This one comes in a very roundabout way. Every year Joe Bob Briggs’ Last Drive-In does a Walking Dead special and someone, who knew I was a fan of the show, asked if I’d seen it. That’s the one thing that I skip every year because I really do not like the Walking Dead.
Here’s why.
Last night, my wife and I went to an actual theater and saw the Monty Python and the Holy Grail re-release. It was a really nice theater, with the really comfortable, reclining seats and there were maybe 20-25 people in the theater and everyone behaved themselves.
You know what? I still saw no reason to go to a theater. I’d have much rather sat at home and watched it there.
This is one of those things that kind of drives me crazy. Whenever a movie or TV adaptation comes on, based on a book or a video game or whatever, and people scream that “it isn’t accurate!”
Who cares? If you want accuracy, go read the book or play the video game. I want entertaining. I want something close enough that I can see the source, but that is it’s own thing and has value on its own.
Sadly, I seem to be largely alone in this.
I’ve been watching some videos from Sci-Fi Odyssey over on YouTube recently, not really because I find them to be great, but because I’ve been bored. That’s not to say that they’re bad, because certainly, they’re not, I just find his take on things to be “interesting”. I say it like that because I simply do not agree with some of his overarching ideas. He seems to think, again, from my limited exposure, that science fiction must, by necessity, be hard, meaning it’s got to be scientifically plausible to be worthwhile.
That’s not how it works, though.
I used to do a lot of movie and TV reviews but I don’t really engage very often these days. Mostly, it’s because there aren’t a lot of really good movies out there. I got really tired of explaining why movie X was bad, especially when lots of people out there happened to like it.
Therefore, today, I’m going to talk about a Netflix movie called Chupa. It was actually kind of cute.
I was poking around YouTube, as I often am, and saw this video with Chris Gore. Now I could say a lot about hate watching but I don’t engage in it, I wanted to say something about the other subject that he brings up in passing: reality TV.
I hate reality TV. Let’s get below the fold and I’ll explain why.
I haven’t read or collected comic books seriously for decades, I walked away from it for the last time, I think around 2013, when they stopped being fun and that predated the modern woke mess that we’re facing. However, I occasionally do watch a video or two on YouTube, I think because I was interested in seeing just how terrible the whole thing is.
Recently, it’s started to be suggested that Warner-Discovery CEO David Zaslav might just shut down DC Comics entirely and honestly, I think that might be a good idea, at least for a while. So let’s talk about it.
I’ve been a fan of MST3K for 30 years. Unfortunately, that has recently changed. It isn’t that I didn’t try to like it but what they’re putting out now, it just doesn’t gel with me at all. In fact, it’s been going downhill for a long time now, this is just where I’m going to cut ties. This just isn’t the show that it used to be.
This is an ongoing problem that I’ve noticed before but today, I saw it in action once again. Over on a forum, we’ve been discussing the upcoming Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, now that the trailer has been released and a lot of us are very skeptical. The trailer looks okay, not amazing but very reminiscent of the older shows, for a reason. The Star Trek series are all hemorrhaging money and viewers. So we have good reason to doubt that this will be any different.
So then this happens…
Now I’ve been thinking about this for a very long time, but it strikes me that most movie reviewers, most especially these days found on YouTube, really aren’t that hot. In fact, I find that most of them come off like frustrated filmmakers who, in the absence of their own success, they just want to go after other movie makers to assuage their own failed egos.
So let’s talk about that a bit.
