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The Moon is pissed off.  The Moon has been abused a lot over the years in movies and shows.  Piccolo blows up the freaking moon.  It gets blown up in Cowboy Bebop and The Time Machine.  They cloned it in the 5th Element.  The Coneheads sideswipe it in the movie without leaving their insurance info.  Zod and gang leave dead bodies on it in Superman III.  Cobra Commander and Chairface Chippendale defacing the Moon.   At this point, the Moon is pissed.  Anyway, the special effects are really good.  It is a creepy face with sharp teeth.  Look closely, the mouth is moving.   If you are going to go out, this is the way to do it. 

There are at least four cuts of TMP out there.  My generation remembers the special, longer cut that was shown on ABC and VHS.  This cut has a lot of character moments that were not in the theatrical cut, but also many unfinished shots.  For a long time, that was the only cut we had of TMP.  However, the director's cut has some of the best parts of both cuts.  Even adding a few lost shots.  One of the bigger deleted scenes not included in any cut was the famous security guard's death.  The scene happened during the probe's entry into the bridge.  The probe kills one of the two guards.  The reason this bit was cut was because it was a continuity issue at the end.  Kirk never mentions this dead guy in his casualty report.  I thought this scene was lost forever.  I guess I was wrong.  It took nearly 40 years to finally see it, though. Now, only if we could get that deleted memory wall scene...

Yes, this was the picture he had taken a few hours after the murders.  What regular guy would take a selfie in a bathroom and not share it with anyone?  It seems creepy. Plus, Bryan looks like a ghoul in the picture with his pale skin and skinny look.  He took the selfie as a personal trophy to say, “You did it.  Mission accomplished.”   It has come out that Bryan visited the victims' homes not 12 times but 23 times.  I believe he zeroed in on two women and followed them around town.  The more I learn about Bryan, the more I hate him.  He is a selfish and dangerous man who entered a house to kill one person and ended up killing four.  He thought he was so clever and intelligent that he made this selfie for his own personal collection.  The walls of justice are closing in, Bryan.  I don’t think you’re going to get away with this one. 

Okay, movie, you got me with the OJ moment.  Will it be in the movie?  Probably not.  While I don’t think they should do a Naked Gun remake/sequel/reboot, they are doing some of the right things by not trying to make it a one-to-one remake.   I’ll wait and see.  By the way, the trailer is getting a good response online, with 90K thumbs-ups. 

So, says the dude that raped and drugged women his whole life.  Danny was and still is a monster.  He has the gall to make this PSA about abuse against women.  Remember, this POS would abuse women and get away with it, thanks to the Space Church covering up allegedly. The Church of Bullshit would encourage the victims not to talk to the police and look within themselves for their issues.   You can make this up.   Burn in hell, Danny, or whatever you believe in the Church of Scientology.  

Even the last name Hackman is a cool name. Gene Hackman was the man. I remember rewatching Crimson Tide recently, and it is an intense movie. I remember watching him as Lex Luthor in Superman the Movie first. Despite being a somewhat comedic version of Luthor, Hackman brought some darkness to the role. And that's the thing: Hackman always brought darkness.  Unforgiven was his best role period.  Little Bill is one of my favorite movie villains from the movies.  If you get a chance, watch Unforgiven.  Hackman makes that movie intense.  Here are a few other great movies starring Hackman.   The Firm The Quick and the Dead Absolute Power Enemy of the State t he Mexican Anyway, it is a real shame Gene died the way he did.  He died alone, not realizing that his wife passed away in another room.  He probably walked around the house confused and forgotten about his wife due to his diminishing cognitive functions.   Likewise, he will be misse...

I knew she was a Soul Train dancer, but I didn’t know her career on that show overlapped with her adult career.   Heather Hunter is someone who I fondly remember from the early days of 90s porn.  She was the light brown skin black that showed you didn’t need a set of huge boobs and ass to be considered sexy in the black girl genre. Most black men my age have had many dreams about Heather Hunter, and she is probably the reason many black men love light-skinned women.   I still find her very attractive.  The kicker is, I always viewed Heather as being much older than me.  She was born in 1969, yes, really 69.  Her birth year is a freaking sexual position.  She’s 55, meaning she isn’t much older.  It is so strange to view as being much older, though.   She was in mainstream movies, such as He Got Game and Frankenhooker.  Frankenhooker was the movie where Heather exploded.  BTW, this clip is not safe for work .  She ...

Ah, the Hambubger.  HB is one of the of, if not, the worst predators from the To Catch the Predator series.  HB was a rapist and child predator.  Despite his Living Dead appearance, Hambubger was dangerous.   he left a whole slew of victims in his wake.  He and his brother would rape his children over the years, thus screwing them up for life.  Years later, he would blame his brother for the rapes.   By the way, Ham was only 53, looking like 73. Oh, boy, the world had been kind to him.   His time with Chris Hansen was hilarious.  However, Ham would “self-delete” before getting a chance to go to prison.  On his deathbed, one of his victims, his daughter, went to see him.  She took a picture of his withered body and took away the power over her.   So, why was he called Hambubger.  Chris Hasen surmised it was because he liked hamburgers Burn in hell,Hambubger. 

Strangely enough, I was researching Buffy’s sister, played by Michelle Trachtenberg.  I told a younger person that they made one of the best meta-retcons in history.  For four seasons, Buffy was an only child.  Then, in the fifth season, she suddenly had a younger sister and everyone around her believed she always had the younger sister.  To them, Dawn Summers was always there.  There was a reason why “glitch” happened.  It is a clever story arc and a statement on early TV and the changing of established continuity.  Dawn Summers is the reverse of the Family Matters show, disappearing the sister without a trace. Sadly, the youngest cast member, Michelle Trachtenberg, passed away a few days ago.  There are still answers that need to happen before I can say what she died of, really. She did have a liver transplant before her death.  While I didn’t watch much of Buffy, I remember her in Euro Trip.   By the way, Michelle accused J...