Month: November 2014

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Chris Pratt Snags Another Comic Book Lead!

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It seems that if you have a little known comic book that you want to make a movie out of you call Star Lord, err I mean Chris Pratt.  Here is good look at the handsome fella.

chris-prattHe has just signed on to be the lead in Cowboy Ninja Viking.  Never heard of it?  That is fine, almost no one has, but it looks like Universal is not content to let Disney, Warner Bros, Sony, and Fox make all the comic book movies without them.

I am fine with Universal making movies out of Image comics, but I am not sure that I would have started with the odd Cowboy Ninja Viking.  I would have preferred they started with Invincible, or at least Witchblade or something.  Still it seems that Pratt can do no wrong these days, so I am sure he will make a fun movie out of it.

It is strange that Disney is letting Pratt take on another comic book film considering that they wouldn’t let Jaime Alexander (Sif from Thor) try out for Wonder Woman.  Maybe they didn’t have faith in their space opera and didn’t lock him down the same way that the other Marvel actors have been, or maybe he just has a better agent that wouldn’t let him get locked down.  Whatever the case, we will see him suit up as a Cowboy, a Ninja, and a Viking sometime in 2018.

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So Seventh Son Is Still Coming Out!

I have to admit, I forgot all about this movie, and with its release date continually getting shifted around the odds of it being any good are close to zero, but there are so few decent fantasy movies besides The Lord of the Rings that I will remain hopeful.  It has good actors in it, so let’s hope they can pull this off.

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This Is Post 500!

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I can’t believe that I am typing this, but my Big Hero 6 review was my 499th post!  I honestly thought that I would have given up by now, but here I am typing up post 500.  It is crazy that over 15,000 people have visited my site from almost every country in the world.  I still have a few left in Africa and Asia, and for some reason Iceland will not come and visit.  Come on Iceland I will not bite!

It has been great having The Paladin write a few posts for the blog, and he has added 14 more reviews and whatnot on top of my 500.  It is good to get a different viewpoint on here every now and then.  I am hoping that he will continue to add posts when he feels like it.

The number one post besides my front page was my Wonder Woman casting page.  It is still popular which is odd since Gal Gadot got the role about a year ago.  Maybe people just want the pictures or something.  My least viewed page was my rant about where they should go with the Star Wars franchise.  One whole person besides myself read it.  Oh well, we all know where Disney is headed now.

I would like to thank you all for coming to visit!  It has been fun sharing my thoughts on things and stuff with all of you!  I hope you will all continue to come hang out on my little corner of the internet.

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Shmee Hangs Out With The Big Hero 6!

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So what happens when you combine Marvel and Disney Animation Studios? Magic of course!  I don’t think there are two studios on more of a roll right now than Marvel (Guardians of the Galaxy, Iron Man) or Disney Animation (Frozen, Wreck-it Ralph), so to combine their efforts in to a superhero movie for families was bound to be successful.  Big Hero 6 will be a favorite for years to come.

Hiro Hamada (Ryan Potter) is a young genius, and when his groundbreaking invention is stolen by an evil guy in a kabuki mask, it is up to Hiro to bring him to justice.  Of course Hiro will not be going alone.  He and his super-smart friends will create awesome superhero suits for themselves so they can deliver justice!

I left a lot out of that plot synopsis because I didn’t want to ruin anything, but I got to give it to Disney for not pulling any punches, and really making a touching film about loss and grief.  I know you are now looking at my previous paragraph and wondering what you missed, but like I said I left a lot out.  It was also smart of them to pick a fairly little known, and not even a particularly well liked comic book to adapt in to a film because it let them change the characters and their motives without a bunch of pointless geek backlash.

As you can guess Disney Animation Studios is still making good looking movies, and Big Hero 6 might be their best looking yet.  The fictional San Fransokyo looks like a real living and breathing place, and one that I would love to visit.  The characters all look great and move wonderfully.  This studio is at the top of their game right now.

Disney always does an amazing job of getting good voice actors.  Other studios just try and get a lot of big names to make an impressive credit list, but instead Disney gets the right people for the job.  Sure you may know Damon Wayans, Jr. or T.J. Miller, but they are not a box-office draw.  They are however wonderful in this movie, and Ryan Potter really manages to convey all of Hiro’s emotions extremely well.

I really liked this movie, and I can’t wait to see Disney Animation Studios’ next film.  Plus we will just mark off yet another hit for Marvel while we are at it.  Disney has become an almost unstoppable force these days, and now the only people that could slow them down are themselves, but with movies like this, I don’t see them stumbling any time soon.

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Do TV Ratings Even Matter Anymore?

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So I think we should be less than surprised that Constantine’s ratings have not been great.  Not horrible, but not the ratings hit like Fox’s Gotham or CW’s Arrow/Flash have become.  Why should we not be surprised?  It launched on a Friday, and not just any Friday a Friday that had a World Series game.  Then the next week it was Halloween.  I am not sure that NBC wanted Constantine to be a hit with a one two punch like that.  Now in week three the ratings did go up a bit.  Not a lot, but enough to at least get it to respectable levels.

Friday’s are always bad for a show, and are the death knell for shows that skew younger because kids got stuff to do on Friday nights.  However something interesting has started to happen.  NBC is adding in all the “Other devices and media” views, and the ratings grow by over 2.9 million people, and that doesn’t even track all the places that Constantine is viewable on.  Now that is not a run away hit, but a large group of people are watching, and it looks like they are tuning in every week, just not on “live” TV.

Now if we were just to use the Nielsen Ratings alone Constantine would probably have enough viewers to justify one full season, and then shut it down, but if you throw in all the extra watchers through “other media” it would be hard to cancel.  I know Nielsen is doing its best to try and come up with a way to track online TV viewers, but it looks like it is doing a poor job.  People are watching TV in a totally different way now, so it might be time to gage the public’s interest in a TV show differently too.