Welcome back to Thrak Attack! What's Your adventure? This week's adventures took us to the movies, a record store, to 2 new trailers, and a bunch of news! So let's get right into it!
NEWS!
-The Raconteurs have released their North American tour dates, I saw Jack White in concert last year and the tickets were pretty pricey so I might skip out on this one. He is also releasing a special edition guitar which should be interesting.
-Disney has confirmed IllumiNations: Reflections of Earth will have its last showing this summer and EPCOT Forever will take it's place.
-Harkin's Theaters is coming to Laveen! No more driving 30 minutes to see a movie!
-Founding Avengers each get a special edition EW covers.
-When you go see Detective Pikachu on May 10th you will receive a special edition Pokemon Card.
-Disney Plus will be releasing on November 16th for $6.99 a month. It will also feature a newly announced Hawkeye show starring Jeremy Renner.
-Star Wars Episode IX will be titled the Rise of Skywalker.
TRAILERS!
-Lion King looks exactly like the original but CGI. It's going to be exactly like the original which makes me not want to see it. Sorry Disney, if you're going to do a live action remake of a movie make sure it's different.
-Star Wars IX: The Rise of Skywalker is the final film in the Skywalker saga. I do not like the name however. The trailer is solid and shows enough to get us excited but gives no plot away. I really love the new cast of characters and am happy to see some old characters return. I am happy to see Lando out and about in the falcon but am not excited to hear Palpatine's laugh. He clearly died so leave him dead. I will accept a force ghost appearance however. The title confuses me, it either hints at Kylo's redemption, Rey's retcon, a new Skywalker character, OR something else entirely. We will have to find out in December!
REVIEWS!
Record Store Day 2019 was an interesting one. The big draw/gimmick of this year's RSD was 3" vinyl. They were selling players but there were only like 5 releases for the format. It's not worth the $70 price tag for a turntable to play 5 songs. I did manage to pick up some exclusive releases and some other records I found. I got 2 White Stripes 7" singles of songs I've never heard before, a picture disc of Rush's "Hemispheres" album, acoustic recordings of Mumford and Son's "Delta" album, and Coheed and Cambria's "Vaxis- Act 1: The Unheavenly Creatures". I also picked up a Wonder Years live 9" for my best friend who was unable to make it to RSD. It was a solid day and I spent way too much but its worth it to have a nice collection of music!
Hellboy (2019) is as of right now the worst film of the year (that I've seen. I'm sure if I saw Wonder Park that would be a different story). This was clearly the case of "If we don't make a Hellboy movie we lose the rights to the character" so they made the movie. The film had some decent acting from some of the cast but the chemistry wasn't there between most of the characters. David Harbour did an amazing job as the grumpy and jaded Hellboy but the only characters he had any sort of chemistry with was Alice (Sasha Lane) and Nimue (Mila Jovovich). Hellboy and his father's relationship didn't feel real at all. Makeup was great but the CGI effects were awful. The giants looked like the Ogre from the first Harry Potter film. I could go on and on about how much this film failed at but the biggest issue was the sheer amount of storylines and plots they tried to jam into it. Hellboy's Origin, the vampire king, the Blood Queen's origin, Alice's backstory, the Pig guy's backstory, Rasputin, Lobsterman? The Osiris club's hunt betrayal, Baba Yaga (which was never resolved and a useless scene), Hellboy is descendant of King Arthur? and Daimo's backstory, AND set up a sequel that will never happen. Man that's worse than Iron Man 2! Unfortunately half of those storylines either sucked or forgotten about throughout the rest of movie. Baba Yaga still doesn't have her eye that's the color of piss. That was such a dumb scene. This movie will never make it onto my ultimate shelf and should not be on anyone else's. That is all.
So that's the blog! Lots of stuff and mostly good, too bad the main review wasn't good. The next film I am seeing though will be the biggest of the year. Avengers: Endgame is coming up in 2 weeks! Next week I will have more news, possibly some new trailers, potentially a Nintendo Direct to talk about, AND a new album by Cage the Elephant to review. Keep going on adventures friends and thank you for reading!
All the Best, Ross
NEWS!
-The Raconteurs have released their North American tour dates, I saw Jack White in concert last year and the tickets were pretty pricey so I might skip out on this one. He is also releasing a special edition guitar which should be interesting.
-Disney has confirmed IllumiNations: Reflections of Earth will have its last showing this summer and EPCOT Forever will take it's place.
-Harkin's Theaters is coming to Laveen! No more driving 30 minutes to see a movie!
-Founding Avengers each get a special edition EW covers.
-When you go see Detective Pikachu on May 10th you will receive a special edition Pokemon Card.
-Disney Plus will be releasing on November 16th for $6.99 a month. It will also feature a newly announced Hawkeye show starring Jeremy Renner.
-Star Wars Episode IX will be titled the Rise of Skywalker.
TRAILERS!
-Lion King looks exactly like the original but CGI. It's going to be exactly like the original which makes me not want to see it. Sorry Disney, if you're going to do a live action remake of a movie make sure it's different.
-Star Wars IX: The Rise of Skywalker is the final film in the Skywalker saga. I do not like the name however. The trailer is solid and shows enough to get us excited but gives no plot away. I really love the new cast of characters and am happy to see some old characters return. I am happy to see Lando out and about in the falcon but am not excited to hear Palpatine's laugh. He clearly died so leave him dead. I will accept a force ghost appearance however. The title confuses me, it either hints at Kylo's redemption, Rey's retcon, a new Skywalker character, OR something else entirely. We will have to find out in December!
REVIEWS!
Record Store Day 2019 was an interesting one. The big draw/gimmick of this year's RSD was 3" vinyl. They were selling players but there were only like 5 releases for the format. It's not worth the $70 price tag for a turntable to play 5 songs. I did manage to pick up some exclusive releases and some other records I found. I got 2 White Stripes 7" singles of songs I've never heard before, a picture disc of Rush's "Hemispheres" album, acoustic recordings of Mumford and Son's "Delta" album, and Coheed and Cambria's "Vaxis- Act 1: The Unheavenly Creatures". I also picked up a Wonder Years live 9" for my best friend who was unable to make it to RSD. It was a solid day and I spent way too much but its worth it to have a nice collection of music!
Hellboy (2019) is as of right now the worst film of the year (that I've seen. I'm sure if I saw Wonder Park that would be a different story). This was clearly the case of "If we don't make a Hellboy movie we lose the rights to the character" so they made the movie. The film had some decent acting from some of the cast but the chemistry wasn't there between most of the characters. David Harbour did an amazing job as the grumpy and jaded Hellboy but the only characters he had any sort of chemistry with was Alice (Sasha Lane) and Nimue (Mila Jovovich). Hellboy and his father's relationship didn't feel real at all. Makeup was great but the CGI effects were awful. The giants looked like the Ogre from the first Harry Potter film. I could go on and on about how much this film failed at but the biggest issue was the sheer amount of storylines and plots they tried to jam into it. Hellboy's Origin, the vampire king, the Blood Queen's origin, Alice's backstory, the Pig guy's backstory, Rasputin, Lobsterman? The Osiris club's hunt betrayal, Baba Yaga (which was never resolved and a useless scene), Hellboy is descendant of King Arthur? and Daimo's backstory, AND set up a sequel that will never happen. Man that's worse than Iron Man 2! Unfortunately half of those storylines either sucked or forgotten about throughout the rest of movie. Baba Yaga still doesn't have her eye that's the color of piss. That was such a dumb scene. This movie will never make it onto my ultimate shelf and should not be on anyone else's. That is all.
So that's the blog! Lots of stuff and mostly good, too bad the main review wasn't good. The next film I am seeing though will be the biggest of the year. Avengers: Endgame is coming up in 2 weeks! Next week I will have more news, possibly some new trailers, potentially a Nintendo Direct to talk about, AND a new album by Cage the Elephant to review. Keep going on adventures friends and thank you for reading!
All the Best, Ross
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