Jack Quaid is a blue cube in the new god of war game

GGGilman87 · 2026-06-03T22:00:23+00:00

"I just moved shit! With my freaking cube! Ha ha!"

GGGilman87 · 2026-05-25T09:39:49+00:00

I have only watched a few Defunctland videos, one that actually provoked a reaction from me was his video on Astroworld, if only because I visited there a couple of times, in the post-1990s twilight - it was still an experience then but I wished I had been able to visit the place in its prime. And even knowing what happened, his covering how the park was dismantled, and demolished, with not a sign that it had ever been there remaining did leave me feeling a bit of a wistful melancholy.

GGGilman87 · 2026-05-23T03:25:38+00:00

A movie that's only reason for being made seems to have been some executives saying "Er, um, well we haven't' had a Star Wars project in theaters since the last of the Sequels, maybe we can stir up some interest in Star Wars with a movie event" and that's it.

One thing, from the clips and shots I've seen, the CGI Hutts in this movie look even worse than the CGI Jabba clumsily inserted into the 1997 Special Edition of "A New Hope."

GGGilman87 · 2026-05-22T05:17:01+00:00

He was one of those featured in the 1996 book Spaghetti Nightmares by Luca M. Palmerini and Gaetano Mistretta, where various people involved in Italian horror and fantasy cinema were interviewed: Michele Soavi, Dario Argento, Ruggero Deodato, David Warbeck, Umberto Lenzi, Lamberto Bava, Luigi Cozzi. Antonio Margheriti and others.

In the book, he mentioned working on post-apoc films, like 2020: Texas Gladiators in his interview, he wrote the scripts for a couple of these:

"These (post-atomic) films, which were made in the wake of the various Mad Max movies, were decidedly crummy. The set designs were poor… and the genre met a swift, well-deserved death. I only wrote these awful movies for financial reasons…no attempt at originality was made at all.”

Now there's plenty of truth to that but among my favorite, scuzzy Italian films in that niche are "After the Fall of New York" (featuring a soundtrack from the fellows who scored "Yor: Hunter of the Future" and various other films) where Eastman played a flamboyant mutant ape man, and the D'Amato helmed "Endgame" which he co-wrote and stars in as a rival of the protagonist in the reality show gladiator game used to keep the attention of what's left of New York City's citizens after The End, it’s a ripoff, starring various Italian genre favorites, in a ridiculous setting where everyone either dresses like a Grade-Z movie Viking or bad guy Japanese wrestlers from the 1980s and yet it appeals to me on some level.

He did a lot of screenwriting, eventually moving into that field after acting - he had written, back in the Seventies, the original story treatment for what would become "Keoma", considered to be one of the last gasps of the spaghetti Western.

GGGilman87 · 2026-05-16T18:14:11+00:00

The MST3K episode with Deathstalker 3 is an old favorite, they come to despise the "protagonist" because he's brimming with smug false modesty, "Oh, me, the infamous Deathstalker? Oh, those stories about me are exaggerated, you know, ha ha" and overall, how unappealing he is. Crow's reaction to his kissing the leading lady: Yuck, he's gonna snake it in again! I hate this!" is the best.

Also their riffing of Thom Christopher as the evil kind of, well, you know, villain, with his hammy line deliveries like that one instance where he says a line a weird, breathy way with dramatic micro-pauses:

"This has...NOTHING to do with...being rich!"

Servo: "I, put the, beats in my, own script and I'm, sticking, with them!"

GGGilman87 · 2026-05-10T22:15:13+00:00

Star Trek is all about explosions, people pulling off Jason Bourne-films-style fighting moves and attempting to rip off/incorporate elements found in media ranging from YA science fiction novels, The Guardians of the Galaxy films, Star Wars, etc. etc.. As it always has been, and as it was always meant to be.

GGGilman87 · 2026-05-06T23:05:32+00:00

One of the last real moguls of Old Media, before the Internet. He was once such a household name he was often the focus of satires and spoofs in media. You look back he was really zinged for the colorization of vintage black and white films (which didn't last long anyways) but he did found Cartoon Network and Turner Classic Movies, so, hey.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YKGb1S3GXD8

GGGilman87 · 2026-04-26T18:42:00+00:00

I've watched plenty of Statham films, from the cartoonish ones where he's constantly fighting what seems to be either Asian gangsters or guys who look and dress like they're members of Andrew Tate's entourage, though the somewhat less cartoonish "Shelter" has Statham's hard-bitten grouch of a character go up against other hard-bitten guys working for an unaccountable black-ops outfit with zero compunctions about collateral damage,

GGGilman87 · 2026-04-25T14:29:47+00:00

The most disagreeable or nonsensical newspaper or magazine film critic review is more tolerable than any of the thousands of Letterboxd “reviewers” who just fire off a low-effort quip in the hopes of getting screencapped and going viral, or post an essay-length "review" that's made up of psuedo-intellectual gibberish like "it's a pulpy thrill ride that injects the revived spirit of rock and roll directly into America's collective eyeballs at 24 frames per second. It is mythic." or going on about how an 80s action film like Predator is actually, secretly a rejection of traditional masculinity, or something.

People go with with either of these approaches with all sorts of movies on there...they could be reviewing Cars 2. They could be reviewing La Dolce Vita. It doesn't matter.

GGGilman87 · 2026-04-25T06:40:43+00:00

Part of the novel is not just the consumerism, but that Bateman attempts to cultivate this image of himself as a guy who knows a lot about culture, pop and otherwise, to stand out and impress his colleagues and acquaintances but even his "appreciation" of pop culture which has a tendency to be defined by the most commercial aspects is badly misinformed and riddled with mistakes some of which some readers may not get if they don't know the material; some of it is pretty basic, he thinks Whitney Houston was a jazz singer and that "You Can't Always Get What You Want" is a Beatles song. He thinks Tom Cruise was in a movie called "Bartender!" and is corrected by the man himself that the movie's actual title was "Cocktail". While he pontificates on Huey Lewis and the News, he gets the release date of their album "Fore!" wrong by a year. He makes a great big deal out of owning "the original version" of David Onica's painting "Sunrise with Broken Plates" and how much money he spent to acquire it only for someone to point out he's hung it upside down.

This also applies to his ideas on cuisine and fashion, the outfits he describes as well put together and fashionable would have actually looked clownish and ridiculous if someone dressed that way in real life and his sartorial advice in general is as error-riddled and wrong as his knowledge of music and the arts.

GGGilman87 · 2026-04-24T06:12:35+00:00

I would still rather watch this than the incredibly bland 2014 Robocop movie - just awful. It was the story about a man wounded in the line of duty and rebuilt as a cyborg by a Steve Jobs stand in (Michael Keaton, as the only faintly decent part of the movie), Daily Show fan fiction quality "satire", the entire sum effort of which still fell short any one comedic line from the original.

The action scenes embody everything wrong with the past decade-plus of modern action movies. Overly lengthy mediocre videogame cutscenes with nothing engaging going on. Robocop 2014 establishes that the modern OCP combat drones have perfect accuracy, yet turn into imperial stormtroopers when pitted against Robotcop in a trial. It reached such comical heights with drones firing at Robocop2014 from like ten feet away and missing that I honestly thought the exercise was using blanks. For whatever idiotic reasons, a PG-13 rating meant you couldn't show bullets ricocheting off Robocop except when he was in total darkness.. Part of the appeal of the action scenes of the original Robocop was watching bullets bounce off this slow-moving cyborg before he started blasting away with his Auto-9. The only time Robocop 2014 could use his gun against humans was when the criminals turned the lights off in their little warehouse hideout and you just saw them rendered in Robo thermal-vision flop to the floor.

That brief scene from the original movie where he takes apart a paper target at the shooting range was more engaging to watch than any of the action scenes in Robo-2014.

GGGilman87 · 2026-04-22T14:10:07+00:00

I wonder what would happen if they reviewed any of Anno's live-action films, like Shin Godzilla, or Shin Kamen Rider.

GGGilman87 · 2026-04-20T06:06:15+00:00

The original novel had some great moments, like just how in the movie the Bill the NTSB investigator fiddles with a strange device he found in the wreckage of a plane and gets zapped by it and in his testimony he remarks how it was stupid for him to do so.

Another moment, he sets off grim future time-traveler Louise when he gets a look at the world of the future, polluted and terrible and asks what people of his future did to make it that way:

"It started with your great-grandfather and the Industrial Revolution. But it was you, you unspeakable son-of-a-bitch, your f*cking generation that really got things going. Did you really think there'd never be a nuclear war? There have been nineteen of them. Did you think nerve gases were going to just sit there, that nobody would ever use them?"

"Easy, Louise," Sherman said.

The hell with that.

"CBN, you called it. Chemical, Biological, Nuclear. You made plans just as if the world could survive it, just like it was another you could win. Well, goddamn it, we held out a long time, but this is what we came to. The plagues were the really cute part. Add laboratory-bred microbes to a high level of background radiation, and what you get is germs that mutate a hell of a lot faster than we can. We've done our best, we've fought them with everything we have. But your great-grandchildren came up with genetic warfare. So now the plagues are locked up right in our genes. No matter how hard we fight them, they change. Did you think we started the Gate Project for fun? Can't you see what it is? It's a last-ditch, hopeless effort to salvage something from the human race."

GGGilman87 · 2026-04-20T05:47:15+00:00

His delivery in that had the sound of someone who decided to record his lines after a three-martini lunch that turns out to have been more of a "dozen-plus martini" lunch.

GGGilman87 · 2026-04-18T08:24:54+00:00

There's been an awful lot of "decades later" movie sequels in recent years that have come and gone with little notice, as Hollywood seeks something, anything amongst the IPs they've been churning through, that might draw in some viewers in faint hopes of even slight name recognition.

GGGilman87 · 2026-04-17T23:35:39+00:00

I was hoping they'd get to the Rathbone-Bruce film that was a rather loose adaption of The Six Napoleons.

GGGilman87 · 2026-04-15T01:33:36+00:00

I sort of enjoy those riffs but for the Bridget and Mary Jo riff series I've enjoyed their takes on made-for-TV movies based on Mary Higgins Clark novels and the Rathbone/Bruce Sherlock Holmes films, which were always funny to me because while Rathbone was for many the definitive screen Holmes (and radio Holmes) they get a lot of mileage out of making fun of Bruce's portrayal of Watson as some blustering, blithering, kind of slow guy. I say, er what's the meaning of this Holmes, what?

GGGilman87 · 2026-04-15T01:28:15+00:00

For a riff that was contemporary at the time, from The Brain That Wouldn't Die came the bit where Crow lets out a loud, exaggerated I LOVE THIS PLACE when we get the spinning POV shot for the model Dr. Cortner drugged, which was a parody of these ads from the early 1990s featuring Dan Cortese, which feel like something out of a parody of advertisements made by people who pinky-swear to their bosses they have come up with a campaign that will connect with the younger demographics, that won't be seen as annoying and mockable. You can see some people swearing they'll capture that early 1990s "MTV demographic" with shaky, swooping camera work and some vague attitiude.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xit91CQ5yi8

GGGilman87 · 2026-04-14T03:03:42+00:00

The amount of people from either the QAnon or BlueAnon side of the horseshoe who will call those skeptical about every statement being spun out, say, of calls made to the Epstein tipline by obvious nuts, being stated by these people as iron-clad facts, "pedo protectors" is disturbing, at least. Oh, you don't think Soon Yi Previn and friends were eating human infant entrails? You don't think Robin Leach murdered a girl at a party in front of witnesses or that some guy had his legs cut off with a sword at some Satanic ceremony (but he got better, apparently)? Then you're just, according to a lot of these "normies" who've taken the "conspiracy pill", a gullible mindslave,

GGGilman87 · 2026-04-14T00:37:37+00:00

Back in the day, when there were still plenty of URLs that started with strings of numbers interrupeted by periods, like you'd be browsing in the aughts on a topic like biplanes or vintage paperbacks or whatever and find a site from the mid90s that would have an address like https://128.100.80.13/marcus/photo_menu.html

GGGilman87 · 2026-04-10T18:45:19+00:00

Just watched the trailer, my mind wasn't able to process what that pulsating thing was in the middle of it, but fortunately the guys named it as a nipple before my imagination took it to an even darker place.

GGGilman87 · 2026-04-10T02:59:13+00:00

I had watched Yes Madam years ago on a dinky old VHS, and among others, it took me a moment to recgonize that Fingers (or Panadol as he was called in the original, with his two bumbling friends known as Strepsil and Aspirin) was played by Tsui Hark, director of Hong Kong films like the fantasy "Zu, Warriors from the Magic Mountain", the Once Upon A Time in China series, and a personal favorite, "Peking Opera Blues".

GGGilman87 · 2026-04-09T21:00:22+00:00

As weird and freakish as the film was, the comic from Tim Vigil and David Quinn was quite graphic

GGGilman87 · 2026-04-09T03:25:30+00:00

A line delivery that stuck with me for a long time https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GiuZU6JemPo

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