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Wednesday, May 30th, 2012
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9:22 pm - To Infinity and Beyond
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One of my favourite channels these days is Showtime Beyond. That's where Showtime stuffs all their scifi and horror stuff, so naturally I gravitate to the channel.
I don't check it as often as I'd like, but once in awhile I'll sit down and go through the listings.
Which I just did.
For the next week.
And walked away with a heavy list of cheese and interesting stuff I want to go through. No way I can record it all, but damn if I don't really want to right now. ;)
J
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| Tuesday, May 29th, 2012
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11:34 pm - Storms Have Come
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Well, today had some nasty storms floating through. We had watches and warnings for thunderstorms, hail, floods, tornadoes... Yeah, one of THOSE days.
Whenever stuff like this happens, I love breaking out Weatherbug, which always sits in the system tray anyways, but it has some handy maps and warnings to keep me up to date, and I also hit the local channel's maps from the NWS that are updated pretty live.
I gotta say...I kinda love tracking storms, knowing where they are, when they'll hit me, or if they'll just barely miss me.
In another life, I may well have become a storm chaser. Or a meteorologist. But the former is more fun.
J
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| Monday, May 28th, 2012
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9:33 pm - Jason Reviews: This Means War
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I can't quite justify this going on Trisk, and there's really no need for it. Action? Comedy? Romance? Bromance? Yeah, not much Triskiness there. I can talk plenty about it right here.
In case you missed it, this was the Chris Pine/Tom Hardy/Reese Witherspoon movie about a pair of CIA operatives that end up falling for the same girl, and use all the resources at their disposal, and taxpayer dollars, to win her over. All while avoiding a pissed off mobster looking for revenge.
Now, the movie was roundly panned when it came out, and I can see why. It does some fun things with the action comedy genre, and it's trying a little to hard to be the new Mr. & Mrs. Smith and doesn't quite reach that level of cleverness, to this movie's detriment.
But it is still a perfectly okay movie, that does have a few good moments of its own, and it is slightly a unique tale on a classic love triangle. The leads are all very likable. Hardy in a classic nice guy way, Pine is channeling every iota of Captain Kirk he can, but with a bit more heart lurking underneath. And Reese Witherspoon is Reese.
There are some amazing shots in the movie. It is very well directed. I am particularly enamored of a scene where the guys are sneaking around Reese's apartment planting bugs, just barely ducking out of sight when she's passing by, and it is done all in one take. Very well done, and I love scenes like that. It's fun, and cute, and makes you smile.
The movie really gets by more on its charm than anything else, and fortunately that goes a long way. You can see why she likes both of these guys, and why Pine's character is hard to love at first, but does have that element buried deep down, and just needs to grow up.
Sadly, the ending is a bit predictable, but I won't give it all away. Still, it remains a satisfying ending where everyone grows, everyone gets something they want, and everyone has a happy ending.
At the end of the day, it's not a great movie, but it's inoffensive enough, has charm aplenty to keep you entertained, some genuine laughs, and heart. It is definitely worth a watch, and not a waste of 90 minutes, unless there's something better on. I enjoyed it, but can see why others wouldn't, due to there being better out there. But sometimes, good enough is...good enough.
J
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| Sunday, May 27th, 2012
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10:58 am - MST3K Rewatch Week 50 - Laserblast
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Oh, now here's a subject I know a lot about. Laserblast, a movie by Charles Band, and a precursor to Triskaidekafiles favourite studio, Full Moon Entertainment. And gee, there's puppets in this movie too. Not AS puppets at least, but cheesy animatronic aliens.
I love whenever they point out Leonard Maltin's ratings for these things, showing that he thought this, THIS deserved two and a half stars.
So, this was the last Comedy Central episode, and they went out with a bang. Or a blast. This movie follows Billy, after he finds an alien weapon that inexplicably found its way to Earth, a weapon that was used for a bit, and then some aliens inexplicably came to Earth to kill the guy. And then they left, inexplicably leaving the weapon behind for no good reason. Sure, it looks like they get called away, but they couldn't take the two steps forward to pick the thing up?
Then Billy blows shit up for 90 minutes, leaving everyone in town confused as hell, until the aliens show up AGAIN to blast Billy dead. And AGAIN they leave the weapon behind. This movie is just...awful. Things just kinda happen until the movie decides to stop. It is very typical of all things Charles Band.
"So, we're watching someone, waiting for someone?" "This is the point when it stops being a movie." "It's like watching an aquarium."
I have reached this point in many a movie myself...
"When movies start showing you parts of themselves, you know you're in for it." Yep, I know that well too...
"Home movies are more tightly edited than this!!" They pretty much skewer Band's movie making style completely.
"This movie boldy states what it's going to do...and then does it!"
Seriously, they're making all my comments for me.
They have so much drawn out crap in this movie, Mike and Servo just go off on a tangent about the south rising again. Funny, but it says something about the quality of the film.
A really fun episode, that was a good send off to the Comedy Central years. And so much fun was had mocking Maltin's star ratings in the ending credits.
J
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| Saturday, May 26th, 2012
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9:01 am - Comics Next Week
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A five Wednesday month, and NO DC for me this week, so this order is just too dang small to order on its own for the shipping costs.
Amazing Spider-Man Vol 2 Annual #39
Angel And Faith #10 Variant Rebekah Isaacs Cover
FF #18
Magdalena Vol 3 #12
New Mutants Vol 3 #43 (Exiled Part 4)
Star Trek The Next Generation Doctor Who Assimilation2 #1 Regular Cover B
Wolverine And The X-Men #11 (Avengers vs X-Men Tie-In)
X-Men Legacy #267 (Avengers vs X-Men Tie-In)
J
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1:27 am - Snow Job
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New in depth review is live up at Trisk!
This time out, I delve back into the public domain with a made for tv 1970s movie called Snowbeast, starring Bo Svenson as a washed Olympic skier who is in need of a job, some confidence, and a marriage counselor. What he gets is a license to shoot a yeti.
Boy, does that sound way better than what I watched.
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| Friday, May 25th, 2012
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10:02 pm - Naptime
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As much as I am pleased to be slowly back on track sleepwise, although there are still the occasional naps, but I am getting them shorter...
Part of me really really longs for a good opportunity to curl up on the couch and just doze off in front of some mind numbing tv. I haven't had a good chance to do this in a LONG time since I had to deal with a lot of DVR stuff this season.
But with the season over, and not much on right now, I am really looking forward to just taking up some couch space in the early evening.
J
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| Thursday, May 24th, 2012
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8:43 pm - Trashy
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| Tuesday, May 22nd, 2012
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11:30 pm - Updates
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As much as I am all for keeping your system up to date, things like what happened today definitely make it clear why some people get frustrated with Windows updates.
There was a tiiiny bug for WinXP users today. Now, we've probably all had that occasional update that keeps saying it needs to be applied, even after you did it, and it usually goes away after one or two tries. It's usually just something borked on your computer, and applying the update fixes it after a try or two. No harm done.
But today...there were three updates, and they just would NOT go away. I thought it was the above issue, but with the persistence of it, I did some searching around, and it looks like someone screwed up at MS, since this was going out to damned near every Win XP 32-bit user out there. This endless loop of updates, the same three, for about 12 hours.
Yeah, shit like that, I can understand why people don't like automatic updates. I still say it's better to leave them on (Or at worst, be notified they're available like I do, and go do them yourself at your convenience). At least it was still a minor thing, but damn, the frustration spreading across the internet.
J
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| Monday, May 21st, 2012
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7:29 am - Cover Up
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I came across this site the other day, and I just got lost in their pages for a bit.
The site? I Love Comic Covers.
And I love this site.
It's no surprise that I love comicbook art, particularly covers. Since those are the first things we see, they're the thing that is supposed to grab our attention, and sometimes that works. But I love what this site is doing, since I also love cover homages. A few of these I recognise, a few I never made the connection to, and a few are just plain fun trips down memory lane. And of course, many I have never seen before, because I'm not the biggest Image fan, for example.
So I thought I'd share this very cool, yet very simple site to all my comic related friends.
J
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| Sunday, May 20th, 2012
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9:33 am - MST3K Rewatch Week 49 - First Spaceship on Venus
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And so begins the Shout! Factory era of MST3K DVDs. Rhino did okay by MST3K, but they really just put out the movies with very little care to anything else. Shout! has been putting out DVDs pretty steadily, to the point where you can almost predict when the next set will be out, and each set is pretty packed with behind the scenes stuff, either for the show itself, or the movies. They've done a great job in making the DVDs something special, and worth getting for more than just the movies. Which is good, because these sets ain't cheap.
But anyways, Venus.
This is a weeeird movie. By all rights, the plot, the style, the acting...it screams 1950s. But somehow this was made in the 80s?! What is with the weird lettered shirts? Why put the crew to sleep until they launch? They say it's so they'll be in perfect shape for the trip but...unless they're not going for awhile, again, why? Why put the crew into a coma for a good night's sleep? Just...weird.
And the golden teddy bear spacesuits...
This movie has way too much sitting around and playing chess. Someone got their pacing from 2001. The difference being, that movie was good.
Teehee, a planet populated by bouncy ball bat spiders. That are data recorders! Yeah, still weird.
"Someone with a very different vision came up with this movie." Kinda sums up all my feels right there.
So they discover a message from Venus, go to Venus, find nothing but remains of a civilisation and discover that they were going to attack us, but got themselves destroyed before they could? You're telling me this entire movie is about something that DIDN'T happen? Oookay.
J
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| Saturday, May 19th, 2012
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8:57 am - Comics Next Week
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Amazing Spider-Man Vol 2 #686 Regular Stefano Caselli Cover
Captain America Vol 6 #12
Fables #117
Fantastic Four Vol 3 #606
Flash Vol 4 #9 Regular Francis Manapul Cover
Fury Of Firestorm The Nuclear Men #9
Green Lantern New Guardians #9 Regular Tyler Kirkham Cover
Guild Fawkes One Shot Regular Paul Duffield Cover
Journey Into Mystery Vol 3 #638 (Exiled Part 3)
Marvel Zombies Destroy #2
Mighty Thor #14
Secret Avengers #27 (Avengers vs X-Men Tie-In)
Superman Vol 4 #9 Regular Ivan Reis Cover
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| Thursday, May 17th, 2012
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10:32 pm - Readers' Choice
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So...got an in depth review coming up for Trisk in a week and change. I know WHERE I'm getting the movie from, I just can't decide which one to do.
I am, absolutely and definitely, doing a movie from my 50 pack of "Drive In Classics". But I am spoiled for choice.
I've got a few maybes, but nothing *really* jumps out and strikes my fancy.
Which has me coming to the fan...er, fans of the site.
Is there anyting in this set that YOU would like to see me review? The future of Trisk is in your hands!
Clicking on "Contents" will give you links to each movie to read some more about them.
Or I'll just pick something random.
J
And Jess, you've made many suggestions lately, your vote counts less. ;)
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| Wednesday, May 16th, 2012
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11:59 pm - Marvel Comics: August, 2012
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Avx: Vs #5 (of 6)
AVENGERS VS X-MEN #9 (of 12)
AVENGERS VS X-MEN #10 (of 12)
UNCANNY X-MEN #17
WOLVERINE & THE X-MEN #15
AVENGERS ACADEMY #34
AVENGERS ACADEMY #35
Secret Avengers #30
DARK AVENGERS #179
AVENGING SPIDER-MAN #10
SCARLET SPIDER #8
AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #691
AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #692
Peter Parker, Spider-Man #156.1
Sensational Spider-Man #33.1
Sensational Spider-Man #33.2
Web of Spider-Man #129.1
Web of Spider-Man #129.2
VENOM #22
VENOM #23
CAPTAIN AMERICA #16
WINTER SOLDIER #9
THE MIGHTY THOR #18
JOURNEY INTO MYSTERY #642
DEFENDERS #9
CAPTAIN MARVEL #2
CAPTAIN MARVEL #3
FANTASTIC FOUR #609
FF #21
HAWKEYE #1
DARK TOWER: THE GUNSLINGER – THE MAN IN BLACK #3 (of 5)
DAREDEVIL ANNUAL #1
WOLVERINE ANNUAL #1
X-MEN LEGACY #272
AGE OF APOCALYPSE #6
GAMBIT #1
GAMBIT #2
X-FACTOR #241
X-FACTOR #242
NEW MUTANTS #47
NEW MUTANTS #48
UNCANNY X-FORCE #29
UNCANNY X-FORCE #30
X-TREME X-MEN #2
X-TREME X-MEN #3
J
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| Tuesday, May 15th, 2012
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10:53 pm - A Mother Post Not About That Mother
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Just tossed up to Trisk another new What I'm Watching post, this time a slightly belated review of the remake of the 1980s horror flick, Mother's Day.
It's another movie from Darren Bousman, and quite frankly, he continues to impress me.
J
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| Monday, May 14th, 2012
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11:48 pm - DC Comics: August 2012
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BEFORE WATCHMEN: NITE OWL #2
BEFORE WATCHMEN: OZYMANDIAS #2
BEFORE WATCHMEN: RORSCHACH #1
BEFORE WATCHMEN: DR. MANHATTAN #1
BEFORE WATCHMEN: MINUTEMEN #3
JUSTICE LEAGUE INTERNATIONAL #12
JUSTICE LEAGUE INTERNATIONAL ANNUAL #1
EARTH 2 #4
WORLDS’ FINEST #4
DC UNIVERSE PRESENTS #12
THE FLASH #12
THE FLASH ANNUAL #1
THE FURY OF FIRESTORM: THE NUCLEAR MEN #12
SUPERMAN #12
SUPERGIRL #12
BATWOMAN #12
GREEN LANTERN #12
GREEN LANTERN ANNUAL #1
GREEN LANTERN CORPS #12
GREEN LANTERN: NEW GUARDIANS #12
RED LANTERNS #12
DIAL H #4
DEMON KNIGHTS #12
RESURRECTION MAN #12
STORMWATCH #12
BLUE BEETLE #12
LEGION LOST #12
LEGION OF SUPER-HEROES #12
NATIONAL COMICS: LOOKER #1
NIGHT FORCE #6
FAIREST #6
FABLES #120
SAUCER COUNTRY #6
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| Sunday, May 13th, 2012
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11:18 am - MST3K Rewatch Week 48 - Parts: The Clonus Horror
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And so we come to the final disc of the final set put out by Rhino, and it is a doozy. I love this episode so damned much.
Ahh, the episode where we meet the omnipotent and annoying space kids. I still like the attempt by Scifi to to a storyline with the host segments. And yes, the kids were annoying, but it was a fun science fiction cliche to throw at the SoL crew and friends. And I'm surprised it took them this long to do it.
"I think the voices in my head are a little louder than usual..."
This episode may be the most runningly gaggiest episode with running gags. You've got the stuff with Dick Sargent and Bewitched. You've got the Dr. Mario look alike. I still giggle whenever they start humming various SMB songs. And then there is Peter Graves and Biography. Those three runners almost take up the bulk of the movie, and they are absolutely hilarious. All culminating in the Biography spoof grabbing names from the credits, and even THAT crescendos to the rivalry between Graves and his brother.
And beyond those, there is the usual gamut of gags. Some of my faves are the ricochets of gunshots, doughy Richard, and oh my gods, the smoking crotches kills me every single time. I still remember the first time I saw that, I almost could not breathe.
"Clones really are rock stupid."
Now, the only question is; which movie about a clone farm for rich people that risks being exposed when one of them escapes would you rather watch? This? Or The Island?
J
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6:16 am - Puppets, Puppets Everywhere
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Happy Mother's Day!
Finally Trisk gets back to what we do best, and I don't think it's a coincidence that we are also getting back to the Puppet Master series. Precisely because I plan when the movies I review are done, but I digress...
We kick off our May full reviews with Curse of the Puppet Master, which has the simple plot of an *ahem* doctor trying to recreate Toulon's process and make his own puppet. He enlists a boy to carve his new toy, and there's not much else to the story here.
In fact, the plot is almost completely lifted from another movie we previously Trisked. It didn't become clear to me until I was editing the review before today's posting. Can you guess what movie it is before I pull back the curtain?
J
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| Saturday, May 12th, 2012
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8:54 am - Comics Next Week
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Amazing Spider-Man Ends Of The Earth #1
Avengers Academy #30 (Avengers vs X-Men Tie-In)
Avengers vs X-Men #4 Regular Jim Cheung Cover
AVX VS #2 Regular Salvador Larroca Cover (Avengers vs X-Men Tie-In)
Batwoman #9 Regular Ben Oliver Cover
Blue Beetle Vol 8 #9
DC Universe Presents #9
Fantastic Four Vol 3 #605.1
FCBD 2012 Valiant Comics Preview (Oooh, bonus free comic added to my order)
Green Lantern Corps Vol 3 #9
Legion Of Super-Heroes Vol 7 #9
New Mutants Vol 3 #42 (Exiled Part 2)
Saucer Country #3
Supergirl Vol 6 #9
Thunderbolts #174
Uncanny X-Men Vol 2 #12 (Avengers vs X-Men Tie-In)
Venom Vol 2 #18
Winter Soldier #5
X-Factor Vol 3 #236
J
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| Friday, May 11th, 2012
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11:50 pm - Divided We Fall
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Pff, okay, enough sleep crap.
New quickie review posted up at Trisk! Yay!
Pick over my thoughts on Xavier Gens' movie, The Divide, a film about a group of people trapped in a bunker after a nuclear incident, and how they survive in their small outpost of society.
Also, I post a link to my review back here of The Avengers.
Yes, that's right, I am linking from here, to another site, to link BACK here, to read about The Avengers.
Foeception!!
J
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