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Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (Part 1 of 3) Despite some good aspects, this movie is truly a mess. This is clearly DC playing catch-up to Marvel's movie universe and it shows how desperate DC is to make a combined universe. It reveals that DC hasn't learned a damn thing about universe building with this movie. Even with some stuff edited out, Snyder's second DC movie is overstuffed with confusing and goofy nonsense. With all that's going on, nothing feels fully realized. The movie is somewhat saved in the third act with an impressive final battle with Superman/Batman/Wonder Woman vs Doomsday. However, you have to sit through two dreary earlier acts. For everything the movie gets right, it takes three steps back. Where is the heart from the Man of Steel movie? Due to the battle in Metropolis , from the last movie, Bruce Wayne witnesses some of his friends lose their lives. He sees Superman as an uncaring God that doesn't look out ...

Fun with comments...again Ladies, does this turn you on?  I love getting comments from very new comments for old post I did years ago. Here's another one. If you know me in real life, you know that I hate people wearing tank-tops/wife-beaters. I wrote a post three years about sleeveless shirts and I guess I have offended a bunch of people because I keep getting angry comments about it...three years later. Three years in Internet years is like 5-7 years. From my post , (( Anonymous said... Fine. We will all take them off and go topless. Would you prefer that? How about you mind your own business instead? Wednesday, November 23, 2016 8:56:00 PM)) What the F'? My little three year old post got you so pissed off that you took the time to FIND my post, read it, get through the spam filter and then type up an angry comment...about a blogger hating on tank-tops. Really? Then,you give me the suggestion to “mind my own business”. On my own b...

Louisville Juice Bowl shooting On a serious note... During Thanksgiving, Louisville made the national news, but for negative reasons. While watching The Force Awaken with friends, one of my friends told me about the shooting. I hate to say things that are cliche in nature, but "This is why we can't have good things." There is always going to be some thug that ruins it for the rest of community. This happens a lot in the black community. This happened in the West End of Louisville. A lot of people view that part of town as having a lot of crime, yet my part of town is considered the richer section of town. We had a major shooting in the East End too, so we can't blame it on just merely happening in the West End. It is shameful to ruin a positive thing in the black community and shows there is a negative side of the black community I am a little angry that Black Lives Matters won't touch the main issue in the black community. That's ...

Chris Chan, please stop begging for money... I've been following this train wreck for a year or so. I can't get enough of this guy, but it is getting annoying that he keeps posting videos begging for money. At this point, his mother is being sued by two banks/credit card companies. And, Chris is not doing a thing about it. It should be noted the he/she spends most of his government check on Lego sets and video games. Then, he goes online to beg for money.  How about selling some of those 1K priced Lego sets?  

Congrats, Verizon. You made one of the worst ads ever. This popped up on one of the videos I saw recent and I couldn't bring myself to skip the horrible ad. While love the Thrift Shop song that this is spoofing, this version is really hard to hear.  First, why would you spoof a song that came out a few years ago. You're aiming this toward the younger crowd. It was released back in 2012. Second, Why not hire Macklemore & Ryan Lewis to do the spoof. People would really dig the ad and it would go viral. Now, this ad was bad, but not as bad as the Amy Schumer Old Navy ads...oh, boy. These ads are even worst than those Bud Light ads.

Not the best way to call into work... Hey, instead of calling into work, just create a bomb threat. From News 4jax.com , ((Jessica Ward, who is not a UF faculty, staff member or student, was working at the Java Hut Coffee Kiosk in the New Engineering Building last Wednesday when she made a bomb threat against the building, according to the University of Florida Police Department. )) First off, this HAD to happen in Florida where the worst things seem to happen. Second, she is in her 20s so this makes sense in their twisted minds. Third, she made this fake threat because she wanted some time off. From Wsbradio, ((Police said Ward admitted that she wrote the threat in an effort to leave work at the time indicated in the threat in order to get some “me time." )) Well, now she probably been fired and is in jail. She has a lot of “me time”.  Mugshots are the new selfies.   

Mannequin Challenge: Please Stop From Wiki , ((The Mannequin Challenge is a viral Internet video trend where people remain frozen in action like mannequins while a video is recorded, usually with the song " Black Beatles " by Rae Sremmurd playing in the background. The hashtag #MannequinChallenge was used for popular social media platforms such as Twitter and Instagram . It is believed that the phenomenon was started by students in Jacksonville, Florida on October 12, 2016. The initial posting has inspired works by other groups, especially professional athletes and sports teams that have posted increasingly complex and elaborate videos. )) So, we can blame this on Florida. I HATE this new meme challenge. It annoys me as much as the Harlem Shake. It probably annoys me the most because this is what cool people consider memes...like the Harlem Shake. If it involves being shown on camera, the cool kids will do it. It feels like a cool kids type of ...

Random Stuff ~ Kanye West going crazy: When your people call the cops on you and the cops handcuff you, there are major problems in your life. Kanye started losing it even before this strange rant he had on stage. I've come to really hate him over the years due to his ever expanding ego. He has this strange vision where entertainer are above us normal humans. even his meltdown on stage had some of this strange stuff. And, you have to love that he stopped the show after two and half shows.  ~Supergirl is really taking off this season: Damn, they're really moving into a lot DC Comics iconic story lines. Heck, they even introduced the Cyborg story and they might even bring back Luthor. Yet, there are rumblings of a Superman spin-off too. I love that they're digging into Cadmus and the freaking Guardian.  ~Corey Feldman, when is this shit show going to end ?: It seems like every few weeks we get another shit show about Feldman. Now, he's married...

George Lucas loves noodles  Regrets Howard the Duck... _______________________________________________ I laughed when one of my podcast sites mentioned that there is a photo of George Lucas sitting in a mall eating six dollar noodles. I looked it up, and it is true.  There he was eating noodles at a mall.  This is the same guy that created Star Wars and created ILM. He is actually one of the founding fathers of Pixar. He sold his Star Wars franchise for billions of dollars and here he is sitting. He's just an old man eating noodles in a mall and it is kind of strange. By the way,this happened in a mall in Australia. From Metro.co.uk, ((But that’s what happened to shoppers at Rundle Mall in Adelaide, Australia – who earlier this week were treated to the sight of George Lucas himself getting stuck in to a plate of noodles.)) Maybe, he'll CGI in some fries and a Starbucks cup into the scene.   He does seem to to be a bit sad doesn't h...

Raven's Cry: AKA Pirates of the Caribbean knockoff I love watching train wrecks and this video game clearly falls under such a description. It is the Ride to Hell of pirate video games. And, the best part about this game is the publisher and developer literally released an unfinished game. This terrible game had an interesting history . It was announced back in 2011, and another development team had to take over the game from the first team. It was finally released in early2015. And, it was supposed to be more of a sandbox pirate game. Here are the best things to know about this game. -Character's will NOT speak lines that are displayed on screen: This is because they didn't bring back the actors to add some lines to the cut scenes! ~There are game-breaking bugs and glitches all over the game!: You can actually break the game in the first mission!. ~ Vendetta - Curse of Raven's Cry : The game was so bad that they removed the ...

Random Things ~My mother is a published writer: My mother wrote a short article for a popular woman's magazine. I'm proud of her and everything, but she became a published writer before me. Heck, I couldn't even get hired on my college newspaper. I am proud of her, but there is a tinge of me now trying to get my shit together. BTW, she wrote an inspirational story about the post office and the kindness of humanity. These are things I not into given my negative view of humanity.  ~Doctor Strange: I still haven't brought myself to watch Doctor strange. People tell me how good this movie and some people put it near the top of their Marvel list. I love that Cumberbatch is playing Dr. Strange. Did you know this isn't the FIRST adaptation of the powerful magic user? I heard a podcast discussing the potential TV pilot (TV movie). Yeah, they were planning on having a TV show based on the character (sort of) years upon years ago way back in 1978 . So, ...

Luke Cage is separated into to different story lines and styles. This might be jarring to some. DD did something similar with its season 2 with some better results. Halfway through the season, the show shifts significantly. It starts out as a street level hero fighting another street level gangster. I found these episodes to be really compelling and fun to watch. However, another main villain literally comes out of the shadows and becomes the main villain front and center. It feels like the show takes a hit creatively and it drops some of the more fun elements from the first half. Here enters Diamond Back. He's more of a superhero villain than really a Cottonmouth or Kingpin. They did alright building him up, but he is clearly the weaker villain of the three (or four) villains portrayed in the season. He has a very strong connection to Luke Cage in the far past and it helps give us a better look at Cage. Still something is missing with him compared to Cottonm...

Jame Update: I have changed...I think Yesterday, a punk young teenager tried to get smart with me at work. He made a comment that he shouldn't gotten away with. I let it go and just ignored him. He's basically one of these annoying Cartman types that thinks he can talk to people how he likes. Given I hate entitled self-centered young men with stupid haircuts, I would have put him in his place a year ago and made sure he'd never talk to me like that again. However, he doesn't matter. I may hate him, but I don't have to interact with him at all. And, I am fine with that.  It is a waste of energy to even waste breath on him.  (Actually, a lot of people would have loved to have seen me yell and put down the stupid kid.) I am different now. After nearly dying around this time last year...it was actually around this time I checked myself into the ER and spent a week in the hospital, I've changed. I am much slower and take my time. Due to my vario...

Chris Chan and Trump... Yes, Chris Chan not only threatened and suggested to kill Trump, which is illegal, he used a Transformer toy to represent the hair-hatted fiend. Really, Chris? Have you lost the few remaining brain cells you had? Make sure to read the entry on Trump vs Chan here . It is a funny yet sad read because the state of Chan's mind is sad. And, they are likely going to lose their house due to the unpaid bills and lawsuits from credit card companies. Now that Alex Jones took notice of him, Chris has doubled down on his illegal talk about Trump not realizing that people are reporting him to the Secret Service and the FBI for the lulz . He just keeps d igging himself in a bigger hole. He'll probably get a visit from the Secret Service real soon.

I usually don't watch SNL anymore, but damn they kicked ass with last weekend's episode. The Double Toasted guys had some interesting things to say about the episode and the election. I also liked what they had to say about Chappelle. I loved the Chappelle and Chris Rock Skit. Given this skit was political, I was thinking they'd bring in Chris Rock. Rock needed to be in this skit and I love how Chappelle plays off of each other. I love they're taking the piss out of rich liberals. The Walking Dead Bit I loved seeing characters from the early 2000s Characters from the Dave Chappelle show. I am sure he wanted to kill off these characters for a long time. However, I love that he brought them back for this skit. I'm not a fan of the Walking Dead, but I know the thing this skit is referencing. I am also happy to see that A Tribe Called Quest is back together . These folks really hated each other.

Nic Cage keeping up his poor movie run Because I wrote about Nic Cage a few weeks ago, Google sends me news suggestions about the guy. Thank you, Google. Anyway, he has another poorly received movie coming out. It is directed by Mario Van Peebles (New Jack City). And, you also have to throw in Tom Sizemore for a good laugh. Yep, there is a movie with both Cage and Sizemore. Like other Cage based movies, this turkey is currently at 10% on Rotten Tomatoes . I mean look at the poster. Cage looks bored in just the poster alone. Yes, this is based on a real story. And, this actually happened just like the trailer says it does. However, doesn't THIS story below sound like a better one than the movie?  It is just a shame they made a shitty movie about a compelling story. If you can remember, they had that really good scene in Jaws talking about this incident.So, just rent Jaws and watch this chilling scene instead. 

William Shatner as Two-Face Pure Shatner. In his prime, I think Shatner would have made a great Two-Face. Here's the thing; this new series of animated movies are based on the old 60s Batman episodes. And, there is even a comic book based in that same 60s continuity. While the 60s show was never my Batman, I've come to respect that campy show...somewhat. (Most of the surviving cast reprise their roles for the new series of movies.) What really stood out for most fans of that show is there was NEVER a Two-Face episode. Could they have gotten away with a Two-Face on the family friendly series? Well, it looks like there were plans for this villain to show up in the 60s show after all. There was a script written for Two-Face. From Moviepilot.com ((was Two-Face, however, Two-Face almost made it to the Adam West television series in a story called "The Two-Way Crimes of Two-Face" written by science fiction master Harlan Ellison, )) Yep...

President Trump. Really America? I hate Hillary Clinton with a thousand suns, but I can't believe how angry people are that they elected a reality star/Biff Tannen. Yes, America voted in the villain from Back to the Future series.   It will be interesting to see where the far-far left handles an ego madman in the White House. Oh, and Obamacare is gone, but on the other side Wall Street has to be shitting its pants too. Well, it is said and done. The next four years are going to be extremely interesting to watch in a WWE sort of way. Do I think we picked the worst of two evils? Yes, because Trump is a hothead guy that will bring us down with him.  Given I am in therapy, so I am not freaking out as much as other people.    It won't effect me as much as people without company health insurance. I need the health insurance to survive literally. I am not under Obamacare and those people are going to lose Obamacare in the next four years. However...

Random Things ~Trump vs. Clinton: I really didn't want to vote today, because it doesn't matter in the end because this state will be voting for Trump no matter what I do. I also have very little hope for Clinton too. I don't want her in office either, but she is better than Trump. I don't care if the Reps win next election, but I just don't want Trump. ~High School Principal on the Ballot: I also noticed my former high school principal was on the ballot page. He ended up across the river in Jeffersonville IN under some controversies there. I remember shaking his hand at my graduation, but I really never liked the guy. And, he got into a bit of trouble after I left school and ended up in southern Indiana. Spoiler Alert: I didn't vote for him.  ~Game of Thrones season 7 spoilers: It seems there are going to be some messed up things coming up for the shorter season next year. Certain things WILL FALL this season and a major enemy will...

When tires attack...(Throwback) Do you remember this classic viral video? I believe this video sort of came out during the time of the Grape Lady. Think about how much this guy has bad luck. You're just pumping gas and a random big ass tire comes out of the shadows and it knocks you the f' out. By the way, this happened back in 2006. Did he piss off a warlock or witch and he or she put a curse on him? You better believe he was really messed up after this. Every time I pump gas, I get worried that a random tire will emerge from the darkness and knocked me over.

Shut up, Wesley! I haven't agreed with everything Wil Wheaton has said over the years, but I find his TNG stories rather amusing. He even admitted it was a mistake leaving the show (IE Lt. Yar). However, “Shut up, Wesley” was a meme before there were even memes. Due to the hatred from fans everywhere, that phrase became the calling card of Wesley Crusher. I guess the co-star of Flubber (look it up) has had enough of the meme and proclaimed a ban on the it. He said this on Twitter. (( “NEW RULE: I’m officially over people saying “shut up, Wesley” to me, even in jest. From now on, I’m insta-blocking anyone who does that.” )) So, Patrick Stewart came back with the funniest troll moment of all time. However, the “shut up. Wil” happened in a different Twitter thread . I know that Wil has been a pretentious guy lately, but I am going to cut him some slack. Many child actors had to go through similar things. And, truth be told, he i sn't leadi...

Nic Cage in Louisville I was checking out “Filming in Louisville”, and I came across stories of Nic Cage filming a movie in Louisville. (He is co-starring with the lovely Selma Blair ) And, I am probably more interested in Selma Blair than the crazy Nic Cage. (Due to that kissing scene with Buffy) The movie is called Mom and Dad. So what is this movie about? From IMDB, ((A teenage girl and her little brother must survive a wild 24 hours during which a mass hysteria of unknown origins causes parents to turn violently on their own kids. )) Sounds like fun. And, very fitting for Louisville. Maybe the parents watched the Wicker Man remake and went crazy. So, yeah, we have a freaking Ghost Rider in Louisville. There are photos of “Castor Troy” in the Louisville wearing goofy things . I love that Cage has the same confused expression in every picture he's in. So, there is a chance I might even bump into Mr. Cage too. I will probably just say,...

Pokemon Go user gets arrested Yes, this guy is an asshole. I think the police officers kind of overacted too. When you see he's just playing that silly Pokemon game just let him be. However, the Pokemon guy should have handled it way better and not try to antagonize the officers. And, they gave him every chance to NOT get arrested. See what would happen if I tried that stuff. I never understood the craze that is Pokemon Go, and I can't see why someone would get arrested over it for this silly game. Kind of like getting arrested for Sonic Boom. The whole thing is cringe worthy.  So, I guess the police officers had their own Pokemon Go moment by arresting this dude.