The Witcher, Wheel of Time… new Boba Fett Show

SciFi, Fantasy, comic based movies and the like are still ruling the screens  It is a good time to be entertained  

The Terminator - Missing Eyebrows

 Was fun to watch Terminator 2, then The Terminator (original) right after. There were so many little nods to the first like, the ripping off the steering column to hotwire the car vs. the kid showing him keys above the visor. 

Also interesting the 3 actors in The Terminator also in Aliens, like Lance Hendrickson. And the future scenes very reminiscent of Aliens… similar models or special effects artists/feel?? 

But one thing stands out as goofy. Arnold suddenly loses eyebrows (and gains prosthetics over his eyebrow area) halfway throuh the movie a little while before the eye cut scene. Maybe they thought it’d make him seem inhuman in a subtle way, but it was just weird for me. Did this influence all the Japanese bad guys not having eyebrows thing??? (Update, apparently the fire in an earlier scene burns off his eyebrows and shortens his hair. Reducing his humaness in parts and pieces as the movie goes on.) 

The Matrix (1999) influnced by Doctor Who, 1976

 The Tom Baker episode “The Deadly Assassin” has them fighting in a dream world virtual reality, in their minds, and are basically plugged into it via lying down on tables with mechanical things attached to their heads while asleep. The whole thing is controlled or relates to a vast system of computers in green metallic and just green backgrounds, rooms, cups, etc. They say “the matrix”... and according to wikipedia they say if you die in the matrix you die in real life   .  Wikipedia also saying this is probably the first virtual reality reference ever, as it applies to computers... way back in 1976  .

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matrix_(Doctor_Who)

Sword and Sorcery art

 http://www.castaliahouse.com/sword-and-sorcery-artists-manuel-sanjulian/

 

 

 

Red Sonja 1985 Movie, great backgrounds and sets

 https://www.cultcelebrities.com/red-sonja-1985/?unapproved=3848&moderation-hash=ab6f99bdc2de26d34da563ea42062cc7#comment-3848

 https://attackofthefeature.com/red-sonja-1985/ 

https://conan.fandom.com/wiki/Red_Sonja_(1985_movie)

http://www.yourstupidminds.com/2010/02/red-sonja-1985.html

The set backgrounds / set pieces are incredible in this movie. That giant stone skull-faced bull with the strange scaled monster beneath is a perfect example… I want to know what that place is. What do those statues represent. What is the scaled creature? In another scene there are giant abstract faces forming a wall. In others giant human statues or remnants of them, hugely thick stone walls, or massive temples of stone. It is all very inspiring and imaginative.

Pict from my TV, better shot of the weird head. It almost looks like a rooster but then it has 3 big horns on it's head and if that's not a bird beak on the bottom right it might be a tusk. In other shots during the scene there were some other giant tusks being shown... appeared to be from a stone colored head I think. This orange roostery head is probably not bird at all the more I think about it, scales, 4 feet, horns all over. A monster. And worth note, inside/under the bull, the orange skin was flapping around... so maybe this represents a killed monster that someone used as a wall for their camp under the bull. I would love to find out more about this whole thing, maybe it's in a Red Sonja book/comic somewhere. 

Close ups of RoosteryHead's horns and possible tusks: 

And this shot of the skeleton bridge ... this giant creature has 4 legs and a huge single horn. No telling what it is:

Godzilla vs Kong stuff

http://horror101withdrac.blogspot.com/2014/04/king-kong-vs-godzilla-1962-movie-review.html

https://citystompers1.tumblr.com/post/174030128482/king-kong-vs-godzilla-1962

 

And for the new 2021 movie, it was good that ***SPOILERS*** Godzilla won, because. Yet, he needed to get some good licks in on MechaG before he obviously let King Kong help out. I mean you know, because even though G was tired and whatnot, no way would he have lost to a robot. ;) 

 

D&D movie with Chris Pine, 2022

 Might be good. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2906216/?ref_=nm_flmg_dr_2

Proof why dinosaurs were huge or tiny

 Via this: https://www.sciencealert.com/teenage-t-rex-edged-out-smaller-dinosaur-species-says-study

 

 We Finally Know Why Dinosaurs Were Either Humongous or Tiny, Unlike Modern Animals
ISSAM AHMED, AFP
25 FEBRUARY 2021

A team of US scientists has demonstrated that the offspring of huge carnivorous dinosaurs like Tyrannosaurus rex, who grew from the size of house cats to towering monsters, reshaped their ecosystems by outcompeting smaller rival species.

Their study, published in the journal Science on Thursday, helps answer an enduring mystery about the 150-million-year rule of dinosaurs: why were there many more large species compared to small, which is the opposite of what we see in land animals today?

"Dinosaur communities were like shopping malls on a Saturday afternoon, jam-packed with teenagers," said Kat Schroeder, a graduate student at the University of New Mexico who led the research.

"They made up a significant portion of the individuals in a species and would have had a very real impact on the resources available in communities."

Even given the limitations of the fossil record, it's thought that overall, dinosaurs were not particularly diverse: there are only some 1,500 known species, compared to tens of thousands of modern mammalian and bird species.

What's more, across the entirety of the Mesozoic era, from 252 to 66 million years ago, there were relatively many more species of large bodied dinosaurs weighing 1,000 kilograms (a ton) compared to species weighing less than 60 kilograms (130 pounds).

Some scientists put forward the idea that since even the most gigantic dinosaurs begin life as tiny hatchlings, they could be using different resources as they were growing up - occupying the space in ecosystems where smaller species might otherwise flourish.

To test the theory, Schroeder and her colleagues examined data from fossil sites around the world, including over 550 dinosaur species, and organized the dinosaurs by whether they were herbivores or carnivores, as well as their sizes.

They discovered a striking gap in the presence of medium-sized carnivores in every community that had megatheropods, or giant predators like the T. rex.

"Very few carnivorous dinosaurs between 100-1,000 kilograms (200 pounds to one ton) exist in communities that have megatheropods," Schroeder said.

"And the juveniles of those megatheropods fit right into that space."
Treating juveniles as a species

The conclusion was supported by the way dinosaur diversity changed over time. Jurassic communities (200-145 million years ago) had smaller gaps and Cretaceous communities (145-65 million years ago) had large ones.

That's because Jurassic megatheropods teenagers were more like adults, and there was a wider variety of herbivorous long-necked sauropods (like the brachiosaurus) for them to prey on.

"The Cretaceous, on the other hand, is completely dominated by tyrannosaurs and abelisaurs, which change a lot as they grow," said Schroeder.

To mathematically test their theory, the team multiplied juvenile megatheropods' mass at given ages by how many were expected to survive each year, based on fossil records.

This statistical method, which effectively treated juveniles as their own species, neatly squared away the observed gaps of medium-sized carnivores.

Beyond helping resolve a longstanding question, the research shows the value of applying ecological considerations to dinosaurs, said Schroeder.

"I think we're shifting a little bit more towards understanding dinosaurs as animals as opposed to looking at dinosaurs as just cool rocks, which is where paleontology started and has been for a long time," she said.

Movie guy after my own heart

 https://orringrey.com/2016/02/12/split-second-1992/

https://orringrey.com/2016/04/26/3412/

https://orringrey.com/2012/10/26/im-in-the-goddamn-club-arent-i/

Split Second is a fun Rutger Hauer movie ... just watched  Lead me to this guy who grew up on Godzilla and monster movies and then discovered Aliens  Yep, A+  for his write-ups  

King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard

These crazy Australian dudes are so damn good. Seems that their album Nonagon Infinity put them on the map. It meqns something like tyhe 9 songs infinitely connect and then loop again from last song back to first song. As in song 1 thru 8 then song 9 then back to song 1. 

17 studio albums in 10 years?!!!! Cuh raze eey. 

 

Chappie from Appleseed

 Chappie movie antennas idea for emotion from old anime called Appleseed. The big cyborg guy. 

 

Sword and Sorcery B movies

 Beastmaster was always great (An ‘A’ movie?). I see the main guy is in a bunch of CGI dragon movies on prime  

Saw “Conquest” on Amazon prime. Early 1980s. Spanish. Very low budget, goofy fightscenes, but somehow charming. Felt like a bunch of 10 year old ideas mixed with adult sploitation influences. 

Hawk the Slayer is fun. 

Lovecraftness

 https://lovecraft.fandom.com/wiki/Cthulhu

https://lovecraft.fandom.com/wiki/Azathoth

https://lovecraft.fandom.com/wiki/Wilbur_Whateley

https://merzo.net/