GEEK SALAD: THE SHAPE OF THINGS

Its been a funny old week. Not the best. I get home from work and just can't be bothered to do anything. I wonder if you ever feel like that readers?

What I have done is watch films on Now TV, which I joined for a free week's trial. Its a great package of blockbusters so I have to admit to binging.

Some of the flicks I've watched are:

Justice League - DC super group. Superb!
A Quiet Place - silence and monsters. Too tense. I jacked it.
The Shape of Water - art deco fairy tale starring Hell Boy's Abe.
Equaliser 2 - wrath Denzel-style.
Deadpool 2 - second outing I've seen of the Juggernaut in a movie. 
IT - modern remake of the King classic. Pennywise has more teeth this time.
Rampage - the Rock's Kong.

I'll offer a few observations if I may. The Shape of Water: is it just me or is the manphibian in it the same as Abe in Del Toro's Hellboy films? They sure look the same and both of them eat eggs? If this is the case are the two story arcs connected? They are certainly set initially in World War II. 

Beyond Abe I see the Creature from the Black Lagoon in the beasty at the heart of Shape of Water. OK its a better suit these days but essentially its the same gill-man. Maybe all the Creature movies, Shape and Hell Boy could be shown as a all-nighter in a local cinema. Now there's an idea!

Justice League threw up another strange thing. Superman's mouth. Now I've seen some bad CGI; Beowulf at the start of the technique and even worse, the human Flynn in Tron Legacy, but Supe's gob takes the biscuit. It was terrible. I've read that they had a moustache to deal with but c'mon. This is Justice League and his re-incarnation!

As for Deadpool 2, away from the wise cracks and Marvel-references, I loved the Juggernaut back on the screen. And this time the biog fella's pumped up to the max compared to his slimmer version in X Men courtesy of Lock Stock gangster Vinnie Jones. 

Appearances of rare super villains and hero's like Juggernaut always reminds me of the Slurpee cups in the US. They're featured in several books I have on comics collectables. Slurpee cups gave many lesser known characters their day in the sun, characters that most of us will never have heard of.

Maybe Juggernaut will get his own film one day. After all, he is unstoppable!

That's all for now.

PS. Emails and comments I haven't answered will be answered sometime this weekend. Apologies!