365 Marvel Comics Paper Cut-Out SuperHeroes - One Hero, Every Day, All Year…
July 16th - Flint
Jaycen was born in the secluded Inhuman citadel of Utolan, hidden in the Chimanimani Mountains of Mozambique. Jaycen’s parents secretly spirited their child off to America so to spare him the potentially dangerous effects of Terrigenesis. As such, Jaycen grew up in suburban Minnesota completely unaware of his true origins.
His Inhuman transformation occurred when the Terrigen Cloud passed over the American Midwest. Emerging from Terrigenesis, Jaycen discovered that he possessed the power of geokinesis, the ability to mentally control rock, dirt and sand. Soon after his transformation, Jaycen was recruited by the villainous Inhuman known as Lash. Lash convinced young Jaycen that Medusa of Attilan was looking to subjugate him and all other Inhumans; and that his only hope of freedom was to band together with Lash’s forces. The youth reluctantly agreed. During an altercation with the forces of New Attilan, Jaycen came to realize that Lash was evil and an Inhuman supremacist. Jaycen switched sides and returned with Medusa to New Attilan.
Taking on the new alias of ‘Flint’ Jaycen trained with Gorgon to better control his new powers. He later joined Princess Crystal’s team seeking out new Inhumans created by the Terrigen Cloud. Herein, Flint traveled to Mozambique, discovered the enclave of Utolan and learned of his true origins.
A version of Flint featured in the television series, Marvel’s Agents of Shield where his character was portrayed by actor Coy Stewart. The hero first appeared in Inhuman #3 (2014).
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Deadly Detention (2017)
While I didn't enjoy this film, that doesn't mean you won't. No matter what I say, the people involved in this project did it: they actually made a movie. That's something to be applauded. With that established...
Take The Breakfast Club and rip out everything charming about it. Replace them all with scenes from Friday the 13th (the original). Then, rip out all the scares and tension. Replace them with humour so poorly executed that the audience will wonder if this horror-comedy is trying to make you laugh on purpose. Now, you have an idea of what Deadly Detention is like.
Star athlete Jessica (Sarah Davenport), troublemaker Lexie (Alex Frnka), hottie Barrett (Henry Zaga), Bible-devotee Kevin (Coy Stewart) and skateboarder Taylor (Jennifer Robyn Jacobs) have received detention under the supervision of Ms. Presley (Gillian Vigman). Unfortunately, the school is currently being fumigated, which means the teens are being sent to an abandoned prison. Worse, there’s a killer on the loose!
If you can’t spot the killer within 30 seconds, I don’t know what to tell you. There are only seven people in this film - the last one is the bus driver/security guard, Pete (Kevin Blake). As soon as the shadiest character appears, it takes every fiber of restraint in your body not to yell “GUILTY!” at the top of your lungs. Your instinct is correct. Even though the foreshadowing and hints about the killer’s identity are so badly handled you shouldn’t be able to figure out who they are, you will. It makes you wonder if writers Casie Tabanou and Alison Spuck McNeely or director Blair Hayes have ever seen a slasher movie. You can’t have your victims running around getting picked off for a reason that’s only revealed at the end and without any flashbacks. Not unless your objective is to waste the audience’s time.
Wasting our time must’ve been the goal. Minimal efforts were put into the script, after all. In what reality would a state lend a dirty abandoned prison to a school for a couple of hours on a Saturday to punish five students for crimes as benign as writing “Jesus ate my homework” on the school’s walls? It makes no sense, and that’s just the setup. This is one of those movies where the killer can do whatever they want and are unimpeded by things like walls and distance. At one point, Barrett grabs a door handle and pretends to be electrocuted to scare his “friends” - because joking around while pursued by a murderer is a great idea. He has a brief laugh, then grabs the handle again. This time it IS connected to a current of electricity and he nearly dies. So let me get this straight. The revenge-motivated butcher just HAPPENED to be standing on the other side of that door, listening in to their conversation, didn’t turn on the electricity when he reached for the handle the first time, but did the second time, just to have a laugh?
Deadly Detention a.k.a. The Detained has fewer laughs than a decapitated cadaver has heads. The characters are so paper-thin that even when the script tries to roll with the stereotypes it’s exploiting, you can’t muster a smile. They’re written to a level so cartoonish they stop making any sense and the dialogue doesn’t do the actors any favours. Universally, the performances are terrible but I’ll give the cast the benefit of the doubt. It's not like the people in charge knew what they were doing.
Deadly Detention also fails as a horror comedy because it is never scary. In terms of violence, this is the most tame slasher film I’ve ever seen. It’s a slasher movie… with NO SLASHING! Every single death is off-screen. When the picture started, I was convinced that the comically oversized “Principal of the Year” award Ms. Presley brought with her would be used to skewer someone - Black Christmas style - but no.
Deadly Detention is a complete waste of time. It’s not funny. It’s not scary. It has no gore and no nudity either - despite two sex scenes! It’s contrived from the beginning and the end is preposterous. Unless you were involved in its production, it would be impossible to enjoy. (October 31, 2020)
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Propaganda
Donna Reed (It's a Wonderful Life, From Here to Eternity)—The scene where she is in a bathrobe, walking down the street after falling into a pool while dancing with Jimmy Stewart, playing coy and looking just radiant….. I fell so head over heels in love with her.
Hazel Scott (Broadway Rhythm, Rhapsody in Blue)—ok ok let me tell you about Hazel Scott. She was a Trinidadian piano genius. By the age of 3 she could play the piano by ear. She would play jazzed-up versions of classics in nightclubs and could sing too! She appeared in five movies, and used her influence as a piano prodigy to improve Black representation in film—she turned down offensive parts, demanded equal pay, and always wore her own costumes to ensure she was portrayed as glamorous and beautiful. She was the first African-American woman to host her own television show, The Hazel Scott Show. She stood up for civil rights and was an overall icon! If you want to watch her being a genius, here she is playing two pianos at once. And here's this one that shows off her consummate glamor! [videos beneath the cut]
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Donna Reed:
Despite her association with the clean and conservative 1950s, Reed became an anti-nuclear activist and anti-Vietnam protester. She also won her Oscar for playing a prostitute. She was an accomplished baseball player in high school, so they didn't have to use a body double to throw the rock at the old house in It's a Wonderful Life.
It's a wonderful life comes on tv every christmas and everytime I am captivated by her beauty and talent. She was also a notable anti-war activist.
Hazel Scott:
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