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April 11, 2016April 11, 2016

Thanks To The MTV Movie Awards It Is Trailer Day!

First up we got the new Suicide Squad trailer!

With Batman v Superman underperforming DC/Warner Brothers are doing everything in their power to make sure that the Suicide Squad is a hit, and I do have to say it is looking very fun. This trailer mostly has longer shots of things we have already seen, but that is alright with me. I think we can safely say that Enchantress is the big bad guy in this movie.

Next we have Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them!

Again Warner Brothers is really ramping up the hype train, and this movie looks great! We get to see a little more magic in this trailer, and we learn a little more background info about Newt. On thing is for sure I will be in the seats come November!

Now how about a video game with Gears of War 4!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3f8VgQ_dqk

Clearly the people over at Microsoft are paying homage to the classic ‘Mad World’ Gears of War trailer with a very somber cover of ‘Sound of Silence’. This trailer sets up the new character and the setting for Gears 4 pretty well, and I have to say after not playing the last two Gears of Wars games this makes me pretty excited for Gears of War 4.

Happy trailer day everyone!

April 7, 2016

Trailer Time! Rogue One: A Star Wars Story!

I have to say I didn’t think there was anything they could do to make the Death Star cool again, but I was wrong! This looks great! I guess Disney is getting even more of my money this Christmas. They way things are going maybe I should just start giving them money on an installment plan.

April 6, 2016April 6, 2016

The Walking Dead Season Six Finale Was Bull Crap!

Okay we need to talk about The Walking Dead season six finale “The Last Day On Earth”! Obviously this rant will contain spoilers so you have been warned. Well except for the fact I can’t really spoil anything because nothing really happened. I don’t know what the writers were thinking with this episode. They managed to create an episode that not only didn’t deliver on its promises, but that also now has the worst cliff hanger of all time.

They have been asking for all of the second half of season 6 “Who will survive?” only to not tell us. Sure the introduction of Negan was good, and he is just as charismatic and terrifying as we have been told, but we were also promised he would kill someone, and while he technically did, they just didn’t show us. So they used 90 minutes to not deliver on the one question that they have been asking for months. Of course now they get to ask ‘Who was it?”, but that is garbage, it is just being mean to their fans.

The show already had a natural and interesting cliff hanger, “How will the group survive this?”, but I guess that wasn’t enough, so they decided it was okay to amp it up for no reason. I could see if this show was doing poorly how an action like this would make sense, but this is the most popular show on the planet, so there was no need to not deliver on their own marketing.

The Walking Dead has been getting lazy with their writing for a while now, and this finale might be the tipping point in The Walking Dead’s popularity. I have not heard this much backlash about an episode of TV in a long time, and I think the producers of The Walking Dead are going to regret filming “The Last Day On Earth”.

April 5, 2016

The Paladin thinks they named it Spectre because there wasn’t anything there

This weekend I had an excellent bag of toffee covered popcorn. It was in small bags, tasted fresh, was satisfyingly crunchy, and the toffee flavor was delightful. It was Cascade or River something. I don’t seem to remember the name, but the experience easily made up for it.

Unlike the movie we watched, Spectre. I can remember the name, but beyond that I can’t really think of much else. It was a James Bond movie? It had Monica Bellucci in it very briefly, which was as shame. Voldemort let Moriarty fall off a balcony. Stuff blew up and bad guys were dispatched in the usual ways.

I wonder if the new Bond films have the Star Trek movie problem where every other film is good.. Only they’re on the odds and not the evens? But Spectre is not like Star Trek V: Final Frontier bad; it’s just forgettable, a lot like Quantum of Solace. And its not Daniel Craig’s or the director, Sam Mendes, fault. Casino Royale and Skyfall were a renaissance in James Bond films, that were both more grounded and yet mindful of the past cinematic experiences. I think it was just the story, whatever it was, was just boring.

Really, I just want to talk more about my mystery bag of toffee covered popcorn. It was that good.

P.S. I do remember one thing about the movie – the opening title was THE absolute worst James Bond song ever; even beating Moonraker by a huge margin.

April 4, 2016

Batman V Superman Take Two!

So even though I had middling feelings about BvS:DoJ I decided to go and check it out again over the weekend, and I have to say I thought it was better the second time around. Understanding where all the plots were going really helped out. Plus I knew all the stuff I could tune out. Though I will say if I was the editor I would have taken a hatchet to Batman v Superman.

I love Amy Adams, but I would have killed her whole story arc. It never made any sense. Superman’s mountain walkabout? Gone. He already gets advice from Ma Kent there is no need for more soul searching. Justice League cameos? I would have just copied Marvel and thrown them all after the credits. That would have just left Wonder Woman (okay and someone else too), and that would have been enough. Then if there was anything left that would have smoothed out some of the main stories on the cutting room floor I would have re-added those clips. This movie would have been much better at two hours long.

Anyway like I said, Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice was actually better the second time, and I am now curious where everything goes from here. Obviously we know the big bad guy will be Darkseid, or at least a Darkseid minion for Part 1, and he brings with him a whole bag of trouble. I just hope audiences will not have to see the movies twice for them to make any sense.