Fiona Shaw, but they are underutilized here. Eccleston only serves the purpose of being an asshole, sporting a fake American accent, and having a nude love-making scene with Foster. The actor deserves better.
Foster almost looks like an old woman and Eccleston is also looking older. He has lost some of the charm he had as a younger actor.
The actress Kali Reis is a former professional boxer, and I kept thinking she looked like Samira Wiley from The Handmaid's Tale.
The ending tries to make a political point about pollution, but I didn't find it convincing. There are a few things in the series that are not logical or believable.
There is much nudity, profanity, and some gore. If the series were a movie, it would be rated a hard R.
Rating: C+.
Tuesday, August 13, 2024
NEW STAR WARS LEAK IS VERY CONTROVERSIAL!
I'm unimpressed with the latest Star Wars trailer for Skeleton Crew, which looks like Goonies in Space.
Tuesday, July 30, 2024
Manny Jacinto on why some don't like "The Acolyte"
5 minutes ago
Hey Thor,
I don't interpret the message of The Acolyte in the same way you do. I don't think that it is saying that the bad guys are the good guys and are justified in murder, any more than Tony Soprano is portrayed as the good guy and is justified committing murder. You can have a show where a good character turns bad, a show where most of the characters make bad choices, and a show where the bad guys are the main characters.
I know that Leslye Headland made a bunch of statements way out in left field showing her own biases. However, in the show, these biases aren't so clear. Yes, the characters do bad things and make bad choices, but it is not clear that the show is defending those choices or saying that the Jedi are bad.
The pre-release comments by Leslye Headland convinced many YouTubers that this was what the show was going to be about, and there was a backlash before the show even started.
In my opinion, the first six episodes are not excellent, but just good enough to be entertaining. Unfortunately, the show failed to deliver and the payoff was disappointing.
I doubt that Disney would waste another 180 million dollars on a lackluster show, but I would like to see a second season that adds some clarity to the story. I want to see the bad guys get justice and maybe for Osha and the Jedi to get redemption. There is still enough mystery in the series for us to get a follow-up.
Best wishes,
John Coffey
P.S. I think that the series accomplished what it was supposed to; it got people like me to subscribe to Disney+.
Sunday, July 21, 2024
The problems with "Loving Everything Star Wars" (The Acolyte)
1 hour ago (edited)
Hey Thor,
Good points.
We partially agree. I really did enjoy the first six episodes. I am still interested in a couple of the characters. However, the payoff fails in a big way. Episode 7 doesn't work and Episode 8 has too many logical problems (which you did a good job of pointing out.)
I don't think that the series is as terrible as people say it is. I understand if people really think it is terrible, but I also think that the show has some good moments. I can enjoy a Star Wars show even if it is not the best that it could be or if non-Star Wars fans aren't going to like it. I want to consume Star Wars content.
You are right. The shows need to be better to attract a bigger audience. We all want better content. I was a little more forgiving because it is a TV show and not a major motion picture.
Best wishes,
John Coffey
Sunday, July 14, 2024
Saturday, July 13, 2024
Friday, July 12, 2024
Biggest Money Laundering Scheme in History | The Acolyte Ep. 7
Although I very much enjoyed the first six episodes, I was disappointed with episode 7. So was everyone else.
Tuesday, July 9, 2024
How could someone making Star Wars misunderstand it this badly?
7 minutes ago
@thorskywalker I accept the fact that you are never going to like this show.
However, it might be possible to read too much into a magazine article. It may taken out of context.
Your dislike of the show seems to be partly based on predictions about where the show is going and what its agenda is.
So far, your negative predictions haven't come true. The show hasn't been negative toward the Jedi in general, but it implies that a few individuals did something bad.
Granted, the last two episodes could be a cluster. You could be correct.
If Osha turns to the dark side without sufficient justification then I will find that disappointing. I don't think that she will.
Although you state that the show is poorly written, I claim that the show is not as bad as you make it out to be. Much of the problem is that the show keeps the viewer in the dark, but I have enjoyed the week-to-week anticipation. (It is a bit of a soap opera, but even George Lucas referred to Star Wars as a family soap opera.)
Yesterday a friend approached me and asked if I had seen The Acolyte because he really loved it. I told him that so did I.
It is easy to understand Mae's motivation and her so-called flip-flops.
1. She turned to the dark side because she believed that the Jedi had killed her family and Osha. (Although I'm not sure why she thought Osha was dead.) She is motivated by revenge.
2. However, when she found out that her sister is alive, she realizes that she didn't need to continue to take revenge.
3. On the planet she is motivated by survival since she thinks that she is about to be killed by The Stranger.
4. When Osha tries to arrest her, she perceives this as a betrayal and defends herself against Osha.
5. She needs a way to get off the planet, so she pretends to be Osha.
6. She thinks that Sol brainwashed Osha against her, and even says as much, so she seeks revenge against Sol. However, she can't defeat a Jedi Master directly and needs to sneak up on him. But when he perceives her presence she loses the element of surprise and backs off.
Mae appears to be a conflicted character, which makes her interesting, so she vacillates and hesitates a little.
Sorry we disagree.
Best wishes,
John Coffey
Friday, July 5, 2024
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