Re: What Did You Watch? 2024-04-21 (Sunday)

On 4/22/2024 6:27 AM, Ian J. Ball wrote:

 What did you watch?
 

Mr. Peabody & Sherman (Netflix disc rip)
"Sherman, a young boy, misuses a time machine made by his scientist father Mr. Peabody and causes the world history to go haywire. It is now up to Mr. Peabody to rescue his son and the world."  (IMDb)
Time Traveling Trivia!
The stuffed animal with which Sherman sleeps is Dudley Do-Right's horse from another division of the Bullwinkleverse.
WABAC stands for Wavelength Acceleration Bi-directional Asynchronous Controller. This is a nod to the early INIAC and UNIVAC computers. While obviously being a reworking of the term "way back", the fancier meaning was added when a viewer (being devoid of imagination) wanted to know what "WABAC" meant.  This term has entered the common lexicon. One example is a WABAC-named website devoted to providing nostalgic content for baby boomers.
Allison Janney, the voice of Ms. Grunion was born on 19 November 1959, the day when The Bullwinkle Show (1959) debuted on television.
Much of the irreverence in this film is a direct reflection of the original irreverence that permeated the various sub-shows within The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show, which included Peabody episodes. The creator / producer Jay Ward would sometimes get in trouble because of this. For one example, Bullwinkle tells the viewers to make sure to tune in next time, advising them to make sure of this by gluing down the channel knobs on their TV sets. A number of TV sets were destroyed by kid due to this.
Just before the end credits, as the Trojan Horse is being pulled off-screen, it is followed fittingly by the mustachioed little street cleaner from the "parade" title sequence of the first Peabody's Improbable History (1959) cartoons.
The glass monitors on the hallway to the WABAC hangar (and some of the controls inside the WABAC) have symbols similar to the Gallifreyan symbols seen in Doctor Who (2005).
Quotes: "Every dog should have a boy."
Spider-Man: No Way Home (DVR)
"With Spider-Man's identity now revealed, Peter asks Doctor Strange for help. When a spell goes wrong, dangerous foes from other worlds start to appear, forcing Peter to discover what it truly means to be Spider-Man."   (IMDb)
Spider-Trivia!
Benedict Cumberbatch admitted to not reading the full script, wanting to surprise himself with the final product.
J.K. Simmons had enjoyed playing J. Jonah Jameson in Sam Raimi's Spider-Man Trilogy, and admitted to being heartbroken that he wouldn't be able to revisit the character in a fourth movie. Naturally, when Marvel approached him to reprise his role in Spider-Man: Far from Home (2019)'s stinger and this film, he jumped at the chance. Simmons also expressed excitement in adapting Jameson to the modern-day era, describing him more as a media blowhard than a newspaper editor. To make up for the fact that his character was now bald, Simmons insisted on keeping Jameson's cigar and mustache for this film, due to wanting to have some aspects from his portrayal in Sam Raimi's trilogy to carry over in the MCU.
Tom Holland helped to save this movie from cancellation by forcing renegotiations between Sony and Disney. Under the terms of the new deal, not only does this movie still take place within the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU), but Spider-Man can also appear in future MCU movies, as well as Sony's own Spider-Man franchise.
According to Zendaya and Tom Holland, Willem Dafoe's portrayal of the Green Goblin in this movie genuinely frightened everyone on-set, making the characters' reactions to the Goblin's appearance in the actual film all the more real.
Willem Dafoe went to the premiere wearing a green face mask.  (There's "method acting" and there's "METHOD acting".  :P )
According to VFX Supervisor Kelly Port, there are only 80 shots that don't have any visual effects in the entire film.  (Is this where someone compares Spider-Man to Jackie Chan?  :P )
One of the film's working titles was "Serenity Now".
Immediately after filming his scenes for this film in Atlanta, Benedict Cumberbatch returned to London to make Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness (2022).  (Which I also have on my DVR.)
Some people wondered if the film would be shown in China. It was stated that in order for the film to be released in China, the scenes concerning Dr. Strange and magic had to be removed. Furthermore, China supposedly wanted the latter half of the film to take place solely on the Statue of Liberty. Sony refused, hence, the film was banned in the country.
What Did You Watch?
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