Minds.com: How Twitter is Killing Itself!

I jumped on camera after this initially happened. However, I decided not to post the video because I was extremely annoyed and it was me just screaming "fuck" for like five minutes because of my frustrations. I will probably hop back on some time this weekend and talk about this while I am copying tapes.

In my previous blog post, I discussed how social media platforms have become biased towards the left. Platforms like Facebook and most of all Twitter. And here I am again, dealing with more frustrations from Twitter. 

Lately, I realized that if I wanted to get my audience; much like how I handle filmmaking living out in Ohio, I have to come get you because you won't come to me. Not necessarily, "you won't come to me", because it's "you don't know me". After much thought these past few months, I realized that I needed to hit social media hard.

However, it's hard to go after social media, especially Twitter, when they're not allowing you to fully connect with a potential audience. How Twitter does their operations makes no sense what-so-ever.  To quote one of their guidelines; "You may have hit a follow limit. Twitter has imposed reasonable limits to help prevent system strain and to limit abuse. Read more about follow limits below."

How is it abuse in the right context? If we all have the choice to follow who we want and have the option to block people, how is this abuse if you're trying to find people who are interested in your work? You can take a look at celebrities and other people who have been "verified" and see that they follow close to the same amount of people following them. That's a form of "abuse" right there because they can follow as many people as they want and not face and type of restrictions.

And this is ultimately why Twitter is dying and right now at this point, flat-lining. Twitter is ultimately suppressing people to reach their audiences. It's not just me, it's everyone who is trying to get their names out there. The real abuse is the bots that Twitter allows to pass through trying to get you to sign up to adult websites and not doing anything about that. The real abuse is from @jack who trolls for censorship on his site.

This is why Twitter is dying, if not, dead.

Minds.com: Another Day, Another Dollar. Kind of... [Long Post]

This is my first blog post to Minds. This post and any future blog posts on Minds will also be copied over to my Blogger/Blogspot blog. This is just so that my small following over there can read what I write here. I think it's only fair for those who don't feel like signing up to fifty million different social media services.

My stage name is Orlando Eastwood. I am a 27 year old indie filmmaker and business owner who lives not too far away from Columbus, OH.  I officially launched my film studio Orlando Eastwood Films back in February of 2016. We make our own feature films and license features for home video, television/streaming, and theatrical uses. Filmmaking has been and always will be my passion in life. I have pursued it since I was just a small child at the age of four and knew that I always wanted make movies after watching numerous old-school Godzilla films.

I joined Minds after seeing several people writing about it on social media and talking about it on Youtube videos. I figured with how this place is structured, why not. I have been getting incredibly frustrated with Facebook, Twitter, and even Youtube in terms of how things are being handled for us people who are out there to entertain and/or inform the masses.

With Facebook, I am especially tired of it being an Anti-Trump propaganda machine. Twitter is that way too, but, I use Facebook for my personal use. And I am not saying it's the people that I am friends with, I am not trying to suppress their views or rights in any way. However, when I see my "News Feed" whenever I am surfing the web while I work, it's all bullshit about Donald Trump or anyone in his cabinet be it Mike Pence or Kellyanne Conway or whoever. It's very tiring and annoying because it's not just one of the three main snippets you see on the feed, it's all of it.

Facebook, like Twitter, are harsh on censorship; especially if you show support to Trump. I don't really call it support, more like Patriotism and showing respect for your country and calling people out on bullshit. My personal Facebook page was getting hit with claims of harassment, but, would not tell me exactly what comment I said. In fact, wouldn't tell me at all, just that I had been reported for something.

Facebook won't even properly block shit anymore for you. Pages that are nothing more than just Anti-Trump propaganda pages like Uproxx, Buzzfeed, and several others are blocked but they still pop up in my news feed and are still visible from friends who share links from said blocked pages. I don't want to see that shit, stop putting that garbage in my feed.

And even now, I am dealing with another stalker and Facebook won't do nothing unless I just block him. How is this all right for business? You can delete someone's post for their views on Trump, but, cyberstalking is okay? For example, this deranged lunatic is stalking my Twitter page and then going on to Facebook and tries to shame me for my tweets. He did it once before and on January 23rd, I made a tweet with an image stating; "Oh, boy! The SJW Police are out to get me! Sharing my tweets all over social media calling me a MISOGYNIST! WHAH! HILLARY DIDN'T WIN!"

Almost a month later, came back and tried to do it again. This time, I posted the whole conversation and he tried to continue it with me just ignoring him after a certain point. It's sad and pathetic if you think you can use my tweets or posts with my views against me. Sticks and stones my brake my bones, but my own words will never hurt me.

And Twitter, throttles me with me trying to get followers. Their whole schematic for how this works makes no sense. If you're trying to get followers and you follow people, wouldn't you think that you'd be able to follow as many people as possible to build your brand? Even the other day, Twitter sent me a strange email stating that my account was possibly hacked when it wasn't. Makes no sense.

Finally, Youtube. As much as I love uploading stuff, I've been on a self hiatus for the past few months because the service has been turning me off in terms of how they view "social justice" and the "social justice warriors". Also, I have been hit nonstop with bogus copyright claims. Most of the time it's from the Kevin MacLeod and Frank Nora music; however, I just got hit with a copyright claim from MGM over the public domain film, the Screaming Skull.

It's sad how MGM is bullying the public over a film that is public domain  when they had no rights to it in the first place. MGM acquired American International Pictures who let a large majority of their films lapse into the public domain, films like House on Haunted Hill; a Bucket of Blood; the Last Man on Earth; etc. There's some films that are Public Domain here in the United States, but, are not outside of the country; like some of the old-school Gamera films; Santa Claus Conquers the Martians; etc. Some of those movies, even though I have masters for them in HD, I am not even going to mess them with because those studios do control how they're uploaded on Youtube and that's out of my hands.

Outside of these concerns, I have been busy working on the studio stuff. Finishing up everything on the VHS and the DVD releases for Toaster and getting ready to send out and pay up for the copyright on our release of the film. I will be submitting another one when we get around to making the sweet Blu-ray release since we're wanting to do a nice first-run collector's edition of the film. It's amazing that after a year, we're pretty much at the finish line for it. My clients; Dave, Nate, and Mike have been very great and supportive that I have chosen their film as my studio's first distributed title. I chose it over my own first film because I really believe in it.

I am waiting on my income taxes to come back so I can finish the VHS release, I still have buy the cases; pay for the cover art to be printed; and buy the labels to stick on the actual tape. And I am going to be doing both the spine label and the face label on the actual tape to give it that charm.

After we're done with that we're going to be working on the new English dubbing and soundtrack for the public domain film Vampyr; which our version will be called Vampyr: The Castle of Doom. I finished the new widescreen 1.66:1 version since the public domain had foreign subtitles on it and also did color tinting to highlight the mood of the film. We will probably have a VHS of that ready in May or June with an Amazon OnDemand DVD-R release probably a month after.

Then at the end of March; I am planning to film the new segments of Traumatic Possession 3D: The Tape. I am effectively pulling a "George Lucas" for my first feature. I was never too pleased with the film and on top of losing the original project files when my Toshiba died in 2014, I needed to provide a new edit any way for the film. So, it's about time we got around to finishing that. Still undecided on how I want to do the VHS release for this film; maybe do a split 50-50 on the 100 copies. Do half as 1.33:1 semi-open matte / semi-cropped and do the other half as the original 2.35:1 aspect ratio that I prefer. Or just do it all in 1.33:1; I haven't fully decided yet.

Thank you for reading.
-Orlando Eastwood

Meryl Streep: Box Office Dud!

Hello, everyone!

Given the hack, Meryl Streep; decided to take jabs at Donald Trump, NFL, and MMA; I decided to go over her box office results and I gotta hand it to you, her movies suck! She's a critic's darling like Terrance Malick who does shit! I will be doing a break down of her films starting from the year 2000 onward to present day, as there is just too many films in her resume. Given the demand, if there's any, I could possibly go back and do more breakdowns on her film's box office takes.

Before we begin, there's several things that need to be accounted for. First off, theaters in the U.S. get about 50% of the money and apparently, in Europe and most parts of the world, they get 60%. So, I shall be generous and just deduct half. Also, just because once the 50% cut has been taken and movie makes it's production budget back does not mean that it breaks even. You also have to factor in that a separate pool of money from the studio goes into advertising a film. So, just because it makes the production budget back does not make the film a success. Again, for the sake of being generous, I'll factor in that it's probably $10 - $20 million extra for the advertising. Finally, Worldwide total also has the U.S. box office takes figured in. Let's begin.

A.I: Artificial Intelligence (2001)

Budget: $100 Million

U.S: $78,616,689

Worldwide Total: $235,926,552
Actual U.S. minus the 50%: $39,308,344

Actual Worldwide minus the 50%: $117,963,276

RESULT: FLOP!

Adaption (2002)

Budget: $19 Million

U.S: $22,498,520

Worldwide Total: $32,801,173

Actual U.S. minus the 50%: $11,249,260

Actual Worldwide minus the 50%: $16,400,586

RESULT: FLOP!

The Hours (2002)

Budget: $25 Million

U.S: $41,675,994

Worldwide Total: $108,846,072

Actual U.S. minus the 50%: $20,837,997

Actual Worldwide minus the 50%: $54,423,036

RESULT: FLOP!

The Manchurian Candidate (2004)

Budget: $80 Million

U.S: $65,955,630

Worldwide Total: $96,105,964

Actual U.S. minus the 50%: $32,977,815

Actual Worldwide minus the 50%: $48,052,982

RESULT: FLOP!

Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events (2004)

Budget: $140 Million

U.S: $118,634,549

Worldwide Total: $209,073,645

Actual U.S. minus the 50%: $59,317,274

Actual Worldwide minus the 50%: $104,536,822

RESULT: FLOP!

Stolen Childhoods (2005)

Budget: N/A

U.S: $2,996

Worldwide Total: N/A

Actual U.S. minus the 50%: $1,498

RESULT: FLOP!

Granted that this documentary had a limited release, I am sure a lot more money than three thousand dollars went to Ms. Streep.

Prime (2005)

Budget: $22 Million

U.S: $22,827,153

Worldwide Total: $67,937,494

Actual U.S. minus the 50%: $11,413,576

Actual Worldwide minus the 50%: $33,968,747

RESULT: FLOP!

I would have to assume that a good $10 million to $15 million went into advertising, therefor FLOP!

A Prairie Home Companion (2006)

Budget: $10 Million [Wikipedia]

U.S: $20,342,852

Worldwide Total: $25,978,442

Actual U.S. minus the 50%: $10,171,426

Actual Worldwide minus the 50%: $12,989,221

RESULT: FLOP!

The Devil Wears Prada (2006)

Budget: $35 Million

U.S: $124,740,460
Worldwide Total: $326,551,094

Actual U.S. minus the 50%: $62,370,230

Actual Worldwide minus the 50%: $163,275,547

RESULT: SUCCESS!

The Ant Bully (2006)

Budget: $50 Million

U.S: $28,142,535

Worldwide Total: $55,181,129

Actual U.S. minus the 50%: $14,071,267

Actual Worldwide minus the 50%: $27,590,564

RESULT: FLOP!

Evening (2007)

Budget: $30 Million [Wikipedia]

U.S: $12,492,481

Worldwide Total: $20,016,753

Actual U.S. minus the 50%: $6,246,240

Actual Worldwide minus the 50%: $10,008,376

RESULT: FLOP!

Rendition (2007)

Budget: $28 Million [Wikipedia]

U.S: $9,736,045

Worldwide Total: $27,038,732

Actual U.S. minus the 50%: $4,868,022

Actual Worldwide minus the 50%: $13,519,366

RESULT: FLOP!

Lions for Lambs (2007)

Budget: $35 Million

U.S: $15,002,854

Worldwide Total: $63,215,872

Actual U.S. minus the 50%: $7,501,427

Actual Worldwide minus the 50%: $31,607,936

RESULT: FLOP!

Dark Matter (2008)

Budget: N/A

U.S: $30,591

Worldwide Total: $66,375

Actual U.S. minus the 50%: $15,475

Actual Worldwide minus the 50%: $33,187

RESULT: FLOP!

There was no info that I could find regarding the budget. If I had guess, probably had a $20 Million budget.

Mamma Mia! The Movie (2008)

Budget: $52 Million

U.S: $144,130,063

Worldwide Total: $609,841,637

Actual U.S. minus the 50%: $72,065,031

Actual Worldwide minus the 50%: $304,920,818

RESULT: SUCCESS!

Doubt (2008)

Budget: $20 Million

U.S: $33,446,470

Worldwide Total: $50,907,234

Actual U.S. minus the 50%: $16,723,235

Actual Worldwide minus the 50%: $25,453,617

RESULT: FLOP!

I know that Disney campaigned hard back when it made and owned the film for awards. A FLOP! 

Julie & Julia (2009)

Budget: $40 Million

U.S: $94,125,426

Worldwide Total: $129,540,499

Actual U.S. minus the 50%: $47,062,713

Actual Worldwide minus the 50%: $64,770,249

RESULT: DEBATABLE!

Considering that I would factor in another $20 million into the advertising, but was being pushed for awards, it's debatable if this is considered a success.

The Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009)

Budget: $40 Million

U.S: $21,002,919

Worldwide Total: $46,471,023

Actual U.S. minus the 50%: $10,501,459

Actual Worldwide minus the 50%: $23,235,511

RESULT: FLOP!

It's Complicated (2009)

Budget: $85 Million

U.S: $112,735,375

Worldwide Total: $219,103,655

Actual U.S. minus the 50%: $56,367,687

Actual Worldwide minus the 50%: $109,551,827

RESULT: DEBATABLE!

Another film aimed at awards, therefore the advertising costs probably went up higher than $20 mil.

The Iron Lady (2011)

Budget: $11 Million [Wikipedia]

U.S: $30,017,992

Worldwide Total: $114,956,699

Actual U.S. minus the 50%: $15,008,996

Actual Worldwide minus the 50%: $57,478,349

RESULT: SUCCESS!

Hope Springs (2012)

Budget: $30 Million [Wikipedia]

U.S: $63,536,011

Worldwide Total: $114,281,051

Actual U.S. minus the 50%: $31,768,005

Actual Worldwide minus the 50%: $57,140,525

RESULT: SUCCESS!

August: Osage County (2013)

Budget: $37 Million [Wikipedia]

U.S: $37,738,810

Worldwide Total: $74,188,937

Actual U.S. minus the 50%: $18,869,405

Actual Worldwide minus the 50%: $37,094,468

RESULT: FLOP!

The Giver (2014)

Budget: $25 Million

U.S: $45,090,374

Worldwide Total: $66,980,456

Actual U.S. minus the 50%: $22,545,187

Actual Worldwide minus the 50%: $33,490,228

RESULT: FLOP!

Into the Woods (2014)

Budget: $50 Million

U.S: $128,002,372

Worldwide Total: $213,116,401

Actual U.S. minus the 50%: $64,001,186

Actual Worldwide minus the 50%: $106,558,200

RESULT: DEBATABLE!

This is another one made by Disney for an awards grab. Disney could throw all the money they want, which makes Into the Woods questionable.

Ricki and the Flash (2015)

Budget: $18 Million

U.S: $26,822,144

Worldwide Total: $41,325,328

Actual U.S. minus the 50%: $13,411,072

Actual Worldwide minus the 50%: $20,662,664

RESULT: FLOP!

Shout Gladi Gladi (2015)

Budget: N/A

U.S: $5,839

Actual U.S. minus the 50%: $2,919

RESULT: FLOP!

Another documentary. I am sure Ms. Streep's costs are more than what this documentary made.

Suffragette (2015)

Budget: $14 Million [Wikipedia]

U.S: $4,702,420

Worldwide Total: $16,002,420

Actual U.S. minus the 50%: $2,351,210

Actual Worldwide minus the 50%: $8,001,210

RESULT: FLOP!

Florence Foster Jenkins (2016)

Budget: $29 Million [Wikipedia]

U.S: $27,383,770

Worldwide Total: $48,559,900

Actual U.S. minus the 50%: $13,691,885

Actual Worldwide minus the 50%: $24,279,950

RESULT: FLOP!

BREAKDOWN: 28 Films

FLOP - 21 Films (75%)

SUCCESS - 4 Films (14.3%)

DEBATABLE - 3 Films (10.7%)

This woman needs to fire or agent or retire. Calling out people like Trump or the NFL and the MMA because it's not art is just stupid. It was hilarious and entertaining seeing Rhonda Rousey getting hammered by Amanda Nunes. More than anything you've ever done, Ms. Streep.

*Kinda Political* The Price of Doing War?

Hello, World!

I did some math and added some numbers up. Before I discuss why, let me back track a bit. If you pay attention to news outlets regarding the situation with Russia and how it seems that Obama is instigating a potential war that could be all-out catastrophic and that Hillary Clinton has had the biggest, raging hard on for wanting to go to war with Vladimir Putin to the point of saying that Breitbart and Alex Jones and virtually everyone who is of the "Alt-Right" is in his pocket. While discussing this, Hillary Clinton is in the back ground of what I have to discuss. She is the over all theme, but, she not the main issue of this post ... it's Disney! And Sony as well for their reckless shaming of Donald Trump. More so with Disney as with their comic's via Marvel have poked lots of fun at him recently even to the point of making him M.O.D.O.K. in one of the comics.

So, let's discuss what a war with Russia would cost Disney. This isn't a whole number as there's lots of factors involved that are not fully known, like licensing rights for toys and various miscellaneous things. Before I begin to do a break down, I want to discuss why I feel that a potential war with Russia is wrong. The main reason is economics. It would hurt everyone financially in the long run. I myself have been getting some connections in terms of Russian studios for potential deals to import films from Russia to the States and likewise with exporting my films to Russia. To be honest, anyone who's an artist; be it writers, musicians, filmmakers; or any field that requires some sort import/export type situation will be impacted. So, let's talk money and how we all know that Mickey Mouse loves his "cheese".

How much do you think Disney films make in Russia? Probably a few million here and there? You would be somewhat correct. They are not the big money maker like China is proving itself to be, but, the numbers might surprise you. I am going to link all the movie titles back to their Box Office Mojo pages so you can check numbers for yourself. You might be surprised. And just a quick note, Star Wars: the Force Awakens was not a factor in this research as it was released at the end of 2015, only a week and a half before the start of the new year. And Box Office Mojo will be abbreviated as "BOM".

The first film of the year that Disney released was the Finest Hours, starring Chris Pine of the rebooted Star Trek film series. BOM does not list a "Production Budget" cost for the film; however, Wikipedia has an estimated $80 million for the film. The film bombed hard, and brought in a world wide gross of $52 million. In the U.S, the film made over $27 million and in Russia, the film made $3,195,800.

The second feature was one of Disney's highest earners of the year, Zootopia. No need to give an explanation on it as I am sure most are aware of the film and it's story. Again, no production budget is listed on BOM, but, Wikipedia states it was $150 million to make it. The film made $341 million in the States and in Russia, it made $32,228,883. In Russian theatrical sales, even though studios have to give theaters a cut, the film made a fifth of budget back alone in Russia.

Third feature of the year is the Jungle Book. The live action adaption of Rudyard Kipling's classic story, mainly just a live action adaption of Disney's beloved animated film. Don't worry, there's another live action Jungle Book movie coming from WB with Benedict Cumberbatch doing the voice of Shere Kahn. Disney's Jungle Book was made for $175 million and made $364 million in the States. While in Russia made just a little over $20 million; to be exact, $20,359,503.

Fourth film is Disney's second highest grossing film this far in the year, Captain America: Civil War. Made with a $250 million budget and made $404 million in the States. In Russia, surprisingly, only $16,557,300. Not a big money maker over there as compared to Jungle Book or Zootopia.

The fifth film that Disney released in 2016 was the box office bomb, Alice Through the Looking Glass. Made for $170 million and only bringing in $77 million in the States. It just shows proof that if you want to make a sequel, strike while the iron is hot and don't wait six years! Another movie series that waited six years and bombed as well, Silent Hill! Back on point, the film only made $9,955,014. Just couldn't get past the double digits in the millions ... so close.

Sixth film of the year is their highest grossing so far (as we still have Doctor Strange and Star Wars: Rogue One), Finding Dory! No production budget is listed on BOM, but, Wikipedia states $200 million for the production budget. The film made $485 million in the United States, but, didn't make as much in Russia. I think the same applies to Finding Dory as to what I said about Alice Through the Looking Glass, strike while the iron is hot. The film only made $9,220,953. Yes, the Russian filmgoers flocked to Alice over Dory.

Seventh film that Disney released was yet another box office bomb, Steven Spielberg's the B.F.G! Made with a budget of $140 million and only grossed $55 million in the States. In Russia, it only made $5,877,446.

The eighth film of the year that Disney released was the moderate success that is the 2016 remake of Pete's Dragon. The film was made for $65 million and made $75 in the States. Film only made $3,551,751 in Russia.

The ninth film, the Light Between the Oceans, is probably considered a box office flop in Russia. Then again, I am not sure how the film's release is being handled over there. I know it was given a small, limited release here in the States. Made for a micro-budget by Disney standards, $20 million, and grossed only $12 million in the States. In Russia, the film made only $186,064.

The tenth film of the year, Queen of Katwe, did not get a Russian release as of yet. The only countries with box office results are Colombia, South Africa, and the U.K.

So, did you add that all up? What did you get, class? The answer is $101,132,708. While that is not the final number as I cannot find home video sales; merchandise costs; etc, etc, etc. I hope Disney is happy. I hope that they can live with themselves for this blatant ignorance for wanting a war monger as the first president of the United States.

I am sure you wondering why I said Sony as well? Well, given the whole backlash against men in general over Ghostbusters and pandering to Hillary Clinton by having Kate McKinnon and the crew on some shitty day time talk show on the same day as Clinton. As well as tweets aimed at the Clinton regimen. I am not going to go into vast details over Sony titles, because fuck 'em, that's why.

I am putting the film in order of their release this year as well as the production budget in parenthesis.

The 5th Wave ($38 million) - $3,593,787
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies ($28 million) - $532,267
Risen ($20 million) - No Info
The Brothers Grimsby ($35 million - Wiki) - $2,306,082
Miracles from Heaven ($13 million) - No Info
Money Monster ($27 million) - $1,251,875
The Angry Birds Movie ($73 million) - $11,996,823
The Shallows ($17 million) - $3,137,750
Ghostbusters ($144 million) - $4,870,811
Sausage Party ($19 million) - $2,596,072
Don't Breathe ($10 million) - $2,243,766
When the Bough Breaks ($10 million) - No Info
The Magnificent Seven ($90 million) - $3,439,947

While it's only a third of what Disney has in terms of viewer output, Sony films made only $35,969,180. So, I hope it is all worth it. I really do. Sony also have Playstation, I am sure those sales will hurt too.

Playing with fire. That's all it is.

Last Night.

Last night was really interesting. I laugh now in retrospect of it all. How society views people today is just down right sickening. This wave of feminism that hates on Caucasian males and views them as these oppressors is fucking hilarious. These BETA male cuckolds are just as equally hilarious and pathetic that you have to play along and be stringed along by your significant other and have no fucking balls.

And I am going to talk politics; because this comes into play and I have never really brought politics up in my blogging because it's not really a fundamental part of my life. I do like stirring the pot on Facebook and Twitter, but, I like to keep my blog personal. I do not like Hillary Clinton. However, I find this amusing that they can make fun of Trump's wife who gave a speech that was reused from Michelle Obama and even that speech was reused. A reused speech within a reused speech, that's like sixteen reused speeches. But, can't shit on Bill Clinton. I brought up Bill Clinton because of the whole; "Grab them by the Pussy". Which was said and not actually done. If it was done, we would have heard way more about it and a lot earlier, as in 2005 earlier. And the woman whom Trump was talking in this leaked audio recording, has even gone on the record and stated that this is not about her.

Above is the video. I don't have a problem with this as compared to the incidents with Paula Stone which Bill and Hillary Clinton had to pay almost a million dollars in damages because it was proven that Bill was sexually inappropriate with her. Even the people whom I was conversing with kept bringing up Monica Lewinsky. Let me be clear, Monica Lewinsky is the most famous, but she's really the tip of damn Clinton iceberg. I bring this up and a few images of Bill making faces, which make him look guilty. So, to the few people whom I was debating, needless to say, I got blocked. And I hilariously got blocked by several people over the past few days.

Two of the people who blocked me were supposed to work for me. They're lucky contracts were not signed or it would have became a legal nightmare for them. I have been too busy working on getting Toaster released which has been the main priority over getting the new segment shot for Traumatic Possession 3D: the Tape and finishing Into the Madness: A Documentary. I have to go back and forth with the rights owners of Toaster to make sure everything is okay because at the end of the day, I want my clients to be happy with the product that I am selling. To sum it up, the main one who was going to be acting for me quietly blocked me.

One of the other people who blocked me is now a former friend who I was friends with in my film classes since all the way back to 2004; I feel sorry for you and at the same time say; "Shame on you" for playing the victim card. This friend, who decided to bring up that his current girlfriend was sexually assaulted by an ex from a previous relationship. Which I am sure if she knew, would probably be thrilled that I know that bit of information. If anyone is sexually assaulted, probably don't want it thrown back in their faces constantly for someone else's gain, like my now former friend. You move on from it, at the end of the day it does not own you.

I would know as my previous fiancee cheated on me, numerous times. That was traumatizing and I could chose to sit in a corner and go on and on about how "life isn't fair" and blah blah blah. I moved on. After a year and a half of being single, I met my now fiancee and have a wonderful family that we've built. I didn't get to this point in my life by playing a god damn victim.

But, I get a response of "I really can't be friends with someone whose values are so different than mine." This is the point of having friends, you dumb shit. You have friends and you respect them and their views. Not, "you like this and I don't, good bye"! You can't have friends who like every single thing that you like down to the smallest detail, it's fucking impossible. I replied; "That sounds like you thin out the herd pretty hardcore then. Before you know it, you'll probably have no friends".

Let me rewind to what started this back and forth that lead to the FUCK OFF. I made the comment about how Donald saying it and not doing it is harmless compared to what Bill Clinton has done. Again, you can shit on Melania but you dare not shit on Bill! So, I made the statement that I can say something around the lines of; "I'm going to grab Hillary by the pussy and shove my hand in that ass!" That doesn't mean that I am going to do it, now does it?

Good luck to your film career. I haven't heard you say one thing in the past two years about what you have been doing or how much you love it. Wasn't that the reason why we took film classes? And good luck to your blogging career too. Started writing for some blog site and last article he wrote was when the first Suicide Squad trailer dropped. That was what, July 2015?

Then the other one who blocked me had a white knight cucked BETA male who decided to call me out as sexist which is bullshit. I said what Donald Trump is what guys say when guys are alone, be it hanging out or at work or wherever. And he said something along the lines of; "I don't want be a 'guy'. Because that's sexist." With his cuckold wannabe punk rocker name that he had on Facebook. He proceed to go on about how no woman deserves my respect. Which I got a laugh out and I called my fiancee over to read the comment. She scratched her head and said; "The hell is he talking about"?

My fiancee told me to say that what he was going on about was sexist too because he was generalizing women, which was true. I think she was kinda annoyed because I made my impression on my fiancee and made a relationship that works. That kinda flustered them. And again, defending Bill Clinton, but shitting on Donald and Melania Trump.

What I see is a generation of; "I WANT THIS AND I WANT IT NOW"! They complain when they don't get X,Y, and Z as opposed to working for it. Main person who started this conversation cried on Facebook repeatedly about things not happening her way. Why aren't I in a band? Why haven't I ever had a boyfriend yet? I want to be an artist. I gave this person several chances to show her talents with make up, kept bailing repeatedly. Good riddance. Where I live, you won't get the chance to show talents. Where we live is a small city on it's deathbed since General Motors closed down.

In my personal and professional opinion; you get nowhere by being a submissive, BETA male. I didn't get to this point in my life and career by being submissive. You take life by the horns and you run with it. I didn't get to work on the TV show Lost because I said; "Please". I had my work shown from my film classes and I had recommendations! I don't have people from other studios messaging me because I'm a little submissive bitch. I had an offer to sell American Nightmare 3D once it's finished but I passed because I am not going to hand over all the rights to my work for a quick buck.

I never made connections because I was nice, I made them because I had the balls to show I got what it takes.

"Ghostbusters: Answer the Call" Spoilers...

Before I start my review and thoughts, I want to post this video for references. This video is by Midnight's Edge and documents the problems with the film's production. Needless to say, I'll be making a few references and time points from their video on Ghostbusters: Answer the Call.

Before I ended up going to see the film, I ultimately chose to skip it. However, the drive in theater which I frequent ended up doing a triple feature back over the weekend. With Ghostbusters: Answer the Call, it was playing with Central Intelligence and the Shallows. So, for the price, I couldn't pass it up because this was the first film of the night and it couldn't get any worse, could it? The answer, nope!

Ghostbusters: Answer the Call, starts off with a house tour of the ghost that slimes Kristen Wiig that you see in the trailer. A tour guide is finishing up the tour and notices a knocked over candle holder. Then things start to happen and the man is frightened. He ends up in the basement of the house and it seems like as before the title card hits the screen, that this man has surely met his maker as the screen turns green around the man as he screams in sheer horror.

Cut to Kristen Wiig's character doing a mock college lecture which we see her dancing around which was used in the trailer. Ed Bagely comes up to her showing her the book she co-wrote with Melissa McCarthy's character. She denies that she co-wrote book and dismisses as she wants tenure from the university she teaches at. She tells Ed's character that she's not interested and it was all a joke.

Wiig's character goes to where McCarthy teaches and we learn that she's obsessed with Chinese food and wanton soup. Wiig's character is mad that the book got published without her knowing. They bicker back and forth before we are introduced to the worst character of the film, Kate McKinnon's character.

Let me derail this review for a moment to discuss the marketing. Sony was in a pickle because with the exception of McKinnon, none of these are remotely attractive. There's no real sex appeal. Behind the scenes Sony wanted Elizabeth Banks, Amy Schumer, Kristen Wiig, Melissa McCarthy, and several other actresses who almost all declined. And I honestly believe that Kate McKinnon was meant to be Elizabeth Banks. And I will go on the record to state, she's the poor man's Elizabeth Banks and it shows.

In Midnight Edge's video above, at the time mark 17:35, it is noted that Melissa McCarthy fought on set with an unnamed co-worker. I honestly believe that was Kate McKinnon. Wiig and McCarthy have worked together previously and both have mentioned in frustrations over the film while in the same time frame on the video above. I don't believe it to be Leslie Jones as she's a writer and comedienne who has been doing this for twenty years whereas McKinnon has more or less been doing this for under a decade.

McKinnon's character comes off as the female village idiot next to Kevin, played by Chris Hemsworth. But, we'll get to that later. We are soon introduced to the villain and Leslie Jones' character in a subway station. Rowan, who is the name of the villain, makes a strange comment about Jones' character being the last one to die. Which after he leaves, causes Jones' character to watch him on the security cams and sees him going into the tunnels and she goes to investigate. We see Rowan is freeing a ghost. She freaks out and then we cut to something or other.

Now, we meet Hemsworth character who is a complete and total idiot who has some sort of mental retardation. But, then again, there's this over recurring theme of men being idiots. Hemsworth's character, Kevin, asks while in the interview if his cat can come to work. Then, he spiels on and on about how he doesn't have a cat and that he has a dog which leaves Wiig, McCarthy, and McKinnon's characters to question what he's going on about. Then Kevin kinda laughs and goes; "I have a dog called Mike Hat". Because a cunt joke can't be told in a PG-13 film?

So, Kevin leaves and we see Jones' character sitting in a corner and one of the women tells her that the Chinese restaurant is downstairs. Jones' then makes a joke about retardation about her cousin who is slow just like him and will work for cocktail sausages or something like that. Jones' tells the crew about the incident in the subway. We then venture to the subway and then we meet some tagger who spray paints the ghostbusters logo on the walls.

So, something happens and then we cut to the phone call about a rock concert about a possible possession. Then we have what we see in trailer, Leslie Jones has the ghost dragon on her, etc, etc, etc. Well, one of the only jokes that my fiancee laughed at was comedic actor Michael McDonald from MadTV saying something about screaming like a girl. Then, towards the end of the whole sequence with the ghost dragon demon, he screams and my fiancee was quiet. No laugh. I just sat there sighing the whole time.

So, we establish a smaller fraction of Rowan and the Mayor of New York who appreciates capturing the ghost. More horrible acting from Kate McKinnon going on about how she magically creates these weapons to fight ghosts. How did this happen? Within capturing the ghost to meeting the mayor, how did she magically make these weapons? More continuity errors are presented.

Bill Murray's character is a skeptic who believes that ghosts don't exist, he pops up once or twice before we hit the sequence where he meets the female Ghostbusters crew. He wants to see the dragon demon that was captured from the concert. McCarthy or McKinnon strongly advises against the idea to Wiig's character. Wiig unleashes it and due to poor effects work, we see Murray's character thrown from the building and is dead. I am not sure if it was meant to be funny that he's just magically thrown from the building.

So, something or other happens that leads the ladies to track ghost encounters on a map. They start drawing over a map with "X" for four locations. These four small "X" make a larger one once they trace it. The center of the map leads them to hotel where Rowan works. We got to the hotel where Annie Potts works because we needed another cameo. Somehow, while Rowan is working, he's building a device to unleash ghosts from the other dimension. How and why did he manage to build this at his place of work without anyone noticing it? How?

The women confront Rowan and he's killed by electrocuting himself. The ladies are there giving their statements to police and the book that McCarthy and Wiig's characters wrote was present at the crime scene. One of the ladies has a reveleation that Rowan's tech was not too far off from theirs. So, the book is taken from the crime scene and everyone leaves. However, McCarthy's little toy is left behind which starts going off, meaning there's a ghost hanging out.

We cut to Wiig's character being off on her own and the other three ladies are at the Chinese restaurant. Wiig goes through the book which Rowan has drawn and written over pages which causes Wiig to go to the Mayor of New York. While this is happening and Wiig's character has no knowledge of this, the Rowan ghost takes possession of McCarthy while she's in the bathroom. She comes out, McKinnon's character makes some comment about a metal rod that is then picked up by the possessed McCarthy character who starts breaking equipment with it. The fight ensues as seen in the trailer and Kevin pops up at the wrong place at the wrong time and this time totally dropping his American accent and going Aussie on it.

Kevin is possessed and high tails it out of there to start wreaking havoc upon humanity. At the same time, Wiig is screaming at the mayor that the end is coming, for no reason what-so-ever as she has no idea that Rowan is actually alive as a ghost. Possessed Kevin reignites his machine and ghosts start coming through. The sky is turned dark and now it's ghost's running loose all over New York. The military is brought in and Kevin magically possesses them and makes them pose, as if they are about to dance ... but, it cuts, which I will discuss later.

McCarthy, Jones, and McKinnon get their car hijacked by Slimer who is eating any and all food he sees. So, the three get to the hotel where we see the frozen/possessed soldiers and police. The giant twenty foot tall Uncle Sam shows up for two seconds before getting zapped. More ghosts pop up. Then as they are drawing in, we see a parade of float ghosts which are zapped and then out of nowhere, the fucking Stay Pufft Marshmellow Man lands on them and starts to slowly crush them. Wiig shows up and blasts him. They are all glad to be together, because, GIRL POWER. The soldiers then fall down after the ghosts are defeated for no reason ... again, I'll explain in a bit. The team goes inside the hotel where all hell is breaking loose.

Possessed Kevin / Rowan is waiting for them. Kevin is freed from Rowan's possession and asks the team what appearance would they like him to take, kinda like how we got the Stay Pufft Marshmellow Man from the first film. He turns into an animated cartoon of the Ghostbusters logo. Then magically morphs into a 400 ft tall version of the Ghostbusters' logo.

While they are fighting Rowan/Godzilla sized Ghostbuster logo, McCarthy starts shooting it in the genital area. The other three figure that a nuclear equipment in their car can be dropped in the hole to stop the ghost invasion, because why not? Slimer and his wife are tricked to driving into it while McCarthy is grabbed and pulled in by Rowan. The hole is mostly closed and Wiig grabs a rope and goes in to save her friend. Hole closes and then inside the ghost dimension, Rowan is evaporated into the ghost cosmos of sorts. Wiig grabs McCarthy and it turns their hair white. They are pulled free and no real time has passed from their time inside the ghost dimension.

Kevin pops back up while the ladies are celebrating their feat. Kevin tries to take the wrap for saving everyone while eating a sandwich. One of the ladies is fed up with his "special ed" antics and slaps the sandwich out of his hand. So, it flies out of his hand and someone throws him another one and there's a look of puzzled confusion on everyone's faces while Kevin starts munching on this new sandwich. The movie ends with them sitting at a table at a bar or restaurant with the mayor's aide telling them that they will now be government funded. Cut to the classic fire house with Ernie Hudson yelling at Leslie Jones, ROLL CREDITS.

Now, the unfunny thing, is that the end credits is a dance sequence from when possessed Kevin is controlling the soldiers and police. On the video above, at 13:27, this whole dance was in his original pitch to Amy Pascal. He envisioned this and Tom Rothman who is now at Sony took it away from him because it didn't help the pacing. This was cut from the film which caused Paul Feig to have a completely meltdown and cry uncontrollably while in production and post-production. Going back to 17:30, this is mentioned. It is awkwardly cut from the final product and it shows. This is was something that I brought up to my fiancee who noticed it being jarring as well.

Overall, Ghostbusters: Answer the Call is a horrible film and is definitely in the category of bad films with the Josh Trank 2015 Fantastic Four. The chemistry is non-existent as McCarthy fought with a co-star probably McKinnon and Wiig storming off to her trailer between takes. There is no real feeling of peril as the villain just comes and goes. The impending doom is not felt at all, similar to Trank's Fantastic Four; it's rushed. McKinnon is ultimately like the female Peter Griffin from Family Guy. Kevin's character is basically a rip-off of Brick from Anchorman.

Jones was the only character who was grounded in reality as she's the only one who gives rational real world solutions to their problems. I didn't laugh. My fiancee only laughed three times. And even then, she said upon retrospect, they weren't that funny. Ultimately, she thought that the film was bad film where men were made to be all idiots. Even she caught that.

Who You Gonna Call? Not this Piece of Shit!

Ghostbusters is getting ready to come out next weekend. So, I had been discussing it with friends at my previous day job. I am with everyone that the film is going to be horrendous. The trailer does nothing in terms of selling me on it. It feels like the same rehashed bullshit about Melissa McCarthy being fat and Kristen Wiig being a goofy twat. And two other female celebrities who aren't as famous as Melissa and Kristen. And I'll address those two in a bit.

I will first say off the bat that while I did like the original films, I never fully went out of my way to watch them religiously like other people in the fandom. If you know me, I really love Godzilla. Godzilla is my thing and hands down I will watch a Godzilla film over anything else, even over Star Wars. But, going back, I still enjoyed the shtick and the chemistry between the original Ghostbusters team. Seeing this trailer feels like the same recycled jokes from Bridesmaids and the Heat just with ghosts. While I never saw Spy, I can pretty much get the assumption that it's going to be just that with secret agents.

Going outside of Paul Feig, the two films that Melissa McCarthy wrote and were directed by her husband; Tammy and the Boss, were horrible films that both myself and fiancee did not enjoy. Mainly, it was jokes about Melissa's character being fat and just screaming "Fuck" over and over again and it became a gimmick which got old very fast. I'm not saying that I don't like McCarthy at all, but, she hasn't reached her potential and like other comedic actors like Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson, who fell into this horrid typecast which is sad. Vaughn did Lost World: Jurassic Park and the Cell. Wilson did Anaconda and the recent No Escape. McCarthy did a film with Ryan Reynolds called the Nines. That film which was three different short stories stitched into one film shows her play three very different personas which she did amazing. But, that film was nine years ago and she kinda fell into obscurity, in my eyes at least, until Bridesmaids.

But, when Ghostbusters was announced and that it was a female cast, I instantly knew that it was going to be Wiig and McCarthy. And ultimately, my fears were a reality. All though, even though she has said things about haters on Ellen, it's been revealed that Melissa McCarthy did not like the film's story and wanted to make something close to the original. That was something that caused much tension on set with her and director Paul Feig. Apparently, Wiig wasn't too enthusiastic about it either during the filming process. Sony has forced non disclosure agreements on all the cast and they can't trash the film at all, which is why they are trying to joke about the haters; even though apparently Feig's muse, McCarthy, made him weep and brake down several times during filming.

As far as the other two cast members go, Leslie Jones was in Top Five which is the only thing that I've seen her in. She was ok. My thing about the other chick, Kate McKinnon, Initially, the Sony heads wanted Elizabeth Banks for a role. That is clearly visible with how wacky Kate McKinnon acts in the film. Yes, I am saying she is second rate Elizabeth Banks. I also had the same feeling of deja vu while watching the film Ant-Man with Evangeline Lilly's character.

According to Wikipedia, the approximate budget for Ghostbusters is $154 million dollars. It will bomb. For the U.S, I predict, opening weekend at the most, $30 million and that's being generous. Ghostbusters is going to be contending against the following films which are packing heat; Finding Dory, Secret Life of Pets, Legend of Tarzan, The Purge: Election Year; as well as opening up against the Infiltrator with Bryan Cranston. At most, it'll probably end it's theatrical run in the U.S. with $50 to $60 million dollars. Worldwide, the film will probably make over $100 million total but fall completely short of making it's money back.

The backlash is that strong.