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"It" is pretending I'm not writing this in August and haven't already seen Superman (2025)
Superman - June 11th
Lil' Jon Williams. A lot of James Gunn. It's weird and it's not ashamed of it. How do we incorporate the Krypto and the geopolitics angle and the Justice Gang?
Well.
They incorporated it well.
I'm Beginning to See the Light (May 2nd)
This is a romance by the way, but not with the lighthouse lens. Might have been more interesting because it's a romance with a lady and I couldn't care less if the isolated man in his darkest hour who reaches out to other isolated men in their darkest hour puts his dick in a lady.
Also, I have to laugh that Yahtzee's man who "takes one too many lingering looks at his sexy wife and smacks straight into a truck" is the literal plot for this movie.
Maybe it's because I'm making this two-thirds of the way through April instead of in March like I was supposed to, but there are so many interesting trailers this month. Enough to do a bit of a theme.
A Nice Indian Boy (April 4th)
Really? "Dopinder"?
Whoof. That franchise really charmed it's way across some lines.
I'm writing this one halfway through April, so it's gonna be quick and messy.
A Working Man
What happens when you feed Taken, $500,000, a batman villain, and the word "Jason Statham script" into an AI?So, clearly, I love movies. I also love cheezy, broad music. It's what I am.
So what about the meme where folks set the ending scene/credits of a movie to Linkin Park's What I've Done?
That is what we're doing today.
#10
Honestly, the ending of Revenge of the Sith does not go hard enough. Yes, you have to hand it to George Lucas. Yes, the prequel trilogy was prescient, raising the twin specters of modern fascism and the sequel trilogy becoming relevant.
That doesn't entitle it to What I've Done.
It looks like, in skipping January, I only missed The Brutalist and Companion. No biggie. :|
Here's February.
Heart Eyes (February 7th)
Thank gods. Finally, a horror movie trailer set to a slow cover of a classic love song.Stab me first, please.
Jesus christ, this year. Let's process it in the format of awards.
Great Wiki Award
Sarna.net - A great site. I should probably kick them a little money. Just a great resource for Battletech lore and tech when I don't need to open a book and fumble around inside of it for what I need.
Fandom.com - This includes the Star Trek, American Dad, Cheers!, Babylon 5, and It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia wikis under its loathsome banner.
Wikipedia.com - The classic. A universal good I think we call take for granted. I should probably also kick them a little money.
And the winner is...Sarna.net. Apologies to Wikipedia, but I'm not kidding when I say I use Sarna, on average, every day.
The Chief Clancy Wiggum, "The Law is Powerless to Help You, not to Punish You" Award
Alito and The Supremes - Between a judge getting disciplined for speaking out about Alito's flag, Alito's flag, that secret recording of Alito,
New York State - They put national guard on the subway and mobilized every cop in NYC for a CEO
dying. If there's a clearer example of this award's title, I'm hard-pressed to think of it. They'll pull out all of the stops for a rich guy getting killed, but there's a soldier with a gun if you jump a turnstile.
Suicides and MRSA - One Boeing whistleblower, John Barnett, and one OpenAI whistleblower, Suchir Balaji, died this year apparently of suicides. Another, Boeing whistleblower, Joshua Dean, an otherwise healthy 45 year-old died suddenly of a MRSA infection. This is the kind of time where I'd like some security theater. Right here.
And the winner is...the entire United States Judicial Branch.
Remember Donald Trump getting his bond reduced because he's a very special boy, you remember Judge Aileen Cannon giving Trump's team every accommodation and then making up a few extra accommodations for them? Remember Marcellus Williams not even getting a stay from a judge when the prosecutor, the victim's family, and maybe even the jury who convicted him wanted to reconsider DNA evidence and changes in testimony?
It's mostly the Supreme Court though. You were the last branch of government the average citizen respected. Congrats on achieving the level of arrogance necessary to completely squander that; you only had to keep your mouth shut while sitting on the most opaque court in the country, you morons. You fools.
