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In two movies, Disney and Marvel, (kinda) redefined or rather reintroduced the sympathetic villain into the mainstream zeitgeist: Kilmonger and Thanos. We may not like the pain Thanos inflicts on Earth's Mightiest Heroes in Avengers Infinity War but you gotta like the guy; he has conviction and purpose. Sure he's crazier than a raccoon climbing a skyscraper, vicious, and a bit of a psychopath. However, he's also compassionate and empathetic. Violence is just the result of the many obstacles impeding the progress of best-laid plans. Not to applaud his efforts and eventual success but there is reasoning to his logic and it's rooted in the history of our world and The Good Book.

What's on the Menu:

• How Disney solved the villain problem with Thanos?
• Thanos sympathizes with the plight universe, but are his motives are not without some truth filled obscurities?
• Thanos' logic may be unsound but it's not without reason if you read the Bible.
• Likable but unlikeable villains
• With Infinity War, the Marvel Universe just expanded into the Marvel Infinite.
• My theories on where the MCU cinematic universe goes from here.

Weekly Gratitude: Live each day as if it were your last, and don't listen to this stupid statement. Live each day with the intent of seeing tomorrow and continuing to exist, create, and love.

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Blade Runner continues the conversation it began thirty-five years ago with an even deeper questioning into the morality of creating life.

Life finds a way.

Since Jeff Goldblum stuttered those words in the first Jurassic Park, the question of life coming into being outside the control of its creator is not just a popular quote but a think well consideration. If we[humans] are to be the next creators of life then we must take the responsibility of allowing life to live, breath, and think without interference.

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Human soul 46:01

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Wired In 39:26

Sex Robots is how Skynet takes over 34:50

Bots Be Talking on Facebook 31:11

Dystopian Movies and YA novels 30:31

Does art have a place in box office 27:52

2049 Bombs and the BO 23:15

Farmhouse Cinematography 19:29

K and Joi 17:46

Blade Runner Review 14:08

Blackout 2022 10:00

Essential Burrito 8:27

Life finds a way 7:23

4k DVD Magic 0:24

1. The Great Szechuan Fiasco.
2. In August, Facebook had to shut down an AI experiment because the bots formed their own language and began communicating with one another.
3. Scientists created a skin to help camouflage robots. I shouldn't have to speak on this much and only reference you to the movie T2 and the T5000.
4. Headline Sex robot frenzy: Horney fans so excited they grope interactive love doll until it breaks. Dummies.
5. Wired In: Andriod Feels (Jay's Dish)

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Let's stir up some ancient Egyptian dust with The Mummy circa 2017 starring Tom "The Maverick" Cruise aka the last of the action hero and answer the question this failure should not be the end all for Universal Dark Universe.

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What The Mummy does for Dark Universal is make it harder for the studio to establish some credibility with audiences. And as inconceivable as it may sound, this may not be at the end all stake in the heart for this franchise. There is hope and it has webbed feet. Also, The truth about the risk of watching movies: criticism in the age of easily accessed opinions. The heat is on as movies continue to not garner much excitement and fail at the box office. But who's fault is it: the studio or the critics?

1. Dark Universe Monsters are not creatures, right?
2. One stark difference between The Mummy 1999 and The Mummy 2017 is that the Mummy 1999 was good.
3. All work and no play makes Jack Reacher a dull boy
4. The Underwhelming Success of The Mummy Doesn't Doom The Dark Universe; just makes it harder for us to care.
5. Creature from the Lagoon would not fit into the current action narrative of this "Dark Universe."
6. Universal needs to think Disney before moving forward with the next Dark Universe Film.

Criticism is not new. Before the internet: you picked up a newspaper, flipped to the entertainment section and read the latest review from your favorite entertainment columnist. However, now, in the age of accessibility, many of those single opinions operate as a collective voice within sites like Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic.

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The 80's welcomed in a different type of horror movie which steered away from the fear of the atomic 50's and the boujee-ness of the 1960's Euporean bloodsuckers. Horror did not necessarily include monsters but monstrous figures committing monstrous acts.

In the late 70's and 80's, the movie monster replaced cheesy storylines with utter suspense and terror, like, Jaws (1975) and Alien (1979). Long were the days of monsters coming from far outer space to terrorize earth. Now the monsters were next door in your own neighborhood and not so easy to dispose of.

As a kid, I watched (whenever permissible) creature features on television and sometimes those "creature features" were more Sci-Fi than epic monsters. The King Kong movies, Godzilla, gigantic mutant insect films, and aliens were a common staple of this genre but then there was Dracula and Werewolves sprinkled into the play mix. These were all considered horror movies at the time before they were all lumped into the distinctive category of The Creature Feature.

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[3:58] - Colossal is the creature feature of this era of humanization in creature feature films. [9:06] - King Kong, Godzilla, Them!, are these films horror movies or creature features? [10:27] - Kong: Skull Island is just Moby Dick with a large ape instead of a whale. [18:43] - King Kong is a good example of the imbalance of nature vs man. [23:3] - Nature's wonderful miracles will eat your face off. [26:30] - Hunting on the Oregon Trail; fend for yourself or die of starvation or disease. [33:3o] - Hunting is taking a knife into the woods and seeing what happens. [35:52] - In the movies, Kong and Godzilla are nature's way of balancing things. What's keeping us in check?

Ann Hathaway plays party girl Gloria who has to move back to her hometown when her fed-up boyfriend kicks her out of his apartment. Things quickly get weird when she discovers that she — by matters of pure obscure coincidence— controls a monster that terrorizes South Korea every evening after one of Gloria's binge drinking fits. read review

The natural balance of nature was disrupted by the presence of an ancient creature. This event awakens Godzilla who must restore the balance set awry by the presence of this other beast. That's why Kong was based in the seventies and not today. It wasn't that Godzilla wanted to save mankind, he just wanted to eradicate that thing which should not exist within nature without a counterbalance. With Warner Bros. and it's Monsterverse now established, it will be interesting to see if the next set of movies within this franchise focuses less on the humanization of the monsters and more on their need to exist because nature requires them to live.

Administration temporarily lifted on importing of elephant trophies and then thinks otherwise.

1. Picture of the baby rhino who lost its mother to poachers
2. Wildlife conservation and saving to kill
3. The attempt to lift sanctions on hunting endangered species, like, the grizzly bear.
4. Poachers take rhino horns at a French zoo.
5. The killing of a white wolf in one of our national parks

That sounds like a bird, but it's a f$%king ant.

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Wunza a movie and wunza a podcast about buddy films, James Cameron, and Taylor Swift. Also, what happens when your favorite show ends or gets canceled? How long do you sulk and what steps can you take to move on with your life. Comment on this episode, ask a question or share what entertains you by visiting our website.

[1:18] Roger Ebert and the wunza movie. [1:50] Hitman's Bodyguard and don't you think the roles should have been reversed. [3:02] One of my favorite wunza movies is 48 HRs with Nick Nolte and Eddie Murphy. [7:51] Kylo Logan; let's review Lucky Logan. [12:21] James Cameron got in some hot water after stating the truth about the Wonder Woman movie. [26:03] Throw Atomic Blonde into the mix of feminism. [31:58] What to do when your favorite show is canceled or not renewed, which means canceled. [32:41] Downward Dog, I really love that show and ABC canceled it this summer. [34:48] Sense 8 canceled after two seasons. C'mon, couldn't get least get three? [43:36] What you can do when your favorite show ends. [50:36] Listener question. [53:37] Taylor Swift really needs to sit down and be humble.

Robert Ebert to this day is my favorite movie critic; Ebert and Stephen King when Stephen King reviews movies for EW. Roger Ebert.com is my source for trusted movie criticism these days and also, there is this pop culture writer I enjoy reading who writes for Wired Magazine, her name is Angela Watercutter and if there is anyone worth reading these days, her stuff is worth the pop culture indulgence. Roger Ebert phrased this term, the wunza movie, which consists of two individuals: one is a blank and the other is a blank and together they will do blank. Example Two: Nice Guys One is a small-time private detective and the other a muscle for hire who must work together to solve a murder. Example Two: 48 Hours. One is a crook and the other is a cop working to capture a prison escapee. Example Three: Hitman's Bodyguard One is a disgraced bodyguard and the other a hitman who is the key witness in the trial of a Russian leader suspected of the genocide.

Hitman's Bodyguard was more a spoof of a 48hrs and Nice Guys or the wunza movie. Although, nice guys and 48 hrs contained many humorous moments worth the laughter, the story maintains rooted in the human element and the evolution of the relationship between the two different people forced into this unfortunate situation.

The human element is where Hitman's Bodyguard misses out on an opportunity to become one of those wunza movies we take seriously. Samuel L Jackson and Ryan Reynolds make an awesome duo, however, their roles should be reversed; Sam should be the bodyguard, an older experienced man of duty, with Reynolds as the young cocky hitman. Jackson's portrayal of a hip energetic fast-talking assassin played perfectly in line with his coolness, however, it didn't bode well for the fatherly relationship he later established with his younger bodyguard.

Consider the relationship between Jack Cates and Reggie Hammond; these two detest one another as did Bryce (Reynolds) and Kincaid (Jackson) the two characters in Hitman's Bodyguard, but which pair was more believable? Cates and Hammond's relationship developed after a series of detours, rundowns, and attempts at Hammonds' escaping custody. Cates continually taunts Hammond throughout the movie, never really showing any remorse or concern for his well-being — 48hrs ends with Cates punching Hammonds in the face. The two were jokey but not in that slapstick sort of way; their comedy materializes from the many potholes they experience in search of Ganz, Hammond's former partner in crime.

Bryce and Kincaid weren't able to necessarily share in one another's misery necessary to develop a true pseudo-relationship. Maybe it was because they had killers on their backsides attempted to thwart their attempt to get Kincaid to the courthouse in time before the dismissal of the case a corrupt government official, or maybe it was all this back and forth with the government and Interpol that disrupted the continuity of the wunza story. Whatever the case, Kincaid, and Bryce were very likable but not well established as two individuals we should care about; they were more comedians than a hitman and bodyguard.

The best comedic moment came with Hayek's foul-mouthed tirades. As Sonai Kincaid, Selma Hayek plays wife to the Hitman who's doing time by association for her husband's misdeeds. When we first meet her, she lays on the thick Spanish accent with such profanity-laced fluidity to a couple of FBI agent that just warms the vulgarity in all of us. The previous movie I saw her in was How To Be A Latin Lover, and although she's a good English speaker, she's even better when they let her Spanish fly.

Heist movies are dependent on the stakes involved and for Jimmy Logan, the stakes are rather modest: he just wants to catch a break and the Indy 500 is right for the pawn. read the review

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Columnists berate James Cameron over sexist statements about Wonder Woman that were not entirely wrong. Wonder Woman is an overrated success. There was no malice to his statements, however, defenders (and Patty Jenkins herself) have dragged Cameron through the mud because he's not a woman, which, I took offense too because he his a Hollywood director and he knows a bit about the ilk of studio heads and producers who only see dollar signs.

Nice guys finish last, and Shane Black is a nice guy. Episode Length 01:01:43

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Horror movies of 2017 with This, That, and Other News.

In September of 2016, we recorded an episode that never made it to post-production. Sometime during this awesome recording of Freddy galore, the recording stopped and we lost the better part of our program. Although we could never recreate that moment, I pieced together an episode filled with a semblance to our true intentions on that faithful afternoon.

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Freddy Got Fingered and A Nightmare on Elm Street Crossover

• Fingered: The meaning "identify a criminal" is underworld slang first recorded 1930.
• The podcast episode featuring A dot Snyder and The Rupel (20 minutes)

Freddy Krueger vs Gord Brody

• So, the question 100 hours of watching Freddy Got Fingered or 1 minute of Freddy Kruger's dream world
• Rules of engagement: Freddy Got Fingered

1. Bathroom breaks
2. Sleep and rest
3. Monitoring of attention levels
4. Controlled testing. Every fourth-hour treat

For this episode, I revisited The New Nightmare and Lucid Dreams.

Methods on how to defeat Freddy Kruger.

• Appeal to Freddy's hubris
• He preys on your fear, mom, Louisiana, tiny mice,
• Own that fear and lure him into your world by inducing lucid dreams. I.e. mushrooms, LSD
• Mount the challenge.
• Trick the trickster.
• Defense
• Fight back.
• Try to wake up.

The Rupel recorded a segment with the members of Speaking of Which addressing this very question of Freddy vs Freddy.

Good Shot, Freddy is a short story I wrote for this episode describing how I, myself, would fare if given the choice to go toe-to-toe with Freddy Kruger. read the story

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Ain't nothing like a little fear to make a paper man crumble.

Dolls make bad roommates, however, if you really feel the need to own such an empty vessel with no personality and frightful glaze, then get a cat. No, not a cat instead of the doll. Buy a cat once you purchase the doll and protect the only real investment you can claim as an asset: your soul.

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