Greg Bishansky
@gregxb.bsky.social
Gentleman of Leisure. Wannabe King of Hell. Podcaster - Host of the Spectacular Radio podcast and Co-Host of Voices from the Eyrie - A Gargoyles Podcast. He/him.
Kid Rock makes music for men that are only allowed to see their kids on weekends but don't.
Hmmmm... nowhere in Todd Blanch's closing statements does it say Trump didn't do it.
Bold move.
TVTropes readers are not really smart people, they're more like brute force logic machines that consumed and regurgitate information on TVTropes, knowing that most people will be impressed, rather than repulsed by their charade. Basically, it's "How To Sound Like You Know About Media."
You can always tell a TVTropes reader by the way they can't actually provide any of their own critical insights or their complete lack of knowledge of the context in which a work was created.
The average TVTropes user's concepts of art and writing are on the level of a That Guy With the Glasses contributor or the people who made Velma. They're never gonna get it.
I've actually never had my opinion of a certain movie etc. lowered because of TV Tropes... except insofar as I've disliked media that seemed to be written specifically the way a TV Tropes user would write something.
If "the sequels are worse" is your only defense of the prequels, then that's absolutely pathetic and still pretty damning towards the prequels. It's not the defense you think it is.
I absolutely adore all of the comments defending the Star Wars prequels by saying the sequels are worse. That defense won't get you anything above a failing grade in a film criticisms course; or on a debate team.
22 years ago today the entire world heard a really bad actor try to deliver a line of dialogue about disliking sand that even Daniel Day-Lewis couldn't deliver if he spent a year prepping for the role by staking himself down on top of an African anthill in the middle of the Sahara Desert every day.
I saw somebody accuse X-Men '97 of "erasing Jim Lee" to which I say: don't threaten me with a good time!
Nothing says "I can't draw a crowd anymore" louder than having your lackeys post fake crowd shots for you
"Object to the Hollywood film and you’re an intellectual snob, object to the avant-garde films and you're a Philistine. But, while in Hollywood, one must often be a snob; in avant-garde circles one must often be a Philistine."
-Pauline Kael
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Pauline Kael: The Controversial FilmCritic Who Took No Prisoners | Absolute Documentaries
Explore the captivating tale of Pauline Kael, the controversial film critic, as she navigates the tumultuous world of 20th-century cinema, striving to carve ...
www.youtube.comSome George Lucas fanboy bet me that Lucas wasn't a petty, vindictive man who would use a movie as a revenge fantasy... I replied with a shot of General Kael (from Willow) lying on the ground dead with a sword run through him, and a link to film critic, Pauline Kael's, review of Return of the Jedi.
2020 - The Trial of the Chicago Seven
2021 - Spider-Man: No Way Home
2022 - Everything Everywhere All At Once
2024 - Oppenheimer
2010 - Black Swan
2011 - The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo
2012 - Django Unchained
2013 - The Wolf of Wall Street
2014 - Gone Girl
2015 - Mad Max: Fury Road
2016 - Shin Godzilla
2017 - Dunkirk
2018 - Spider-Man: Into the Spider-verse
2019 - Once Upon a Time In Hollywood
2000 - High Fidelity
2001 - The Fellowship of the Ring
2002 - Gangs of New York
2003 - The Return of the King
2004 - Kill Bill vol. 2
2005 - Good Night, And Good Luck
2006 - The Prestige
2007 - There Will Be Blood
2008 - Milk
2009 - Inglourious Basterds
1990 - Goodfellas
1991 - The Silence of the Lambs
1992 - Reservoir Dogs
1993 - True Romance
1994 - Pulp Fiction
1995 - Heat
1996 - Fargo
1997 - Lost Highway
1998 - The Big Lebowski
1999 - Three Kings
1980 - Raging Bull
1981 - Raiders of the Lost Ark
1982 - The Thing
1983 - Scarface
1984 - Amadeus
1985 - Back to the Future
1986 - Aliens
1987 - Full Metal Jacket
1988 - Die Hard
1989 - Dead Poet's Society
Favorite movies, year by year... starting with 1970
1970 - Patton
1971 - A Clockwork Orange
1972 - The Godfather
1973 - The Exorcist
1974 - Chinatown
1975 - Jaws
1976 - Taxi Driver
1977 - Annie Hall
1978 - The Deer Hunter
1979 - Alien
... and the Lord Jack Kirby said to Dave Cockrum's masterpiece "GET THAT ABOMINABLE JIM LEE DESIGN OUT OF THERE!!!"
So many complaints about Rogue's choice coming out of no where. Um... did those people watch the entire rest of the season?
Also people bitching about the classic costumes returning. I was, of course, ecstatic!
LOL, The Sopranos episode "Whoever Did This" walks you through every step of getting away with murder.
Getting rid of those awful Jim Lee costumes and bringing back the Cockrum and Byrne designs.
And now we've reached that part of the MAGA cult where they begin killing themselves off.
While you're burning alive, maybe ask yourself if Donnie was nearby, would he rush to you and put you out? I'm betting he'd let you die and then stand upwind from you so not to smell you.
Why are people always so surprised when I say that I've never seen an episode of Spongebob?
The fact of the matter is... Magneto is just better than Gambit. In every conceivable way.
I think it was Honest Trailers who described JKR as "Her generation's Roald Dahl."
At this rate it'll be its generation's H.P. Lovecraft before it dies.
The fact that X-Men '97 is now a hit makes me happy for another reason: I have spent years seeing some Gargoyles fans say that a continuation would be hard for new fans to relate to. That we'd need a reboot or a time jump to keep it relevant.
They were wrong then and X-Men '97 proves it.
Me: X-Men '97 has been better than expected, let's see what's on the docket this week and... *reads description* oh, it's a Diet Kitty Pryde episode...
... remind me why we couldn't have had the actual Kitty Pryde on this show again?
We should all change JKR's pronoun to It and see how it likes it.
I will never understand the mentality of people who watch a show, a movie... read a book, comic.... with the perception that their favorite character is always right and everyone else is an asshole.
Seems like a lack of empathy - a lack of an ability to see other points of view - to me.
Just began re-watching a classic and an old favorite.
Hanging out with my old friend, Tony Soprano.
Third episode of X-Men '97 was pretty damn good. No complaints about this one.
So according to social media, Wokeness caused the bridge collapse! Does its insidiousness know no bounds?!
Thinking about that costume. Obviously, Magneto changed his costume for "image control" but my headcanon is that he picked up a Superman comic and said "this is how a hero appears" and put that big M on his chest. This is him understanding the assignment, but not doing that aspect of it very well.
You know you're getting old when you can look at a list of classic movies and remember when many of them first came out.
If X-Men '97 does this, I will be so happy!
Gambit is not just a Mr. Sinister clone... he IS Mr. Sinister. If X-Men '97 goes back and does this, I would be so happy!
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Indiana Comic-Con 2016: Chris Claremont Q & A (Sinister Gambit)
Chris Claremont outlines his original plans for Sinister and Gambit.
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"Comic books are so woke, I miss when they were apolitical!"
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X-Men Comics & God Loves, Man Kills on CBN News 1984
CBN News covers the controversy around the X-Men in the 1980's, including a mention of the early graphic novel, God Loves, Man Kills by Chris Claremont. Vint...
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He's not boring, he's the straight man. That's different.
When I think boring I think Gambit.
I had actually forgotten about that!
Okay, go nuts, guys! Wait til we find out Apocalypse babysat Hank McCoy.