The mysterious man at the box office had an exclamation point over his head. I accepted his quest, and stopped by the merchant to prepare. With food and carbonated potion in hand I ventured into a new realm. Ladies and gentlemen, I have seen Warcraft.
Life has a way of springing things on you without warning. Life is kinda rude like that. Such an occurrence happened recently causing my absence last week and resulting in this week being comprised only of the short and sweet reviews normally found at the bottom of my posts. Hey, I have a quota to fill.
Today’s movie focuses on a group of young men who exhibit absolutely zero compassion, perpetrate sickening acts of violence against people that did them no wrong, and fetishize vicious misogynistic aggressions toward women. What? No, not Internet MRAs, this movie was released in 1971, there was no internet.
Spoilers ahoy for A Clockwork Orange.
written by Kate Danvers
Once again I’ll separate this into light and heavy spoiler sections. Light spoilers won’t contain plot twists, major developments, discussion of the film’s themes, ending details, or anything you couldn’t get from the trailers.
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“Welcome to the movies, how can I help you?”
“Can I get two tickets for the movie where one superhero thinks that people with such immense power have to be kept in check and the other superhero thinks that being required to answer to someone would prevent them from doing what they know to be right and these opposing viewpoints spiral out of control until they actually fight each other when they should be concerned about the villain’s plot?”
“Batman v. Superman?”
“No, the good one.”
Stephen Hawking once held a dinner party for time travelers. He announced the date and time of the party after he held it and invited anyone capable of time travel now or in the future to attend. No one did. This suggests that time travel, at least into the past, isn’t possible. (I think it could just be that Hawking is a total bore and all the time travelers were washing their hair that night.) But that still doesn’t stop Hollywood from playing with the idea.
Some light spoilers ahead.
As I did with other artists recently passed I thought it appropriate to take this week to talk about Purple Rain and its star, Prince. Or, as he was known through much of the 90’s, O(+>.
According to Kevin Smith it was mandated that in his Superman movie there needed to be a giant spider monster, Superman would never fly, and he would never wear the classic suit.
It’s amazing that this thing never got off the ground.
What better way to cleanse my eyes of the Snyder-verse than with the DC animated movies which, by the definition of animation, almost guarantees way more colors than I ever saw in Dawn of Justice? And if you want the lowdown on my April 1st post, scroll to the very bottom.
