Hm.  The Marvels was actually pretty cool.  Definitely a girl power flick and that's a hard market these days but I'm usually a fan anyway.  I have a folder on the drive called 'Girl's Night Out' for that.

You're being unnecessary.

~ On the side, that is a brilliant observation and proposed technique which will absolutely be noted in the hunt.  'Survivor bias', per WWII.

Doomsday (the movie) ... don't really care.  Unlike with the first Avengers or Infinity War, I have no vested interest in any of these characters anymore.  It's been doing the rounds a while now.  

Its early days were more innocent, by now it's beating the mule on the old characters and the new ones aren't as interesting.  They say in needs to break a bil to break even.  Probably will, not much profit after that.  It's all a big eyeroll at this point.  

I'll grab it along the way when it's low hanging fruit, I already know the story and it's convoluted and weird with a lot of reference to the shows I didn't see.  Don't care about Loki, he was tired by Thor 62 Endgame.

God now that I think about it there are So Many comic book movies that I just have no interest in.  Not watching Joker one or two, Kraven nor Morbius, hell no to the Flash, maybe Blue Beetle, haven't seen any Aquaman ... so very many ... but I found a sweet stash and have the option to see them all whenever I want.

So ... that leaves 'The' Marvels, 'The' Batman (The Pattinbat), and maybe Blue Beetle because I just thought of it and it's another one Gunn buried in the press (because it wasn't his).

And I did see Deadpool 32.  It was okay.  Loved the evil lady.

By the way, I caught up on most of the comic book movies from the last few years.  I honestly liked a lot of the widely hated ones.  I can only relate them by the ones which remain on the hard drive.  I kept Birds off Prey, Black Adam, Supergirl, and Multiverse of Madness.

Spiderman seven or whatever was good, but like a one watch way.  Haven't seen any series (don't care), may watch Moon Knight.  May watch Marvels, tried to watch Eternals but couldn't really get into it at the start, did watch 'The' Suicide Squad.  

It had some good scenes but like many new DC it didn't stand as a cohesive work so much as a string of scenes and most of the jokes fell flat, as did most action scenes.  Did note the theft, as well as the pokes to remind me what a scurvy little bitch James Gunn by James Gunn really is.

So lovely he takes the time to do that.

Otherwise noted, I think the best hated movie was Black Adam.  Straight up action flick, may be worth the rewatch post 'DC Drama' if you're into that.  Birds of Prey was a girly flick, which I do sometimes watch if they're good, like Tank Girl or Barbie, as was Supergirl.  Though that one had a lot of post edits, I kinda wish we could see the original, Ayer cut style.

Pretty sure Gunn trashed that one intentionally because it wasn't his, that's been the record so far.  But I suppose one 'cockroach' to another, I do credit him as a survivor.

If not another fine example of failing upward in comic book movies.  So so many ... anyway Marvels is next.  I didn't actually think the first one was bad, standard action flick.  This one is supposed to be more colorful which offended people because tuber ass nerdbags are literal fucking Karens.

Everything is a personal offense (cast Sydney Sweeny as everything).

F4 was okay, but not really.  Kist kinda ... meh.

Don't care about Ant-Man or Shazam.

...

Pretty sure that covers it.

...

Oh !  Thor 27 or whatever was dumb as two bricks fucking.  But Free Guy was actually pretty good. 

And no, just because you aren't able to kill me does not make me a cockroach, it just makes you rude.  

Oh yeah I know the 'Carrie' problem.  The exact words of the request was "at some kind of gathering, like maybe at prom."

So it more likely will be the Middle School's Sadie Hawkins.  Could do High School Homecoming (cheat) and even set it up differently but why would the kids be there anyway.  If the babysitter's in high school then maybe she can talk the squad in some kind of heroic deed or what-not and the request was clear on her bad-boy stoner BF having a 'coming of age'.

The villain, like I said.  There I get to be honest about my inner evil opinions I never actually act on.  No idea how they want to do the floating effect of bounding like balloons as a physical effect, but they want to try.  

They want no CGI or AI or any of that.

But I kind of like the idea of him being all Mr Surly and then just bouncing away, and it is doable with rope and a crane so I go with it.  As requested.

These are ideas which friends and family of the request have been passing around the table in fun for a while, but they struggle with the actual script.  Kids are in college, may turn out to be a project or a hobby, no idea.  The request is a very busy person and doesn't really talk much by nature.  But I do know he has (successful) experience with grants so it'll probably be something someday.

Anyway those are just the main characters, there's to be a lot more on which nothing specific is laid out, like what teachers in school are like, where they live though 'someplace normal' seems assumed.  If by normal you mean this place which it's only like that on the surface, the cults have only been gone a few years and there are still the bulk of the membership.

But frankly those are the generally the nicer ones, always smiling ... but the bitter biddies are frankly just mean.  And then of course the tourists ( ... ).

So yes, normal town on the surface, lots to do underneath.  

Pretty much the best possible setting.  Good thing we have no choice.  Anyway bla bla bla point being don't make it like Carrie I know.  Never actually saw it.  For some reason I feel like I should apologize for that but also who cares.


     ~ PS : I am not a transformer.  I bleed too much.

Balloon Pop

Commissioned specifics ~

A low budget horror movie in which the antagonist is apocalyptic balloons, set in the nineties, with OJ trial footage on the background TV's (which means 1995).  The protagonists are to be twins in middle school, one male one female.

Balloons drink the victims' souls while filling with their blood. 

Babysitter with a bad boy BF who 'learns the way', a creepy monster guy in disguise gets off the bus at the start.  Ultimate battle in the end set to 99 Red Balloons in which the balloons get popped, spattering the blood Everywhere, preferably at a prom or maybe Sadie Hawkins.

Personally, it sounds like your standard period 'after school special' of the time, if it was actually good.  So !

~ Balloon Pop ~

or

The Dangers of Kissing Boys at Prom Without a Condom
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A black balloon tied with three red bows of descending size trailing on her string, floats through the woods and down a steep hill to a white balloon waiting with a black top hat, glossed over construction paper torn and twisted tape.  

Her face is scrawled in rouge lipstick, the only thing that would stand out against the black, his a skull in sharpie with jagged teeth and a smile.  To be redrawn to suit whatever their current emotion while the thin wire on the string expresses their immediate responses.  

Example ~ Jagged when shocked, comfortably curled when drifting, now both entwined.

They look down the hill to the small town below.

(image by Chat GPT (Open AI)

~ 1995 ~ 

The bus pulls in as the white SUV drives by ... the man in the coat and broad hat, carrying a briefcase, lights his cigar and steps in the street.  A look to the right and he steps back as the many police cars.

Celsius Aire - Spits.  In an accentless redneck (central Minnesota) tone, "Humans ... "  Steps into the street and pulls back again as the news vans follow after the mess.  "I swear.  They do make it fun."  

He bounds across the street like a man on the moon in low gravity.
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Billy (male twin) - "We do not need a babysitter."

Dad - "The bloody Hell on a cross you do not.  Why did we move to this town ?"

Mom - "Because they burned own the house dear."

...

Dad - "It was a rhetoric question."

Jean - (female twin) Rhetorical."

Dad - "I loved that house.  It had that tree."

Billie - "You mean the one they hung the witches from."

Dad - "Historical."

Mom - To Jean, "Do not." ... a sigh ... "Just accept the babysitter please ... "

Dad - " I Loved that bitch hangin' tree."

Jean - "You mean witch."

Dad - "Oh do I ?"

Jean - "Wow."

Billy - "Trauma issues."

Dad - "Not in My goddamn house.  The end."

The cheerleaders exit the gym after practice and into the hall ~ 

Janine - Slams the other to the lockers, "Okay.  You're squad now, so it's time you understand exactly how the world works."  A curt smile.

"There are cool people.  And there are losers.  And the only difference between them, is the losers choose who they wish they could be.  And when they wish that on you, there is nothing you can do.  

"You're 'cool' now ...

"Damned to their envy.  And that's the difference.  The only difference.  Losers always wish they could be somebody else, but us ?  We all wish we could just be ourselves !  Nobody wins.  Everybody loses.  That's the world."  

She looks down the hall to the anonymous kids who are just kids.  

"Except all these normies, you never even see.  In and out.  Like it's a prison sentence and never look back. They're the ones who've got it all sorted.  Pray no one ever pegs them for cool, pray they don't become just another loser by trying to be you."

"So.  Have you decided on your first kill ?"

...

Lacy - "Yeah.  I think I have."

Janice - "Yeah ... well that's where it gets interesting.  You know nazis ?"

Lacy - "I've heard of them."

Janice - "Hmm ... well they are what happens when somebody's got a plan.  A smart loser.  Scoop up all the other losers, by their need for social acceptance.  It's intrinsic.  All the people no one welcomes ... welcome them.  And so socially starved they are, they will accept Any dogma you shove into their brain pan.

"They'll nod their loser little heads, just happy to be there where people accept them.  Finally.  Grand plans ... but it's always for the same reasons.  Wishing they were somebody else."

Lacy - "That's why you're nice to everyone ... even though I Know you hate everyone."

Janine - "Bitch you do not Even know how bad, especially you.  But you're goddamn fucking right that's why I, and you, will play it pretty for this scholastic fucking clown show, every single day, until our sentence is up.  'Graduation'.   You are perfection.

"And then college ?  Guess what.  Four more years.  Whether you go for a doctorate, best in your field or off to the world, suddenly, the game's replaced with  harassment and Boom.  Right back to the bottom of the ladder you go ... it's the world.  But for now ... you've got squad.  We will live for you.  We will kill for you.  We will die for you.  And you for us."

Lacy - "Who was your first kill ?"

Janine - "Coach Patterson."

Lacy - "He committed suicide."

Janine - "So they say and I did it for reasons and they were not my own.  Squad.  Rethinking your first kill now, little whore ?"

Lacy - A smile, "Fair enough."

Janice - "Most of us are graduating.  The rest are incompetent.  Next year you fill my shoes and the school is yours and I hope everyone want to be you.  Don't play with me pretty princess."  Pulls her knife.  "I'll do you right here and blow the judge.  Welcome to varsity squad, bitch."  Pockets it and walks.

...

Lacy - "She thinks I'm pretty."

~ doorbell sound - the front door opens

Lacy - "Hi Mr King.  Sorry I'm late."

Mom - "So's the wife."

Mom - Calling from upstairs, "Almost ready !"

Dad - "Eye roll ... "Don't worry about it Lady."

Lacy - "Lacy."

Dad - "Shut the fuck up please.  Now come on in."

The door closes.

~ two

~ three

 

Balloon Pop

~ five

~ six

It's my experience that nothing tears down an evil faster than itself in the presence of a good thing it can't destroy.

~ 'The Sin' by Franz von Stuck ~