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Top 5 Worst Transformers Ideas Ever
Transformers really is such an elegantly simple concept. Take one thing that kids like--toy cars--combine it with another thing kids like--action figures--and add a dash of simple morality play and simmer over sci-fi space opera, and you've got a recipe for success. Inspired additions like "dinosaurs" and "spaceships" and "combiners" prove that yes, you can improve on perfection. It's hard to screw these ideas up.
And yet, screw them up they have, and frequently. Now, overall, Transformers has been pretty good and increasing in quality from the '80s to the present day. But every once in awhile, a real stinker gets through. These are those stinkers:
5. The Throttlebots: You'd think "motorized Transformers" would be a no-brainer, right? The Generation One line experimented with motorized and mechanized Transformers a few times over the course of the line, to varying degrees of success. The Jumpstarters and Battlechargers had pull-back-and-go motors, and automatically transformed into robot mode as they rolled along (though the Jumpstarters had much more articulation). The Triggerbots and Triggercons had mechanically-rotating parts which would reveal 'hidden' guns in either mode. And then there were the Throttlebots. Like the Jumpstarters and the Battlechargers, the Throttlebots were equipped with pull-back-and-go motors. Like the Battlechargers, they didn't have much articulation (neither group possessed poseable arms or hands). The Throttlebots, however, didn't even have the auto-transformation feature or the snap-on guns possessed by those progenitors. They turned from little brick-like cars into little brick-like robots, whose lack of anything resembling arms (their doors opened outward) and wheeled leg-sleds (the pull-back-and-go motor worked in both modes) caused them to look like the Thalidomide generation of Cybertronians. The fact that poor Bumblebee got saddled with one of these mutant bodies for years is one of the great tragedies of Transformers.
4. The Cybernet Space-Cube: It's 1993. Transformers is enjoying a moderately successful resurgence in popularity, thanks to the Generation 2 line of toys, which mixes updated versions of the '80s figures with all-new toys. You realize that this is the perfect time for a new Transformers cartoon. Unfortunately, you have neither the time nor the resources to put one together. So, what do you do? Well, computers are all the rage, and it seems like they'd be a perfect fit for a show about hi-tech robots from outer space. And, you know, the last Transformers cartoon isn't all that old; in fact, it's perfectly good. So you combine the two, thinking they're two great tastes that taste great together. And you do this with a new, computer-animated opening sequence and the Cybernet Space-Cube, a silver Macguffin that flew through space and showed you old episodes of Transformers on shifting screens within itself. The result: any time there was some sort of interstitial or scene change or camera change, the Space-Cube would show up, shifting screens around mechanically accompanied by machine-like noises that often drowned out the sound of the show. It served no purpose other than to put a gussied-up, intrusive '90s frame around an '80s cartoon. Annoying, useless, and utterly unnecessary. And here it is, in all its opposite of glory:
3. Beast Wars Mutants: Beast Wars started with a good idea: robots that turn into dinosaurs and other animals instead of cars and airplanes. It was kind of a gamble, sure, mainly because it was a departure from the original concept of Transformers and because the animal alt-modes tended not to look very realistic. But after a slightly rocky start and bolstered by a fantastic cartoon series, Beast Wars found its stride. The original Transmetal sub-line remains one of the most consistently awesome incarnations of Transformers ever. But Beast Wars, especially toward the end of the series, had its own share of missteps. The Transmetal II/2 line would have made this list with its easily-chipped metallic paint jobs, its ugly figures that didn't look like anything in either mode, and its decision to change from Roman to Arabic numerals because they didn't think kids would understand what "II" meant. They had no such qualms with the word "Transmetal," however. But, without the TM2 line, we wouldn't have gotten the awesomeness of dragon Megatron, and that'd be a real shame. But there was one subset that had almost no such redeeming qualities: the Mutants. There were only a few of these figures made, and for good reason: they transformed not from animal to robot, but from one animal to a different animal. During the transition, you could see little robot parts inside, to signify that they were trapped between the two animal modes, but they really just serve to remind you that all you really want is to turn it into a dude with a gun. The backstory is actually kind of interesting for these guys, but being totally unable to turn them into something that can hold its own against the average Predacon or Maximal really makes them feel useless. You can take cars out of the Transformers equation, but not robots.
2. Action Masters: Incidentally, something else you can't take out of the Transformers equation is transforming. Yet, someone at Hasbro toward the very end of the original toyline decided that doing just that would be some sort of fantastic idea. Action Masters gave us Transformers that didn't change into anything, who came with weapon or accessory partners that did sort of transform. Strangely "accessory that looks sort of like a robot turns into accessory that looks sort of like a gun" wasn't quite enough transforming for people who bought Transformers because they transform. There's really only two reasons that this isn't number one on the list. First, the figures introduced a feature that would become standard for Transformers from that point onward: articulation. Say what you will about the Action Masters, but at least they had a wide range of motion. The second reason is quite simply because Action Masters doesn't hold a candle to our number one contender.
1. Beast Machines: In every facet of Beast Machines, there's something to hate. The toys were hideously ugly, and often looked nothing like their animated counterparts (something that the series had worked to correct for the last couple of seasons of Beast Wars on both sides of production). The toy sizes were determined (apparently) not by any logic, nor by importance (until this point, Optimus and Megatron tended to be the largest beast characters), but by which characters Hasbro wanted to be popular. Hence, we have a deluxe-sized Optimus Primal, a mega-sized Cheetor, and ultra-sized Nightscream. The toys continued a trend begun by Transmetal II/2, where the character doesn't look like much of anything in either mode (with the exception of some Vehicons, which were moderately okay). The series was almost completely devoid of guns, especially on the good guys' side, apparently due to Story Editor Bob Skir's own personal crusades. And then there's the show, oh dear Primus, the show. While the characters ostensibly continued from Beast Wars to Beast Machines, you'd never know it from their personalities. Nothing stayed constant except names and some alt-modes. Part of this is because Bob Skir and Marty Isenberg, the Story Editing team, are utter hacks. You may remember them from the "Gargoyles" episode about virtual reality, which was just like their "Batman: The Animated Series" episode about virtual reality (with the Riddler instead of Lexington). You probably remember their two-part "Batman" episode that ripped off "2001" and "Blade Runner" right down to the voice actors. In fact, the only good thing I've ever seen come out of that writing team is "His Silicon Soul," which still built out of their earlier plagiarism.
But I digress. Skir and Isenberg introduced into Transformers the ridiculous idea that technology is inherently evil. That might have made for a good series (perhaps a counterpoint to "Jayce and the Wheeled Warriors"), except that it was in a franchise based on robots. Robots, as you may or may not know, are made of technology. So our primary conflict is not between good and evil, as in G1, nor between different factions in a war, as in Beast Wars. Instead, it's between two groups of fanatics who are both wrong: Megatron, who wants to destroy all the sparks so Cybertron is a paradise of machinery with no free will; and Optimus, who wants to turn Cybertron into an organic, plant-filled animal haven, ridding the world of evil technology.
Add into this horrendously pedantic plotline a bunch of muddled references to Transformers series past, where the Key to Vector Sigma behaves like the Hate Plague and the Hate Plague in turn behaves like something completely different, and your result is a series that has almost no redeeming qualities whatsoever. And, as I only recently learned, a lot of the bad can be traced back to one man, who ought to be familiar to the patrons of this blog. This executive at Mainframe, the computer animation production house behind the Beast Machines cartoon, told Marv Wolfman (who co-wrote the series bible) that the show had no ties to earlier series and to do with G1 continuity whatever he wanted. This executive told Skir and Isenberg to completely disregard any previous incarnations of the characters and series, because Beast Wars was too "continuity-heavy." This executive cancelled ReBoot. And the name of this Mainframe executive?
Yes, the Dan DiDio. Now, I've met Dan briefly, shook his hand, listened to him talk about the state of the DCU. I've generally liked what he's done for DC, with the exception of his tendency toward turning decent characters into cannon fodder. I've never cared for his writing (his "Superboy" run essentially killed the title), but I don't mind his editing, not nearly as much as some people do. But to learn that he's the voice behind the worst thing ever as far as Transformers is concerned, to have my irony meter explode at hearing him express aversion to continuity...well, my opinion of Dan DiDio dropped quite a bit.
My opinion of Beast Machines, however, can't possibly get any lower. No other idea in the history of Transformers has ever taken the "robots that turn into things" idea and screwed it up in more spectacularly awful ways than Beast Machines. There's a real sort of prescience to giving the series the initials "B.M."
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The friggin' space-cube. I still hear people bring that up as the reason they couldn't get into Transformers as a kid. My own brother to this day can't watch an episode without making those silly sound effects.
LurkerWithout said...
I caught less than a half-dozen episodes of the Beast Machines show. I kept trying to figure out how they could fuck up Silverbolt and freaking Rhinox. But they did. Plus they added a plant. I don't think it turned into anything. I think it was just a roboplant. Plus Cheetor as leader? SERIOUSLY? He didn't even get a "I must mature into leadership" thing like Hot Rod did in the movie. It was just Optimus has turned into a freaky priest, know I will be leader...
BAH!
Erin Palette said...
Despite how it may appear, I have a serious question for you regarding the Transformers. To whit: why do the Autobots and Decepticons hate each other?
Being a child of the Cold War, I completely understand why GI Joe are the good guys and why Cobra are the bad. Heck, I even understand why He-Man and Skeletor hate each other. But I don't get why two very scientifically advanced races of sentient robots want to destroy each other.
Now I freely confess that my knowledge of Transfandom is lacking. As a girl, I watched the cartoons on weekday afternoons, but I never saw the movie, and so when the series "jumped" from present day with Optimus to the future with a bunch of retards I'd never heard of, well... I stopped watching, and never really had the urge to get back into the fandom after that.
My initial inclination is to assume that "Autobot" and "Decepticon" are basically militant ideologies; give the Republicans and the Democrats energy weapons and they're almost as likely to start shooting at each other during a session of congress.
But then I realized, there seems to be no political drive to either of these groups. The Decepticons, when they aren't fighting the Autobots for no real tactical gain, seem to engage in what amounts to piracy: stealing energy and other natural resources to either construct new 'cons or escape Earth. The 'bots, on the other hand, tend to just sit around chillaxin' in the Ark, until and unless there is some Decepticon plot that needs thwarting.
So is it a subtle satire? Are the Decepticons slash-and-burn developers intent on raping the land? Are the Autobots eco-friendly stoners?
And if they are, why for Eris' sake are we being taught a lesson in ecology and Gaia reverence by ROBOTS?
As I said, I am perplexed. I would appreciate you addressing this at some point during your Transformers week.
(Verification word: skcdr, which I'm pretty sure is the sound of an Insecticon transforming.)
Simon (formerly Johnny Sorrow) said...
How can you not include the utterly inane "Pretenders" line, which for reasons that elude me are based on the principle that the best place to hide robot warriors is _inside_ of heavily armored humans?
Woody! said...
What about Headmasters? Not only did the body transform but the head did, too. I think that's what made me grow up and move on.
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COVID-19 Virus -- Movie related news
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Originally Posted by DJariya
Free Guy and Death on the Nile pulled by Disney
That's surprising, it was assumed they would dump their remaining Fox movies since they need a theatrical release. Let's hope studios offer up some of their more popular franchise titles for re-release.. .that would at least get some film fans out, I'm checking out Hunt for Red October next wk.
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Cinemark CEO Mark Zoradi said Thursday that the major exhibitor has started taking a "dynamic" approach to theatrical windows, negotiating release terms on a film-by-film basis in a concession to COVID-19.
Upcoming Universal releases like The Croods 2, Let Him Go and Freaky, for example, will play in Cinemark theaters, Zoradi said during the company's third-quarter earnings call. The CEO stressed that there is no overall, formal shift in windows along the lines of the deal rival AMC struck with Universal last summer, however. That deal lets releases leave AMC theaters after as few as 17 days of release.
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There will be no major releases until there's a vaccine with a decent amount of distribution.
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Originally Posted by PerryD
Yeah, it's funny to see McDonald's toys, or Lego sets based on various movies that were meant to hit the theaters around the same time as the toy release. I guess those things are harder to move out at the last minute.
My Godzilla vs Kong book is scheduled to be delivered in less than two weeks. I wonder if it will get pushed out again.
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Originally Posted by Josh-da-man
I'd say it will go beyond that with a large number of the population taking a wait/see approach even after a vaccine is released.
By then, who knows how many theaters will be left.
I'm seeing Tenet tomorrow night for the 2nd time - as of right now there is one other person in the IMAX screening, which is a massive auditorium. Looked at the other showings out of curiosity - not one ticket purchased for anything else tomorrow night. And this is for what I consider AMC's best theater in the Seattle area. Planning to go to three movies this week, because I just can't see them keeping things open at this rate.
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I'm tentatively planning to see Freaky this week and maybe Vanguard next week. I saw Let Him Go on Friday. But I don't know what else is coming in December. There's no chance that Wonder Woman 1984 stays on Christmas.
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Wow... one of the AMCs I've gone to on occasion is closing for good. It had 24 screens, IMAX, Dolby. I hope the two close to me don't suffer the same fate.
https://deadline.com/2020/11/regal-c...rs-1234611898/
Looks like Regal decided it wasn't worth it and closed the 7 California locations and 11 NY locations that were open. The NY locations just recently reopened. They will all close on Thursday. I looked at the listings of one location and they are only doing 2 screenings per movie a day and I'm sure they are 99% empty.
I was at the Regal location in La Habra, CA to see Honest Thief and it was super slow. Totally understandable that they shut it down.
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Ugh, this is incredibly sad. And I love the movies but wow, I love my kids more and I'm just not going to go.
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Are you talking about the Hamilton 24 in NJ?
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Originally Posted by dex14
I live right by it, and my wife took a second job there last year. The Marketfair is ok, but they have no room for Imax ( Hamilton had just updated their IMAX, and it re-opened for Onward) or Dolby. I am going to miss Hamilton
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We're already entering into the heaviest coronavirus spikes ever, and it'll get worse until Biden takes over and starts putting official procedures in place. So theaters will probably start recovering summer to fall of next year. That's my guess, even with a possible vaccine Pfizer may have now.
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https://variety.com/2020/film/news/s...ed-1234827386/
Movie theatres in San Diego and Sacramento have to shut down again because of increasing coronavirus cases in those counties.
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How will they recover exactly? We're talking more than a billion in losses during the last quarter for AMC, Cinemark and one other chain. No clue what the overall total is now and it will just continue to accumulate.
Very contingent on if/when there will be a recovery package for businesses. Right now, there's nearly a zero chance. Come January, we could see something, maybe. Until then, all of the theaters could be shuttered. Then who knows what after.
In Houston, I saw that 12 thousand restaurants have closed permanently since March. I'm expecting the same for most of these theater chains even if they file for bankruptcy for protection.
As it stands now, The Arts (Actors, Musicians, Artists, etc) seem completely fucked. I haven't seen anything about a recovery package for them.
Yeah, like I said. Government now in transition may or may not actually do something now for those business that are sinking - including the Arts people/businesses.
Movie theaters are now closed in my area due to spikes in coronavirus. Glad I got one last one in on Friday when I caught Freaky.
Also Cinemark just signed that 17 day PVOD deal with Universal like what AMC did.
https://variety.com/2020/film/news/c...ZtiSIJ36zcRNC8
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I just got an email that Flix Brewhouse (An Alamo-like theater/brewery chain) is closing its doors effective immediately until Covid-19 is under control.
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WA is also shut down as of tonight. These shutdowns are going through the end of the year, no doubt.
Warner Bros.' contingency plan is considering sending several films to HBO Max, a la "Wonder Woman 1984." With the "Wonder Woman" sequel, Warners anticipates keeping the Gal Gadot-led superhero adventure on the big screen for the standard theatrical window (typically about three months), with the major caveat that it will be available on the subscription streaming service HBO Max for the first 31 days of release. After the one-month mark, "Wonder Woman 1984" will be pulled from HBO Max and will only be available to see in theaters until it reaches the traditional home entertainment frame.
Many assume that decision, a shocking break from industry protocol, to be a one-off. But insiders suggest that may not be the case. According to sources familiar with discussions, "Judas and the Black Messiah," a biographical drama starring Daniel Kaluuya and Lakeith Stanfield; Denzel Washington's crime thriller "The Little Things;" and the "Tom and Jerry" remake could all see a hybrid HBO Max/ theatrical fate similar to "Wonder Woman 1984." The studio also considered taking the same route with "Mortal Kombat, an adaptation of the popular video game, but expect to delay the film's theatrical debut instead.For now, movie theaters haven't balked at Warner Bros.' decision to open "Wonder Woman 1984" day-and-date — meaning on HBO Max the same day it arrives in theaters. It's unclear how cinema operators will respond to studios making analogous moves. But months into a global health crisis that has decimated their business, film exhibitors would be ill-advised to deny any movie that could sell tickets.
Warner Bros. is hardly the only studio prioritizing streaming. Disney, the studio that shifted "Mulan," Pixar's "Soul" and "Artemis Fowl" on Disney Plus, has been similarly weighing the option of altering plans for upcoming titles to bulk up its subscription streaming service. Deadline recently reported that Emma Stone's "Cruella," "Pinocchio" and "Peter Pan and Wendy" could skip theaters in favor of Disney Plus debuts. But more pressing: there's been little chatter about two movies from the Disney-owned 20th Century Studios — the YA musical "Everyone's Talking About Jamie," slated for Feb. 26 and Matthew Vaughn's "The King's Man," set a couple of weeks earlier on Feb. 12. Could a Hulu or Disney Plus bow be in their futures?
The fate of other movies expected to be unveiled in early 2021, like Sony's "Cinderella" remake with Camila Cabello (Feb. 5) and Jared Leto's "Morbius" (March 19) still remain in question. But it wouldn't be unexpected to see the trend of nearly constant release date changes continue into the new year. Across Hollywood, executives are expecting the film calendar to remain fluid for the near future.
With that in mind, it's possible that MGM's "No Time to Die" will move again after being pushed from April to November to the spring of 2021. The Bond sequel is currently scheduled to premiere on April 2, 2021, but the movie's financial backers are wary of being the first blockbuster out of the gate because its core audience skews older, a demographic that's been more reluctant to go to the movies during the pandemic.
Paramount has been an active seller during the coronavirus shutdown, shipping the likes of "Without Remorse," "Coming 2 America" with Eddie Murphy and Aaron Sorkin's "The Trial of the Chicago 7" to Amazon and Netflix and reaping hundreds of millions of dollars in the process. However, the studio doesn't seem to be on the verge of selling any more movies.
Universal is plunging ahead with plans to release several films in the theaters that remain open during the pandemic because it has worked out deals to put them on-demand within a few weeks of their bows. AMC and Cinemark, the No. 1 and No. 3 U.S. movie theater chains respectively, are already on board with Universal's strategy to shorten the theatrical window and bring movies more quickly to the home. Sources say the studio is close to forging a similar deal with Regal, the second largest circuit in the U.S. and the last remaining standout. That's significant, because the three circuits combined represent over 50% of the U.S. market. The reason that Universal orchestrated these agreements in the first place was to avoid the possibility that movie theater chains would refuse to showcase the studio's movies if they land on demand sooner than usual. (Over the summer, AMC's CEO Adam Aron threatened such an action after Universal released "Trolls World Tour" simultaneously in theaters and on digital rental services.) Assuming the Regal deal is complete soon, the studio will have confidence to forge ahead with abridged theatrical windows without fears that it may lose out on substantial screens. Of course, that's assuming struggling theater chains survive the next few months.
Universal deployed its new model with some success last weekend with "The Croods: A New Age," earning more than $14 million its first five days in theaters. A year ago, that would have been a disaster. During coronavirus, it's practically given the second "Croods" movie blockbuster status. Upcoming releases from Universal and its indie division Focus include revenge thriller "Promising Young Woman" and "News of the World," a Tom Hanks drama that the studio did a little risk mitigation on by selling foreign rights to Netflix.
Siphoning off movies to the Netflixes, Amazon Primes and Hulus of the world would appear to be the obvious temporary solution, but insiders say it's more complicated than flipping a switch. Studios have to take a look at contracts that may promise some kind of theatrical release, as well as renegotiate backend deal with financial partners and talent before making any announcements in the press. In the case of "Wonder Woman 1984," insiders say that Gadot and director Patty Jenkins received generous backend deals after agreeing to send the film to HBO Max. The pair may never have hit the necessary milestones to trigger that money in the current environment, given that many theaters are closed and cinemas still haven't opened in New York City or Los Angeles. But in pre-pandemic times, the sequel to 2017's "Wonder Woman" would have likely been within reach of the billion-dollar mark. The original superhero adventure generated over $800 million at the worldwide box office.
Further complicating matters, studios have to play a seemingly unending game of phone tag to get all parties to sign off. Some of these actors and directors have moved on to other projects, many of which are shooting in the U.K., Australia or other exotic locals that wreaks havoc on aligning all the timezones.
If the director, major stars or producers can't be convinced that digital debuts are their best option, the alternative is to continue kicking movies down the road. But then, they run the risk of an even more uncertain theatrical environment. There's no indication of when moviegoing will return to a significant degree, which means waiting can be equally as risky as taking a bold bet on a streaming service. When "Tenet" premiered in September, 70% of U.S. movie theaters had reopened. By Thanksgiving, hundreds had shuttered again, leaving roughly one-third in business. The number of screens to play a movie could keep dwindling, especially if independent cinemas don't receive federal relief.
And there are movies that have to contractually open overseas. It's harder to convince filmmakers to move them, since essentially every country outside of the U.S. has had significantly more success controlling coronavirus, and key markets, particularly in Asia, have already fielded big box office hits. But keeping the release date internationally causes problems beyond just piracy concerns for its eventual domestic release. It's hard to re-hype up a movie that feels like its moment has already come and gone.
That was the situation with "The Personal History of David Copperfield," an adaptation of Charles Dickens' novel that Fox Searchlight released at the end of August, seven months after it launched theatrically in the U.K. "Copperfield" had originally been slated to premiere domestically in the spring until COVID upended those plans. It's a bigger issue with independently financed productions, which rely on a foreign pre-sale process in which producers auction off distribution rights for key territories in order to raise the money to make a movie. Unwinding those deals and getting all of the parties to comply with a new release plan during a pandemic can be difficult.
Studios executives keep talking hopefully about a return to "normal" they predict may come in the summer when a vaccine is widely available. However, few think that the industry will be able to quickly shake off the financial devastation of the past few months. Moreover, how movies open in theaters has changed perhaps irrevocably. That reality is the new world order that studios will be operating in when the pandemic finally ends.
https://variety.com/2020/film/news/c...es-1234842520/
When Warner Bros. announced that "Wonder Woman 1984" would land on the streaming service HBO Max on Christmas, the same time it debuts in theaters, many expected it to be an isolated case in response to an unprecedented pandemic.
Instead, the studio will deploy a similar release strategy for the next twelve months. In a surprising break from industry standards, Warner Bros.' entire 2021 slate — a list of films that includes "The Matrix 4," Denis Villeneuve's "Dune" remake, Lin-Manuel Miranda's musical adaptation of "In the Heights," Sopranos prequel "The Many Saints of Newark," and "The Suicide Squad" — will debut both on HBO Max and in theaters on their respective release dates. The shocking move to simultaneously release movies day-and-date underscores the crisis facing movie theaters and the rising importance of streaming services in the wake of a global health crisis that's decimated the film exhibition community.
Warner Bros.' 2021 release slate also includes Denzel Washington's thriller "The Little Things," biographical drama "Judas and the Black Messiah," a remake of "Tom and Jerry," "Godzilla vs. Kong," video game adaptation "Mortal Kombat," "Those Who Wish Me Dead," "The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It," "Space Jam: A New Legacy,""Reminiscence," James Wan's "Malignant" and sports drama "King Richard."
I'm shocked. Sure, people who don't like going to the movie theatres will be happy, but this is bad for the industry and bad for those movies financials.


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Jenkins commits to Panthers
Thu 27 May 2021, 04:40 PM
Penrith Panthers is delighted to announce Thomas Jenkins has signed a two-year contract extension with the club.
The new deal will see the 20-year-old outside back join the Panthers NRL development list in 2022 and the club's top 30 roster in 2023.
"I'm so excited to stay at Panthers for the next couple of years and hopefully more years after that," Jenkins said.
"Penrith is home for me now and I love everything about the club and the people here.
"I'm keen to keep developing as a player and a person and I believe Panthers is the best place to do it.
"I know the club's culture and professionalism will give me every opportunity to realise my full potential."
Panthers Recruitment Manager Jim Jones with Thomas Jenkins. ©Panthers Media
Hailing from Boorowa in the Hilltops Region of southern NSW, Jenkins first made the move to Panthers ahead of the 2020 season.
However the cancellation of the state representative competitions due to COVID-19 saw him return home to play Group 9 First Grade for his junior club Young Cherrypickers.
Back in Panthers colours this season, Jenkins has scored 11 tries in ten appearances across the Jersey Flegg and NSW Cup competitions.
Thomas Jenkins celebrates after scoring in the Round 9 NSW Cup clash against Newtown Jets. ©Panthers Media
"Tom is a promising young footballer with the versatility to play wing, centre and fullback," Panthers Elite Player Development Manager Ben Harden said.
"We've been impressed with the way he handled the setback of last season and the challenge of training with the NRL squad this pre-season.
"As a club we're invested in providing meaningful programs and pathways for players in country regions and Tom is yet another example of that commitment."
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Oct 02, 2020 I Paul Seaburn
Space Force Announces Plans For a Moon Base and Robots
Moon base
"At some point, yes, we will be putting humans into space. They may be operating command centers somewhere in the lunar environment or someplace else."
"The lunar environment" is military-speak for the Moon, which makes sense since that quote came from Maj. Gen. John E. Shaw, head of the Space Force's Space Operations Command and part of U.S. Space Command leadership, while answering a question this week at a conference sponsored by AFWERX, the "Air Force's team of innovators who encourage and facilitate connections across industry, academia, and the military to create transformative opportunities and foster a culture of innovation." This seems contradictory to recent stories that Space Force troops had been deployed in Qatar, it formalized agreements with NASA, it recruited a space horse and Space Force Vice Commander Lt. Gen. David D. Thompson, who said in February: "That opportunity to be an astronaut inside the Space Force today is almost zero."
Anticipating the same reaction you just had, Shaw clarified his position and agreement with Thompson:
"First, space isn't really all that habitable for humans. We've learned that since our early space days. And the second is, we're getting darned good at this robotics thing in space."
Did Shaw just contradict himself … and the Space Force's latest recruiting programs looking for people whose "purpose on this planet isn't on this planet"? Not really. He's just saying that putting Space Force cadets in space is a long way off, while we already have sophisticated robots doing important and complex security functions in space.
We do?
"The best robots that humans have ever created are probably satellites. … They're incredible machines, and we're only getting better. With machine learning and artificial intelligence, we're going to have an awful lot of automated and autonomous systems operating [on] Earth and lunar orbit and solar orbit in the days and years to come, doing national security space activity."
Robots – both autonomous and human-controlled – along with drones, rovers, satellites and other sophisticated AI creatures doing the security work of Space Force cadets in space. This doesn't sound like what President Trump had in mind when he announced the Space Force. The president would probably prefer Space Force cadets in a SpaceX capsule to the ISS before the election. He won't be happy with Maj. Gen. Shaw's answer to when this will happen:
"(It's) anybody's guess."
If your autonomous vacuum cleaner seems unusually excited these days, it may have heard the Space Force is looking for a few good robots.
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Paul Seaburn is the editor at Mysterious Universe and its most prolific writer. He's written for TV shows such as "The Tonight Show", "Politically Incorrect" and an award-winning children's program. He's been published in "The New York Times" and "Huffington Post" and has co-authored numerous collections of trivia, puzzles and humor. His "What in the World!" podcast is a fun look at the latest weird and paranormal news, strange sports stories and odd trivia. Paul likes to add a bit of humor to each MU post he crafts. After all, the mysterious doesn't always have to be serious.
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Two Lane Gems, Vol. 2: Day 23 – Spokane
May 20, 2020 // by Theresa Goodrich// Leave a Comment
Author Theresa L. Goodrich presents Two Lane Gems, Vol. 2: Bison are Giant and Other Observations from an American Road Trip in serial form. Enjoy!
The day before had been a much-needed respite. We didn't sightsee; we didn't hike. We napped. Napping is glorious. Napping on a cushioned swing at the shores of a lake while water softly laps the pebbled beach is glorious with whipped cream on top. It's enough to make you never want to leave. So, we didn't.
At least, not that day.
That day, we relaxed, took another spin in the boat while my sister-in-law water skied, and decided that we really didn't need to leave the next morning. It wasn't like we had a home waiting for us, and we figured we could extend our rental of Jeannie the Jeep for a couple more days. It was important to rest, but it was even more important to spend time with family. While the rest of the year my brother- and sister-in-law live only three hours from our (former) home, Jim's parents are on the other side of the country. So, we stayed. We napped. And on our 23rd day we explored.
Jim's parents joined us for a day in Spokane. We began our tour by returning to the Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture, and when we pulled up we encountered a Virgin Mary statue made out of license plates reclining on a flatbed hitched to a white GMC pickup topped with a gold shell.
We had no idea what to make of that, so we shrugged, parked, and entered the museum. All of the galleries are below-ground and their contents change frequently. When we visited, one gallery detailed items from Spokane's history. Another featured origami. These were no simple swans. These creations were complex sculptures, and it was hard to believe they were made of paper.
In the largest gallery we studied the works of Edward Curtis. The late 19th-, early 20th-century photographer spent thirty years capturing what he considered a vanishing people. During that time, Curtis visited more than eighty Native American tribes and took thousands and thousands of photos. The result was an encyclopedic collection, and he published twenty volumes of "The North American Indian." The compilation is a glimpse of a time and a people that no longer exist – except it's not quite real, and they're still here.
Many critics think Curtis had the right intentions, and to have access to that many tribes indicated that he'd earned some level of trust. The downside was that Curtis painted with a romanticized brush. His subjects became caricatures, like characters in Buffalo Bill's Wild West shows. Native costumes were props, and modern conveniences like alarm clocks were edited out. It was a semi-journalistic, semi-fictional accounting of native peoples who, despite the myth of the "vanishing indian," did not actually disappear.
I could have studied his images for hours. Despite their flaws, the photos were of real people from more than a century before, and they were fascinating. A tour was about to begin next door at a restored Tudor-style home, however, so we walked over to join a small group gathered in the carriage house. We read the displays about life in the early 1900s until the docent led us to the Campbell House mansion.
Amasa Campbell was an Ohio investor who struck silver and lead in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho. He was a wealthy, wealthy man, what today we'd call a one percenter, and his home was a public display of his riches. His wife, Grace, received callers every Tuesday, for only fifteen minutes at a time, in a gilded room near the entrance. Amasa had a Victorian-era man cave in the basement. There were suits of armor in the foyer, servants' quarters, red-flocked walls, and a dining room fireplace framed with blue and white Delft tiles.
Poppies positively littered several walls of the house, making one wonder if there was some sort of hidden meaning in the wallpaper, especially when learning the original was enhanced with flecks of glinting, gaudy mica.
Jim's dad remembered visiting the Campbell House when he was a child, but what he saw back then was very different. Amasa died in 1912, and after Grace passed away in 1924, their daughter, Helen, donated the home to the Eastern Washington State Historical Society.
As our docent told us, to them it wasn't an historic home; it was just a home, so they used it as a community museum to display items that, at the time, were historical, and that's what my father-in-law would have seen. Restoration to its original glory started in the mid-1980s, long after the Goodriches had left. Now the mansion is a telescope to its beginnings.
We made a brief stop at the Jundt Art Museum to ogle some Chihuly sculptures and paintings before visiting the Bing Crosby House. The crooner's boyhood home was filled with glass cases containing news clippings, posters, awards, gold records, and trophies. The museum prominently displayed Crosby's Oscar, and a child's jukebox sat on top of a table his grandfather had built.
After a quick lunch at Taco Time we tried another visit to the Spokane Valley Heritage Museum, which had been closed on our first attempt a couple days before. The Spanish Colonial brick and stucco building is an anomaly on Sprague Avenue, a busy four-lane street that had once been lined with apple orchards instead of strip malls.
Built in 1912 as the Opportunity Township Hall, it had been the center of government for that portion of the valley until Spokane County voted to disorganize the Township in 1974. The hall changed owners a few times, and then the Spokane Valley Legacy Foundation picked up the deed in 2004 for one dollar. The next year the National Register of Historic Places added the building to its rosters, and a few months after that the Spokane Valley Heritage Museum opened.
The museum is a passion project for Jayne Singleton. As she told me, she "let go of a good corporate job so she could do something great." It's small but mighty, and much of its strength is behind the scenes. They've got an extensive database with thousands of records, maps, and primary source documents. When we told her Jim's parents grew up nearby, she took us back to see the archivist. A quick search and she found a record for a J.A. Aeschliman, who must have been one of my mother-in-law's ancestors.
This thrilled Jayne to no end. She said her favorite part of running the museum is connecting visitors with the past, helping them to "reminisce, recall, and rejoice in all that came before us." A glass-fronted working telephone exchange tickled Jim's dad. "Have you ever seen one of those before?" he asked me, with wonder in his voice. "I haven't seen one in decades."
None of us expected much when we parked in the tiny lot next to the small building. Boy, were we wrong.
Royal Newton Riblet.
That's not a fancy barbecue dish made with figs, or a nickname for a baby prince or princess. That's the actual name of an inventor who built a house on a hill.
Royal. Newton. Riblet.
Our final stop for the day before returning to the cabin was a visit to the house of an eccentric inventor (because, with a name like that, of course he was an eccentric inventor). Riblet invented a square-wheel tractor, a pattern sprinkler system, and a mechanical parking garage, according to the brochure for Arbor Crest Wine Cellars.
The winery is located on Riblet's estate, a 1924 Italianate-style mansion built on a cliff overlooking the Spokane Valley. The inventor designed it himself and included such whimsical touches as a life-size checkerboard game, a croquet court that he'd transform into an ice skating rink in the winter, and a 6,000-gallon swimming pool carved out of the cliff. He married seven times (because, of course he did), and while he built a gate house, he was such a recluse that instead of housing a gatekeeper, he reserved it for the occasional guest.
It's the perfect spot for a winery.
We arrived about half an hour before the grounds closed for an outdoor concert, which gave us just enough time to check out the view. I grabbed a flight of wines and Jim and I sat in one of the outdoor areas while his parents walked around. The wines were worthy, but I expected that, since winemaker Kristina van Lӧben Sels whet her whistle at Ferrari-Carano Vineyards. It was a remarkable setting, but a cabin by a lake on the side of a mountain was calling.
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Anambra lawmakers, others raise alarm over erosion threat
Mr Chukwuka Ezenwune, a lawmaker representing Idemili South State Constituency in Anambra, has raised alarm over an erosion site which he said had claimed a section of a road at Uke in the state.
Ezenwune, in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria on Thursday at the erosion site, called for urgent government intervention to avoid disaster.
He said the call became imperative to avert loss of lives and property along the road linking Nkpor and Nnobi, Nnewi, Ekwulobia, Awka-Etiti towns and other communities in Anambra and Imo.
"This road is one of the busiest roads in the state. In fact, it is a by-pass to other communities in Anambra and Imo.
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"At this point, I don't advise any articulated vehicle to use this road because it has already caved into the second lane for incoming vehicles.
"If an urgent action is not taken, the erosion will bring untold hardship not only to the people of Idemili North and South Constituency, but to the entire people of the state.
"I am using this medium to send Save Our Soul to the state and Federal Government to save the road and avoid unnecessary deaths," he said.
He recalled that former Premier of Eastern region, Dr Michael Okpara and the governor of old Anambra, Chief Jim Nwobodo planted cashew and malaina trees during their era to control erosion in the area.
However, the lawmaker expressed concern that felling of the trees for construction structures, without proper flood and erosion channel control, were causing more damages to the area.
"Government should come up with a policy that nobody should erect structures or even start farming on places where it planted trees or constructed drains without its permission.
"For them to have uprooted the trees, caused erosion to be endemic in my constituency," he said.
He also appealed to the Federal Road Safety Corps to urgently put up sign posts to warn motorists of the danger ahead on the road, especially at night.
Also, Mr Gabriel Emenike, a motorist, who plies the road daily, described the erosion site as a "death trap."
"This is terrible. I saw this development two days ago and I was not impressed.
"If something is not done urgently before another big rainfall, I do not think people will be able to use the road again," he said.
For Mr Chidiebere Mkpuma, a horticulturalist near the site, said the continued use of the road without fixing the damages might result to accident and loss of lives.
"An articulated vehicle that tried to dodge the erosion site some days ago almost caused an accident but nobody died.
"The erosion site has been there for long but became worse due to the ongoing road and building constructions around here.
"A particular church used graders to push down some trees during demarcation which had been a wage controlling the erosion all the while," he said.
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Reports emerge of military vehicles arriving in town of Agadez as Gaddafi stronghold of Bani Walid braces for attack.
A large convoy of Libyan armoured vehicles has crossed into Niger, according to the Reuters news agency.
French and Niger military sources told the agency that the convoy, escorted by the Niger army, arrived in the northern desert town of Agadez on Monday.
The convoy contained between 200 and 250 military vehicles and included officers from Libya's southern army battalions, and likely crossed from Libya into Algeria before entering Niger, the sources said.
The Niger military source said many more Libyans, including pro-Gaddafi Tuareg fighters, had also crossed the border into the country seeking refuge.
The head of Gaddafi's security brigades, Mansour Dhao, along with more than 10 other Libyans, crossed into Niger on Sunday, two Niger officials said earlier on Monday.
Reports about the convoy entering Niger came as negotiations over the surrender of Gaddafi's stronghold, Bani Walid, appeared to have failed and an attack on the town seemed likely.
Two deadlines have passed and thousands of NTC fighters have massed outside the town, about 150km southeast of the Libyan capital, Tripoli.
Al Jazeera's Andrew Simmons, reporting from near the town, spoke to some of those who have tried to seal a deal with the Gaddafi loyalists inside.
"They say they want to go step by step, and negotiate with the various tribes around Bani Walid before moving in. They want to end this peacefully," he said.
"But the chances of this happening remain unclear, as Gaddafi forces remain inside the town. They have many civilians around them."
The message varies widely from negotiator to negotiator, with some sounding more optimistic than others.
At a military checkpoint about 60km north of the town on the road to the capital, Abdallah Kanshil, who is conducting talks for the interim government, said a peaceful handover of Bani Walid was imminent.
A day earlier, he had said peace talks broke down after Gaddafi loyalists insisted the fighters put down their weapons before entering Bani Walid.
But on Monday, Kanshil said: "The surrender of the city is imminent. It is a matter of avoiding civilian casualties. Some snipers have surrendered their weapons ... Our forces are ready."
Similar statements have been made for days, however. In any case, 20km closer to Bani Walid, NTC forces have built a field hospital and installed 10 volunteer doctors to prepare for the possibility that Gaddafi loyalists will not give up without a fight.
Negotiations also continued for the surrender of Sirte, Gaddafi's hometown in the east of the country.
Against this backdrop of continued conflict, David Cameron, the British prime minister, said an inquiry into his country's pursuit of terrorism suspects will examine new allegations about cozy ties between UK intelligence officials and the Gaddafi regime.
Files discovered among tens of thousands of papers collected from an External Security building in Tripoli show how Abdel-Hakim Belhaj, now Libya's rebel military commander, was targeted for rendition.
Belhaj, who was seized in Bangkok in 2004 and delivered to Tripoli, alleges that US and British intelligence planned his capture and were later involved in his interrogation.
He said Britain and its NATO allies would continue to implement UN Security Council resolutions for as long as they were needed to protect civilians. Britain was ready to extend the NATO mandate for as long as necessary, he said.
"We will not let up until the job is done," he said.
In another development, media reports on Monday suggested that Chinese arms firms had offered to sell weapons worth about $200m to Gaddafi's forces in July. While China's foreign ministry acknowledged that talks had taken place, it denied prior knowledge.


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US Elections 2020: Biden not making predictions on election outcome
Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden speaks to supporters in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on November 3, 2020. (AFP)
The Associated Press Wednesday 04 November 2020
Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden isn't making any predictions about the outcome of the election as the final hours of voting tick down.
Speaking to reporters Tuesday outside a Delaware community center, Biden said he's "superstitious" about offering predictions for election night but remains "hopeful." He says he's heard from aides that there's "overwhelming turnout" among young people, women and older Black adults in places like Georgia and Florida.
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He says, "The things that are happening bode well for the base that has been supporting me -- but we'll see." Still, he admitted, "It's just so uncertain" because of how many states are in play.
Biden also wouldn't commit to commenting on any results on election night, even if President Donald Trump weighs in on the vote. "If there's something to talk about tonight, I'll talk about it," Biden said. "If not, I'll wait till the votes are counted the next day."
Biden capped off a day of last-minute campaigning in his hometown of Scranton, Pennsylvania, and in Philadelphia with a couple of local stops in Wilmington, Delaware. He spoke to the CEO of a community center for teens and visited a pool where he worked as a teenager, closing out a day that began before the sun rose.
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Dr Cath Nichols (University of Leeds) seeks interviewer & writer to explore voice-hearing in Kei Miller's 'The Last Warner Woman'
by Hearing the Voice | Oct 18, 2013 | Uncategorized
Dr Cath Nichols (Lecturer in Creative Writing, University of Leeds) writes:
"I am putting together a literary disability studies book that will focus on practitioners of creative writing whose writing is informed by their experience and/or awareness of disability/ illness. The provisional title is: Hearts, Minds and Surprising Bodies: Writers in the British Isles Discuss Disability in their Work. The book is not yet commissioned but has received favourable interest and now needs further development. Six prose writers, seven poets and six theatre-makers have agreed to take part. Some are writing their own chapters but a few have asked to be interviewed. Kei Miller (based at Glasgow University) is one such writer requesting interview.
I anticipate that the interview chapter would explore hearing voices/ other states of being in Miller's novel The Last Warner Woman. In this book, the protagonist Adamine Bustamante grows up in Jamaica in a house of lepers and later joins a revivalist Christian group where she prophesies to great acclaim. But when she is sent to England to be the wife of a man she has not met, her gift is not understood. Her husband hates her and has her committed to an asylum. On her entry form under 'supposed cause' of illness or admission, is written 'of West Indian origin'. The book has an unusual structure and is also quite humorous. The Times described it as 'Poetic and totally original.'
I am looking for an interviewer and chapter writer with an interest in voices/ other realities and possibly a background in literary postcolonial research to undertake this chapter. If you might be interested in this task please send me an email explaining your interest. Thank you."


SKNVibes | Tourism - 1st Impressions Matter!
Tourism - 1st Impressions Matter!
BASSSETERRE, St. Kitts -- WITH VISITORS of every destination arriving at various times of the year and the day, and with some of their decisions for what they intend to do while visiting SKN not fully known or fixed, a Visitor's Center conveying information and allowing for an enjoyable visual may be influential as well a stimulant for favorable experiences while on the islands. Tourist information is a marketing tool. It derives a competitive advantage of what SKN has to offer.
An image of SKN—what it offers as a destination is heavily influenced by this 'at first glance' experience. Tourists like to access travel-related services not only in the pre-trip phase, but especially in the on-trip phase of the tourist lifecycle. A visitors center affords us an opportunity to design a persuasive and value-added experience.
In the absence of such a critical experience, it's likely that a visitor will formulate their opinion based on hotel staff and brochures provided at their hotel. Tours, leisure activities, places to eat, and places to visit are best conveyed in the context of national interests which overarch that of any single establishment or chance encounter. If we are to attract more event-based visits including seminars, nature and sea tours, sports competitions, and niche world-wide visits aimed at renewable energy and investment, then these brand positions would be prominent and persuasively conveyed within and in the environ of the our visitor's center.
The use of physical models, motion video, panoramic video storytelling, and interactive locator and event/restaurant booking kiosks shape a visitor's vision (and oftentimes memories) of one's journey. Motion video and image displays designed to convey our rich culture and history and aid in engaging visitors toward national brands and value is a necessity to reach this realm. The realm being that of delight and of feeling conscientious of being taking care of—not just as an afterthought—or like just 'any other' vacation stop.
A Visitor's Center is a commitment to a reality — tourism is not a one shot or one-time process that begins and ends when a visitor reaches St. Kitts and Nevis. In the tourism quality process, the information stage, which is usually one of the first real contacts a tourist to SKN will have, is of key importance for our regional and international competitiveness. Our visitor's center will provide the right communication and information at the point of entry and a satisfying first impression.
Visitor's Centers that are well-engineered creates and manages a whole interconnected and closely related system of services and influence established to elevate St. Kitts and Nevis' competitiveness within the Caribbean world.
What is the cost, and resulting ROI? For other brands and countries, the incremental ROI has been measured in the 100's of millions in economic impact, with plenty of case study to support this. Developing an experience center is an art and a science. It intricately connects to the marketing and PR process, including the tail end, or nurturing campaigns based on interest triggers and data gathered within the Center. Not to have one or an inadequate one is to not be performing as a nation rich with treasures—beauty, talent, and brains.