Good day to you all gentle readers of filth and porn. Recently on Ooh Sometimes, aside from various attempts at doing videos on games, we had also been writing about Oscar Bait films, all hoping to win the glorious accolades from themselves.
However, this time we focus on something which is only most likely to win a piece of leftover tin foil used for cooking Christmas dinner in; Netflix’s The Ridiculous 6, a comedy-wannabe about stuff in the Wild West.
Wait!
COME BACK!!!
Ok, Ok, I get it.
Just at the mere mention of that pile of rotten socks, you’re already drinking battery acid and removing your eyes with spoons to avoid reading any more. I understand, I really do. But stick with me on this one and you will reach a weird conclusion as to why The RIdiculous 6 has been actually one of the best things to happen to Netflix.
This is the point where you’re remarking “Wha….Why?” in a confused daze.
Well let me explain all. With this film, a result of a deal struck between Netflix and Adam Sandler’s production company to produce original content for the streaming giant for at least 4 films so, Netflix are on the hook for even more of these monstrosities. And surely they will be crying at this.
After all, the signs of it being complete b*llocks are there just after the opening credits proclaim the film is available in 4K.
Sometimes writing about something is easy, especially for someone who just sits at the keyboard being just another lost voice on the internet. There is a cause which stokes passion, something on TV which makes you laugh or perhaps even makes you so mad that you feel compelled to write something up or even just post on Facebook, stating your case in a few poetic words.
Words like “I cut my wrists……LOL!” or “What the f*ck was that?”
I’m too sexy for this picture, too sexy for this picture, so sexy it hurts!
And then we come to the Danish Girl, another in the list of shiny shiny chasers released at this time which nicely proclaims that it’s based on another true story because that makes it all better. I can pretty much some up the film in just one sentence, which doesn’t come up that often.
This is pretty much a couple of hours you won’t get back, should you watch whatever this was meant to be.
And remarkably it’s kind of hard going to even continue beyond that you know. There are just a few moments where I wasn’t even sure what the story was meant to be till a third of the film had wandered past our magic eyes, so I may as well try to explain here as best as I can. Continue reading →
Finally we catch up with the first livestreams of 2016 on YouTube for all to laugh at how badly they go. For once, I didn’t just overboard on playing the same brawl over Hearthstone as I normally do. No no no…. instead a lovely little game with Aliens and no bum scanning that aliens tend to do, called Xcom: Enemy Within, released quite a while ago now by 2K Games.
The reason why I decided to play this game mainly was due to the recent influx of pretty much all the press and Youtubers magically getting hold of preview copies of XCOM 2. Yes, they all got to play a preview build of the game and all the while, us actually paying hard earned cash are left to do nothing but salivate over the turn-based game-porn.
So it was only natural that those ridiculous number of videos all posted on the same day would do wonders for getting you back into the spirit of things so of I went back to try my hand to at least get a bit further before losing three weeks in February on doing work in the house. More than that later, but for now please enjoy my pratting about with the game not once, but twice!
A lot of the time, I try to steer clear of cop shows or reality television in general as they generally stick to a certain formula, have technology way in advance of the starship Enterprise to show the Jackson Pollock painting of staines over a crime scene and frankly when was the last time you could remember the bad guys getting a break?
The last time I even ventured willingly into that world was Law & Order: Special Victims Unit where they decided to make an episode all about Gamergate and the complete headf*ck that became. Even more so, reality television which gives us typically the likes of Big Bother, the Great British Bake-B*llocks-Off and World’s Strongest Carrot (wait for it, it will be on BBC 2 this year I bet…) which tend to be do mind numbingly dull, you will end up feeling your own neck to check if there is still any sign of life.
However, like the world we live where we sway from one thing to another on a coin toss, it appears that something new has caught everyone’s attention. A lot of attention actually, to the point that even the White House was involved.
Over on Netflix, there was a recent addition in the form of the documentary series called Making A Murderer which on the face of it appears to be another in the long line of reality TV but once you get into it, then it becomes all the more sinister, leaving far too many questions.
Granted those questions mainly are about the justice system in the USA as we know, and the people who were involved. It’s not even a spoiler to say that after watching even just a couple of episodes, there’s no way in hell you would want to live in the state of Wisconsin or perhaps even the US as a whole unless you stick to the coastal cities with easy access to an airport to escape the madness. Continue reading →
As promised during the epic introduction to the forthcoming snarking for this year’s set of “Oscar Bait” films, which seem to have been just created for the sole purpose of winning anything that has the phantom of the opera’s face on it in some shape or form, we now take a look at the Mother / Son dynamic based Room.
The dynamic duo of stars in the other star of the film, the room itself.
Now to show I actually tried to research some of the background for this film, here’s some facts…Ok, I cheated and just looked at IMDB.
Room was a film on a limited release last year in only a few places like the US, Turkey and Slovakia. So as you can imagine, it hasn’t done that well at the box office at the moment but is set for release in the UK 15th January, having been moved away from competing with other Oscar Bait films releasing at the same time, which given one of the films Spotlight happily devotes time to the “child loving too much” catholic priests scandal, they are far more likely to get bums on seats.
It was adapted from a novel of the same name written by Emma Donoghue, who then also wrote the screenplay for this as well. Apparently Emma had put everything together after what occurred with Joseph Fritzl and his wonderful holiday camp of horrors in Austria back in 2008, who apparently didn’t have anything better to do in life other than imprison and repeatedly impregnating his daughter. So already you know that this is not going to be something people would not flock to see in droves, much like Big Brother.
So far, so shiny shiny chaser given the fact that last night at the time of writing, the lead actress Brie Larson has won a Golden Globe for her performance. However, having watched a preview at a Brixton picturehouse before Room’s general release, I am honestly impressed.
So much so, that instead of proceeding to mock the whole thing as I had done for other films last year which deserved the bile, I would actually state now, ahead of going into details, that this was a remarkable production and the people involved should actually be very proud of themselves. Now hang on, I hear you cry, how the hell can you actually justify this, especially given the fact that it’s going to be about as fun as putting your love spuds in a blender and having lots of fun switching it on and off?
Every expense was spared in the creation of this logo….
It’s the most wonderful time of the year when the various film studios around the world start shoving out their very best colouring in projects in order to try and win the coveted shiny shiny, then don’t bother till next year. So obvious is the practice now, that the studios don’t even bother mixing it all up and in fact tend to stick with the same formula. Almost everything is based on a true story, where one person or group fight for something they believe in, or against a bad system of something or other.
Probably there will be some emotional shouting, some uplifting grand music, everyone involved has already won something or been nominated before and so all those things hang over their names as they appear on screen. We know it all too well by now and frankly, it really takes the p*ss with the viewing public.
Forget the critics and those in the biz who are voting for each other to ensure they get the lovely golden doorstops, what about us; the paying public who will have nothing but all this crap to choose from in the cinemas for at least the next two months? Perhaps that statement could extend for the rest of 2016 judging from some of the recent trailers seen last year, but we’ll just stick to the awards season for now! Continue reading →
Welcome back campers for Part 2 of where we look at Netflix and Marvel’s recent efforts to bring comic book stuff to the various sized screens which can receive the streaming service.
In case you didn’t read Part 1, which you can read to get some of the back story to Daredevil, last time we had to spend quite a bit of time setting the scene up of what happened with Daredevil the first time that people with cameras decided to give it a go and what was going to change given that now Daredevil was a online only TV series with 13 episodes to spread the love over instead of just a couple of hours. We’ve have Howling Mad Matt Murdock as seen below in the lovely title picture as Daredevil going to war with the bad guys to reclaim his kitchen. Err… I mean Hell’s Kitchen in New York.
Bear in mind, this second part does go into what you may consider more spoiler territory to a degree, and also this is quite a long read. So sit back and relax……
Now that we are aware of what at the beginning plays out, it’s now fair to start talking about the direction that everyone went in with this first series. Make no mistake, this truly was just the set-up series to explain an awful lot about what’s happening and why with particular focuses on motivations behind the characters we see (yes, add your own blind joke here) and in my honest opinion, this is what makes it so much more than the film ever could have been.
Therefore it’s about time we addressed the Kingpin in the room, namely Wilson Fisk aka Kingpin, played on this occasion by Vincent D’Onofrio as the latest chap to play the bald crime boss nutter hell bent on remaking Hell’s Kitchen as he sees fit by whatever means he deems fit.
Working with James Wesley as his personal assistant, it’s fascinating to see how old Fisk changes from a man focused on doing just one thing, to effectively change his priorities when a woman he takes a real fancy to in an art gallery (Another Mrs Macbeth as time goes on, played by Ayelet Zurer) gets involved with him and as such due to events which occur during the course of the series, we see some real rage developing within the Kingpin which if left unchecked, would cause very serious problems for a lot of people, including his partners in crime. However, it’s rage but with reason.
It cannot be understated how well suited to the character that Vincent D’Onofrio became over the course of the show as you saw him come out more into the light, and was actually a decent choice to not really show the main villain too much to begin with, only giving you select moments before the big reveal and it was a good pay off for sure. Continue reading →
The last couple of years, we’ve seen quite a lot from Netflix in terms of new content that they are creating themselves rather than just trying to negotiate rights to show content in different territories, which is still a main reason today to stick on some clever Virtual Network nonsense to view stuff you can’t in your own country due to various reasons (I’m looking at you Walking Dead only on Amazon in the UK….)
Some of the new material released has been complete and utter b*llocks like the recent Adam Sandler vehicle The Horrendous 6 or at least that is what it should be called…..my god, have you seen someone who is more dead inside still trying to be funny? (Ok, aside from when I do YouTube videos….)
However there have been some releases, which some of them did go heavy on product placement to make ends meet, they ended up being pretty damn compelling in their own right and actually won awards, like the US adaptation of House of Cards with Kevin Spacey, and Robin Wright, pretty much the Lord and Lady Macbeth of politics at this point before we get to see more in Series 4 debuting in a few short months. A case for just staying in for a complete binge watch if there was one.
But they also went into a deal with Marvel to bring a diet coke version of the Avengers to the streaming service with various characters we’ve not really seen too much recently. While not going to have the same level of budget, the fact that they may be able to go further than normal television with stories etc was intriguing to say the least. But is this just another money maker for the sake of it, or is there something to these latest entries in the out-of-control ever increasing in size Marvel Universe? To start with, let’s have a look at the first installment, Daredevil Series 1, with a second series due out in March 2016, so perhaps is the decent time to revisit what’s been done already. Continue reading →
It’s been a long time since the whole wave of crowdfunding truly kicked off in style. We’ve all probably spent way too much on the likes of Kickstarter and Early access for content to arrive at end products which we’ve either then gone onto enjoy or cursed the day we ever heard of the damn things we spent money on in the first place. Indeed it was the subject of a couple of Gaming Car crash live stream videos at one point or another.
However, away from the lies, treachery and deceit of the world where we all normally have to live in whether we like it or not, there was something else which caught the magic eye and once again as you are probably shocked to know, it’s in the world of video games (something this blog is being devoted to more and more it appears) and not us just remarking on the fact that Disney is probably about to buy the world with the profits it makes from Star Wars.
You see, in this new search for money, news came in recently that Double Fine’s “Psychonauts 2?, a sequel which a lot of people including myself pined over for quite a while, seems have reached over $3 Million on the newly established crowd-funding platform called Fig, should have been one that’s most welcome.
The ones the Russians wouldn’t go into space with…..
However…..I will not be joining in on this occasion and instead of splashing the cash out as I have done previously, this is one to sit out and wait and see what happens. Why you ask? Well you would if you were there talking directly to me, but as this is just a bunch of words strung together to form sentences which may or may not make any sense, let’s just skip to the why anyway!
Now why would this be more risky than the usual gumpf of crowd funding where you’re not in any way guaranteed to get what you put money into in the first place? No matter what you do, there is always the risk the project collapses worse than Richard E Grant did in “Withnail and I” when confronted by a bloke in the pub. Continue reading →
Hello campers, it’s been some time since I last did a post (a year in fact, strange that….) about the fact that the year digit has gone up by one again and that we should all be out getting drunk for 3 times the price that you normally pay for booze and that we will all be celebrate good times because of course it’s a new year and not a continuation of everything else.
Now if you’re currently stuck out at a party drinking too much and your stomach has yet to be pumped to remove all the crap from Christmas, remember that at least you’ve got to struggle to remember the words to that Scottish song thing typically sang at midnight while everyone holds their hands together, and end up just growling slightly and then finally leach over that girl who just turned 16 in the corner before falling asleep with a traffic cone. Enjoy!
Now for those who stayed in, instead of using the same stock photo that I had always done in the past when posting about the new year, let’s just link instead to 2015’s Fireworks Celebrations from the BBC when they plonked cameras out on the Thames;
This would actually be the best view you would get without paying some money for standing by the Thames because of the fact that too many people were going to watch for free year after year (How dare they?!?!) and therefore they wanted to cut down how many people could gather on the south bank and then they also paid for staffing etc. One also assumes that there would be some money made on the side from here on out but not alluded to. So for everyone else, a YouTube video it is! Not quite as good as last year’s attached video where it was Haddaway’s What is Love, but you’ve yet to reach the bottom of the post for this year’s tune….
Now then, as we’ve catered for those filling their shoes with whiskey, and those who would like to stare at shiny explody things before going to bed ready to wake at 6am to do the washing, let’s move onto the typical thing one would do at New Year and make some resolutions.
That in itself can be rather hard to do, if you have the willpower of a fly who drifts towards the blue light of death. I actually wonder who would even remember anything they promised themselves from the year before or if they would just repeat the same ones in the vain hope they change themselves themselves. Damn if I remember anything I ever promised myself from January last year, to be perfectly honest, I break promises to myself on an hourly basis.
Last year’s message I signed off with was Just have a decent new year, where on reflection you can get to the end of 2015 and just say when asked how it was; not bad. And therefore can I say I ended the year saying not bad? On the whole, yeah I can.
Truth be told of course, if my waistline, Steam games account or bank balance is to go by, I may just need to apply for liposuction with a loan from the IMF and just stick to playing with myself as opposed to the sheer ridiculous number of games had from a number of steam sales which are as it stands getting worse and worse. But overall, I still have a roof over my head, I’ve had some great times with some folks around the world, didn’t get fired for saying bad things and the kitchen sink now isn’t blocked. All things considered, you have to conclude that it’s not bad!
Of course, in terms of the things which may be meh, it’s mostly (because we all need to feel that it’s someone else’s fault for some things regardless) all my own silly fault, no-one else to blame there and it will probably continue that way. But there are upsides to those mentioned already in the areas which I do have some pretend sense of control.
Who hasn’t got everything at this point from this blasted service?
In terms of ignoring the Steam Sales, that actually will be easy to achieve, as there is less and less to even put down hard earned cash against. Since the introduction of Steam Refunds and the standardisation of prices of games when it comes to sale time, the rush to buy everything from the service is far lessened and at over 600 games to go through, maybe I have enough to finish for the time being?
And hey, unlike many others who would have given up earlier in the year, I still have a gym membership which has been used in the last 6 months so when I turn back up in January, at least it wan’t be a new membership pretending to make a huge change and leave after three months, it will just be a continuation. Perhaps that’s a small victory in any case. As for anything else in terms of resolutions, maybe just stay alive, try not to be too much of a complete pr*ck where possible and maybe paint that wall in the bedroom that’s needed doing for 6 months? Maybe even still stay employed long enough to pay off some more of the pile of loans and bills still outstanding. Perhaps not pie in the sky stuff with grand visions and all that jazz, but at least it’s realistic.
And you all have to know that being realistic is as good as it gets most of the time.
So what about the likes of you who happen to wander over here waiting for either some witty insight or some muddled ramblings from a madman which is such a welcome change on the internet? What message should you take away with you for 2016? What goals should be set to fail at straight away?
Well that’s up to you of course. You have your own issues and crap to deal with and I dare say you’re still going to need to carry on with all those lies treachery and deceit. Who doesn’t, especially to those who are suffering the after effects of recent bad weather and by all accounts in the media, bad flood defence planning. You know there will be a barrage of various events reported on the news, where if you stuck to just that all the time for what happens in the world, you would have already given up on life and would be just lying on the ground, waiting for it to all be over. There of course I have no doubts be plenty of drama in store for you regardless, even if it’s the fact some b*stard has nicked the milk again.
For those who only have first world problems thankfully to contend with, you go have a great time at the gym for the three months you actually go. You go get that new job / woman / man / fish / monster truck / electronic thingy you’ve always wanted as this is your year big guy / girl / other. Then carry on as you did the previous years as we’ve all got older and therefore probably at this point, far too set in our ways….
Let’s move the post onto a slightly higher note as the modern day cynicism and bile we all possess will be in ample supply the rest of the year, with a upbeat tune which isn’t “Happy” by that bloke who did it for those films with the Minions in. Given that most recent music is a bit sh*t judging from what passes as a James Bond theme song these days, let’s go back to 2009 with the Black Eye Peas;
Well it was that selection or Steel Panther’s Asian Hooker and I suspect that wouldn’t be as well received…..Funny that. Now we finally do come to the end with a message in keeping with last year with a slight update;
Have an decent new year, where on reflection you can get to the end of 2016 and just say when asked how it was; it wasn’t complete sh*t.
Now be off with yourselves, I have washing to do in the morning…..
Working with James Wesley as his personal assistant, it’s fascinating to see how old Fisk changes from a man focused on doing just one thing, to effectively change his priorities when a woman he takes a real fancy to in an art gallery (Another Mrs Macbeth as time goes on, played by Ayelet Zurer) gets involved with him and as such due to events which occur during the course of the series, we see some real rage developing within the Kingpin which if left unchecked, would cause very serious problems for a lot of people, including his partners in crime. However, it’s rage but with reason.
