mrbungo.bsky.social
VFX artist, classic movie nerd, comics fan, occasional musician, frustrated idealist living in chaotic times. he/him
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Interesting thread, with a credibility hit from most of those goofy live action films of the 60's and 70's living on Disney+ from the start. An easy thing to check in less than a minute. That those were listed on the service's first day gave me a real giggle about seeing some again. Herbie Marathon!
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This reprint is where I first saw this story. I loved the goofball squads of such obsessively themed Batman and Superman anti-groupies! Get a life, fellas.
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I knew that guy was cool.
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The set of Tarzan paperbacks I got as a kid had a number of covers by Neal Adams, which I thought was damn cool. His take on #17 wasn’t quite as bonkers as Jusko’s, but there’s still a lot going on.
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When a non-industry, matinee crowd applauds (twice!) at the end of a movie like the audience I saw SINNERS with did on Saturday, you just know they’re gonna tell their friends about it. This one’s got legs.
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They’re just never gonna stop paying us back for Dick Van Dyke in MARY POPPINS, and who can blame them?
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"Hard Again" is just such an incredible album. Muddy was a giant.
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That’s a pretty weird state of affairs since for decades Wonder and Hostess were the same folks. But now? It’s war!
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Me too! I’m guessing you watched that terrific @secretgalaxy.bsky.social video as well?
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I commissioned this delightful piece, and it's so fun to see it again. The joy on the face of the recipient as she opened it was truly priceless. Once again, thank you, Mark for helping make one Muppet fan's life a sunnier place.
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I love the first episode in which the argument over Krypton’s fate features unmistakable recycled costumes from two classic serials, Flash Gordon and Captain Marvel. Nice bit of comics/film history in the low budget mix!
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Not within walking distance, but a beloved fixture at the park we'd go to for P.E. in elementary school. The brave big kids climbed up the outside and sat on top of his head. I was in awe. I settled for clambering around inside and shooting down his arms headfirst if I was feeling daring. Loved him.
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Koko’s now teaching the Last Son of Krypton how to dance.
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I have no clue who the artist was, but I remember when this ad was current that the art seemed to me way better than anything this silly deserved.
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My personal soft spot is for his original duds, but that is a mighty sweet version of his later, better known incarnation.
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My Koko is now hanging out with an old friend from the studio. They never really worked together back then, but they’d go get drinks after a hard day’s work on camera.
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When the great Carl Lumbly turned up as Isaiah Bradley, from one of my favorite Marvel stories ever, I was so thrilled!
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No kidding! Killing off such a compelling, nuanced antagonist (shout out to Ali’s masterful, human performance) and replacing him with a comparative human cartoon meant that show as a whole never lived up to its full potential. At least the music stayed awesome throughout.
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Saw this fun display at a recent visit to ILM. I’m guessing this Neel head was specifically for display/reference instead of anything worn on screen. Still, always fun to see stuff like this up close.
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Check out the Stanford Theater in Palo Alto, CA, bought and restored by the Packards of Hewlett-Packard. Quentin Tarantino owns and runs the New Beverly and Vista theaters in Hollywood. And Kevin Smith bought his old neighborhood theater in New Jersey and runs it as a non profit. Rare, but real.
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I love mine! Such a great rendition, beautifully sculpted.
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I especially sigh when video games go nuts with that stuff, especially first person games. What, I got dust on my eyeballs?! Such a tired grasp for “reality” that makes no sense in so many cases. And it completely ignores how camera crews take obsessive care of their lenses.
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Oh man, the Amiga and the Toaster. A combo that was so impressive for a very specific point in time. A friend of mine had a whole Toaster setup and I was amazed. All I had was the Amiga half. How I dreamed of making cheesy flying logos and goofy video wipes!
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I’ve known too many people whose sad excuse for a sense of humor is simply quoting jokes from their favorite source of giggles, whether it be Python, SNL, MST3K, or whatever. So maddeningly dull. Even a bad joke you made up yourself shows more wit and imagination than just parroting someone else.
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Phil was my first thought when I saw this. The AI thing makes me sad, but I still loved seeing what sure looked like a nod to Marvels. It’s set in his era after all.
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And for them fancy kids, here’s a Green Machine.
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I remember the days of home pinball machines that were pale imitations of the real thing, but hadn’t thought of them in decades. Fun stuff. That non-sequitur of an ending is a doozy!
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I’ve had a few nightmares of living through a very real-feeling kaiju attack, and they were not fun at all. A lot of the Godzilla movies may be fun goofy nonsense, but my favorites are the very few that depict how terrifying he’d actually be, like the ‘54 original and of course GODZILLA MINUS ONE.
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This is so cool. And he’s popular! Preorders sold out in less than two hours in most places. (I found that out the hard way) That this exists in 2025 and there’s a real demand is quite a testament to the lasting impact of those stunning cartoons from so long ago.
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Toys, movies/tv shows and books. Gots too many of all three, with no cure in sight.
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Those are wonderful. Their crude paint jobs somehow add to their charm.
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Oh I love these so much! That is clearly a Cab Calloway move goin’ on with that ghost.🤩
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Here ya go! youtu.be/lxp1TnITTLY?...
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Then Phil said “Oh yeah? Fine. Deal with this instead.” And gave them yo-yo’s.
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It’s so amusingly crude by today’s standards. And hardly polished even by 70’s capabilities. There’s also some hand animated added barrel glow in the water that’s a chattery mess. Both seem so unnecessary, but what do I know?
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For TED, Seth McFarlane wanted to start the movie with a vintage 80’s version of the Universal logo since that’s the era the story begins in. Universal shot him down. Guess they were a tad less stick-up-the-ass in 1973.
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No, no it doesn’t. O.G. Wotasnozzle could easily build a machine to detect any superior comic strips, but he knows it would just be a waste of time.
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I love DIE HARD but hate that nonsense of resurrecting/teleporting a dead bad guy at the end just so Reginald can shoot him and be lovingly framed as a Real Hero. It feels so tacked on and dumb as dirt. If there was a special edition that did nothing but remove that bullshit, I’d snap it up.
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After being so knocked out by the first season, that Reader’s Digest condensed story in season 2 was so frustrating. That was a show that really deserved the room to breathe and the seasons to allow it. Dumb Netflix crapping on yet another gem.
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I still haven’t seen that movie and every clip I’ve seen only confirms I won’t be rushing to change that. Pretty clear it’s not on my comedy wavelength at all. Internal logic gaps like this don’t help the movie plead its case!
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Well deserved! That short is brilliant.
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I bought the same model from the same place. It’s been very good to me. Love watching obscure or classic movies that have only been released overseas. Welcome to the club!
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Oh you bet. The purely merch-based decisions made on JEDI were why Lucas' longtime producer, Gary Kurtz, left the fold. A canary in a coal mine with a Lincoln beard. (Kurtz was a friend of my dad's from USC, and it was fun getting the Lucasfilm Xmas cards until Gary'd had enough.)
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That moment was really eye-opening for me on just how much Lucas had become more producer than director. That and the decision to cast Jake Lloyd over a clearly more gifted young actor because Lloyd was "more consistent." Not about art as much as a smooth running machine. And thus the movie we got.
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I've never bought a fancy-pants popcorn bucket. (Hell, I never buy popcorn.) But damn if that might get me. The rats inside are a great thematic touch. I've been so looking forward to spending Xmas with Eggers' take on Count Orlok.
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Indiana Jones is one of my favorite movie heroes ever, but that's due entirely to the lightning in a bottle that was RAIDERS. They've real hard tried ever since to cram lightning back into that same bottle, and have *never* succeeded. Blaming the audience for that is absurd.
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Huh. I've sure seen a ton of Rankin/Bass specials over the decades, yet seem to have missed this one? While their cel-animated holiday specials don't tend to charm me as much as the stop-motion efforts, I'll have to track this one down.
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No kidding. That show deserved to live a lot longer. So damn good. And pour one out for the late great Ray Stevenson, who gave such a terrific, soulful performance as Pullo.
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That’s something I love about the HBO/BBC series “Rome.” It depicts a city that included grimy slums and, perhaps most shockingly, color. None of that clean white stone everywhere that Hollywood’s sold as Rome forever. (An old trope that Gladiator II is happy to continue, just like its predecessor.)