Michael Papajohn celebrates 20 years of being the guy who killed Uncle Ben!
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I'm sure Across the Spider-Verse is good, but it honestly looks exhausting to me. I loved Into the Spider-Verse, one of my favorite animated movies of the 10s, but I'm well past the point of superhero fatigue in general and multiverse fatigue in specific. There are too many characters to juggle, it's too dense, it feels more like a member berries checklist at this point. I can't pass judgement until I've seen it, but I kinda don't want to. It's not for me. It's not my thing anymore, hasn't been for years.
I want it to be good, but it looks like just another installment in the genre I've dubbed Corporate Masturbation. Wreck it Ralph 2, Space Jam 2, Ready Player One, Chip and Dale, Spider-Man Home Home Home, another two hour commercial for the studio to brag about all the IPs it owns. Someone tell me I'm wrong. Tell me it's not distractingly gratuitous. Tell me the plot doesn't suffer under the weight of all the references and callbacks and easter eggs.
I can't even imagine another Spider-Man multiverse movie on top of all the ones that already exist. Can't wait for Morbius 2 where they bring back Paul Giamatti as the Rhino and Michael Papajohn as the guy who carjacked Tobey's Uncle Ben. Who wants to see CGI reanimated Macho Man Randy Savage reprise his role as Bone Saw McGraw? Will Andrew Garfield ever catch the tattoo guy who shot Martin Sheen? Which obscure character from a single episode of a cartoon that aired during the Bush administration have fans been waiting to see make their debut on the silver screen?
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Released August 1, 1997
Budget $40–45 million
Box office $87.9 million
Cast
Michael Jai White as CIA Agent Al Simmons / Spawn
John Leguizamo as Clown / Violator
Martin Sheen as CIA Director Jason Wynn
Laura Stepp as Angela (Cameo)
Theresa Randle as Wanda Blake
Nicol Williamson as Nicholas Cogliostro
D. B. Sweeney as CIA Agent Terry Fitzgerald
Melinda Clarke as CIA Agent Jessica Priest
Miko Hughes as Zack
Sydni Beaudoin as Cyan Simmons-Fitzgerald
Michael Papajohn as Glen, Zack's Father
Frank Welker as The Voice of Malebolgia
Spawn creator Todd McFarlane makes a cameo appearance as a homeless man.
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Nightcrawler: Directed by Dan Gilroy. With Jake Gyllenhaal, Michael Papajohn, Marco Rodríguez, Bill Paxton. When Louis Bloom, a con man desperate for work, muscles into the world of L.A. crime journalism, he blurs the line between observer and participant to become the star of his own story.
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A tweet from Michael Papajohn, aka Dennis Carradine, aka The Guy Who Killed Uncle Ben
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Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom (2018)
Plot: With the park lying in ruins, the inactive volcano on Isla Nublar suddenly becomes active again, endangering the dinosaurs. With the creatures on the endangered species list, Claire (Bryce Dallas Howard) drags Owen (Chris Pratt) on a rescue mission - but their coleagues might have less than humanitarian ideas.
Review: Jurassic Park 3 remains the worst movie in the series, but not by much with this latest effort. Claire and Owen from Jurassic World are back, and this time we’re getting a retread of Jurassic Park two, only with added volcano. It still beats Tea Leoni screaming for two hours.
It does not take a rocket scientist to work out that the aim of the bad guys is to weaponise the dinosaurs, creating further new species that are essentially controllable killing machines, you just simply have to point them in the correct direction. So here comes the revisionist history; did you know John Hammond had a partner? Benjamin Lockwood helped Hammond refine his techniques, but the two had a falling out before Jurassic Park was a reality. He now has honest aims to help the dinosaurs, but he is surrounded by people who are younger, and in better health, and who have less morals than Lucifer.
So much like The Lost World, the aim isn’t to help the animals but to capture them and get them back to the main land. It’s a predictable plot that offers nothing new to the series, except the cool visuals of the volcano erupting in a manner that will undoubtedly see thousands of geology professors shouting ‘Volcanos don’t work that way’ at the screen in Han Solo-esque frustration. Claire and Owen are a screen couple that only work united by drama, so of course they’ve split up, to be reunited by one mans’ love for a velociraptor and a cute little girl who they need to save.
The ending sets up for sequel after sequel to be made, rinsing every last dollar from the franchise from now until the end of time. And all the while they talk about the dinosaurs becoming extinct when Nublar is destroyed, any long term fan will keep thinking ‘But what about Isla Sorna?’.
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Jennifer Connelly as Kathy Nicolo, Shohreh Aghdashloo as Nadi Behrani, David Carrera and Michael Papajohn as Carpenters in House of Sand and Fog
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