Funny Considering the Post Below...

You would be a classic flavor. Not a mixture of
several like chocolate chip cookie dough, but
more like just vanilla or just strawberry. You
honor time old traditions and pretty
conservative.

What ice cream flavor are you? (the one I took sucked so this one is way better :P)
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Thor Or Thunderstrike?

Marvel screwed the pooch with the Thor franchise from the beginning. They took the more modern notion that the Asgardians are aliens not gods. In itself, that's fine but I can't help but think that just made it more complicated not less. (Wonder Woman just killed them off which is better but that's still a big nitpick from me about THAT movie...)

I stopped regularly reading comics after I graduated college in the early part of the century so I don't know when secret identities became passé but I think this also hurt the franchise. Originally, instead of dropping Thor on his head and giving him amnesia, Odin put him the mortal body of Donald Blake and then Eric Masterson. (Was that a complaint about Ghost Rider? Same concept really...)

In Thor: Ragnarok, to me, this '90's era of the comic where Eric Masterson WAS Thor was the best run of the comic and there were many Easter eggs from that period from Thor's Earth garb (with Mjolnir disguised as an umbrell…

Wasn't A Complete Punishment

Checking my Facebook Memories this morning, it is apparently the anniversary of my review of Jessica Jones. In many reviews of The Punisher, Jessica Jones is the pinnacle all other Marvel Netflix (or in some cases, Marvel shows on any network but that's a post for another time...) must be held to. I'll tell you straight out, I personally enjoyed both seasons of Daredevil more so... (Hell, The Punisher had a less annoying support cast...)

For reasons I didn't consider back then and don't care about now, comic books in the '90's saw the creation of more violent characters to presumably dispel the notion comics weren't just for kids. Ironman, Thor, Captain America and, perhaps ironically, Batman got more gritty counterparts and the Punisher (and Deadpool) was created. Like most superheroes, Frank Castle's origins begin with the death of a family member; in his case, ALL OF THEM. In comics, it was due to be caught in the crossfire of a mob shootout…

Ant-Man On The Ocean

I'll discuss Ant-Man and the Wasp in a minute but there's still a handful of thoughts about my viewing of Ocean's Eight I want to relay first... When the all-female Ghostbusters came out, there was the usual "raping of childhood" complaints. Ocean's Eight sidestepped many of these issues by being a spin-off of a remake that was already done. Sandra Bullock played the sister of George Clooney's Danny Ocean. (There was mention their father was als in the business. A reference to Frank Sinatra?) Also, if you want to do a all-female action and/or comedy movie, the heist genre isn't a bad way to go.

Soundtracks are usually "just there" for me. They seem to be usually selected for their beat and tempo and not their lyrics. Lindsay Lohan's Herbie: Fully Loaded was particularly noticeable in this regard for me but I was admittedly in a bad mood that night since I had rather watched The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe for whatever num…

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