Daibhid's Journal

So,apparently, this is what happens if I work on the TV Tropes page You Mean Xmas and listen to Mitch Benn's Christmas album within close succession...

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I've been debating whether or not this is worth doing, but I've got some time on my hands[1], so why not? (I may even write up last year's Fringe at some point.) So, yeah, here are the bulletpoint synopses of all the movie posts I never made. I have more to say about some of them than others.

Guardians of the Galaxy vol. 2
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Wonder Woman
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Spider-Man: Homecoming
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Thor: Ragnarok
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Justice League
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Star Wars: The Last Jedi
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[1]After nearly a year of taking the minimum amount of leave necessary for my trips to Edinburgh and so on, I was suddenly told on Monday that I needed to use it all up before my apprenticeship ended. So I'm off Wed-Fri this week, then back next week because it's our last tutor visit, then two weeks off, then back for the last week. And after that, who knows?

Epic.
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I saw two films in the last week, and enjoyed one of them a lot more than the other. MASSIVE SPOILERS for both.

( Batman vs Superman Dawn of Justice )

( Zootropolis )

Yeah, okay, so it's just all going in one big post. As ever, spoilers ahead. Lets do this.

( Husbands of River Song )

( Star Wars: The Force Awakens )

( Dickensian )

( The Abominable Bride )

That was really good!
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(Contains very mild spoilers for Muppets Most Wanted; nothing you wouldn't pick up from the basics of the pre-publicity so far.)

So I've just learnt that back when The Muppets was still a vague idea Jason Segel had for a film called The Greatest Muppet Movie Of All Time!, Ain't It Cool got hold of a script. And one of the concepts that didn't make it into the film we eventually saw was "Ms. Piggy ends up in jail. In the cell next to her is Charles Grodin, still incarcerated after The Great Muppet Caper."

Now I can think of two reasons that scene didn't make it in. 1) The whole "Piggy in jail" storyline, whatever it involved, was apparently abandoned and 2) Nicky Holiday was arrested in London, so why would he be in jail in Hollywood? (Or Paris, if this scene was before they got the gang back together.)

Muppets Most Wanted is going to be set in London. And it involves Kermit being mistaken for a criminal.

Hmmm...

Or, as it's apparently known in this country, Avengers Assemble (although they apparently didn't make that decision early enough to make an actual Avengers Assemble logo, or even borrow Marvel UK's one, so they just bashed it out in a metal-effect font and called it a title screen.)

Apart from that niggle (and a couple of other niggles), awesome!
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(Unlike the previous one, the title and default frame give it away...)