Todd Phillip's been doing everything right in the marketing department for his upcoming Joker movie thus far. Well, at least with his promo images. I absolutely love this new one (I assume it's some sort of poster of some kind) where it blends both the Joker and his normal sans make-up face in one image. Pretty creative I must say. It looks stunning to say the least. If it were in a poster format I'd buy it in a heartbeat.
The more I look at the promotional materials of the new Joker movie, the more I am convinced that this was the Joker we deserved in the Suicide Squad movie.
One more interesting point to note is that there is that scene from the new Joker movie that will give us a glimpse of a young Bruce Wayne with his parents seconds before Thomas and Martha were mugged and gunned down behind the cinema. So I take it that there IS some kind of connection between Joaquin's Joker to the DC Cinematic Universe. I would LOVE to see Joaquin Joker go up against the Bat! Fingers crossed.
This image gives a new meaning to the term "Let's turn that frown upside down!"
The new Watchmen HBO TV series' official trailer just dropped and it has spawned dozens of questions from the geekdom. First of all, its creator, Alan Moore, wants no part nor endorse the new HBO TV series just as he was with Zack Snyder's 2009 film. It's easy to see why he wants to distance himself from the series and the film because according to the man, they seem to deviate a lot from his original source material but many would say that's the whole point of adaptation movies/TV series. It will be boring if there are no deviations whatsoever from the source material. Case in point, the ending to Zack Snyder's Watchmen film. For the record, I don't want to watch a comic book movie just because I totally dig the comic book. Apart from the obvious special effects and overwhelming CGIs, there's gotta be something that gives you the feeling that it's gonna be worthwhile. Initially I though that we were gonna see those familiar faces from the original graphic novel/movie but I was wrong. The TV series is set years after the movie but from trailer we know that at least Laurie aka The 2nd Silk Spectre's is still around mentoring a new blood. We could also see that Rorschach's death had spawned literally other countless Rorschachs who admittedly can be seen running wild throughout the city, hopefully as vigilantes fighting crime and not the other way around. That also means that we don't get to see Doc Manhattan all over again. Or do we? One more interesting point to note is that this alternate future does not have internet nor smart phones. I'm not sure if that's a good thing but all I can say is that this alternate future is surely less distracting for mankind. I can safely assume that people are relatively nicer to each other because they can now interact more with each other (?).
Just like the producers of the series who dissed Alan Moore off, I'll probably watch the TV series anyway. I'm gonna reserve my comments until I finish watching every last minute of it. Looks like October is gonna be a busy month, with the new season of AMC's The Walking Dead also coming along nicely for us geeks.
Have you guys seen the latest image taken off Entertainment Weekly of the Mandalorian from the upcoming Jon Favreau's...errr...The Mandalorian TV series? According to the info given, the dude's head-to-head with two Trandoshans who I assume are both bounty hunters themselves. The why and where will only be answered when the series go up on Disney's streaming channel later this year.
If you ask me, I don't really recall Bossk ever looking like either of the 'Trandoshans' shown below. These guys look more like Jabba's goons from his palace or his sailbarge.
Nevertheless I love it that the Mandalorian dude looks like the Boba Fett from the Ewoks animated series way back in the day and he almost has the same color scheme too. Almost.
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I'm pretty stoked to hear that US Agent is gonna make an appearance in the upcoming Falcon and the Winter Soldier TV series, also on Disney Plus. I've been a fan of John Walker's faux Captain America alter ego ever since I was first hooked on the West Coast Avengers since way back during my early foray into reading comic books.
Right here is a fan theory on how US Agent's suit gonna probably look like in the TV series. The particular fan thinks that one of the unused 'rebellious' Captain America suit design will be the basis of US Agent's suit. Pretty interesting theory but I'd personally love to see US Agent comes with his hood, that huge black star and all, please?
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How about a sneek peak into how William Sadler's gonna look like as Death in the upcoming Bill & Ted: Face The Music film?
I don't know about you guys but I totally dig the second Bill & Ted movie as much as the first one and this guy here was largely responsible for my infatuation of the movie.
The dude, under heavy make-up, looked like he never aged a day since Bogus Journey! Can't wait for the movie.
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Alright, who did this parody poster of Star Wars' Episode 9 teaser poster?! I love this! As a Mel Brookes' fan I can totally understand why someone will eventually do this. This was bound to happen whichever way you look at it, right?
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Let us end today's geeky ramblings by pondering what would happened if Marvel Studios indeed used the alternated post-credits scene from the first Iron Man movie from way back in 2008. In a recent clip released by Kevin Feige from Marvel Studios, we got to see how Nick Fury (played by the awesome Sam Jackson of course!) mentioned the words 'mutants' and 'radioactive bug bites'.
We all knew how Marvel Studios would get in trouble back then because..... a) they still haven't taken over Fox Studios to freely use the word 'mutants' in MCU's movies.....and b) the cinematic Spiderman was still a very well-kept property of Sony Pictures. So Marvel Studios never released this one but kept it in their vault in anticipation that the cinematic rights of their fan-favorite characters will eventually find their way home sometime in the future.
We all knew how psychic Marvel Studios are when it comes to these kind of stuff. With the X-Men characters safely back to Marvel Studios it's a matter of time before they try to acquire Sony Pictures too. It's inevitable. Soon this alternate post-credits scene WILL become canon and makes sense to everyone.
On the flip side, I've also heard that there were plans/rumors by Sony Pictures to somehow slap 'Stark Industries' on Doctor Octavius' octopus arms albeit for a micro-second during Sam Raimi's second Spiderman movie. So, I guess Sony wanted to be cheeky too huh?
Trailer #2 for Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker just dropped and it has created even more debates among fans especially on that scene where Rey wielded a double-bladed red lightsaber. Let's take a look at it again:
First of all I love the nod to the past movies, right from the Original Trilogy through the Prequels and even right up to The Last Jedi. Even with all the clues dropped in the two trailers one still can never tell how Emperor Palpatine's gonna come back in the movie. Some are saying that scene where Rey has supposedly turned to the Dark side is just a dream sequence ala that Dagobah cave scene in The Empire Strikes Back. Another popular theory states that scene is just a moment where Palpatine (or some other sinister villain of the Force) tries to mess with Rey's mind by projecting images that portray her as a fallen Jedi. Whatever it is, it still does not explain how Palpy's gonna make a comeback in Episode 9. Hopefully the 3rd (and final) trailer will shed some light into this although I doubt it that Disney's gonna spill anything at this point.
Another talking point among fans is that scene showing C3-P0 with red eyes. Did he turn evil or something? Possessed? Or simply malfunctioned?
Here's another interesting idea. Why don't we turn Artoo evil too? After all, he DOES have that red flashing light readily available in case he decides to switch allegiance.
Oh, is it wrong at this point to say that I'm actually more excited about the Mandalorian trailermore than Episode 9's?
Turns out that the new Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker poster has stirred quite a controversy among fans. Fans can literally say what they want these days with the hope of changing the outcome of whatever that was bugging them in the first place. Wishful thinking.
Firstly, they're saying that Palpatine looks kinda cartoony instead of the actual image of Ian McDarmid in make-up. I agree on this one, something's really off with his eyes. Them haters are not wrong though because it has since been discovered that a Hot Toys action figure was actually used to create the image in the poster. That does not make things better in my opinion. Instead of using an image of Palpatine from the Clone Wars or Rebels animated series, they went for a picture of an action figure's head. No brownie points for you Disney!
Secondly, the simplicity of the poster makes some fans go all crazy saying that some amateur graphic artist did the whole thing and not befitting a Star Wars epic poster quality. Well, I don't have much qualms on the graphics on this one. Sometimes more is less and vice versa. Kylo does have the higher ground in this one and it teases that an epic battle between the two is coming our way in Episode 9.
But then I stumbled across this edited image off the 'net (bless you, whoever did this!) and I gotta be honest, it does look better in so many ways. Made me laugh for a good minute or so!
And then I remembered that George Lucas originally mentioned that Jar Jar Binks was supposed to play a bigger role in the rise of the Sith at the end of the prequel trilogy but that storyline got scrapped somewhere along the way.
Imagine if George went down THAT alley and made Jar Jar the bad guy as he intended to.....
The internet broke today. At least for Star Wars fans, I'm pretty sure of it. Not that epic of a proportion like the time when we first saw old Han & Chewie boarding the Millennium Falcon back in The Force Awakens but it's mighty close. Disney gave us the first full trailer for The Mandalorian and fans can more or less gauge what to expect from the 8-episode limited series coming our way through the Disney Plus streaming service on Nov 12, 2019. Let's take a look at it, if you haven't already.....
Disney has said that the series will have movie quality just like what we've seen in all Star Wars movie thus far and we've seen just that in the trailer.
The Mandalorian is set between ROTJ and The Force Awakens hence starting the influx of movies/series that Disney can go into to explain that 30-year gap between the two movies. The Empire has fallen and it is a time when everybody is still celebrating the fall of Emperor Palpatine. It is also a time of chaos with no central government to control the galaxy. The tale tells of a time when a bounty hunter dons the legendary Mandalorian armor after Jango and Boba Fett in a very wild west setting in that galaxy far, far away.
The series created by Jon Favreau stars Pedro Pascal of Game Of Thrones fame as the main bounty hunter and include a slew of famous cast members such as Carl Weathers, Nick Nolte, Taika Waititi (yup, THAT Taika Waititi), Werner Herzog, and Bryce Dallas Howard.
I really dig the Original Trilogy throwback with Twi'leks and Ugnaughts making appearances in the series. Let's hope for more familiar OT faces/characters making their rounds. Furthermore, the series has that Rogue One-ish feel, complete with a young Jynn Erso-like character being shielded by her mother as she makes her way to escape from someone/something.
These four moments from the trailer really caught my attention. To me they really stood up from the rest of the stuff shown during the 2-minute trailer.
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1) See those Stormtrooper helmets all dumped on that sandy planet and some were on spikes? The remaining Imperial Stormtroopers have all either deserted their posts or to be more sadistic, have all been killed to wipe out all traces of Palpatine's tyranny.
2) Who's that frozen in carbonite? First glance may tell you that this might a Zabrak (Darth Maul perhaps?) If you zoom in, you might even see Freddie Krueger. What's your take on this? Whatever it is, this proves that Vader's experiment to freeze prisoners in ESB was a success and eventually copied by bounty hunters throughout the galaxy.
3) Director Krennic must be proud to know that his beloved Death Troopers are still around even after the demise of the Empire. Seconds after this shot, them Death Troopers can be seen answering to someone presumably a former high officer of the Empire. There must be something special about these zombie-like troopers that allowed them to persevere longer than the average Stormtrooper.
4) One of the coolest image from the trailer is IG-88 finally showing his fighting skills! I've only read about the dude's exploit in the Tales of the Bounty Hunter book and (both) Clone Wars animated series. Truthfully I've been praying to see him in action on the big screen ever since. I can't wait to see what else can he do in the series.
With such a spectacular trailer for The Mandalorian, I have high hopes for the upcoming series on Cassian Andor (& K2S0) and Obi-Wan Kenobi. It's looking rather good for the Star Wars universe right now. I believe Disney will announce many more in the coming months and this can only be good for fans who like to see the Star Wars cinematic universe being expanded beyond the films. Having said that, I'd rather have good quality TV Star Wars series than a mediocre Star Wars film any time any day.
Nuff said.
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With Star Wars out of the way, I'd like to end today's posting with these two images I found off the 'net today. One will completely blow you away and the other will warm your heart.
1) Here's a post taken off Facebook that shows a very less-than-tactful response to Hawkeye's failure to save Natasha in Avengers: Endgame. BURN!!!!
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2) Apparently here's how Edward Furlong looked like during the recent Silicon Valley Comic Con, a VERY far cry form that 'street-bum' look that was caught on camera some years back. Very happy for the man for getting back into the human race and for landing back the role of John Connor in the upcoming Terminator: Dark Fate movie that's coming out in Oct '19.
It's time for some geek-worthy news from all around the 'net. Feel free to update me in case I've missed any for the past couple o' days. Ain't it a great time to be alive? Lots of good flicks coming our way.
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John Rambo's finally getting a closure in his fifth and final movie titled Rambo: Last Blood. Let me just stop right there for a moment and tell you that some people don't even remember that there was a fourth movie some years ago. I remembered that I wasn't that excited either about the movie at the time because I think everything we've seen in the movie's been done before, over and over again throughout Rambo 2 and Rambo 3. Now, John Rambo looked even better than he did in Rambo 4. Seriously, he looks fitter and more combat ready in Last Blood. Seems that the battle finally followed him home back to good 'ol USA. Take a look at the trailer below:
Rambo: Last Blood comes out in September 2019. . . .
Confirmation about Matrix 4 should be earth shattering to most of you Matrix die hard enthusiasts. Keanu Reeves' coming back with Carrie-Ann Moss but there's no word yet if Lawrence Fishburne's joining back the rest of the cast. I kinda like the first two Matrix movie but the third one didn't really do it for me. So Matrix 4.....is just 'meh' for me but I think I'll probably watch it when it comes out anywhere just to complete the whole experience. No further updates yet on the new movie's release date etc. Speaking of a new Keanu Reeves movie......
Now here's a movie that really got my heart pumping! The new Bill and Ted movie has finally started filming sometime last month. Bill & Ted: Face the Music will feature many familiar faces from the first two movies (save for Rufus) and will reunite the dimwitted time-travelling awesome dudes as they go for a new adventure. Ted looks like a clean shaven John Wick and Bill looks like....err...himself, which is not a bad thing really.
Bill and Ted: Face the Music is coming our way in August, 2020.
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The new James Bond movie has finally got a title. With a title like 'No Time To Die' one can only wonder if 007 is finally getting the bullet this time around. What's more astonishing is that Daniel Craig is still playing James Bond despite years' worth of rumors that he's fed up of the role and not wanting to play the secret agent on the silver screen ever again.
Having said that, my favorite James Bond actor is still Roger Moore. I still love the light comedy aspect of Moore's Bond films over the other actors. I can talk endlessly about Moonraker or The Spy Who Loved Me if you invite me over for a discussion over coffee.
I'd still watch any new James Bond movie anytime any day no matter who the actor is.
James Bond: No Time To Die goes on the big screen in April of next year.
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Well, well, well....since Spidey's acrimonious saga ended between Disney and Sony Pictures, many fans were left dumbfounded about the future of the web-slinger and his related characters. Fret no more we-heads, for Sony Pictures had in fact planned several other Spidey-related movies apart from the ones headlined by the web-slinger himself.
Looks like Disney-Marvel are the ones on the losing end more than the owner of the Spidey franchise themselves. In case you haven't heard, Sony Pictures had these live-action movies in the pipeline all along.....
Morbius (Jared Leto is in it!)
Venom 2 (Andy 'freakin Gollum' Serkis is directing it!)
Kraven The Hunter (haven't heard much about it yet)
Spiderverse (oh come on, now this has just been snagged right from under Marvel Studios' noses!)
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I first ranted about the Joker movie and how some toxic fans were already hating it despite not even having seen it yet HERE. I've also talked about how I much I dig his new photo off that Italian magazine YESTERDAY.
Well, here's another piece of interesting news about the upcoming Todd Phillips' movie on the Clown Prince of Crime. This one's actually been picked up by somebody close to the production team and by right this shouldn't be treated as official yet but you know, fan frenzy and all. As reported by wegotthiscovered.com, it has been said that:
".....there’ll be a major twist in Joker that tells us Arthur Fleck (whose real name is Happy Wayne, apparently) is actually the illegitimate son of Thomas Wayne, who had an affair several decades prior with a woman who wasn’t Martha. This, of course, would mean that the Joker is the half-brother of Bruce Wayneand thus, in this continuity at least, Batman and the Clown Prince of Crime are related!"
Wow. Just wow. If this is indeed proven to be true then I'm all for it. It has been rumored for years already that the Joker has some sort of relation to the Bats and if this is the path taken by Todd Phillips, then it will be very interesting indeed. That'll explain the natural love-hate relationship between them throughout their career. Nice twist, but this also means that Batman will eventually kill his (half) brother off in Frank Miller's TDKR graphic novel. Now THAT'S family drama!
A new image of the Joker can be found on the latest issue of il vernedi, to which I'm guessing is a magazine publication from Italy. I must say that I like this one. The Joker looks calm yet full of thoughts as if he's planning to unleash some sinister plot on whoever is looking at him at the moment.
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Some months ago we were already been feasted with the Joker dual covers from Empire magazine, although I've never actually found the one on the left. I think it must have been a special edition of some sort because there aren't much writings on the cover compared to the one on the right.
I've given my thoughts on Warner Bros' decision to put Joaquin Phoenix's in the Joker's shoes BEFORE. I sincerely think he's gonna nail the role just like I am confident Robert Pattinson is gonna do justice to his Batman role. I have faith. After all, aside from Jack Nicholson, most people didn't really put much hope on Cesar Romero and Heath Ledger but they turned out alright in their respective roles as the Clown Prince of Crime.
One thing that still bothers me is how Warner Bros treats this upcoming Joker movie as a 'stand-alone' movie with no connection whatsoever with the rest of the DCEU movie. Such waste. Imagine him being in the same universe as Batfleck (who is now not even the Batman anymore) instead of the Leto-Joker. We shall never know.
Just when everybody's still reeling from that tearjerker Endgame movie, the internet's buzzing today with the news that due to the feud between Sony and Marvel Studios, Spiderman won't be making anymore appearances in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU). I remember the time when Marvel Studios did everything they could to get Spidey to cross over into the MCU just to complete the Avengers roster. I mean, what good is a Marvel movie when it's biggest star isn't even in it.
Seriously, if you went through the 90s, then you'll find that almost every single Marvel comics has Spidey on it, be it in on the cover, the subscription and editorial pages. Some may even go as far to say that Spiderman IS Marvel Comics.
Marvel Comics did something incredibly outrageous back in the 80s (I'm not saying stupid, but close). They sold off the cinematic rights to some of their key characters back in the day just to make ends meet. Marvel Comics was on the brink of bankruptcy and getting the proceeds from selling off movie rights to their key characters like Spiderman, the X-Men and the Fantastic Four seemed right at the time for them.
Sony Pictures did give us that impressive Sam Raimi's Spiderman trilogy films in the 2000s (some of you might have a totally different opinion on Raimi's Spiderman 3 and I can respect that too) before a so-so Andrew GarfieldSpiderman came in the early 2010s.
When the MCU launched in 2008 with the first Iron Man movie, many fans were expecting to see the other Marvel heavy-hitters like Spidey and the mutant superheroes making their way to the big screen too. Oh were they gonna be disappointed!
But eventually Marvel Studios did the impossible and negotiated to get Spidey back into the MCU albeit temporarily as long as Sony (that's them dudes who own the cinematic rights to Spidey today). Remember how ecstatic fan boys got when they first saw Spiderman in Captain America: Civil War? Spidey went on to star in two solo movies and the Infinity War movies under Marvel Studios.
So what does Spidey's exit from the MCU mean to most of us? I can tell you this. Sony Pictures and Marvel Studios are both profit-making entities and their failure to agree on Spidey's availability can only mean one thing....the money's not right! I think that once Marvel Studios can meet whatever Sony Pictures demand from them, it'll be alright again. This is me being optimistic.
Honestly, a Marvel Cinematic Universe without a Spiderman is like imagining DC Comics without its Batman or Superman. Spiderman: Far From Home gave us some really cool post-credit scenes which can only mean that more Spidey films from Marvel Studios are coming our way. I've talked about the film in one of my previous blog post. Let's not disappoint everyone dear Marvel Studios. Go and talk to Sony Pictures and resolve this...for the sake of everyone!
Heads up Masters of The Universe Classic (MOTUC) fans...or He-Man fans (which ever that rocks your boat) get ready for a new MOTUC series called MOTU: Revelation that's coming your way thru Netflix soon! How soon? I don't know. But from what we've heard through the PowerCon announcement, more updates are coming our way soon so wait for those! And yeah, the very uber-geek Silent Bob...err...Kevin Smith is gonna spearhead the project so this is gonna be something!
Word is that the new series is gonna pick up right here the original series left off back in the 80s.
Those who are familiar with Netflix's She-Ra animated series may notice that the teaser poster for the new MOTUC series has the word 'anime' in it thus signalling that we may get that 'She-Ra-esque' Japanese anime graphics too in the series. It may bother some but I'm just keen to know more about what happened to our heroes after the series ended abruptly in the 80s to make way for.....(you've guessed it).....the She-Ra original animated series.
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During the recent PowerCon, Kevin Smith had this to say during the announcement of the new series:
"In Revelation, we pick up right where the classic era left off to tell an epic tale of what may be the final battle between He-Man and Skeletor!"
Wow, just wow! So are we gonna get to see some sort of a final duel between the two? An epic clash between the two fan favorite thirty years in the making? There's also word that the series is gonna focus on Teela but I find it rather contradictory to what Kevin Smith had announced. How would they concentrate on Teela when the clash between He-Man and Skelly is the main focus of the limited series? Is one gonna overshadow the other? How would that work in terms of storytelling purposes. We'll soon find out.
Glad to see Kevin Smith back in action after his brush with heart attack some time ago. It's kinda weird to see him all thinned out but I guess the man has gone down the healthy road these days. Kudos to ya Kev!
Anyway, let's wait for more updates on the MOTU: Revelation soon. More of our queries will be answered then, I hope. Till then (all together now)...."I-HAVE-THE-POWERRRRRRRRR!"
Now let's go into the things that caught my attention these past few days.
I got most of these pictures off the net and they belong to their respective owners except for the coffee pic. Yup, that was just plain ol' me snapping away a picture of my cold caffeinated beverage as I rested my butt at the Starbucks sitting area near the waterfront bay area in a certain 'lion city' last week after I was finished with my work for the day. . . . Has anybody tried that Nitro Brew Coffee from Starbucks yet? Supposedly this cold brew coffee is charged with nitrogen to give it a rich and creamy taste just like draft beer. U-huh. I tried the plain nitro brew coffee months ago with my better half out of curiosity and it was nice, with the sugarless beverage tasted perfect in our mouths (we're really into coffee so when you can really taste the coffee bean flavor in your mouth it's A-O-K!). I was in Singapore last week for work and I was treated to the new Caramel Nitro Brew Coffee by a colleague of mine. We spent a good whole half an hour sipping away on the beverage which I find rather odd because the faint caramel sweetness comes from the frothy/creamy layer at the top while the coffee below tastes just like.....plain ol' coffee. I prefer the non-caramel version.
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Remember that scene in Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring where everyone seemed to be throwing their support to Frodo when he volunteered to be the ring bearer? I thought that was one of the coolest scene in the movie (before it was spoiled by the badly timed humor from Merry & Pippin). Now imagine if everyone did take things literally and only offered their weapons to Frodo without really having the intentions to accompany the poor sod to Mordor. The hobbit wouldn't even have survived 5 minutes out of Rivendell if JRR Tolkien had gone down that path in his books. This comic strip illustrates that 'alternative' plot perfectly.
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I've probably watched the The Toys That Made Us many times over on Netflix with my geek wife and son. Season 3 is coming right up sometime in late 2019 so that's something that is high on our priority 'to-watch' list. Guess what? Them guys that made 'Toys have made yet another nostalgic show of a similar theme, but this time showcasing the important/iconic movies of yesteryear. It is aptly named 'The Movies That Made Us'....what else really? It's coming sometime in late '19 but I can more or less guess some of the movies that are gonna be mentioned in the series. My money's on a certain DeLorean time-travel trilogy, that space-soap opera trilogy that started in '77 and the trilogy of films with that certain archaeologist with his whip. What's your guess?
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Ewan McGregor is reportly being courted for the new Obi-Wan Kenobi TV series for the Disney Plus Channel. Come on, haven't we've heard about this many times already? I've read somewhere too that Disney has put the solo Obi-Wan movie on hold several times already because of the less-than-desired success of the Solo movie. I hope this time the solo Obi-Wan TV series does become a reality. We really need to see Ewan McGregor back in the Star Wars movie-verse. He definitely was one of the star performer in the much criticized second Star Wars trilogy and deserve to be playing Obi-Wan Kenobi again. Fingers crossed.
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And what about this guy here? Anything peculiar about the dude's name? This proves that he is legally allowed to say "I am Batman!" whenever he pleases. What's more astonishing is that his father's name is Suparman, with that mightily close spelling to Superman. Batman's story here first made the rounds way back in '09 but he recently made the news again for the wrong reason. Seemed that he was a GrabFood rider who took a beating from a dissatisfied customer. What a way to finally be in the papers again. Nobody beats up Batman....nobody!
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Super Skelly is in da house! This is a great mashup of the man of steel and our favorite Eternian villain. All I can say is that he looks rather liberated. We need more art like this!
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I'd like to end today's post by showing you what you can achieve when you have too much free time on your hands. Most people spend quality time to decorate and arrange stuff in their man cave but this guys made a very cool man cave for his action figures. So it's like having a diorama within a diorama. I found this picture in a Star Wars diorama builder group over on FB but the diorama doesn't look Star Wars-y at all.
One thing cool about the 80s was the abundance of great cartoon series and their respective accompanying toy lines. Remember how you used to drool over the television commercials and begged you parents to make that trip to Toys R Us afterwards? I remember being absolutely mesmerized by these commercials whenever they appear on TV and I would pause from whatever I was doing at the time just to absorb all of the information and visual feasts from these commercials. Every great cartoon series deserve an equally great toy line to accompany them. Or in the case of He-Man & the Masters of The Universe, vice versa. Well today it's all about those classic toy commercials of yesteryear. Yup, no long rants today so just sit back, relax and enjoy these commercials that'll surely bring you back down memory lane. Without a doubt, the 80s was the best decade for cartoon series and toys!
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Mobile Assault Strike Kommand (M.A.S.K.)
Starcom
He-Man
TMNT
GI Joe
The Real Ghostbusters
Thundercats
Transformers
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I also tip my hat to those cartoon series commercials that just barely missed out on todays' honour mentions: e.g.Centurions, GOBOTS, Dino Riders, Visionaries: Knights of the Magical Light, Super Powers Collection.
It suddenly hit me today that the title of the upcoming Star Wars movie in Dec '19, The Rise of Skywalker aka the final movie in the trilogy that will end all trilogies might be terribly misleading fans all along. I might be wrong here but do hear me out.
Some months ago, I totally blew my own mind off when I had a epiphany that Return of the Jedi was in actual fact referring to the return of Anakin Skywalker to the light side rather than the triumphant return of a new breed of Jedi Knight in the form of Luke Skywalker. just think about it, the prophecy talked about a Jedi who would bring balance to the Force i.e. balancing between the Dark and Light side of the Force, and Anakin's final u-turn to the good guy's side at the end fulfilled that prophecy.
So, what if.....just what if, The Rise of Skywalker is subtly referring to a Skywalker that no one really thought it would be. Just like Episode VI, when everyone's focus was on a certain Luke Skywalker, the 'Jedi' that the title was referring to was actually Darth Vader. I'm pretty certain of this.
We've only seen one trailer off the new movie and nothing has been concrete thus far on who this Skywalker might be. Well I can tell you this. The trailer is full of red herrings (things that's purposely planted to put you off course) and you'll eventually get confused on who's who doing what and how.
And do hear me out before you strike my theory down.
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I believe that the 'Skywalker' could very well be a long line of Skywalkers created via the cloning technology that the Republic/Empire/First Order had from the Clone Wars. Somewhere somehow the Emperor got his grubby hands on Luke Skywalkers's DNA (or maybe as simple as using Anakin Skywalker's DNA even) and attempted to create a perfect fighting machine to advance his own interest in conquering the universe. This runs in tandem with the now defunct Expanded Universe story arc that the Emperor made countless clones of himself for contingencies.
And what's more crazy is that....
I think that Supreme Leader Snoke was also part of that long list of Skywalker clone. Call me crazy but that could very well explain why he had some degree of Force-related abilities. Not fully equipped as a seasoned Jedi knight or Sith lord but he has enough to inflict fear among those who opposed him.
And who's next from this long line of cloned Skywalkers you might ask? It could be anyone from both sides of the war really. My suspicions point me to the obvious ones like Rey or even Finn (by a long shot!) but it could be someone that could be revealed in Episode 9 itself, thus eliminating all theories culminating from Episode 7 till 8. For all you know, it could very well be someone from the First Order itself! I'd love to hear comments/arguments on this but I'm guessing not many people argue on blogs these days. But if you do come across my writing please do drop a comment and I'll answer you straight away.
Until then, here's that trailer once again for you to go over while we wait for more clues to decipher in the next trailer soon.
You know how bitter I got when Matty Collector prematurely ended their 7" Thundercats action figures line. In fact, I've ranted about this some days ago (you can read about it HERE). As expected, right after PowerCon 2019, we finally got the reveal that every 'Cats collectors have been asking for.
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Yup, Super 7 has finally opened the pre-orders for four (4) 7" Thundercats action figures. For those who've already acquired them from the short-lived Matty Collector wave, you might want to skip the upcoming Wave 1 altogether because they're just repeats of Lion-O, Panthro, Jackalman and Sorcerer Mumm-Ra. The only thing that probably tempt you is the inclusion of extra accessories and heads for each of the characters.
Even yours truly is mighty tempted right now! Nice move Super 7.
Whatever it is, I might jump in from Wave 2 onward. Rumors have it that core members Cheetara and Tigra will be in the next wave as well as Jaga.
It'll be really great if at any one point Super 7 offer us a chance to get the Thundertank or dare I say it....Cat's Lair! It'll probably cost us our kidneys but let's wait for any future announcements from them.
This'll be great for those who missed out on Matty Collector's doomed and only Thundercats wave. The question is, will Super 7 also offer us Pumyra and the ThunderKittens as well?
The Rebel is a full-time weekend rockstar from Malaysia. Has a loving wife who is equally as geeky as he is and together they join forces to train their son to embrace geekdom. Loves basketball & football. Enjoys good company, comic books, rock music, movies, action figures, talking nonsensically about pop culture & abuses coffee on a daily basis.
