Superman: The Movie
Superman Returns
Man of Steel
CW Superman
Look Up
Secret Movie Night
Cinemark had one of their $5 Secret Movie Nights on Monday, and I bought a ticket a couple of weeks ago, when it was first announced.
I had a feeling I knew what movie it was from what was coming out later this week.
I love the original Gladiator, and for $5, I was willing to see if this sequel was as good if not better.
It was good. I think the original was better.
We still had like 20 minutes of trailers before the movie started, but once it did, I had a big grin on my face when the title appeared.
All the actors were good, especially Denzel and Pedro, and the callbacks to the first film were great.
Overall I think it’s worth a watch. 3 stars out of 4.
Go see it!
Stream of Consciousness
This morning I found out that a blu-ray and DVD set were released for the COMPLETE Super Friends series.
I then looked up how much they were, and actually put the blu-ray set in my cart on Amazon.
I then remembered that I bought a bunch of Super Friends content on Amazon Prime Video a year or so ago using an Amazon gift card.
I then checked how many episodes of Super Friends were made.
93.
I then went back to Amazon Prime Video and counted the total number of episodes that I had purchased, over the 9 seasons of the series.
93.
Well then.
I then removed the blu-ray set from my Amazon cart.
Drakar och Demoner Official Soundtrack
Sometimes I forget to claim all of the items from a Kickstarter pledge.
For example, the soundtrack to Drakar och Demoner/Dragonbane.
Listening to it as I type this, sounds very Epic RPG.
Available pretty much everywhere for purchase or streaming, including Amazon, Apple Music, Spotify, and YouTube.
Pretty cool when they add mood music for a tabletop RPG.
Rings of Power
Looks like I stopped watching this one in the middle of Season 1, because I didn’t want to watch two high fantasy shows at the same time, the other being House of the Dragon.
I was also annoyed that EACH episode was well over an hour long, at least 70 minutes runtime.
However, I got on a Lord of the Rings kick a couple of weeks ago, after watching reaction videos of the Extended Editions.
I may try watching the rest of Season 1 and start on Season 2.
My renewed interest in tabletop fantasy RPGs (the new D&D Player’s Handbook is available next week, I’ll have it Monday) is certainly rekindling interest as well.
On to Rings of Power, Season 1, Episode 5!
Engage!
Threads
When I was 14, I first saw the movie Raiders of the Lost Ark, and it left the biggest impact on my life.
I’d find myself watching it whenever it came on TV, and sometimes I’d switch to my own copy on tape or disc if the commercials started to annoy me.
It was one of the films that my Dad would stop to watch as well.
Other films in that category are The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly (or at least the final confrontation scene) and High Noon.
I noticed that Dad seemed to have the same admiration for High Noon that I had for Raiders.
After Dad passed away, I figured out that High Noon had come out when *HE* was 14.
So I’m left wondering if this movie had the same impact on him at that age, as Raiders did on me.
The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree, man.
To Be Continued?
So Crisis on Infinite Earths Part 3 is setting up a new DCAU?
Which shouldn’t be a surprise, I suppose.
There was plenty for a long time DC fan like me to like.
PLENTY.
There was at least one jaw dropping cameo.
Overall I think it was a pretty good retelling, pulling stuff from previous DCAU projects as a basis for the key story points, which I should have guessed, to be honest.
R.I.P. to all the destroyed Earths, especially Earth-508 and Earth-12.
Looking forward to whatever comes next, in addition to whatever Lucasfilm Animation is supposedly working on.
The Fall Guy
I don’t think I’ve smiled so much during a movie is a long time.
It was just so fun to watch.
And I found myself singing along to most of the soundtrack.
There was a brief moment that brought me WAY back to my childhood, a sound, and that’s all I’ll say.
Stay for the credits scene. That’s all I’ll say about that. I may have been the only person in the theatre who clapped.
Highly recommended. Go see it!
