#I NEEDED JEFF GOLDBLUM WONDERFUL LIKE YESTERDAY

[tooth-com]

THEY CUT WONDERFUL?? THEY KEPT SENTIMENTAL MAN BUT THEY CUT WONDERFUL??!?

OUTRAGE

[wetookanoath]

Yesterday, I was wondering how this time they didn’t do a like Q&A for this season, but they disappoint me and did this out of fucking nowhere today. Thank you for my life, boys.

Look at them, I love them! They are so handsome!

Ghoul HQ, “you look like my parents trying to go live” true. Also love them accepting their dadness in this.

Today in Shane thinks weird ways to die are cool: Eaten By Birds.

The only camera man for them in my heart is TJ, so... “He’s a very... stoic man” “I’ve seen him smiling” “It looks like a struggle” LMAO.

I love Shane’s hair. And I love how fucking big Ryan’s arms are, I’m fucking dying, holy shit. Crush me in those biceps, sr.

“Ryan you have something on your teeth” OH YOU LIARS, also jdnsndskdmkdsdmkf. Shane realizing he is staying alone in the room, lmao. “LET’S HEAR YOUR BEST HOTDAGA QUESTIONS”, I love him.

HotDaga coming back this week, baby! Also, Shane saying “we’re back, baby” does a lot of things to me.

GUYS, stop asking them the same question. They have talked a lot about what their favorite location has been. Enough. But yaass, New Orleans has good jazz, check out their jazz.

These guys sure have a lot of Bad Food experiences during their trips, oh my god.

Well, I think it’s p obvious the story part of the show is writen down and the rest of it it’s... just what happen while they walk into location, Shane’s reactions are all real. Remember he knows shit about the case until he listens to Ryan’s script.

I kinda agree with Shane in this, “I woke up” stuff is kinda-- I don’t know. Also, I know some folks have been worried that others think Shane presents as disrespectful to people who believes, and this is a good time to say that he doesn’t and he is not. As said by him and supported by Ryan in this moment, he is not.

“And one of my fave characters is dead” oh my god, I’m sure they are talking about Infinity War, but these two-- oh my God, their faces just CHANGED. They are such dads, don’t do that to them, pals, they seriously care.

Ryan smiling at Shane live is the reason I wake up this morning it seems. Oh, look at Shane looking at Ryan, that’s the other reason I woke up today.

Every time I see Shane talking about videogames and Ryan going ?, all I can think about is @void-bee‘s fanart for the crack AU with Gamer Shane and Beauty Guru Ryan.

Heart Monitors and Shane goes immediately THAT’S A GOOD DIEA, he’s so excited-- freakin’ demon, you want us to see you seriously are just standing there humoring Ryan or what.

Guys, save me from this hell of getting Emotions out of the way Shane smirks while Ryan is saying he has gotten a little braver, and the way Ryan laughs about it while looking at Shane smirking, like... save me.

I love their laugh. I love seeing them laughing together.

A WHAT STOLE A BABY? Okay, I need to get from under my rock my often. Also, Shane going immediatelly to “that’s devastating” is such a mood.

The fact that they don’t know if TJ and the rest of their crew are boogaras or shaniacs is amazing, lmao. 

Ryan looking at Shane to confirm he agrees with him every single time is everything.

I love Shane’s jacket.

Hey guys, remember when we thought Shane was possessed but it turned out he had some bad food? Shane making fun of himself with the bad hotdogs story is such a mood, and the fact that Ryan will never let go of it it’s jdnsufdi. I love a friendship.

That’s a good quesiton, facebook person-- if Ryan would still be a skeptic if the toothpaste hadn’t fallen. But yeah-- I guess it was the whole trip that convinced him, that little thingy falling was just the cherry on top. Also-- the way turned on by itself? My english sucks today, it seems. I didn’t understand.

Shane talks about that day in the Queen Mary like if he was there and that’s... such Foolish Mortal mood. Also, I’m sure he knows Ryan’s pals by now, and that’s pretty cool, too.

Oh, God-- stop. The discourse is coming again, I can feel it. But also, the fact that these two seriously appreciate their co-worker should be enough for your people to shut up a little, holy shit.

Look at them roasting poor Steven and agreeing Andrew would be like :l all the time in location. How about you invited both to it? Please?

Bragging the boys with popcorn seems to be the answer to everything. Also, that story of Ryan looking at pictures of popcorn while with his friends, oh my God. How obssessed can you be? HOLY SHIT.

Space Invaders is a great movie, by the way. Is a lot of fun. It’s ridiculous, but fun.

Yeah, please bring in Jeff Goldblum. Can you imagine weird yet hot as fuck Goldblum with weird yet hot as fuck Shane? I want that.

I love the fact that Ryan doesn’t get scared with scary attractions and scary movies because all our fanfics are inacurate, so we need to start writing something else. But also-- it fuels that one headcanon, you all know which one I’m talking about 👀

Going again with looking at Shane to see if he agrees with what he’s saying. Mood.

“Yeah, I was. I feel comfortable to be out in the forest” he is, in fact, Bigfoot.

“Would you consider coming back to Mexico?” LOOOOOOK AT THE BEAUTIFULLLLL SIIIIGHT OF VALIDAAAATIOOOOOON. “Yeah, like go there-- I can touch, like, a bunch of my own culture.” LA VALIDACIÓOOOOON, ES TAN BUEEENAAAA. On your fucking ugly ass racist face, anons!

I love how much they hate the Island of the Dolls because I love that place so much, I feel so comfortable in that place and its story is resonates so much with me and the story of my cochina af city, it’s amazing. I’m gonna send me pictures of Alicia just to fuck with them.

Ryan confirming they do search for places where they can do more than the investigation, jdsnmknjdskmnj.

Can’t wait for this Post Mortem, seems like we are going to have a lot of things coming, dnsknfir. Included the Hotdaga, lmao.

PACKAGE!!!!!! What did you guys sent them now? I love you all.

They answered where they weren’t going to ever in the last live Q&A actually. Also, my boys respecting cultures and people’s struggles. I love them.

Glad you guys know how funny you look with all the gear you carry around. Also, WE NEED BEHIND THE SCENES OF THESE THINGS, COME ON. They need to do this at least ONCE, they must look Aesthetically Nice gearing up.

@ BuzzFeed give my mans money so they can keep travelling outside the USA.

Ah, the spirit box tweet. You guys say Ryan’s face is smug and therefore it must be real, but honestly? No, that’s not smug. He looks done. I’m even more sure than before that is bullshit. That “okay...”, yeah no-- it’s bullshit. Poor Ryan, save him from this demon.

We have hear the holy water story three times, guys... the same questions... ask other things, please.... Also, lmao, Father Thomas Mention(tm). Drink every time the boys mention Father Thomas in the Q&As.

“I hope we can get back in touch with him” “Yeah, I’m sure he is very disappointed in us” totally. I wonder if Father Thomas knows he is a meme in our fandom and recurrent character in fanfics?

Honestly, I’ll watch you two talk about shit for four hours straight if I could.

“It was good times, it was good times” it sure looked like it in the instastories.

They are such dads. I love them.

[amplesalty]

Independence Day: Resurgence (2016)

We will not go quietly into the night! We will not vanish without a fight! We’re going to live on!

In honour of the fact that yesterday was July the 4th, it felt appropriate to finally check out the sequel to the 1996 classic Independence Day. Not that I should really be honouring it considering my side lost in that particular exchange. Plus, as K-Pop stans on Twitter taught us: #allcountriesmatter

I remember thinking it was a bit strange that it took 20 years to get a sequel. I mean, the original was one of the highest grossing movies of the 1990’s (and still within the top 100 of all time) and featured the iconic image of the White House being blown to smithereens. There was a massive marketing push at the time with that scene featuring heavily and the nickname ‘ID4’ seemed to be everywhere. And whilst not exactly in line with the contents of those movies, its scenes of mass destruction helped continue the ongoing disaster movie trends and helped it kick on into the late 90’s and early 00’s with the likes of Twister, Dante’s Peak, Armageddon, Deep Impact and The Day After Tomorrow.

Of course the most notable part of that first movie is President Whitmore’s stirring speech that is rivalled perhaps only by the words of Colonel William F. Guile in Street Fighter as the most inspirational speeches in cinematic history. Even Gilbert Gottfried felt compelled to give his own reading to this glorious battle-cry.

The sequel leans quite heavily into this speech, with Whitmore’s words echoing out across the galaxy and being picked up by what seem to be brethren of the original attack force from 96, giving rise to the new invaders.

But Earth isn’t going to be a pushover this time around, we’ve been able to meld the alien technology from that first wave with our own, developing plasma weapons and even establishing a moon base with a giant frickin’ laser beam. It’s cool to see that technological leap and how humanity was able to learn from that event in a materialistic way. Plus, it provides a nice contrast later on in the film when the aliens wipe out all satellite communication and people are forced to go back to the old ways of radar and radio waves. There’s something amusing about people literally dusting off an old piece of equipment they found in a cupboard and it helps save the day.

If revisiting the speech wasn’t fan service enough, the movie really starts to wallow in it as it starts trotting out all the old faces, even if that’s only a painting in Will Smith’s case. Apparently he wanted too much money to sign on so his character was killed offscreen in a test flight back in the year 2007. Still, it’s high praise to have his picture hanging on the walls of the White House alongside Washington, Jefferson etc. We still get an ace pilot named Hiller though in the form of his son, whose old friend Patricia Whitmore, the former president’s daughter, is working in the White House. Her fiancé is out in space and has a bit of a rivalry with Hiller. I spent the whole movie thinking the actress who plays Patricia looked really familiar and it turns out she’s the girl from It Follows. These characters are a bit underdeveloped and it feels like they just drafted them up last minute as a replacement when they realised they couldn’t get Smith to come back, only apparently they knew for years that he wasn’t going to be involved so chalk it up to incompetency I guess.

As happily coincidental as it seems to have them just happen to have grown up and filled these crucial roles, it does save us from further movie padding from having to break off the story to go find out what happened to them. Like, there’s a good portion of the movie dedicated to Julius Levinson (Jeff Goldblum’s dad in the original) miraciously surviving the initial wave of this 2016 attack before meeting up with a bunch of kids that just spring up out of nowhere and their grand adventure to get to the safety of Area 51. Only, they still end up in danger when they get there and we have this whole scene of David trying to save them whilst also trying to co-ordinate the big fightback at the end of the movie. It just feels like these kids were inserted as a means of providing some sort of connection with the adults in the audience, as if they can’t sympathise with the fate of the entire planet so they have to give them a bunch of primary school kids to worry about instead.

Even Dr. Okun is back, seemingly from the dead! And he seems to have been Dumbledore’d because apparently he was gay this entire time? I don’t remember that from the first movie. I can only imagine the proverbial angry fist waving going on at the time of the release when the internet found out about this; ‘They’re ruining my childhood with this SJW bullshit!’. Being in a coma for 20 years doesn’t seem to be the hinderance you might think it would be because he’s up and about within minutes, running around marvelling at how the world has progressed and barking orders at people. Kinda lose a bit of your dignity in that when you’re still in your hospital gown with your arse hanging out mind you.

He does have a bit of a lasting effect from his close encounter from the first movie, remnants of the psychic connection to the aliens that is also lingering in President Whitmore and a new character, Dikembe Umbutu who is a African warlord who has been leading a groundfight with his troops against an outlier set of aliens who were able to land and survive the 96 invasion. There seems to be a bit of a wider ID4 canon through various novel releases so I wonder if any of those cover this African war, that might be interesting. I thought this whole psychic connection story might be going somewhere, like maybe the aliens might be able to control those individuals when they do invade and they might use it to sabotage some of Earth’s defences but no. Even President Whitmore starts out portrayed like he’s gone a bit crazy and that he’s barely able to function at times but he heals up pretty quick.

Either that or maybe the US General is in cahoots with the aliens somehow? I mean, he does end up being sworn in as acting President when the current President is killed along with her line of succession so he has benefited from it personally. I probably wouldn’t have had any thoughts like that though if it wasn’t for the fact that it’s William Fichtner playing him and he’s just a perennial bad guy.

That Umbutu guy is pretty badass though, runs around with a pair of big knives that he goes into close quarter combat with, cutting the aliens out of their suits and then chopping their heads off. Which ties in to an aspect of the movie that I liked, there’s much more hands on combat between the humans and the aliens in this movie. The first one obviously had a big focus on aerial combat, which is largely present here as well, but there’s a lot of ground combat as well which freshen things up a bit. There’s a section where the air troops are sent to attack the mothership and end up inside it, only for it’s defense mechanisms to ground them. It has this jungle/marshland vibe to it, like they have this whole habitable land with crops and stuff within the ship, and it leads to this section where a couple of the pilots are hiding beneath the water, sneaking around to avoid detection.

On the other hand though, I didn’t feel anywhere near the impeding level of threat of the first movie. The story is that the aliens are drilling into the Earth in order to harvest it’s molten core in order to fuel their systems before moving on to the next world, kinda like Galactus I think? Whilst this would lead to the destruction of the entire planet, it just felt more threatening when they had their ships stationed over all the major cities of the world. Plus, it feels like they’re more content on their drilling operation than actually engaging in any fights with humanity which leads to a lot of scenes where people are just standing around not really doing anything. It seems at odds with the introduction to the movie as well where the initial attackers distress beacon is sent out, that would imply they’re calling for reinforcements but now it just seems like they were just going to come and steal our shit anyway? Or maybe they just consider us vastly inferior that it’s not even worth the effort. Pretty dismissive considering we wrecked you last time out.

That’s not to discount some of the special effects on show, the movie is bookended by big action scenes that are a particular highlight. The invading mothership is said to be so big that it has it’s own gravitation field leads to a really cool visual of our heroes trying to navigate their ship through a skyline littered with buildings, cargo ships and jumbo jets.

The finale with the alien Queen attacking Area 51 is really cool as well. You’ve got this massive alien rampaging through the desert, controlling all the alien fighters around her like a swarm. I think all the sheer size and all the tentacles lend it a bit of a Cthulu vibe.

Absolutely massive amount of sequel baiting at the very end though which doesn’t look like it will ever be fulfilled. It did take us 20 years to get this one but they seem to have had ideas to make a trilogy of sequels in fairly quick succession but the critical and financial failures of this one means it’s looking kinda dead in the water at this point. It still grossed some $390m against a production budget of $165m but you’ve probably gotta factor in a fairly sizable marketing budget that will really eat into that margin.

It’s a bit of a shame,  I would have been interested in the series continuing as I personally found this enjoyable in spite of some the issues I have with it’s run time, bloated cast list and inadequate replacements for the charm and energy that Will Smith brought to the original. Trim off some of the fat and it would have made things a lot smoother. Did we really need to know what Mrs Hiller was up to 20 years on? I think just about the only character we didn’t revisit from that movie was their dog. I guess Boomer will not live.