We have first teaser for new Star Wars. Episode 9's title is Rise of the Skywalker and the footage is pretty good but the real HYPE is that Palpatine is back. He was the most fun part of the prequels. J.J. Abrams is amazing. Rian TrollEdgeLord left this franchise basically a bag of feces on fire and now J.J. managed to make people excited again. Amazing.
Avengers: Endgame press tour has started and we have so much wonderful stuff from it already. I haven been able to catch up with most of it though and only focused on Hemsworth stuff.
Meanwhile, last Saturday Paul Rudd turned 50 years old. How the hell is that possible?! He is a super nice dude so it's not like he kills virgins and bathes in their blood... right?
Kumal Nanjianiis in talks to join Angelina Jolie in The Eternals. This is terrific, this guy is so funny and he is such a sweet person. Although after Mike and Dave need Wedding Dates this one scene with him in it will forever haunt my nightmares.
New trailer for The Lion King featuring the first look at Timon and Pumba and Scar who looks like he has been through some shit.
Again, fuck Elisabeth Moss. She's a great actress but goddamn, stop giving these people a pass, Hollywood!
I saw new Pet Semetary and when I read the script for it months ago I didn't think they can mess it up more but they managed to. In the script Judd was actually responsible for the cat dying so it made some sense why he wanted to bring it back, out of guilt. But here it's just stupid. He basically shows up, then crashes family dinner and then he's like "here's a zombie cat, enjoy".
Also Jason Clarke's character was so dumb. He moves next to the road, he sees all those trucks driving like insane. Then he almost dies because of one. Then it kills the cat. And yet he still doesn't do anything about it. Shouldn't he tell someone about this? So that they put up a sign or a speed bump or whatever? Or you know, keep his kids on a leash so that they wouldn't run on the road? Shocking that one of them got killed by a speeding truck. Shocking!
The film had some good moments but the script is just tragic and the execution is so bad - the whole story was rushed, the scary stuff relied on jump scares and the evil little girl is such a tired trope. I never saw the old version but even just from the pictures I can tell Zelda was far more scary in that, here it was just a generic deformed apparition.
I also saw Shazam! which was a lot of fun. It had so much heart and plenty of adorable and funny moments. The characters were so likable and Zachary Levi and the funny kid from It did a wonderful job. WB showing Cavill a middle finger right before the end was so epic - they either asked him to do cameo and this fool turned it down or they didn't even bother. Everyone else is delivering in huge ways and Snyder, Affleck and Cavill are relegated to Netflix. And yet it's still not the punishment enough for how much they messed up.
I haven't had much time for movies - and probably won't for a while - because I had a lot of work to do so instead I watched a bit of Santa Clarita Diet every day. The show takes a while to get going but in season 2 it becomes really fun and entertaining. Also all the main characters are super likable and Abby and Eric are so cute together. It's a shame Eric's mom wasn't in the new season more - she is so much fun. The ending of the third season was pretty good but I just hope they won't ruin that character. He was perfect the way he was.
Timothy Olyphant makes the show - his reactions and line deliveries are absolutely hilarious. I also identify so much with his character.
This is basically me every day after I come back from work except instead of "good" I say "horrible". Oh, and I have a physical exam for work in two weeks. That was brilliant, I scheduled my tests and was all set to go get them done and hey, period (the gifset above is again, so accurate). So I had to reschedule. You know that scene from Knocked Up where Katherine Heigl cannot do period math because she has been so busy? That is probably the most realistic scene in the history of cinema.
I completely forgot to mention it last week but Veep is back! The first two episodes were great and the whole Jonah marrying his stepdad's daughter situation is so funny.