Category: Media Analysis
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The Flawed Beauty of Deadpool & Wolverine (and the emptiness of nerd sh*t)
I sometimes think about those awful Ninja Turtles movies from the mid 2010s. The ones with Megan Fox and Will Arnett and…Johnny Knoxville? …Really? The ones that weren’t directed by Michael Bay or J.J. Abrams even though you could be forgiven for thinking it was either or both. Where the character designs for the turtles…
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On Marvel, Martin Scorsese, and the EFAP Lads
I’ve been a fan of Mauler since I discovered him in 2018. I often listen to his videos or clips from the EFAP streams when I’m either trying to sleep, in the gym, or taking care of chores around the house. Today I happened to be listening to their discussion of some remarks that Martin…
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Why Is Furiosa Bombing at the Box Office?
The latest addition to the Mad Max cinematic universe, Furiosa is currently dying on the rocks of audience indifference and struggling to beat out a cat who hasn’t been relevant for more than twenty years. At the time of this writing, it looks like it is well on its way to failing to even come…
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Encanto: The Anti Lion King
May you live in interesting times. ~Ironic Chinese blessing (apocryphal) The hardest thing to realize is that there is a conflict in the first place. You watch a movie and this movie divides the world into nice, tidy groups: right, wrong, good guys, and bad guys. By and large, the distinctions between these groups are not…
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Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League Is Poison
Of the controversy that’s been drummed up by the recent release (after nine years of development) of Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League, a good deal pertains to the fact that it is simply a bad game. Repetitive design, cynical cash-grabbing features, even more cynical time-wasting features; it is a smorgasbord of anti-consumer schlock. Most…
The Barking Years 