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Nancy Drew and the Hidden Staircase

Today I watched the most recent Nancy Drew film. It came out last year, and I have to say I really liked it. Growing up, I was a huge Nancy Drew fan. I read all of the books, and the series is the reason I fell in love with mysteries. So naturally, I am drawn to any adaption of this series. The first one I watched came out in 2007, and it was good, but it was only loosely based on the book. They created their own mystery with the character. And I loved it. I watched it all the time, and wanted to solve my own mysteries.

Last year, the CW adapated the books into a series. I have only watched a few episodes, and from what I have seen it doesn't really connect with the books. Nancy is older here, and her teenage antics are seemingly done. I gather that the series is going to take a darker turn than the earlier books. But we shall see.

As for this movie, I loved it. The Hidden Staircase is book two of the Nancy Drew movies, and it follows it pretty well. Nancy and her father move back to a small town, where Nancy continuously is in trouble with the sheriff. From here she meets an old women who believes she is being haunted. So Nancy, and the girls niece team up to solve the mystery.

The movie is great. If you want a movie to watch with your kids, or just a nostalgic mystery. Plus it's great for this months challenge.


I will leave you with a question, did you guys prefer Nancy Drew, The Hardy Boys, or was there a different mystery series you liked?

The Birds of Prey Movie

I hate movies in the DCU, which constitutes all this Justice League continuity garbage. They had potential, but they squandered it when they turned Suicide Squad into a PG-13 plotless piece of shit. Somehow, that movie made Harley Quinn an icon. Maybe it's because Margot Robbie is sexy? Maybe it's because comic superfans have a raging hard-on for the character? Either way, that movie revitalized her notoriety and deemed a sequel/spin-off as a necessary endeavor. Why? Because why not? The DCU has nothing good going for it, so why not make another gamble?

When this movie came out in theaters, I was bad-mouthing it. I knew it would be a stupid shallow piece of junk just like the last one, so I hated on it and I hated on it hard. Of course, the DC streaming service put out the animated Harley Quinn cartoon and that was a refreshing change of pace. It's Batman: The Animated series, but for perverted adults. What's not to love? With my newfound appreciation for this tired fetishistic character, I decided to give the movie a shot. I'm not always a naysayer. Just most of the time.

The movie begins with Harley trying to eat a breakfast sandwich. And my God, what a sandwich! It's such a good looking sandwich that I've decided right off the bat that I sympathize with her character when she goes through the traumatic experience of losing said sandwich. It's an overlying arc throughout the movie of the little things she loses, such as her sandwich, and her hyena, and her trust in Asian cooks. Some things escape us, but we persevere beyond the loss of our lovers, and dignity, and sandwiches...

Ewan McGregor also makes this movie a lot of fun. He takes a relatively underutilized primary villain and makes him all gay and misogynistic. You can tell he had fun with the role, and so did Margot. She apparently did a lot of her own stunts, so kudos to her.

This movie isn't deep. It's not original. It's not going to change your life, but for what it was, I didn't hate it like I thought I would. I got a few laughs out of it and the fight scenes were okay. Not overly feminist, and in my opinion, a slight step in the right direction.

90s Horror Comedies

I was just thinking, the 90s don't get much respect when it comes to horror. But, what about horror comedies?? Consider that the 90s gave us Army of Darkness, Cemetery Man, and Braindead. I mean, wow. And, some people might stick the Buffy the Vampire Slayer movie in there too. And arguably Friday the 13th Part 9, Jason Goes to Hell.... that is far less of a comedy than the other movies I'm mentioning here, but I would say it's probably the 3rd funniest of the franchise, after parts 6 and 10 (X).

Anyway, if you think about it, the 90s can really hold its head up as a very solid, respectable decade for horror comedies. Had to share.

How have you been keeping busy?

Everything on the news is Covid this, Corona that. Quarantine, social distancing, blah blah blah. Quite frankly, I'm getting sick of hearing it. Either way, most of us are stuck at home and have got dick to do. Not me though. I'm still moderately essential. Someone's got to stock the toilet paper, right?

So what have you been doing in this economical downtime? Please, ramble on and tell us how you've been wasting your time, because I really do want to hear it! I can ramble on and on about what I'm doing, but I don't want this to be about me. Just know that I AM doing TE stuff, whether it shows or not.

What's everybody been up to?

Movies about Plagues?

Alllll righty then, we have the coronavirus to worry about. Beautiful. Just... beautiful. It sounds like, over the course of this month, things should get a hell of a lot scarier. So, what better time to watch horror movies, or sci-fi movies, dealing with plagues, or general viral outbreaks? Or TV shows, or books... I'm not being too picky here. Just generally any kind of story we can find out there that has some kind of plague going on. What comes to mind for you? I'll throw out a few. If you have anything to say about any of these, or any movies of your own, fire away. I know there are shitloads of movies about vampire and zombie plagues, so I don't know whether to count too many of them. I included a few. I guess if they are of high quality, then include them? Your call.

Twelve Monkeys (1995, and also 2015-2018)
Contagion (2011)
Outbreak (1995)
The Stand (1994, and hopefully this year for the new version)
I Am Legend (2007)
The Last Man on Earth (1964)
The Omega Man (1971)
Quarantine (2008)
REC (2007)
Resident Evil (2002)
Daybreakers (2009)
Cabin Fever (2002)
28 Days Later (2002)
28 Weeks Later (2007)
Masque of the Red Death (1964)
The Decameron (1971)

Glen or Glenda?

"Airplanes...ha! Why it's against the Creator's will. If the Creator wanted us to fly, he'd have given us wings."

But we fly. Maybe some of you remember an even sillier remark:

"Automobiles? Ah...they scare the horses. If'n the Creator had meant for us to roll around the countryside, we'd have been born with wheels."

Silly? Certainly. We were not born with wings, we were not born with wheels. But in the modern world of today it's an accepted fact that we must have them. So we have corrected that which nature has not given us. Strangely enough, nature has given us all these things, we just had to learn how to put nature's elements together for our use, that's all. Yet the world is shocked by a sex change.

"If the Creator had wanted us to fly, he'd have given us wings."

"If the Creator had meant us to roll around the countryside, we'd have been born with wheels."

"If the Creator had meant us to be boys, we certainly would have been born boys."

Notice how they repeat themselves?



Hahaha. This is one bullshit movie. I actually kind of love it. It's my favorite Ed Wood movie, which probably doesn't say anything at all, because the dude sucked, but I love him. He was so passionate about this movie, even though this one was pretty biased towards his love of angora sweaters.

If you've ever watched the movie "Ed Wood", you'll know how the story goes. Somehow, he conned Bela Lugosi into being in this movie, because his fading star status meant enough... to Ed Wood, but not anyone else. But hell, it meant something to me, because I think Lugosi was the man.

It must have been controversy to have a movie like this come out back in the 50s, but this stuff is more controversy today if you don't accept it. I will admit, I have a strange fascination with transvestites. This movie has a lot of dumb information about them, trying to sway you into believing that their antics are justified. You can tell that Ed Wood feels that he's being wrongfully persecuted in making this movie, because he probably got a lot of shit for it when he was making it, but hey... I guess it had to be said, right? It probably paved the way for our current transgender rights stigma, but at least that shit hasn't been too overblown these days.

Honestly, I don't think transgenders should get special treatment. Sure, they ought to be accepted if they want to dress as they do, but I'm not going to go out of my way to make them feel "secure" in their provocative efforts, nor do I think they should be given special treatment because they say so. But this movie thinks so, and that's what makes it great. It's a documentary-style justification that turns into mindless drivel about satan and madness. They try to present their case so scientifically, but it's all biased. Oh my... what a movie.

Phobias!

So I'm just sitting in my living room watching random YouTube videos and we stumble across a "what's my phobia" video to see if my boyfriend and I had any!

I definitely do and I just got curious if y'all had any crazy/weird phobias?!

Sister Wives

Hey guys, I have been watching some of sister wives lately, and I am curious. Do any of you guys watch the show? If so what do you think about the Brown Family.

I know polygamy is illegal, personally I do not think it should be. Watching this family, and the love they have for each other. How can anyone say no, that's not right? The kids are all happy, healthy, and growing up to bigger and better things. And they have a huge support system. They have their dad, and 4 moms.

Kody Brown has four wives, and a total of 18 kids. And watching them, they are just a normal family. They go through the same issues as monogamous families.

It baffles me that they get so much hatred. That they had to keep secret. I hope one day, they can legalize it in America, so families like the browns don't have to hide, and their kids can stop hiding.

If you don't watch the show, what is your take on it? Have you met any polygamists? Or lived around them.


I know this is a touchy subject, so please be respectful if you disagree with it.

Terminator: Grrl Power!!



So, am I to understand that Terminator: Genisys is no longer a thing? No longer a consideration within the Terminator universe, I mean. The thought of another sequel coming along and erasing Genisys always sounded reasonable to me, but in this case, maybe not...? If not merely a fitting finale, Dark Fate was always an opportunity to get the T-train back on the tracks, which, even originally, seemed very unlikely for many reasons. However, after watching Terminator: Dark Fate, I'm afraid we've now strayed further than ever. Well, sort of. As usual, it's complicated

Yep, Genisys never happened. Neither did Salvation. And the machines have yet to rise. However, Judgement Day is still around. They're letting us keep that one, along with the original, of course. But back to T2. The events from that movie happened as we remember them, but it's what happened shortly thereafter which changed everything we are familiar with. After Skynet's existence was literally wiped out in T2, it somehow continued sending back Terminators to take out John. And you know what? One finally got him. In a scene filled with CGI goodness, we witness something that looks almost like a cut scene from T2. We see what appears to be young Linda Hamilton watching in Horror as young Edward Furlong is blown away by a T-800, who looks kind of like Arnold, but, of course, is not. So, Skynet is gone, John Connor is gone, and... Alright, then. Great start!

Fast forward to present day Mexico, and we got a familiar series of events with two naked Terminators showing up from the future. One good, one bad. The bad one is something called a Rev-9. Those things are like T-1000's if they were made of tar instead of that cool, silvery liquid stuff. This thing is proven to be a bad sonofabitch pretty early on. Far more advanced and dangerous than the T-1000, actually. As it would turn out, the good one isn't really a Terminator at all. Grace is some type of cyborg-human hybrid. The third time they've attempted this in the series, and coincidentally, the third time they've also attempted a female Terminator. That is, if you count the TV show. Who do they want to kill/protect? Who the hell is left? Well, some chick, apparently. The Rev-9 nearly ends some chick and her brother, but Grace comes in at the last second and takes down the Rev-9 because she's a girl and girls can do that... If they choose to, I mean. They don't have to!

Taken down but not out, the Rev-9 recovers in record time. Some chick's brother gets taken out pretty quick, but he's a guy, so, no loss there. Grace and some chick come pretty close, themselves, but are saved by none other than Sarah Connor, who is, once again, being portrayed by Linda Hamilton. A very prepared Sarah just about blows that Rev-9 thing to hell, but only weakens it enough for everyone to get away. After getting ditched, Sarah catches back up with the girls and soon learns a few things: First and foremost, Skynet is indeed gone. Sarah and her son really were successful, which is really confusing, because what's with non-existent Skynet sending back more T-800's from a non-existent future? I'd really like someone to explain that to me how that works. Anyway, Grace has no idea what the grumpy old lady is going on about. Sarah learns that some other AI system will eventually be developed, which gives way to a similar Judgement Day, eventually giving way to a similar resistance. However, it's totally different because it's not called "Skynet". It's called "Legion". And as it would turn out, Legion is not after some "new John Connor" that some chick will give birth to ... Wait for it... Some chick is the actual target! So, shame on all you sexists who assumed that the only thing special about some chick was her uterus.

So, why is Linda Hamilton in this, again? Her character is more or less an obsolete relic from an obsolete reality that can't decide if it exists or not. Just hanging around, making snarky remarks. At least that hasn't changed since Genisys. Sarah makes mention that Terminators, yes, Skynet's Terminators, never stopped being sent into the past. Sarah reveals getting a "heads up" via text from an unknown source every time this happened, giving her the upper hand and making it possible to take out every one. Same story with the Rev-9, which is highly unusual. This unknown source, who Grace has also been instructed to seek assistance from, turns out to be none other than that same T-800 that killed John over 20 years ago. His name is Carl, and he's got a wife and step-son, and somewhat of a personality. And you know what else? He gets it. He gets what he did to John was a dick move. Carl gets that this hurt Sarah, and he's genuinely sorry. Carl wants to make things right, as he's been trying for years. Sarah says "fuck off, Carl". However, he's too valuable of an ally at this point, so, Carl sticks around to help Grace and some chick figure things out while Sarah pouts over her dead son. And after being portrayed as naive and unprepared for her fate the entire movie, some chick then suddenly snaps out of it. Some chick is now the warrior she was always destined to become, taking charge, getting everyone in the zone for one final battle with the Rev-9. Because sometimes chicks can do that.

What is it going to take for someone to finally take this franchise fucking forward? This isn't normal! Salvation sucked, but at least it kept the story going, as opposed to running around in circles like Genisys and Dark Fate. Just remake the original already and get it overwith, you assholes! Why put this once great franchise through all this? You can't add all this remakey shit and still keep the old stuff around. It makes no sense, even for a time travel movie. And I thought Genisys was pretty bad, but looking back... Yeah, ok. Pretty bad! Yet, as far as Terminator sequels go, I can deal with Genisys a little better. Genisys is almost like hanging out with an old friend you haven't seen in forever. You realize you missed old friend more than you thought, which gives you a warm, fuzzy feeling, even though they've clearly changed some. Dark Fate is like a new friend you don't know very well, but they have qualities which you find appealing and familiar. You don't fully trust new friend, but still have a blast hanging out with them. Those two films CAN be seen as similar in a way. Both have a bit of a "what if" thing going on, much like a fan film. Genisys implies alternate timelines, where as Dark Fate almost seems like that's what they were going for, but I don't think they were. It's hard to tell exactly what they were trying to do here. Personally, I find it all more enjoyable to pretend this is just another timeline.

Before I lay into this movie some more, I do want to point out that I really did enjoy it. Terminator: Dark Fate is a crazy, fast-paced action flick that turns out to be a lot of fun, though a lot to take in, at times. They came up with some pretty cool stuff for the Rev-9, building it up as a far bigger threat than any Terminator before it, even though it was technically not a Terminator, because that's a Skynet thing. And Grace wasn't such a bad character. Not annoying at all, actually. I think they got the human-Terminator hybrid down nicely this time. And ultimately, this IS a Terminator movie, so, I can't not love it. However, it all turns out to be a hollow, meaningless experience, mostly due to lazy writing and atrocious continuity.

An entry which not only strays further from the tracks, but goes the extra mile, destroying said tracks and building entirely new ones in the exact same spot for no real reason. All the while pretending to be a fresh take on the whole thing. It's only fresh or different on the surface. Legion IS Skynet and some chick IS John Connor. However, they don't go by those names, so, it's hard to get as invested in this as one could be. They really dropped the ball, excluding John Connor simply because he didn't fit into the "girl power" narrative they were obviously going for. It does seem like appealing to the woke crowd and turning this into a "feminist circle jerk" was a far bigger priority than making it the respectable follow up it was promised to be. And this could easily be the final installment, making it all the more unfortunate. But I suppose it's far more important to prove to the world, once again, that girls can do anything boys can do. Even be John Connor! 5/10



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