New stuff I've seen...

[Bravo]

Well, the Black Panther sequel is gonna be very different now. RIP, Chadwick Boseman.

[Felix]

Movie called "The Outpost" is streaming on Netflix. Based on a true story about soldiers in Afghanistan that get ambushed.

It's a rock solid film/tribute.

[Bravo]

Movie theater finally reopens next friday. But not sure New Mutants or Tenant is worth the risk.

[Swindle]

New Mutants sounds like a watch at home type of movie. Tenant probably is movie theater worthy, but in this state... ? Looks like after what happened with it, no one wants to risk putting their stuff out or giving in and putting them on a streaming service. The Bond movie got delayed.

[Felix]

Most movies and TV shows don't/won't even make sense anymore to most people,
"They should be wearing masks!" "Why isn't anyone social distancing?!" "Here's another movie about white privilege!" Or "Here's another movie pushing the Female or minority as the hero!"

The Mandalorian is probably going to be the only successful new film/series, because that guy always wears a mask and never takes it off...not so hidden meaning.
Deadpool works too.
Logan didn't wear a mask, and look what happened to him.


I'm not mad at the world,
just really disappointed in people not standing up for their freedom and allowing themselves to be completely brainwashed by the mainstream media.

[Swindle]

I used to watch some of the DC shows on CW, the way it was, every show had a minority that was also gay, you'd think for example, watching it, that well over 70 % of black female women were gay based on those shows, which does not in anyway reflect reality.

There's a big split in entertainment media in general... some people feel what the entertainment says is more important than the entertainment itself, which is dangerous for several reasons. One, it homogenizes everything because they want it to reflect their world view. Two, it creates group think on a massive scale. Three, it destroys real creativity. Four, it damages established brands.

NBA ratings are at an all time low. Star Wars damaged its brand. Star Trek is definitely a brand in crisis. GIJoe and He-Man, look at them, back to their roots. Tough looking characters, attractive females, appealing figures over all.

[Bravo]

I am finally watching Star Trek Discovery Season 1 now that it airs on CBS on thursdays. Not terrible so far, except what they did to the Klingons.

[Felix]

Animated Batmans "The Killing Joke" is streaming on Netflix.

It's definitely for adults. I was expecting it to be better.
Cool that Mark Hamil does Jokers voice, but the ending is disappointing.
I never read the comic version, so I don't know how accurate it is...but at the end, I do not feel as if justice was served.
This is why I will always love the Punisher more than Batman.

*SPOILERS!!!!*
















The first half is basically Batgirl chasing down a regular bad guy.
Batman and Batgirl have sex.
Batman tells her to stay off of the case.
He gets ambushed by the badguy and Batgirl saves the day...but she almost goes too far, so she quits being Batgirl.
*Note she is Gordans daughter.
Second half, Joker breaks out of Arkam.
He goes to Gordons house, shoots Batgirl and knocks her down breaking her back (which we find out later paralyzers her).
Jokers goons beat up Gordon, and he removes Batgirls clothes, I feel rape is strongly implied.
Joker tortures/abuses Gordon and makes him look at all the pictures he took of his daughter victimized.
Batman goes after Joker, pretty sure he killed at least one of his goons, beats up the rest.
Saves Gordon and he tells him not to kill him, let the law handle it.
Joker beats up Batman, but Batman gets the upper hand.
Batman doesn't kill him and tries to get him to work together?
Joker won't do it, and tells a bad joke, and they laugh together...seriously, like they are old friends, it's really disturbing.


Even if Joker didn't rape Batgirl, he freaking paralyzed her!
That should be enough for Batman to at least put him in an equally permanent similar state as her.
Punisher would have handled Joker right.
I'm left feeling like Batman is either a pussy, doesn't really care about anyone, and/or is really a villain himself.

I want to give it some stars for the animation, and voice acting, because they are top notch...but the story, even if it's true to the comic...leaves me giving this NO stars.
It's not something I will ever watch again, and I wouldn't want kids to watch this either.

0/10.

[Swindle]

Yeah, that storyline was always controversial. Keep in mind, its actually Joker as the protagonist as its all about his psyche. Batgirl/Babs is just a sit piece. Some people hold it up as the 'greatest Joker story' which I disagree with. And I'm not into that nothing bad should happen to females in fiction train of thought, by the same token, the story is just about shock value. Joker should be a villain. That's the core of the Joker, he's a comic book villain. Not someone Batman is having a laugh with.

[Bravo]

Never read or watch that story, what I heard was off putting.

I always felt someone that evil would "commit suicide by cop" that is, cops would kill the Joker and make it look like he was resisting arrest or whatever.

I watched The early 2000's Mystery of the Batwoman movie last month, it was okay.

[Felix]

"SNOWDEN"
Streaming on Netflix.

An Oliver Stone film.

I loved it.
That guy tried to warn us about everything that the world is going through right now.
Maybe not an imaginary virus, but total economic and social control.
Very interesting.

It feels like Dial Tone got his own movie

I give it a 10/10 :-)

[Swindle]

So, I did watch Wonder Woman 84.

I do think this movie has several problems. One, there's a thin line between standing for something and becoming a boorish lecturer. This theme of truth is vague and annoying. She also drops at one point she hates guns (one critique of comic book characters in general is as benevolent dictators, easy for a demi-god to not have use for a weapon), so the drips of progressive ideas here and there are lame. The upside of the movie is it does play out kind of like a Twilight Zone episode where things get stranger and stranger. But I think it only is worth one watch. Wonder Woman and Steve spend most of the movie on a chase. The villains feel plucked out of MCU where they are forgettable. I can't imagine feeling the desire to revisit this one. The original was much stronger as it was character driven by Gal as Wonder Woman. This one feels more like they want to make some political points, but shy's away from actually saying what I think it wants to say, "Trump Bad!" They try to keep it vague, but Max Lord is obviously bad Trump cosplay.

2 out 4 stars. Watchable, not the worst comic movie ever, but not a recommend.

[Felix]

I liked the last Wonder Woman movie. Bummer about 1984.
Linda Carter is still my favorite Wonder Woman.

[Bravo]

Some youtuber had 25 second clips of it, but not sure the whole movie is there. LOL.

I saw FURY in November and while it was entertaining, I had a lot of problems with it. How did they managed to get the tanks right but screw so much else up? I like how Brad Pitt's character was a war criminal, but we are supposed to accept it as him being the jaded head jock initiating the new screw up (a non-combat typist who some how has only be in the army 8 weeks, even though boot camp alone was like 12). The newbie's character is the exposition character, the audience surrogate. Shane from The Walking Dead stars as an even bigger a-hole than Shane. Shia LaBeouf as a bible thumper, cuz he's a Jewish in real life and the Latino who's most memorable trait is thinking about sex. Fury has a gun capable of penetrating a Tiger's armor, but still has to find the Tiger's weak spot. Also, the Tiger would've targeted Fury first knowing it had a better gun than the other Shermans. (Actual documented encounters between Shermans and Tigers were rare, as most German armor weren't Tigers) Shermans actually had a high survivability but everyone else on the other 3 tanks was KIA...or the Fury's crew didn't even check. Then, KNOWING that the war is winding down (it being April 1945)...Pitt and pals decide to make a last stand against German infantry because Americans love their last stands against hopeless odds. Funny it's the Germans who would be outnumbered and making last stands. For some reason all the hatch locks inside Fury don't work, allowing Germans to just open them up. I guess. They showed the Germans marching with Panzerfaust but later same Germans have to unbox them? Did they stop and box them after Percy Jackson saw them marching with them?

Entertaining, but it has a strange air of macho bullshit mixed with gritty war realism to it, like it can't decide if it's Saving Private Ryan or Inglorious Basterds.

[Swindle]

I dipped into Netflix for Cobra Kai and on a whim watched Enola Holmes.

Spoilers if you care....

It stars Millie Bobbie Brown from Stranger Things as the lead. Henry Cavill plays a Sherlock Holmes version and is quite well at it. Overall, its an easily consumable all ages movie. However, I do think some of the underlying themes put forth in the movie are quite wrong as concepts.

Enola's brothers go off to lead adult lives, the father is dead, so her mother, it turns out is this very odd duck, teaches her daughter all sorts of things from childhood on (science, history, self-defense, on and on, not a jack of all trades, rather a master of all trades), Enola has no real social upbringing with other children, she kind of low key taught to resent the larger world by her mother. Her mother disappears one night. Spoiler, she went off be be a social terrorist to bring change for women in the country. I think Enola is meant to be 16 or so in the movie. Her mother is less a character; more a plot device. But the choice she makes is her political fight matters more than her daughter? Hmmm.

Enola presents the idea that a young girl can be self-reliant (of course, her mother left a secret stash of money for her), but the idea that this girl could get by in London by herself, hmmm, its pure fantasy. She even beats a trained assassin in a fight at one point. So, you have a mother's abandonment of her daughter as a hero act, the child who can go on her quest, first to save her mother, but eventually becomes about protecting a boy she meets (the standard trope is the girl is amazing, the guy is incapable). See the difference in Wonder Woman, where Steve Rodgers isn't a fool, capable in his own right. You never feel like Enola is ever actually going to get tripped up by anything.

So, it turns out this boy is a lord, his grandmother is a traditionalist and wants things to stay the same. So to keep him from voting as a lord to give voting rights to women, she wants to have him killed. Then you have Enola's other brother who wants to send her off to a school to teach her to be a proper lady. We lose the sense that guidance is a good thing for children. Politics and convenience is all that matters to people. There's this idea put forth that marriage is undesirable for Enola even though there's clearly a romance and the young lord she is always saving.

All the beats are so painfully predictable from this deal.

2 out of 4 stars, well made, well acted, but unsurprising and too preachy without actually tackling the true reality of having agency as a person vs gender roles.