Two completely different genres of movies, but only one of them deserves a sequel. I’ll let you guess which one I’m interested in.
Oh, wait… I forgot Mel Brooks released HISTORY OF THE WORLD “Part 2” in 2023. I can’t believe I’ve waited 40+ years for that sequel. At least it wasn’t three hours long or cost $100 million to produce.
Howdy friends! After taking a several year hiatus, I’m back exhibiting at the San Diego Comic-con ’24 Art Show which starts on Wed, 7/24/24 and runs through Sun, 7/28/24. I’ll be selling seven pieces.
Please contact me if you are interested in obtaining any one of the them for your collection.
Thanks for checking out my art!
INDIANA SUMMER
Medium: Acrylic paint on canvas
Image Size: Approximately 12″ x 16″
Signed
JUNGLE THUNDER
Medium: Hand printed serigraph on unprimed canvas
(1-color screen print)
Size: 11″ x 17″
Signed
A MOMENT OF PEACE
Medium: Digital print (inkjet) of a original painting on canvas
Size: Approximately 10″ x 20″
Signed
NEIGHBORHOOD KAIJU WATCH
Medium: Vinyl decals on acrylic (gesso) board
Size: 12″ x 16″
Signed
ONE DAY
Medium: Mixed media (wood, digital print, acrylic)
Size: 13″ x 13″
Signed
SHIRE ALE
Medium: Wood, acrylic
Size: 13″ diameter
Signed
SNAPSHOTS FROM MARS
Medium: Mixed media (digital prints, wood, corkboard, acrylic)
Size: 11″ x 17″
Signed
If you are attending Comic-con, please stop by the art show and have fun browsing all art pieces on display. Cheers!
10. Better Late Than Never
9. Home of the Tennis Golden Slam… or Not!
8. BYOC (Bring Your Own Condoms)
7. Tickets? We Don’t Need Any Stinkin’ Tickets!
6. Come to Tokyo and See the Future… and Future is Cardboard Furniture
5. Don’t Confuse Us with the X-Games
4. Sorry, it’s not Football Season Yet
3. Endorsed by Kaijus Everywhere
2. Quit While You’re Ahead
And the winner is:
1. Look, Ma, No Fans!
The votes are in. Here are the results for the top 10 mascots choices to represent the Rio 2016 Summer Olympics.
10. Pig-Pen
9. Winnie the Pooh
8. Stinknicius
7. Dougie the Dung Beetle
6. Pepé Le Pew
5. Doo Doo the Dinosaur
4. Mr. Un-Clean
3. Mcgruff the Crime Dog
2. Mr. Hankey
And the winner is:
1. Baby Ruth
Thanks for voting!
Enjoy the games and remember to keep your mouth closed when swimming.
Starring: Chris Evans, Robert Downey Jr., Scarlett Johansson, Sebastian Stan
Directed by: Anthony Russo & Joe Russo
Written by: Christopher Markus & Stephen McFeely
Genre(s): Comic book, Action
No spoilers here!
“Movies that had stories, so you cared about whose ass it was and why it was farting…”
-Joe Bauers (as played by Luke Wilson, IDIOCRACY)
I’m sure when Mike Judge directed his satirical masterpiece, IDIOCRACY, back in 2006, he had no idea that someday it would be used in a review about an Avengers’ movie. Well, that day has come, my friends.
CAPTAIN AMERICA: CIVIL WAR was a two and half hour bore fest, stuffed with way too many long-winded scenes full of meaningless violence, just like the last two AVENGERS movies (released in 2012 and 2015).
I defined these scenes as meaningless for two reasons. First, when these superheroes fought each other… then fought again… then fought some more, we knew no one was going to get hurt. Where’s the suspense? Where’s the drama? Second, most of these fight scenes were inconsequential to the plot of the story, which ultimately makes or breaks a movie.
I’d preferred if this movie was edited down to under two hours. Perhaps a tighter story would have made us care more about these characters and why they were farting, I mean fighting. After sitting through what seemed like thousands of CGI animated whirly-kicks, flippity-dos and twister-jabbers, I looked at my watch and said to myself, “So what.”
From the digital perspective, this movie looked great, but it was absent of great or memorable scenes. I also would have preferred this movie to have been a smaller story like CAPTAIN AMERICA: WINTER SOLDIER (2014) which I thought was one of the better Marvel movies from the past decade, along with IRON MAN (2008).
Maybe I have too high of expectations, but unlike many other summer popcorn movies I’ve seen over the years, this one was not enjoyable, except for when scenes from IDIOCRACY popped into my head while I squirmed around my theater seat. I chuckled and said to myself, “So what.”
