J. Michael Shearer's Way Late Movie Reviews: RAMPAGE

Well, maybe not so late this time...

Initial Thoughts On: GHOSTBUSTERS 2016

You know, I had serious doubts about this movie for way too damned long, I really did. Something to not doubt is that there will be spoilers below the jump.

A Brief To-Do List: April 28, 2016

This may not be a full-on schedule for my online work, but it'll do for the time being.

Passing Thoughts On: Kung Fu Panda 3

Here's another movie I'd meant to go see well before I actually did.

Passing Thoughts On: Star Wars: Episode Seven: The Force Awakens

Well, that's one movie off my list, anyway...

A Few Thoughts On: ABC's Galavant

So, that was only the end of the first season?

Well, Okay, Then...

So, I was going to get started on a project I've been procrastinating on for awhile now, and it looks like I may actually have to cancel it instead.

JMShearer's Movie Shelf: The First Three Movies

Well, with winter approaching, now's as good a time as any to get this started.

In Here Someplace...

I was looking for something in my apartment after work today, and it reminded me of a story from one of the books I had to read for grade school reading class.

From The Old Floppies: Issue #17: Game Review of "The Three Stooges" video game for I-Mockery

It's been awhile since I've done one of these, and I've been meaning to get around to it since then.

In this case, what we've got here is a video game review I wrote for a website called I-Mockery.  It's one of those sites that's been around for awhile in one form or another.  They've got some cool stuff there.  Amongst my favorites are the Pixel Pals sprite comic and an article about a failed Disney resort in the Caribbean.  Back in the day, they used to take user-submitted video game reviews, and I had an account there with which I did exactly that maybe a half dozen times.  Just my luck, in an effort to come up with a cheap and somewhat lazy post for tonight, I came across a final draft of one of those reviews.  Interestingly enough, it's the one for the Three Stooges NES game that came out in the late 1980s or early 90s, which I mention in my video review of the recent movie of the same name by the Farley Brothers.

Now, what I'm posting here is just the plain text version I wrote without the supplemental in-game images that I submitted alongside the review.  Those can be found on the review page hosted by I-Mockery, along with additional info I couldn't find because I didn't know then and haven't had the inclination to find out in the eight years since then.

So, here we go, folks.  Check it out below the jump!
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From The Old Floppies: Issue #02: Review of Sonic SatAM Episode "Cry Of The Wolf"

Much of what I said when I posted the previous review in this series is true of this entry as well.

These two posts were part of three I wrote for the Sonic Tenth Anniversary thing I mentioned last time.  I don't think I'm going to be able to post the third one of these I've got because everything I've got that I thought might have been able to open it with says it's either not compatible with the file type or that the file is corrupted.  The worst part of that is that it's actually the first of the three in the miniseries and would have explained a few things that happened in the "Sonic Conversion" review and this one.

But even if I can't post all three of these, there's still plenty of other old stuff I'll try to get posted here as soon as I can, almost certainly interspersed with Text Play issues and other items.

In the meantime, grab up some goodies and get ready for more unintentional laughs for all the wrong reasons that I know I've only brought upon myself.  We've got Retro Review Sign!
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From The Old Floppies: Issue #01: Review of Sonic SatAM Episode "Sonic Conversion"

There's gonna be a bit more before the jump here, folks, but there's a good reason for that.  I kind of need to explain this before I get into the actual post.

As some of you might know, I'm something of a fan of SEGA's Sonic the Hedgehog franchise, especially the cartoon series, though my opinions on each of the four does vary.  About ten years ago, when the franchise was having its tenth anniversary, I was contacted by an old AOL contact and fellow Sonic fan, who had gotten a group together to build a fan site to celebrate the event.  This fellow, Alex Weitzman, if I recall his name correctly, asked me if I wanted to contribute to said site in some way, as I had some fan fiction that could have gone up.  There was also to be a section for fan reviews of various episodes of the Saturday Morning cartoon series.  Since I had a few episodes recorded to VHS available, I volunteered to do reviews of those episodes as well.

What follows below the jump is the first of two such reviews I have ready access to, for the episode entitled "Sonic Conversion".  Originally written in fall or winter of 2001, at a time when I was still an active part of the Mystery Science Theater fan community, the overall review series takes its title from my self-insertion fan series based on MST.

Be warned, though, at the time, I was only just beginning to really develop as a writer, so expect the spelling to be a little off in a few places and the attempts at humor to be markedly less than stellar overall.

With that, we've got review sign, folks!  Get your snacks and beverages now and prepare to laugh yourselves silly for all the wrong reasons!

A Plan In The Works

OK, so maybe I need to rethink what the first of my decade-plus old files will be posted first.