Tuesday, December 31, 2019

What a crazy decade this has been! a little bit before this decade I started training to be a pro wrestler and began filming my first full-length film as a director but neither was finished till this decade. My film the boys (now completed) featured me as the legendary serial killer known as The Angel. it featured Mister Lobo and Ernie fossilise .
After training for what seemed like forever I finally got to wrestle in the ring. I gained four title wins across 3 promotions.
I also did a cross over comic with Steve Crompton available on Amazon. unfortunately, this decade was also rife with tragedy as my grandparents passed away.
Let us come together and have more zany adventures this new decade!

Tuesday, December 24, 2019

Cats

Coming into this film I loved musicals, movies, Andrew loyd Webber and the feline species after this film you may hate all those things. Hitting the theaters at the most inopportune time comes the Hollywood Adaptation of the musical Cats, Itself an adaptation of a collection of T.S Eliot short stories. Before the release of this film, I always assumed Cats was a beloved classic of stage, In actuality , It's always been a bit divisive people either love or hate it. My younger sister and I would often watch the 1998 Film version on Pbs and had perused through Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats by T. S. Eliot, so I had a passing familiarity with the source material but that did not prepare me for the nightmare my mortal soul would face this day at the theater. Cats is a nightmare Howard P. Lovecraft may have had after reading too much Doctor Suess. The film hit theaters as a huge flop (so far making only 12 million against it's nearly 100 million dollar budget ) a big part of it was poor timing as it was released right after Frozen 2 and against Star Wars: Rise Of Skywalker. Frozen Itself a musical with a huge fan-base one wonders how the person who decided to release the film during the run of frozen 2 wasn't fired. Yet, even if the timing of its release was better the film would still have the unfortunate distinction of being the worst film to run in theaters of two different decades (!) as it's December release will have it running in the last year of 0f the 2010s and the first year of the 2020s. From the opening scene onward the Special Effects took us headlong right Into Uncanny Valley territory. The first number is Almost acceptable other than the camera shots right up and through the perfectly separated and lovingly rendered ass cheeks of semi-CGI Cat Men. We are introduced to Victoria an abandoned kitten who lands up in the turf of The Jellicle Cats. The term Jellicle Cats has confused many film-goers and reviewers , It's the name of their weird cat suicide cult. Yup, the whole film is about a teenage girl getting recruited into a charismatic suicide cult. The members gather once a year under a full moon for a Musical competition where the winner is selected by the Leader to die by being sent to the Heaviside Layer in a hot-air balloon. Quick note: The Heaviside layer is in the Earth's upper atmosphere traveling there as a cat in such a manner I'm pretty sure would be the death of the hot air balloon traveling cat. After quickly dropping this info on us and giving many viewers no time to process this the film we jump to the most surreal nightmare fuel ever rendered onto the silver screen. We're introduced to a classist house cat portrayed by Rebel Wilson. Rebel Wilsons Character Jenny Everydots proceeds to break into dance number where she removes her skin or maybe some other poor cat skin she took to wear . She then forces Fat mice with human children's faces and cockroach people to dance for her for not being employed and if they don't live up to her standards she eats them! This isn't towards the middle of the film this is in the first fifteen minutes . You have to build up to this type of madness! I honestly almost vomited in this scene. I'm not going to break down the plot of the whole film but there is so much bad in the film that I could write a novel-length entry for each film. The Cats looking like cheap fur-covered blow-dolls with their constantly overly sexual gyrating are in no way arousing or appealing instead they're distracting and nauseating. Reaction shots seem to be chosen at random and have no connection to what's actually being reacted to! The female lead Victoria played by Franchesca Hayden constantly makes faces that seem right out of an erotic manga compounded by the fact that her voice sounds like that of a small child and her form is that of a CGI anime cat girl sex doll one is left deeply confused on how you are supposed to feel about this character, nay, the whole film. The film doesn't just have an inconsistent tone it seems to be completely tone-deaf. Sometimes the film builds up like something frightening will happen then nothing happens. Strange shaky go pro style filming that makes you think characters are being pursued when again nothing is happening. You would think this film was made by Tobe Hooper the director of Texas Chainsaw Massacre and not Tom Hopper the director of Les Misérables. The cats constantly change size, sometimes they're human sized, sometimes cat-sized sometimes 2 inches tall. A male cat sprays magic milk on to the female cats as they lay on their backs erotically smiling as it hits their faces whilst he is singing of his curious nature. Taylor Swift sprays magic cat piss/ catnip on to the other cats in a golden shower scene. Who is this film for? children? adults? furries? It's definitely not for everyone. The oddest thing is this musical has all the things wrong with it that people say about the modern big-budget films have wrong . Non-nonsensical plots , a waste of award-winning actors, an overblown budget and a reliance on CGI special effects. Is this what they call Irony? I don't know as I don't own a thesaurus. Judi Dench is actually incredible in the film as well as Jenifer Hudson and Ian Mckellen. Idris Elba is a perfect Macavity. To be fair, all the performers poured their hearts and souls into this film but it wasn't enough to save it. Even Franchesca Hayden the film's lead did a good job it just wasn't a good film for general audiences. This wasn't something that should not have had such a big budget and the film seemed to have no clear direction. Reaction shots have no real connection to anything and it almost seems as the poor editor had no idea what was happening in this film, perhaps, he was driven into madness like a Lovecraftian character glimpsing things beyond this realm? It relies too much on the audiences familiarity with the Stage production. The Studio assumes that Cats is as popular as Captain America or Phantom of the opera, what they like to call presold franchises. Phantom of the opera was also made int a musical by Andrew Loyd Webber and then a film. The thing about the phantom is everyone knows that character and story from thousands of other versions and parodies. He's a character loved by book readers, Horror fans and theater nerds alike. He's able to bring multiple fandoms under one banner something cats didn't really have going for it but I could be wrong maybe it'll bring together such diverse fans as Furries, b-movie lovers and Musical theater geeks. I do feel like this will be the new generation's Rocky Horror Or Plan Nine.

Monday, August 29, 2016

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Monday, December 17, 2012

time moves to quick

It seems like yesterday that it was the 1980s/early 1990s and I was chugging slimmers Hi-c Ecto coolers with my friends while running around pretending to be He-Man ,

with a stick for my sword

and a trash can lid for a shield My grand parents yard the landscape of ancient eternia…. Jump forward several years and there is no longer hi-c Ecto cooler yet

i’m still pretendi

ng to be he-man ,wrestling other pretend He-men in mock combat at the local wrestling gym . times change but certain things remain.

I've been and done so much in my relatively short life I've been on TV ,Made comic books, been in movies , on radio ,slept with more women than i can count been interviewed in news papers and magazines . Life has been good but i still haven’t done enough still haven’t proved what i can do ,still haven’t shown the world what I’m capable of.

I've attained a level of local fame (perhaps infamy ) in my home town . people recognize me on the street that I've never met it’s not enough it’s never enough .

time is passing by and every day i fear it’ll run out , that the word will never properly acknowledge my greatness .Wannabes waste my time with with make believe scenarios, projects that will never happen and second hand goals while i go out and achieve my dreams but time I can not beat and death shall eventually be my defeat.

I met up with a female friend the other day at her college . She’s young and she’s some what attractive and smart as can be , I think she might be one of my best friends . We decide to go to the mall while there I saw our reflection in the mirror . I instantly got overwhelmingly depressed . I thought to my self I must look so old to her . I used to be handsome not model handsome or movie star handsome but a pretty good looking guy . I’m not that old still under thirty just beginning life really but it was another reminder of how time is catching up to me . My nose is bigger , my teeth no longer gleam ,crows feet ,and I’ve a slight double chin

this isn’t the Chris i remember just a stranger looking at me from the mirror . life is passing me ….

after wards i hit the gym this guy beating me good… welts cover my chest i do not notice or care… pain is a welcome old friend who reminds me of my child hood . I’m becoming more and more detached .

Long ago I accepted that to achieve my goals that i’d have to neglect my personal relationships . I would not have time for friends ,family or lovers(maybe time for love making ) .

I decided I’d never have children or be married i would just chase the dreams of my child hood . In this time I've dated literally hundreds of women I can not say

I was emotionally close to any of them . I remember a girl that for the summer all we did was make love and eat ice cream .How i miss my youthful exuberance .

I remember each girls kiss , the warmth of their hands ,the shape of their bodies, the way the smelled so vividly even if now their names escape me but not one was i ever in love with .

It use to worry me that i had never fallen in love , most people have their first loves when barely out of elementary school . I’d lay awake at night

wondering why i seemed incapable of romantic feelings if something was wrong with me i often wonder if i can make real emotional connections to any one . I still wonder but a new question has arisen why has no one ever been in love with me ? sure girls have been attracted to me even liked me but never been in love with me . with two and a half decades of existence shouldn't some one have been ?

I’m a handsome , hard working ,athletic and Accomplished young man who knows how to get money . have i sacrificed my personal relationships for more material goods only to be left an empty soulless husk of a man ? no friends, no family , no lovers and no one to pass on the perguidi name ? has time finally ran out ……… or do i perhaps have some greater destiny ahead of me only time will tell