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*Sigh* Waste of a perfectly good cheesecake.
Let’s do something fun this week. Enough with the social commentary. This site analyzes and celebrates storytelling.
Ever hear of a movie called James Bond? I doubt it because it’s never been the name of a movie, just a character in a series of movies based on a series of novels. There was James Bond Jr, but nobody wants to talk about that.
His uncle? Dude’s probably got more offspring than Nick Cannon. Anyway, there’s other movies and shows inspired by the antics of 007, including parodies. Few of them get past one movie or a couple seasons. Derek Flint was lucky. He got two movies, and I just got done watching the first one, Our Man Flint. It stars James Coburn as the suave and independent minded Derek Flint. He doesn’t work for the government but they’ll ask for his help to stop the bad guys. I caught part of this once and found it curious. So I decided to watch the whole thing. Was it any good?
RELEASE DATE: 1966
RELEASED BY: 20th Century Fox, so now it’s owned by Disney (fear)
RUNTIME: 1 hr, 48 min
RATING: beats me, I couldn’t find it
VIEWING SOURCE FOR THIS REVIEW: Fox Movie Channel (FXM, during the “Retro” block)
STARRING: James Coburn, Lee J. Cobb, Gila Golan, and Edward Mulhare
SCREENWRITERS: Hal Fimberg, Ben Starr,…wait, that’s it? I’m so used to like 5-10 writers on a movie.
DIRECTOR: Daniel Mann
BOX OFFICE: $16 Million USD according to Google
ESTIMATED BUDGET: $3,525,000 according to IMDB…compare that to today’s movies, geez. This is what profit looks like, 2020s Disney!
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“Oh god, my spine!”
Lucky Comics Free Comic Book Day 2018
Lucky Comics (May, 2018)
SELECTED COVER ART: Arkade Draw
LETTERER: John M. Helmer
EDITOR: Michael Waggoner
Beetle Girl: “Tales Of The Green Knight”
WRITER/CREATOR: John M. Helmer
ARTIST: Eric Douthitt
Doctor Titan: “Is There A Doctor In The House?”
WRITER/CREATOR: Eric Kent
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Maybe I should put this on the Finally Watched list.
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No relation to your favorite Winged Shadow. Or me, either.
Well, guess Ubisoft is in the doghouse again.
Bad enough I can’t play Batman: Vengeance on Windows 10 because the start-up screen isn’t sending me to the actual game’s startup screen because apparently you can’t open one program with another…or at least you can’t with this one and there is no direct opener to the game. It’s getting on my nerves, but it’s an old game and ain’t ticking anybody off but me. I still want to do that Let’s Play series, folks. Honest.
No, Ubisoft has ticked off Japan, or at least Japanese gamers who are fans of the Assassin’s Creed video game series. Originally a sci-fi story of a man in our future reliving the life of an ancestor from our past to learn how to deal with a shared enemy, fans really just wanted to play as the stealthy assassin in the past using retrotech hidden weapons and jumping into haystacks. I don’t know if the sci-fi plot was properly concluded or not, but that’s what the franchise became and fans couldn’t be happier.
At least until the trailer and information for Assassin’s Creed: Shadows came out. Reading the comments of the Japanese and Western commenters on the above video, standing at 270K likes and 625K dislikes at the time of writing but possibly longer by the time you read this due to my posting schedule, Shadows has fans of the game really upset. It’s a multi-level failure we should take a look at, because while we don’t know what the quality of the story or gameplay is, we know the basic plot, and it’s being called cultural appropriation. (Told you today’s Daily Video would be important.)
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“I lost BOTH contact lenses. Nobody move!”
Sonic The Hedgehog #66
Archie Comics Publications (January, 1999)
WRITER: Karl Bollers
PENCILER: Steven Butler
EDITOR: Justin Gabrie
“A Friend In Need”
INKER: Pam Eklund
COLORIST: Ken Penders
LETTERER: Jeff Powell
“And Then There WAs One (or the until now untold origin of Ixis Naugus!)”
INKER: Andrew Pepoy
COLORIST/LETTERER: Frank G.
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Note this video is from 2021. It also may be technically off-topic for this site, but it will be important later.
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You want to know what IS an example of a black person and Japanese cultural appropriation? Some of you can already guess tonight’s article, and I posted this story to tell you that one.
