HEY, RELAX.

Dark Phoenix was not great, or good to be honest, it was okay. However, it was not deserving of the extremely low ratings it received its first week in the box office. The movie had a simple, easy to follow story line and quite frankly it had infinitely less plot holes then Endgame. Don’t deny the truth.

Maybe my lack of hostility towards the film stems from the fact that I entered the theater after reading several terrible reviews and expected it to be way worse than it was. Or maybe it stems from the fact that I was already expecting to be disappointed because many films and tv shows (Endgame and Game of Thrones) have already disappointed me this year. Either way I knew three things were definitely going on my way to my seat. First, all X-Men (especially Cyclops and Storm) would be extremely underutilized. Second, similar to the last two films Magneto, Mystique, Beast and Professor X have lived for decades and will not age a single day. (I need some of whatever they’re on.) Lastly, I watched The Last Stand and much like everyone else i was not impressed.

ALMOST IS NEVER ENOUGH

Getting into what actually surprised me, I will start with the utter disrespect and lack of humanity for Professor X. His character attributes, character development, and respect for him as the founder of the school and the X-Men were missing in action. I’m not going to give any spoilers in this review but there was one scene involving Professor X and the so-called ‘Dark Phoenix’ that made me sick to my stomach. As villainous as he is, Magneto would never.

Every single on of the action scenes were predictable and anti-climactic. Just as quickly as they began, they ended. In every scene of the movie I would get excited because i just knew an awesome mutant fight scene was about to erupt and somehow that excitement was always cut short. I just needed more from the action scenes.

Hate to say it but The Last Stand did a much better job at portraying Jean’s transformation into Phoenix. Don’t get me wrong, Dark Phoenix was much better as a film but it was unclear what was causing Jean to transform. Was it the power she was exposed to, her emotions, or did she have a split personality? It was as if she was experiencing a combination of all three. Is that the answer? The world may never know.  In The Last Stand at least it was made clear that Jean’s split personality was causing her to act rashly. The writing for Jean’s character was extremely inconsistent, as if they assigned a different writer for Jean per act.

The new species introduced in this film were completely overpowered and I have an extremely large pile of questions. How can one species be able to shape shift, hold a healing factor, be bulletproof (but only for smaller bullets), and have super strength? It looks like a lot but that’s honestly just one of my questions. I don’t even think I named all of their abilities. It was ridiculous.

COULD’VE – SHOULD’VE – WOULD’VE

Redeeming qualities for this film start and end with Michael Fassbender. Just kidding. He had 3 lines. CGI and special effects get 10 stars. The cast is full of extremely talented actors and actresses. I truly believe they did the best with what they were given. Honestly, the film wasn’t that bad. As I mentioned earlier, the story line is simple and if we spent some time cleaning up the plot holes and fixing some irregularities with the characters we could’ve had a hit on our hands.

I wish the X-Men series created by FOX could have gone out with a bang but that’s just not what we were given. I’d say we got the sound sparklers make on the Fourth of July when children run around with them, not the cricket noises the rest of the critics heard. I hope Marvel takes their time and gives the X-Men fans exactly what they’ve been waiting for. Maybe they’ll find the new Hugh Jackman. Or they’ll probably use their de-aging tech because everyone is so picky.

Love, Love, Love,
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Way back in the stone age of 1992, the Japanese Super Sentai series (which is basically a show filled with a bunch of superhero teams) decided to release the Kyōryū Sentai Zyuranger series. One year later, FOX adapted the Zyuranger series into the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers (MMPR) and the show aired new episodes from 1993 to 1996.

In 1995, the beloved Mighty Morphin Power Rangers:The Movie premiered. In 1996, Mighy Morphin Alien Rangers and Power Rangers Zeo aired.Although FOX stopped making new episodes in 1996, they still broadcasted the show until 2001, which allowed kids who grew up with show re-watch their favorite episodes and it allowed kids of the new generation to experience the Power Rangers in action for the very first time. In 1997 Power Rangers Turbo aired aand in 1997 Turbo: A Power Rangers Movie was released, but we never talk about it. Ever.

In 1998, Power Rangers In Space was a thing. Personally, my favorite episode that spawned out of that series was the “Shell Shocked” episode which was a crossover episode with the “heroes in a half shell” from the Ninja Turtle: The Next Mutation series. Combining the world’s favorite human teenage heroes and the world’s favorite turtle teenage heroes in one episode was pure genius.

Power Rangers Lightspeed Rescue came out in 2000 and Power Rangers Time Force came out in 2001. The Walt Disney Company also purchased the franchise from Saban Entertainment in 2001 and continued the series with Power Rangers Wild Force in 2002, Ninja Storm in 2003, Dino Thunder in 2004, S.P.D. in 2005, Mystic Force in 2006, Operation Overdrive in 2007, Jungle Fury in 2008, and RPM in 2009. Disney went through a few studio and channel changes but continued to air the show until 2009, but did not air every single episode due to the lack of education in select episodes. Power Rangers RPM was declared as the last Power Rangers series, but that didn’t last long because the fans wanted their heroes back, so Disney decided to re-air the (MMPR) series in January 2010.

In May 2010, Haim Saban bought the franchise back from Disney and Saban’s Power Rangers Samurai began airing on Nickelodeon in 2011 and Super Samurai in 2012. In addition to the 2012 streak, The CW aired Power Rangers Lost Galaxy. In 2013 for the franchise’s 20th anniversary, Nickelodeon aired Power Rangers Megaforce, which featured Rangers from the past series’. Also in 2013, the MMPR series aired during The 90’s Are All That’s Mighty Morphin Weekend. What good would a Mighty Morphin Weekend be without the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers? Then the Super Megaforce came out in 2014. Nickelodeon also aired Power Rangers Dino Charge in 2015 and then in 2016 Dino Super Charge was released. Just like Pokémon, every generation of kids got a new Power Rangers series. So what’s in store for 2017? Well I suppose they’re a bit overdue for a new movie…

BAM. 20  years after their flop with the unmentioned second movie, a third movie rises up out of the ashes. Our “mighty morphin” heroes are finally back in theaters. The new movie is obviously poking at our childhood, and hopefully if they do a decent job the “inner nostalgia bear”-critic in me won’t have to complain about it. The new film is directed by Dean Israelite who also directed Project Almanac. The film is basically a reboot and will share a lot of the same features and elements that the fans have grown to love. Basically Zordon, who is a wise galactic sage, chose five high school kids who live in Angel Grove must join together as the Power Rangers. Zack, Kimberly, Billy, Trini, and Jason must defeat the alien threat led by Rita Repulsa, who is an evil humanoid alien witch that seeks out for galactic domination. Wow those names sure do look familiar, don’t they? Well, the names are literally straight from the MMPR series.

In the original series, David Fielding played Zordon of Eltar, Soga Machiko played Rita Repulsa, Austin St. John played Jason Lee Scott, Amy Jo Johnson played Kimberly Ann Hart, David Yost played Billy Cranston, Thuy Trang played Trini Kwan, and Walter Jones played Zack Taylor.

In the new movie, the actors and actresses of the respective roles will be played by Bryan Cranston, Elizabeth Banks, Dacre Montgomery, Naomi Scott, RJ Cyler, Becky G, and Ludi Lin. So far, so good Israelite. OH! Also a new Power Rangers series called Ninja Steel is coming soon, so be on the lookout for that as well.

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Agent Carter ran for two seasons but has not been renewed for a third. The series followed the secret exploits of Peggy Carter, Captain America’s love interest from the first film starring Chris Evans.  Actress Hayley Atwell, reprised her role from the film, working along with other agents to keep America safe during the infancy of SHIELD.

Also not being picked up is Marvel’s Most Wanted. Starring Adrianne Palicki and Nick Blood as the lead characters,  Bobbi Morse and Lance Hunter respectively, Marvel’s Most Wanted was a promising series. The premise of the show entailed the two stars  being on the run from numerous bounty hunters. Delroy Lindo  was set to play Howard Chaykin’s  character Dominic Fortune, the world adventurer, in this series as well. It is the second time Marvel’s Most Wanted was passed by ABC which, like Marvel Comics, is owned by parent company Disney. Adrianne Palicki was set to star as Wonder Woman a few years ago. NBC decided not to pick up the pilot although it was filmed.

NBC cancelled the highly anticipated Constantine who has been resurrected on the CW Network on Arrow and may be picked up as a series again on CW according to some sources. Reruns of Constantine can be seen on the El-Rey network. CBS has decided not to renew its contract with Supergirl, who is now flying over to the CW. You can look forward to several crossovers on that network now that Supergirl will be the fourth series on the CW starring DC characters.

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He accuses the people supporting Donald Trump of being racists and that media promotes the message for ratings. When called out on it by one of the commentators, he back tracked a bit and said it was some of the people and not all.  Reiner conveniently overlooked the fact that Hillary Clinton has called young black people “super-predators” and that she, just a few days ago, said that Donald Trump “fell off the reservation”.  She recently  laughed along with NYC Mayor Bill De Blasio’s racist joke about being late because he was on “colored people time”. He was quick enough to talk about people in the KKK allegedly supporting Trump but he conveniently forgot how she was a good friend of Senator Robert Byrd, a leader in the KKK, who was eulogized at his funeral by none other than President Barack Obama himself.

Do Democrats like Reiner even know the history of the Democrat Party? That during the Civil War, every Democrat state sided with the South. That the Democrats created the KKK. That  Democrats voted to repeal the 1st Amendment and they voted against the 13th, 14th, & 15th Amendments? That they were against the Civil Rights acts in the 1960s and that they were behind the Jim Crow laws; yet Democrat political activist Rob “Meathead” Reiner could not recall any of that. He could only remember that some guy showed up at a Trump rally with a tattoo bearing a swastika. He did not have a picture nor a clip of that man in his allegation.

Rob Reiner’s father is Carl Reiner. Carl Reiner was one of the biggest names in television for decades. As an actor/writer/director/producer he found success on television like “The Dick Van Dyke” show and  in comedy films such as “The Russians Are Coming! The Russians Are Coming!” and  the Steve Martin vehicle “Dead Men Don’t Wear Plaid”. If it wasn’t for ratings his father would not have had a job nor the $ucce$$ he had. Rob Reiner followed in his dad’s footsteps, becoming an actor, a writer, a director, and a  producer. His films include the hits, “Stand By Me”, “When Harry Met Sally”, “A Few Good Men”, “Misery”, “The Princess Bride”, and “This is Spinal Tap”. Prior to these films, he himself was on a huge hit show for years called “All in The Family”.

On “All in The Family” he played Michael Stivic, the liberal son-in-law of  Carroll O’Connor’s bigoted yet lovable curmudgeon Archie Bunker, the lead character of the show who went on to have his own show called “Archie’s Place”. The irony of Rob Reiner’s accusation is that for years he was on a show that would not be on the air today because of its controversial episodes and dialogue. The show would be deemed racist today because it explored racism, used the “N” word often, and brought attention to other social, political, and economic issues. That’s what being politically incorrect does. It brings attention to issues and it creates dialogue to address these issues. Shutting people up with political correctness and shaming them with guilt that they are not guilty of is not the way to solve things. By the way, it was a high rated that won a lot of Emmys and spawned spin-offs like the aforementioned “Archie’s Place”, “Maude” and “The Jeffersons” (another hit show that was just as funny as its parent show and just as politically incorrect).

From 1971-1981 Rob Reiner was married to Penny Marshall, sister of another big name in television Garry Marshall . In that time period, Garry Marshall  was the show-runner of such shows as “The Odd Couple”, “Happy Days”, and a few spin-offs from “Happy Days” like “Laverne & Shirley”, “Joanie Loves Chachi” and “Mork & Mindy”. Ms. Marshall portrayed sportswriter Oscar Madison’s secretary on “The Odd Couple” and in one episode, Rob Reiner played her boyfriend. She played Laverne DeFazio on “Happy Days” and played her again in “Laverne & Shirley”. Most of these shows explored social issues and would probably be accused of political incorrectness today. All of these shows were hit shows (except for “Joanie Loves Chachi”). Ratings made them hits, ratings made a lot of people money, from the people on the show to the television networks and the advertisers.

Ratings do that. That’s how revenue is generated. No ratings? No show! No audience? No show. No show? NO MONEY. Even the news stations know that, which is why news programs around the world sensationalize news items and the people viewing it fall for it, hook, line, and sinker.

Last month was the first time in 14 years that CNN beat FOX overall. Why; because Donald Trump refused to go on Fox after the way some of its employees (i.e. Megyn Kelly) treated him. Trump boycotted Fox and went on CNN. CNN even did a special on him recently that aired prior to the Republican Debate that same night. Why? RATING$. Although CNN finally beat FOX (again, because of Trump) Fox Business News was the highest rated, beating MSNBC and other channels. People turn in when Trump is on more so than when Hillary Clinton is on or when President Obama is on. Hillary doesn’t get that attention THE Donald does. The media knows it.  He gets the views. FOX has learned its lesson. They are negotiating with the Trump camp to have Megyn Kelly interview the eventual Republican candidate for president in a FOX special. Donald Trump sells out arenas, where Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders supporters show up to cause trouble. None of Reiner’s alleged “Trump racist supporters” have done that at a Hillary or a Sanders rally. Hillary Clinton barely gets people to show up for her at airports as it is.

 
So yes MEATHEAD–it’s all about the ratings!

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Actors Gillian Anderson and David Duchovny have reprised their iconic roles of FBI agents Scully and Mulder of the  The X-Files. The classic series was about paranormal phenomenon and conspiracies and it aired from 1993 to 2002. It spawned a failed spinoff, The Lone Gunmen, and two theatrical films.

The reunited Anderson and Duchovny will star in a 6 part miniseries that will air on FOX starting this Sunday evening, January 24, 2016. The Sunday episode will be part one of a two part episode, with the second episode airing on FOX the next day, Monday the 25th of January, 2016.

Also returning is show runner Chris Carter, the creator of this multi-Emmy winning award series. How have the characters changed? How has the show changed? Will the new limited series have ratings close to the numbers it had when it was a powerhouse to warrant additional seasons?

Tune in Sunday night to find out. Check your local listings for time.

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