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

On 4/22/2024 9:49 AM, anim8rfsk wrote:

Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net> wrote:

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

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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)
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 But was it any good? The Piper Perabo Rocky and Bullwinkle film was such a
disaster it cost me a lot of money.
 

Meh.  It wasn't horrible but it also wasn't great.  They tried real hard and came sorta close to the snarkiness of the original but fell a little short.  Honestly I can't remember why I had it in my Netflix queue in the first place, but that's true of a number of titles I buzz-sawed my way thru in the final months of Netflix DVD.

 

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).
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Quotes: "Every dog should have a boy."
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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)
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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 )

 Theme music up!
 Jackie Chan
Jackie Chan
Does whatever a Jackie can
Spins a web.
Any size
Catches thieves
Eat those guys
Hey wait!
Don’t do that Jackie Chan.
   

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.

 Because that’s a completely reasonable request
 

Sony refused, hence, the film was banned in the
country.
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