Moon Knight TV Series

This comes out today. We'll see how it goes. It's supposed to be Disney's first mature content series, and while they say it'll be "brutal", I doubt it'll ever be as gnarly as Daredevil and Punisher. The word brutal has a much different meaning in such a family-friendly platform. To them, brutal is probably something like joking about a woman's hair. Or lack thereof.

I've never read any MK comics, but the character seems interesting. This is Disney Marvel finally making a show around a unique character instead of lame side characters.

Oscar Isaac is a good choice and I'm interested in seeing him play a character with multiple personalities, but the biggest draw here is the inclusion of Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead's input on the material. They're awesome. (Resolution, Spring, The Endless, Synchronic). Their movies are always about temporal fuckery and surreal grit. It's definitely got me intrigued.

Animation challenge 2022 - Results

Only 5 of us but congrats to Ballz for pretty much wiping the floor with everyone else. All I can say for myself is, thank goodness Zombie took part...

1. Ballz (2825)
2. Box (1820)
3. Troma (1695)
4. Markus (1115)
5. Zombie (146)

Anything you watched that you particularly enjoyed? I thought Netflix's Arcane was one of the best animated series I've ever seen.

Hereditary

Now THIS is a horror movie! The less you know, the better, so I won't say anything about the plot. It's got an oldschool 70's slowburn thing going, and boy does it pay off in the end. Really, I have not been this impressed by a theatrically released horror film in a long, long time.

Photoshopping Leatherface into old pictures

Some of these are funny. If you scroll down on this guy's account, you can see that he has put Leatherface into over 80 images from history, old movies, etc.
https://twitter.com/DonnieGoodman_

Texas Frightmare 2022

I finally went back to this con after a two year absence. It was cancelled in 2020, and I was feeling very iffy about the post-pandemic state of conventions in 2021 and skipped that one. And for what I ended with, I probably should have skipped this year too.

I only did the Sunday pass, which runs from 11am to 5pm. I got there early to meet Brad Dourif when the lines opened at 11, and by 11:20, they shut the doors and said "Brad Dourif is done for the day." I was pissed. He was the big deal I went there to see and he shuts down at the very goddamn start of the thing!

On the plus side, I did get to meet @JennySplatter and her man Captain Splatter, who used to be the best troll on imdb's horror boards. I wouldn't be a horror fan if it weren't for that guy. I should have asked him for his autograph.


I took pictures, but I wont bother posting them because I look kinda shitty in them. I only met a few people there, and in this order:

Jeff Lieberman, director of Just Before Dawn and Satan's Little Helper. $30 for signed 8x10 and a pic with him, no line. Nice enough guy.

Devon Sawa of Idle Hands, Final Destination, Chucky, SLC Punk, and some other shit. Very nice, $60 for 8x10/pic combo, moderate line. Again, nice dude.

Leo Rossi of Halloween II and Maniac Cop 2. $40 for 8x10/pic combo, no line. This guy was the highlight of my measly adventure. Seemed really upbeat and told stories of NYC's gritty time square and how he struggled to get into character for MC2. He made the trip worthwhile.

Last visit was Bruce Davison, from X-Men, Lords of Salem, and probably a bunch of other shit you'd know. Nice guy.

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The big deal this year was the reunions for Scream, Elm Street 3, Chucky, and Texas Chainsaw Massacre '74. I managed to catch a glimpse of most people (even Carl Weathers), but I didn't see Robert Englund anywhere, and the Elm Street 3 cast was mostly absent. If I had gone another day, I'd probably have had better luck, but on the bright side... I have tonight off of work.

Also, another gripe... NOT ENOUGH BOOBIES.

Elon Musk buys Twitter

For $44 billion. He strikes me as one of the cooler gazillionaires, so he might improve that shithole.

Box_a_Rant's Hair

I like to be innovative with this site. Even when there's not much going on, I still like to improve this place, even if nobody knows what the hell I'm doing with it.

My site ambitions tend to ping pong, but I always come back to old ideas and expand on them. Some of the useless crap I've been working on is mentioned below.

Different format for titles in the media database. Instead of one string to store the movie's name, it's now 4 fields: Surtitle, Prefix, Title, and Subtitle. It seems excessive at first, but it makes the title's pop more. It's mostly an aesthetic thing, but it also helps sort titles better alphabetically when you exclude words like 'a', 'an', and 'the'. Remember that VHS cover art thingy I made that nobody ever looked at? I might merge that into the mix too. Funny plot descriptions welcome, because they'd be used on those fake vhs/dvd covers that could be generated.

A new meaning for settings in the media database. I've gotten confused once or twice when it comes to what country a movie is considered a product of. Italy made a lot of stuff in New York, for example, and with American actors. Clearly, it isn't "made" in Italy, but it would still be considered an Italian film. If anybody wants to chime in on this, go for it. So in regards to our database, the locations are to represent the setting. In what state or country is the film set in? I intend to factor these locations into the TE game, so I'm trying to get a good system for it. Plus, it's fun to figure out the intended setting of a movie. Plus, it helped me rationalize the scope of countries on earth, and their proximity to each other.

I've renewed my interest in C# app development recently, and I spend a lot of time thinking about how to interface Trash Epics server to the in-dev app, and that includes everything in the database: 'movies' will transfer to a playable campaign, 'people' would represent NPCs, and 'things' would refer to a general taxonomy of how to implement these into an RPG. There's this whole elaborate system I'm designing, all so you can play a few crappy levels of "Blood Shack", "Halloween III", and a game about my senile old co-worker getting shit on by upper management. He always claimed to be an opening act for CCR and Loverboy back in the day, but could never prove it. If I'm going to make games about shitty movies and concession stand employees, I need to get the little details right.


So there you have it. I've been sorta doing things, but mostly not. Just thought I'd say something to let you'z guys know I'm not neglecting my TE ideas. TE is always my favorite priority in life.

Trash Challenge 2022 Results

I've been meaning to go over these, so here goes...

235 @Tromafreak
161 @Ballz
110 @Box_a_Hair
87 @Johan_WoW
65 @markus-san
31 @ZombieCPA
31 @vortexsurfer
23 @OnyxHades
18 @NoseOfNicko

As usual, Tromafreak puts us all to shame when it comes to trash. We must all aspire to be more like him.

I did okay, and I'll blame my work schedule for my not being more productive with my viewings. My favorites FTVs were Switchblade Sisters, Bad Boy Bubby, and Another Dirty Movie. House by the Cemetery was surprisingly decent too. I didn't get as many FTVs as I would have liked, but there were some classics in my rewatches to keep me going.

As usual, trash money has been awarded.

Give your thoughts on the junk you watched.

Animation Easter mini-challenge 2022

Kids are off school for the Easter holidays (which obviously only applies to parents like me) so hey what better time to get some cartoons watched - kiddy suitable, or erm otherwise...

Rules:

- You get one point per minute watched.

- All forms of animation count, including live action mixed with animation, i.e. Who Framed Roger Rabbit.

- Feature length, TV shows, shorts - they all count.

- The challenge will run from 00:00 this Friday 8th April and last until 23:59 on Saturday 30th April.

- Make your SPOT below!

Death Wish 3

The women die quickly and the men to do all the dirty work. People cheer after an old white guy shoots a black man in the street. The police encourage a vigilante to kill adolescents and delinquents. New York is really painted in a urban grit where gang violence has taken over. Does Paul Kersey really need a bazooka? Yes, he absolutely needs to fire one off in the boss fight, and Jimmy Page needs to score it.

Part of me entertained the idea to humanize the gangs, which isn't the movie's intention. I wonder how he would react if The Warriors were thrown into the mix. Would he kill them without hestitation like all the other scum on the streets? Or would he let them go back to Coney Island? Damn modern times trying to tell me the violent retaliation in this movie wouldn't fly at all if it were made today, but God bless the 80s.

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