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There's a new fantasy series about King Arthur called The Pendragon Cycle: The Rise of Merlin. (Pendragon is Arthur's surname.) I think it was produced by Jeremy Boering, formerly of the Daily Wire.

I think the series requires a DW subscription to review.

Reviewers are refusing to review it because a series about King Arthur during the period of the Christianization of Britain includes Christian themes.

Joe Rogan recently interviewed Oscar-winning screenwriter Roger Avary on his podcast, The Joe Rogan Experience. During their three-hour discussion, Avary mentioned that he's been watching the show The Pendragon Cycle: Rise of the Merlin on Daily Wire+. He had high praise for the show, comparing it to the classic King Arthur movie, Excalibur.

"Mainstay producers are no longer reliable," he complained, adding that they're spending billions of dollars to make "Lord of the Rings things," while Pendragon was made for very little and has flown under the radar of pop culture. He admitted that he went into the show thinking he wasn't going to like it, but was pleasantly surprised: "This is, to me, as good as classic television."

So why aren't more people watching the show?

I reviewed The Pendragon Cycle for GIANT FREAKIN ROBOT. To say that I am "not its target audience" is a mixed statement. I love Arthurian legend, but the show and the novels it was based on embrace Christian themes that I was sure would feel too proselytizing. I agreed to review it out of curiosity, but I wasn't expecting to enjoy it as much as I did. Rise of the Merlin should work for a wide audience, but for some reason, it isn't getting the attention it deserves.

Major critics are not reviewing The Pendragon Cycle. The only reviews being given are from content creators and pre-existing fans of its host service, The Daily Wire. Despite advertising on social media, YouTube, and releasing trailers, very little attention has been given to Rise of the Merlin. Even Melania got the courtesy of bad reviews from the press.

Here's the trailer:

Thanks to Comrade Arthur.

There's a new Spider-Noir (Spider-Man, but as a noir detective type character) series on Amazon.

I'm burnt out on superheroes, but if you wanted to watch it, you can justify it on three grounds:

This is not a Disney production, but a Sony one.

This is on Amazon Prime, so if you're already paying for that, it's free.

Nicholas Cage stars.

It's available in two versions, black and white, and color.

Plane crashes and floats in the open ocean. Basically a reboot of Airport.

A movie called Influencer is about a "momfluencer" is a possibly funny idea, if Hollywood did not consider women a protected class that can't be spoofed. Influencers need to be mocked, but I doubt very much this movie will do it. They'll have to have a male, Joe Rogan style influencer character before they mock them.

This bit from Jury Duty was okay.

For those of you as obsessed with Sulu as George Takei is, they've done a documentary just about Sulu.

Jay Leno had a joke about Sulu. He said that Japan was crazy for Sulu. He said that in Japan, Star Trek was called Sulu: Master of Navigation.

That's a good joke. It makes you think.

Speaking of old TV actors, there's a new Jason Vorhees style slasher movie -- he takes orders from a dead "mama" -- with Lou Ferrigno as the killer.

February is not a good month for movies.

Speaking of February movie, they made a Wuthering Heights movie opening on Valentine's Day with Margo Robbie and some dude. Jacob Elordi.

You can tell it's a movie meant for Modern Audience because here are other cast members for this movie set in mid-1800s England:

The film also stars alongside Oscar nominee Hong Chau, Shazad Latif, Alison Oliver, BAFTA winner Martin Clunes and Ewan Mitchell.

I can practically feel the history coming alive!

Although, I see leftwing idiots complaining because the male lead is white. And they're claiming he's really black, because the book describes him as "dark-skinned."

Except... you know, when white people weren't thinking about brown and black people, which was true during the mid-1800s, they would frequently call some white people "fair-skinned" and others "dark-skinned." It didn't mean they were different races, just like a black guy calling another black guy "light skinned" doesn't mean he's actually white.

Roseanne Barr describes herself as a child, saying "a small dark-skinned girl." Again, she didn't mean she thought she was black. She means her skin was darker than the Anglo people in America she knew.

Anyway.

I think they made this movie thinking, "If we put Margot Robbie in it, dudes will happily bring their ladies to it." I dunno. I'm not a super-fan. She's just so desperate to be a big star. It's a turn off, man. I saw someone say about movie stars, they're cool because they don't care if you like them or not. That's definitely not the case with Margo Robbie.

I'm not a fan of He-Man, but this looks like it's in the right spirit.

There's a "He/Him" joke in there but I don't think it's pro-trans, but kind of the opposite. In his everyday life as the non-heroic "Adam," he may be a He-Him, but he needs no such pronoun clarification in his guise as the rippling-muscles barbarian king He-Man. I think that's the joke they're making.

It does look gay, but I don't think there's any way to make He-Man not look gay. It's a bunch of shirtless beefy guys tapping their swords with each other.

I watched this trailer for American Yakuza thinking, "This is great! It's just like a 90s action movie!" Well it is a 90s action movie. They just cleaned up the original print. It has Aragorn in it.

Exit question: With AI now this advanced, is Hollywood doomed?

posted by Disinformation Expert Ace at 04:20 PM

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