The Twilight Zone Kennedy Zone presents Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

 

Have we slipped into an alternate universe? Another dimension? Surely we've entered the Twilight Zone! Or rather, "The Kennedy Zone!" Forget about merit, ability, experience, canon, or history...so long as you are a wopoc, you need not even be a fan of a franchise or story. How dare "they" take a once sacred, beloved story/franchise/myth and pervert it so? How dare "they" get people who are not NARRATIVE film makers or writers nor even fans of the story. Have 'they" even seen it? I have nothing against Sharmeen doing what she's apparently good (great?) at doing...documentary film-making. She got an Academy award or two for it. (I, nor most of the world, have never seen those docs.) Why would a studio head ever "point" that at a 300 million $$$ budget visual effects laden narrative motion picture? It makes zero sense...at least in the original (or my) space-time-dimension/zone. I would never have a podiatrist perform cardio-vascular surgery. I wouldn't have a plumber do it either, as talented as that person might be. What am I missing here? Oh, in this "zone" it's all about identity and nothing more. 'funny how the identity of Star Wars has suffered the consequences. What happened to the most magical mythical story of modern times? It changed my life...not in some obscure or abstract way. After I saw Star Wars in the summer of 1977 on a huge screen in a single movie theater, I ran out and bought a Fuji, Single-8 movie camera. (You few insiders will know what that is and how great it was!) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single-8 Unlike 8mm or Super8mm cameras, the film-maker could rewind the Single-8 film...to do Visual effects!! I made space-ship models and nearly burned down our house, twice, filming fire and explosions. I studied computer graphics at Purdue (with at least one famous PIXAR peep) and robotics for motion control. I headed to Hollywood and within a few months I was doing visual effects for every network and many TV shows at the time. (Dinosaurs, Outer Limits, X-Files, Buffy, etc.) It was a dream come true. I was a diehard Disney and Star Wars fan (and I've worked for Disney in many graphics and visual effects capacities), but, when I heard Disney acquired LucasFilm/Star Wars, "I had a bad feeling about this!" I was standing in line at Disney's California Adventure (The Cars Ride) at the time with my 5 year old son. 'call it a premonition, or just a hunch that two great things don't necessarily always work great together like chocolate and peanut butter. And I never really took a liking to any of JJ Abrams earlier stuff. When Episode 7 finally arrived, It was, as I expected, DOA, but I had to mumble that in quiet whispers because "everyone else" seemed to think it was great. But by the time Rian ruined Episode 8, I had many more allies, and "the jig was up!" Although I was comforted that I now had company in my disdain for the sequels, I was crestfallen by the horribly disfigured story that "I grew up on"... they epic, hero's journey that changed my world. Now, it's so relentless in its rush to the bottom of story making and rush to the top of wokeness and D.E.I., I feel like I'm in some weird, bizarro, perverted dimension. Why are "these" film-makers "getting to" direct and shape Star Wars? I now entertain myself (and hopefully others) using my VFX/GRFX skills in film-making satires that poke fun at the "using woke as a weapon" warriors. It's both fun and sad. Lemonade from lemons? I'd rather be enjoying epic, mythical stories that alter my life in truly evolutionary, "progressive" connecting ways. Who decided "we" needed to insert activist messages into films? True film and stories and movies and theater in the hands (minds and hearts) of experienced, talented writers/speakers/performers have ALWAYS moved the world "towards the light," even if they were dark/horror films. Solid story is something civilization stands on and builds up from. Now, it's all remakes, reworks of great works, or "tear downs." It's not civilized at all. It's maddening that it lurks and grows in the shadows of victim hood rather than the light of triumph.

A Very Michael Bay Christmas

 It's not your ordinary Christmas Light Display. This one has more fire-power than a WWII battalion. Bringing "beautiful violence" to the delight of his teenage-boy (of all ages) audience, Michael Bay directs his own Christmas Display in a heart warming, heart pounding, visual feast that might actually cause some men to climax. "A lot of directors don't want the pressure of a competitive Christmas Display. I Thrive on it." "You'll find wonderment in the tragedy on this most holy of holy nights." "I really wanted to put the Christ back in Christmas...but with a twist."

Dateline: Who Killed Star Wars?

 

Watch this parody of DATELINE that investigates the demise of the Star Wars Empire!

Date Line’s an award-winning news magazine with classic story-telling, often revolving around murder mysteries. How befitting (or ironic) then, that we need to investigate the demise of one of the greatest, classic stories ever told. Who Killed Star Wars? Although, it’s not much of a mystery, investigative journalism will reveal many of the suspects. From Rian Johnson and Kathleen Kennedy to J.J. Abrams and Bob Iger. One thing’s for sure, it’s all happened after Disney acquired LucasFilm. Even Academy Award Winning Editor of Star Wars, Marcia Lucas, says: “They Killed Star Wars!” My how the mighty have fallen. What happened to the once great empire?

We Discriminate (Between the Finer Things) at the Academy Awards

 We Discriminate (Between the Finer Things) at the Academy Awards

The diminishing-in-numbers but still savvy home-viewers of the Academy Awards broadcast this year noticed that the show installed a whole new extra special upper elite luxury section in the front of the auditorium where the likes of Will and Jada Smith were seated. Somewhat similar to ultra-high-end box seats gifted to the uber-class at sporting events, this stunning move really set apart the polished from the merely “highly washed” masses in attendance at the ceremony which not only awards the mega-rich, Hollywood elite, but gives some occasional awards to the “nouveau célèbre,” seated in the far, far back.

“What we are trying to do,” said one Academy member, “is distinguish between the haves and the have-it-alls.” “We purposely wanted to segregate the attendees,” said another member of the all black production team, installed as a victory for diversity. “It was a brilliant move,” said a spokesperson for a popular Hollywood insider journal. “They segregated the rich and famous from the super rich and world-famous. Previously, they only had a sort of front-of-the-bus, back-of-the-bus thing going.” It really put those attendees in the back of the second balcony “in their rightful place.” We asked the people in the nose-bleed seats for comments, but most just replied, “I hope to be there someday.”

“Only the A-list, like Steven Spielberg, familiar with lists from directing ‘Schindler’s List,’ are worthy of such an honor.” In order to install the section where only a few dozen ultra-class legends could be seated, hundreds of regular (albeit previously sought-after orchestra section seats) had to be removed. “It was great because a lot of other people who think they deserve to be at the awards could no longer fit in, literally and figuratively. You know, all the people who the winners thank because the movie could never have been made without them. Those people. Let’s face it. They are NOT at the top-of-the-food-chain nor award winners. That title is reserved as special and truly means something.”

Surely, everyone must agree, it’s an honest and accurate reflection of society. Only the top .1% should take the spoils and real estate of the rest. These people literally should “Get a seat at the table.” The others clearly haven’t done enough or aren’t talented enough (or know enough “right people”) to get that seat. “Do you want to trample on the American public’s hopes and dreams? Let’s face it, they mostly tune in thinking that someday they will have a seat at the front table. And Hollywood is in the dream-making business.”

Long Term Symptoms of Covid

Moral Pole Reversal Syndrome

As the Covid pandemic takes a welcome place in the rear-view-mirror of our lives, more and more devastating long-term effects of the virus are being revealed. “They were hard to catch at first,” said one respected individual with a very high I.Q., “I kept feeling that something wasn’t quite right. But when I connected the dots, it was all too late.” What’s diabolical, is those affected by the symptoms were never infected by the virus. It’s a sort-of community-based-infection.

Little by little, self-proclaimed tolerant liberals are becoming less and less tolerant of other’s choices. And so-called brothers-keepers religious peoples are not even wanting to be incovenienced at possibly “helping thy neighbor” by wearing a mask, whether the silly bit of fabric works or not.
 
Other symptoms include:  
-A severe memory loss over kindness and acceptance. Almost no member of “Our Lady of Perpetual Grief” could recall Jesus mentioning “whatsoever you do to the least of your brothers and sisters, you do unto me,” as they breathed and spit onto scared people who really only wanted to live and protect their own families without trespassing at all onto others.

-Shortness of breath and fatigue after flying into a rage when asked to consider another person’s well-being.

Yelling often is followed by dizziness, anxiety, fever and, especially, disorientation (literally). People have become completely DISoriented. They no longer have any orientation. What once was their creed, scripture, guiding principle or Northern Star has now flipped. Often, they defend their “flipped stance”  by prefacing statements with “But this is different. This is for the health and safety of other people.”
 
Lest one thinks this is only affecting conservatives, liberals have been the hardest hit by the long-term effects. Adopting a sort-of “scorched earth, either you’re with us or you’re against us—and will likely kill us” mentality, progressives set out to demean, demoralize, shame, and even call for the death (if not execution) of people who were scared to be injected with something that “smarter and far richer people who never make mistakes or have ulterior motives” brewed up. Sure, Vioxx, Thalidimide, DDT, Agent Orange, bank credit systems security, defective brakes, were mistakes and eventually un-covered-up, but triumphs like Glyphosate show overall victory over nature and micro-organisms and their desire to kill us.

Symptoms of the viral spread were evident at a local women’s rights, “My body my choice,” rally, where only vaccinated people could attend. “Get the fucking vaccine or get out” became a new motto and chant.  

Indeed, these devastating, long-term effects of Covid are far-reaching and paradigm-shifting. It seems the disease ends up in a complete reversal of one’s moral values, diabolically often without the infected persons awareness of ANY of the symptoms. Although, at times, they are conscious enough to defend the “about face.” “Let’s face it, morals are flexible and can change over time and situations,” exclaimed one die-hard spiritual leader. “The word of God is the word of God and we are our brothers keepers.”

A member of the CDC reluctantly named the effects as IMPR, “Ironic Moral Pole Reversal.” Taking a page from the playbook on the concept known as “Magnetic Pole Reversal” or “Geologic Pole Reversal” wherein the magnetic poles of the earth shift and change places resulting in an extinction level event.

Intelligent people who have marched demanding “My Body My choice” have, in some cases, held down people (who have made other choices) and injected them because it was the “right thing to do” for humanity and civilization as we (thought we) know it.

Once considered the tell-tale signs of conservatism, liberals are experiencing demonstrable symptoms of intolerance, shaming, judgment, and selective application of the first amendment. Commoners, celebrities, influencers, spokespeople, and companies  had their “free speech” canceled. Note the use of quotes around “free speech.”

Many Hollywood ceLIBs have become notably less liberal. “They should go ahead and die and decrease the surplus population” exclaimed a bright, funny, well-liked, liberal, progressive talk show host and comedian. Although he remained nameless, here’s a few other ceLIBs: Jimmy Kimmel: “Covid patients don't deserve ICU beds….rest in peace, wheezy.” Howard Stern echoed Kimmel's sentiment about anti-vaxxers clogging up ICU beds. "I'm really of mind to say, 'Look, if you didn't get vaccinated [and] you got Covid, you don't get into a hospital.' Go fuck yourself.” And The Terminator himself, Arnold Schwarzenegger (former governor of California) said, “screw your freedom” to the anti-vaccination citizens.