Matt Zimmer's Journal

I just don't give a fuck. I understand why people talked shit about Warner releasing The Flash movie. Ezra Miller was accused of serious crimes and handled it shittily.

Rachel Zegler and Gal Gadot have unpopular opinions. And while I disagree with Gadot's, I don't actually with Zegler's, and am wondering when the fuck society decided all actors in the world have to have popular opinions with everybody else or the work itself, which has nothing to do with that, will be trashed.

If that's the actual standard, I wish I could play that card against Jon Voight and Tim Allen. They'd never work again, which would suit me just fine.

The only person whose complaints about Snow White that feel legit are Peter Dinklage's. But that's not exactly a complaint Disney can change, is it? Because when Zegler pointed out the original was problematic, she's actually right. Not artfully said to that movie's many fans, and there IS, in fact, something obnoxious about the star of a remake talking shit about the original to build up their own version.

But Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs is an incredibly overrated movie, which despite the ground-breaking animation, is filled with sloppy and dated characterization, a trite script, unfunny humor, lackluster songs, and it's just fucking boring all the way through.

Don't tell me Zegler is trashing a sacred cow. I've actually seen it.

Also a review for the graphic novel Donald Duck: Vacation Parade.

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Also reviews for the special An Almost Christmas Story, and the short The Boy And The Octopus.

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Also reviews for the latest episodes of Star Wars: The Bad Batch, Teen Titans Go!, Family Guy, Bob's Burgers, The Great North, Night Court, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, and Law & Order: Organized Crime.

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Spent practically two weeks on this one. Feel free to skim and pick and choose what to read. It's a freaking doozy. Also, I need a life.

Reviews for the movies A Fish Called Wanda, The Little Mermaid (2023), and Elemental, the short Dug Days: Carl's Date, all 22 episodes of Buffy The Vampire Slayer: Season 5, the first season of Tiny Toons Looniversity, the latest episodes of Star Trek: Lower Decks, and Star Trek: Very Short Treks, the season finale of Harley Quinn, the latest episodes of Batwheels, Spidey And His Amazing Friends, and American Dad!, and the novel Duma Key.

You can do this, Matt. Nicorette can help. That reminds me. I need to take up smoking.

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Gilda And Meek And The Un-Iversing Tomorrow. I'm pooped of reviews for a few days.

Also reviews for the latest episodes of Teen Titans Go!, Spidey And His Amazing Friends, Law & Order, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, Law & Order: Organized Crime, and the novel Wizard And Glass: The Dark Tower IV.

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Before Alan Menken and Howard Ashman, they were pretty much all cr*p.

The only good pre-Menken cartoon musical was The Jungle Book and even that only has two good songs ("The Bare Necessities" and "I Wanna Be Like You"). Mary Poppins is strictly annoying earworms, and all of Snow White's lyrics are cutesy drivel ("Whistle While You Work"? Seriously?). "We Are Siamese If You Please"? Strangle me now. Even "When You Wish Upon A Star" is no hot stuff. It's okay, but if THAT was the defining song lyric of a multinational conglomerate there was something very wrong with the landscape.

Disney will rightly get credit for pioneering things in the animation industry that we take for granted. But that doesn't mean the actual quality of the material they put out was perfect. The recent Kang and Kodos Simpsons episode pointed out that Disney wasn't best, it was just first. There is a huge difference.

Also reviews for the latest episode of American Horror Story: Asylum.

Upcoming reviews on this journal include Brave (Blu-Ray), Transformers Prime: Season 2, Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: Season 1 - Volume 2, Power Rangers Super Samurai: The Complete Season, Ninja Turtles: The Next Mutation: Volume 2, The Adventures Of Young Indiana Jones Volume 2: The War Years, The Adventures Of Young Indiana Jones Volume 3: The Years Of Change, and Heathcliff: Season 1 - Volume 1.

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X-Men TAS volumes three and four are coming to DVD in the U.S. September 15th!

http://www.tvshowsondvd.com/news/X-Men-Volumes-3-and-4/12148

So glad Disney is getting these out so quickly (at least by Disney standards). I hope they don't neglect to release the final volume along with Spider-Man TAS!