Busy & Lazy is a bad mix

If anyone does still read this, then I'm both shocked and thankful.


Being a father of 2, working a full time job with insane hours, and with my wife's recent health issues, I haven't had much time nor energy to treat this blog like I should. The lack of attention my comedy playoffs has received should be proof of that. But enough wah wah wahhing. Here's how I'm going to TRY and fix this:


Every Tuesday, I'll do a review of new movies out of dvd


Every Thursday or Friday, I'll do reviews of new movies out in theaters. (this one should be interesting since I can't get out to see them- 2 visits to local screens in the past 12 months)


Now excuse me, since my heroin will not cook itself...

New Spiderman movie

The new Spiderman movie comes out later this year, and when I first heard they were "relaunching" the franchise, I was VERY skeptical.
I thought with the first movie coming out just 10 years ago, it was WAY too soon for a reboot. But Marvel is on this re-do kick right now (the last Punisher movie, X-men 1st class, Hulk, now Spidy), but this one feels... un-patient I guess you could say so at first, I thought I would miss this one (I didn't see Thor or Cap America in theaters, the life of a dad I guess). 

But this new trailer that came out is giving something the series needed but never got around to it: -Gwen Stacy as Peter's first real love. 
-The Lizard. 
-And to a lesser degree web shooters (I was ok with it last time around as it became a power, and not gadget)

Will I see it? I'm on the fence, yet to be decided.

What if?

Star Trek carried on for years after Gene Roddenberry's death. Some of his ideas died with him such as Star Trek should be less military and more social, a noble, yet naïve thought. Both storys continued in a good balance (The last 2 TNG Movies should however be purged) More Star Trek, less hippies dancing.

Now imagine a Star Wars where George Lucas died after the special editions hit the theaters. Who's to say we would have Jar Jar Binks, or blinking ewoks?

Signs of no God

Just saw an ad for another Air Buddies DVD. Who in God's name is buying these things?!? Why do they keep making them?!?

Updates?? We don't need no stink'n updates!!!

Here's the latest:
Holidays are long over, so you'd think Jay and I would be going full bore into The Great Comedy Playoffs reviews..... You know what else goes down this time of year? Basic health. Both Jay & I caught some wicked throat... thing, and not the same thing either. I had a cough, he got something that came on much faster. Basically, neither of us have a voice, so the folks over at Cretins Guild Studios had to make a "Ghost Episode" for the 2nd round recap.

 Or, what you could call a Host-less episode. But aside from that, the brackets are moving along nicely. We've had upsets, close calls, blow-outs, and worse of all, controversy.


The down side to all this is that I have not had the chance to do any DVD reviews, but I have been thinking about how to renew the reviews. I thought about grabbing one of my DVD's at random, but that might not work (I own a bunch of crappy, uninteresting-but-not-to-me movies). But I have a bit of time to figure out how, and when they start back up again.

One idea is to make it a monthly web series. Why monthly? Short answer: I have two kids under the age of 3. Long unselfish reason: I want to make them entertaining, and put some quality into the videos, and that takes a bit of time. Especially since I only put real man-hours into the editing on weekend morning before the boys wake up!


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Til next time my fellow Zoetropatics!

Wow, what a year!

Taking a bit during these holiday time frame to say thank you anyone who watched, and sent in a bracket for The Great Comedy Playoffs. I had no idea how many I would end up getting, but was happy with the result. What I didn't anticipate was how much time I would have to put forth into editing the episodes. But it's a labor of love. It feels like both Jay and I are getting better with every show we do.
At this point, we just began to look at the 2nd round, with a few left to go.
You can watch all the episodes here on this playlist.

More to come, just getting back into the grove after a nasty cold hit me hard on Christmas Day.

DVD Review: The Captains

This is one I've been looking forward to for a while.

As a Star Trek Fan, or Trekkie if you will, I grew up on Star Trek The Next Gen. My father watched the original series, we both enjoyed the movies..... as bad as some of them were..... but it was one of just a few topics he and I both REALLY got into.
Over the years, I enjoyed all the Star Trek shows. My personal fav was DS9 even though at first, I thought it was a terrible concept. A Trek show that doesn't go trekking.
So a few years now without any Trek, I have been watching the shows on Netflix, and came across something I wasn't expecting. A documentary directed by William Shatner, is a look at Captain Kirk paying a visit to all the actors who have sat in that iconic chair.
With his unique interview style of listening mostly, then interrupting the speaker with a spot on piece of insight, he talks with Patrick Stewart, Kate Mulgrew, Scott Bakula, and even Chris Pine, the new Captain Kirk.
His interviews with Avery Brooks, aka Captain Sisko, are some of the strangest, yet hauntingly mesmerizing conversations I have ever witnessed. I ended up second guessing myself if I was watching a jazz enthusiast stoned of out his mind singing his answers from behind a piano, or if this was someone on pure-air gone off the deep end.
He also stops at a Star Trek Convention, and terrorizes a number of guests. With photos, signatures, and crowd speaking.
It is a very interesting, if not a slow paced interview piece that fits Shatner well.


Physical: There's not much to talk about the box art with all actors dressed in their Starfleet uniforms mid-beem-up on the cover.
Extras: Barely anything at all. A simple "Making of" special, but no shocker here. Documentary's rarely get much if any special features.


So how would I rate this DVD? If your a big Star Trek fan like me, it's worth spending the $10 on Amazon to get it. If your interested, but not such a huge Trekkie, it's a renter, or like I said earlier, Netflix it.