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All Hail Giant Dizzy Gillespie @ejriley.bsky.social · 1d

But when WandaVision features an appearance from Evan Peters and it turns out he's NOT playing the FoX-Men version of Quicksilver but a nobody named Ralph Bohner?

Well then, everyone loses their minds!

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All Hail Giant Dizzy Gillespie @ejriley.bsky.social · 1d

If, in Deadpool & Wolverine, they have a throwaway line about Ben Affleck's Daredevil being bumped off, or a graphic scene of Chris Evans's Human Torch getting flayed alive, nobody panics, because "at least they got closure".

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All Hail Giant Dizzy Gillespie @ejriley.bsky.social · 1d

You know what I've noticed? Nobody panics when a legacy hero gets closure. Even if their end is horrifying!

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All Hail Giant Dizzy Gillespie @ejriley.bsky.social · 2d

...well, I didn't care for Rise of Skywalker either, but responsible for COVID? Even Salt n Pepa, Matchbox 20, Tool would tell this guy that he's pushing it...and pushing his luck.

Besides, if there was a movie that caused God to punish humanity, it was more likely Cats.

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All Hail Giant Dizzy Gillespie @ejriley.bsky.social · 2d

When pushback reared its ugly head
The frosty agents turned and fled
Brave brave frosty agents...

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All Hail Giant Dizzy Gillespie @ejriley.bsky.social · 3d

If @vaultdisneypod.bsky.social ends up doing the Guy Ritchie version of Aladdin, I made an Alan Menken-flavoured remix of the Fresh Prince theme.

If you require the instrumental for your own parody lyrics, I'll be happy to provide it.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=aTiG...

Will Smith - The Fresh Genie of Agrabah (redux)

YouTube video by tolchok89

www.youtube.com

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All Hail Giant Dizzy Gillespie @ejriley.bsky.social · 3d

Conservatives: "Wah! Why does all liberal media default to Nazis as the bad guys? Why can't they do like us and stereotype all queer people as sex offenders or all atheists as devil-worshippers or all non-white people as terrorists?!?"

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All Hail Giant Dizzy Gillespie @ejriley.bsky.social · 3d

Guys, if WB didn't feel obligated to allow the "Snyderverse" to co-exist as an elseworlds version along more traditional DC projects like Shazam or Blue Beetle or James Gunn's Superman, then Disney shouldn't be obligated to do the same with FoX-Men or Raimiverse Spider-Man.

All Hail Giant Dizzy Gillespie @ejriley.bsky.social · 7d

Ah, here's the follow-up.

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All Hail Giant Dizzy Gillespie @ejriley.bsky.social · 7d

this is a comment I received when I uploaded a compilation of @linkara.bsky.social critiquing the fight scenes in the Star Wars prequels.

Um, what? What's the critique here?

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All Hail Giant Dizzy Gillespie @ejriley.bsky.social · 8d

There's LOADS OF MONEY to be made from porn and erotica.

Why does capitalism insist on taking the moral high ground HERE?

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All Hail Giant Dizzy Gillespie @ejriley.bsky.social · 9d

Friendly reminder - the #RecastTChalla crowd only care about the recasting of that ONE specific character and not anyone else who should have already been recast by now.

All Hail Giant Dizzy Gillespie @ejriley.bsky.social · 9d

If you found the Love Bug TV movie with Bruce Campbell in that collection, keep that safe.

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All Hail Giant Dizzy Gillespie @ejriley.bsky.social · 12d

Gonna block me?

All Hail Giant Dizzy Gillespie @ejriley.bsky.social · 12d

Family Guy is literally the only modern outlet that continues to push the "Walt Disney was antisemitic" myth, and those are mostly gags.

I guarantee, your sources in some way lead back to Family Guy, even if it came from someone parroting someone else parroting Family Guy.

Aleph, The Black Ram @alephblackram.bsky.social · 12d

Don't watch Family Guy but OK mark.

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All Hail Giant Dizzy Gillespie @ejriley.bsky.social · 12d

AND you need better sources than Family Guy gags if you want to claim that Walt Disney was anti-Semitic.

Mel Gibson is bigger Nazi than Walt Disney ever was.

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All Hail Giant Dizzy Gillespie @ejriley.bsky.social · 12d

Because Family Guy keeps peddling the myth that Disney was allegedly an anti-Semite.

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All Hail Giant Dizzy Gillespie @ejriley.bsky.social · 12d

You know, The Island and Sucker Punch are kindred spirits.

Had it not been for the subsequent studio work-for-hire jobs that were lined up for them (and they weren't initially interested in), these box-office flops would have likely killed the careers of their directors.

All Hail Giant Dizzy Gillespie @ejriley.bsky.social · 13d

Walt Disney wasn't even anti-semitic. That's a myth.

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All Hail Giant Dizzy Gillespie @ejriley.bsky.social · 13d

You know, this whole "vaccines/tylenol causes autism" thing feels like the people perpetuating it watched the movie Scanners and reacted the same way the Thermians reacted to Galaxy Quest.

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All Hail Giant Dizzy Gillespie @ejriley.bsky.social · 14d

I just heard a rumour of HBO Potter potentially casting a woman as Voldemort, even though she'd be playing a man.

Aside from the fact that we already got the best version via Christian Coulson, that would just reinforce the author's transphobic views in a way that the movies didn't.

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All Hail Giant Dizzy Gillespie @ejriley.bsky.social · 14d

Oh, and the Guy Ritchie version of Aladdin just made Jafar less explicitly evil.

Congratulations - you just sucked out everything that made him interesting, you moron!!

The Emperor's New Podcast @podcasttenp.bsky.social · 15d

People used to criticise the characters in Aladdin and Lion King trusting the villains initially, despite them obviously being evil...

IDK, seems pretty realistic now.

All Hail Giant Dizzy Gillespie @ejriley.bsky.social · 15d

"First of all, I don't eat dates" - Darbie O'Brien

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All Hail Giant Dizzy Gillespie @ejriley.bsky.social · 16d

I hope Bill Hicks and Tool weren't completely right about the future of CA.

All Hail Giant Dizzy Gillespie @ejriley.bsky.social · 16d

Weird idea - what if the reason Doctor Doom looks like Tony Stark is because Deadpool thought the Sacred Timeline needed its anchor being, and swiped a Stark variant...only it was the one who became Doom?