Marvel Movies Ranked, group 1: The Good
I haven’t seen Black Widow yet, so no idea where that fits in. That leaves 23 films, but putting them in a precise order sounded too much like work. So I divvied them up into three groups, but they’re in no particular order beyond that. Thor 3: Ragnarok This...
Captain America, The Falcon, and The Whiter Soldier
I’m just a few eps into Falcon & Winter Soldier, so you know all this already. When this show started, there were a few special writers online who were giving them shit for failing to solve racism in a six-episode run. The introduction of politics was ham-fisted, it wasn’t...
Avengers, Assembled, and Packaged for Consumption
Dinner theater tonight is the first Avengers team-up. So much toxic masculinity being ejaculated all over the screen! Anyway, I want to see the Infinity War that’s all about Thanos trying to double the amount of food in the universe, and the Avengers dying to stop him because their...
The Hunt for Red October and The Art of Modern War
In my head, Red October is still the best Clancy picture, by far. Harrison Ford was too Mr America, and Ben Affleck was too jock. There’s no way around it, Jack Ryan is a Baldwin. The movie was so good it inspired me to read the book, the book...
In Space, No One Can Hear You Wonder Why David Fincher Is So Weird About Jesus
WordPress has a plugin that scores each post title per some algorithm of clickability. On a hundred-point scale, that one got a 69. Nice. Anyway, I burned through the Alien movies the other day. Which is to say, the Ripley films. I skipped the first one entirely, because honestly...
Batting For The Cycle- Cleanup on the Netflix aisle
I wasn’t super-inclined otherwise, but between Spartacus and Rome I’ve been on an Italian thing lately. So I gave Netflix’s docu-drama a try- Roman Empire. And… Eh. It’s both more and less than Spartacus and Rome were, though it’s clearly inspired some by both. There’s sex and gore still,...
Do as the violent rapey Romans say, not as the violent rapey Romans do.
The cool thing about historical dramas is you know how it’s generally gonna go. You can get attached to characters without worrying about some pretentious writer killing them off before their times. Watching Spartacus for example, you know Spartacus dies. You know Caesar doesn’t. In Rome though, you know...
No soy Espartaco, yo
I wrote an essay back at PCC on “rape culture”, years before I wrote about ‘Spartacus’ a few days ago. As I’m re-finishing the last season, I’m reminded of how closely related they are. Rape is a storytelling device throughout the series. Male slaves are used by women or...
The B-Movie Team
If you have a problem, if no one else can help, and if you can find them….maybe you can hire The A-Team. But I don’t remember them ever actually working for money… I was looking for something to watch and somehow wound up with the modern vision of an...
Yo Soy Spartacus
Less “gladiator porn” than “porn with gladiators”. I don’t do violence as easily as before Sue’s killing. Walking Dead was expired from the watchlist pretty much immediately. I tried Game of Thrones at one point, but couldn’t make it through the first episode without being sickened. Spartacus is an...