Today I read about Michael Bay’s plans to reboot the Ninja Turtles as being aliens, and the butthurt that preceded after that from fans using melodramatic language like “you raped my childhood” to describe how a franchise designed to sell plastic crap to kids of the 80s is now transmogrifying into a franchise designed to sell… Continue reading the asylum
prometheus… and 130th post! apparently woo
I was just reminded of something when writing the post about John Carter – the Prometheus trailer for… a trailer. Here it is: This is one of those moments when Hollywood kind of realizes my sarcasm. Before, I’ve said in jest that poorly made films such as Transformers which have had entertaining trailers should include “Based on the… Continue reading prometheus… and 130th post! apparently woo
john carter… although not initially of mars
One of the benefits of unemployment (and I’m always one to make lemonade out of life’s lemons) is that I have time to go do stuff in between volunteering at Oxfam (where I do quite a good line in selling things online) and applying for more rejection letters/abject silence. And what better way to go… Continue reading john carter… although not initially of mars