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Post by adamclark52 on Dec 20, 2020 17:53:07 GMT -6
adamclark52s Top Ten Disappointments of 2020 SO, HOW WAS YOUR YEAR? MINE WAS OKAY. IF ANYTHING IT WAS A LITTLE BORING. BUT I SAW SOME GOOD MOVIES, GOT SOME br00tal NEW TATTOOS, STARTED A NEW JOB, ETC. THAT'S NOT TO SAY THERE WEREN'T A FEW THINGS THAT RUFFLED MY FEATHERS THIS YEAR. SO LET'S BEGIN, SHALL WE.
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Post by adamclark52 on Dec 20, 2020 17:55:48 GMT -6
10. Anaal Nathrakh - EndarkenmentAnaal Nathrakh are a funny, funny band to me. They release albums at a pace you can set your watch to, every other year at almost the exact same day. And like clockwork for the last ten years, they released albums of varying quality that was almost as predictable. And stranger still those albums were all almost the same but I could pick out ones I liked more than others. Since 2009 it has gone: In the Constellation of The Black Widow (2009): good Passion (2011): bad Vanitas (2012): good Desideratum (2014): bad The Whole of the Law (2016): good A New Kind of Horror (2018): ba…wait a second? That one was really good too. What gives? So I wasn’t sure what to expect with Endarkenment. Would they hit three home runs in a row? Or would they continue their trend after one blip in the system? Sadly it was the latter. And it’s not like it was even a “bad” album. It just wasn’t…good. I’ll file it with Desideratum and Eschaton as those albums that I have to Google the spelling of their titles. If anything the band has to take a step back for a while. Maybe take a good five years off and then come back when not one is expecting anything. Make it mean something other than "oh, it's fall in an even numbered year, time for a new Anaal Nathrakh album". And the pig face penis cover is beneath them.
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Post by adamclark52 on Dec 22, 2020 2:15:17 GMT -6
9. Mushroomhead – A Wonderful LifeI really shouldn’t have and don’t have very high expectations for a Mushroomhead album but even they’re capable of better than this. There is literally one song on it that I can tolerate and that’s the very first song on the album A Reqiuem For Tomorrow. After that there’s sixteen (yes, SIXTEEN) songs that I never want to hear again in my life. Well, I listened to them again maybe six months after the album came out just to see if they were as bad as I remembered and I made it about halfway through before I remembered that it was. I can say that a lot of the problem lies in new vocalist Jackie LaPonza because she is pretty horrible. But she’s not even the lead vocalist on the album. It’s a group effort of sucking. Their last album wasn’t very good either and didn’t really have anything for me until about midway through. But this was just shit. And now you can say “well Adam what did you expect? Mushroomhead are shit”. I’m not going to disagree with you this time around. If they were a really good band then this would have made it a lot higher on the list.
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Post by adamclark52 on Dec 23, 2020 2:26:19 GMT -6
8. Big Tits ZombieI had really high hopes that this movie would meet my really low standards. I’m a simple man. An old man. A lonely man. I have certain perversions that are often satisfied by a certain type of cinema. Am I supposed to deny myself my self? I watched quite a few horror movies from Japan this year and with a title like that, a cover like that and the beautiful Sora Aoi in the lead I thought I’d hit the motherload. But I’ve seen much better in both the areas of skin and violence from Japanese ultra-gore. I guess story too, but who watches these movies for story? There was skin. And there was violence. Not enough though. I was expecting a non-stop barrage of both. I was much more satisfied with Zombie Ass: Toilet of the Dead.
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Post by adamclark52 on Dec 24, 2020 1:18:55 GMT -6
7. Revenge - Strike.Smother.DehumanizeRevenge are another one of those bands much like Anaal Nathrakh who have pretty much released the exact same album for their entire career but I somehow manage to pick something out to differentiate them. On this new album they really overdid the pitch-shifted vocals to the point where it got real old and even annoying. They used them quite effectively on their last album (2015’s ‘Behold.Total.Rejection’) but this time around they were used in pretty much every song and it was too much. And the album lacked that one song with “that moment”, like the ending of Conquest Genocide (from ‘Triumph.Genocide.Antichrist’) or a meaty riff like the one in Doom Order (from ‘Victory.Intolerance.Mastery’). I still applaud them for their laser focus to consistency on all fronts of their presentation but it felt like this time around they were trying too hard to meet people’s expectations for a Revenge album.
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Post by adamclark52 on Dec 26, 2020 17:31:19 GMT -6
6. New Model Cars (fuck you, I’m old)Buying a new car was an inevitability that I held off on as long as I could. I was happy with my 2009 Mazda3 Hatchback but I also felt like a donk because it didn’t have features that are standard these days; like a back-up camera, Bluetooth, cruise control or a cap on the gas tank. It had a wicked Cannibal Corpse sticker on the back window that somehow lasted since I bought the car in 2012. All good things come to an end and I had to say goodbye to it in August. So I got me a “brand new” (used) 2019 Mazda3 Sedan with all the bells and whistles…and no CD player since vehicles produced after 2018 eliminated them. That was a kick in the teeth that I knew was coming for about a year and a half since I bought my last van and the dealer couldn’t believe that a 2017 model still had one. And you think car audio shops can install an aftermarket CD player? Nope. So instead I had to buy a fucking discman (which are somehow still in production) and now I have this big stupid thing sitting on my dashboard. It reminds me of the scene in Wayne’s World where (after he’s signed his first big deal) him and Cassandra are driving and he puts a CD in an external CD player on his dashboard and she’s blown away that he has a CD player in his car. Except the opposite. Now if someone saw me put a CD in an external player they’d have a different look of disbelief on their face. Fuck you, I’m old. I still listen to CDs. But this is a huge nail in the coffin and I can see myself gravitating away from them in the next few years. Oh, plus the car is a piece of shit. No guts. Terrible milage. Weak-ass stereo. The trunk isn’t insulated while I’m driving thanks to my snow tires make it sound like I’m in a helicopter. Not to mention the CD player doesn’t have a backlight so I can’t tell what song is playing.
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Post by adamclark52 on Dec 27, 2020 18:13:40 GMT -6
5. Salem – Fires in HeavenOn September 28th, 2010 Salem released the greatest album of the decade that was the 2010’s: the behemoth known as King Night. Almost ten years to the day (on October 30th, 2020) they finally released the follow-up to their masterpiece. While it’s a fucking good album it’s understandably impossible to follow perfection. The album has some glaring problems; the worst of which is the beginning and the end. Opener Capulets is…not a good song. So right from the start I was turned off and worried. And closer Not Much of a Life is…terrible. It’s just terrible. So in the end I was left with a really bad taste in my mouth. The nine songs those bookended though are incredible. But BUT they’re all just way too short. That’s a good bad thing. I want more of all these songs. The title track and Sears Tower are destined to be timeless classics for the ages. Crisis has this twisted feel that would have been more than at home on King Night. Starfall is audio heroin. But they all feel like they’re just parts of songs. They have "it" in them but they're still keeping it to themselves. I guess it comes down to feeling like that after ten years I didn’t get my fill of Salem. I’m hungry for more. And of it takes another ten years to get another serving I don’t know what I’ll do.
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Post by adamclark52 on Dec 28, 2020 15:42:35 GMT -6
4. TenetI’ve liked pretty much all of Christopher Nolan’s movies. But I think I’m just not smart enough to really enjoy Tenet. Or maybe it’s the movie is just too smart for the audience? All I know is I really had no idea what was going on pretty much the entire time and I was ready to leave after about an hour but I forced myself to stay because Nolan usually pulls out something wicked in the end. There were other complaints about the volume of the movie drowning out the dialogue but I didn’t really notice that so much. Mind you I’d tuned out so there’s that. I just noticed that it was all style with absolutely zero substance. Denzel’s kid was really good and nice to watch, and Robert Pattison didn’t sparkle in sunlight. He didn't really shine though like some other people made it seem. He was there. The Russian couple…were they even Russian?, I forget…they were losers. What I did notice afterwards is all my favourite of Christopher Nolan’s movies (Memento, the Dark Knight and Interstellar) have one thing in common: they were co-written with his older brother Johnathan. This was not. So that right there solves that mystery. This movie sucked.
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Post by adamclark52 on Dec 30, 2020 2:31:16 GMT -6
3. Borat Subsequent Moviefilm: Delivery of Prodigious Bribe to American Regime for Make Benefit Once Glorious Nation of KazakhstanI know a lot of people don't like it, but I LOVED the first Borat movie. This is what I still see and laugh about. It's been fourteen years, and people give me a whole picture, but I'll quote it as a quote. Why? Because it is TIMEless. When I first heard the soundtrack of the second Borat film, I was excited and skeptical. I didn't know how Borat's humorous style would make us live our lives in this BETA world, in the world of snowflakes and cupcakes. 2006 j. Karaganda 2020 j. There were still a lot of jokes in the world about the need to get rid of one's head, and the young girl who played the role of Twtar did a great job sitting next to him. In the meantime, he took a political path and completely lost interest. I don't find anything interesting or interesting in American politics about Donald Trump or their election. Little did I know that the guy with the fly in the ointment was the vice president. It can have a profound effect on non-US readers, but the whole world ... we don't care. Mine, I learned that the film quickly loses its relevance. Well, just a couple of months after we got it, the world is moving forward. I saw this movie in 2034 and can imagine that none of it matters. So politics suddenly turned me away from the film. There were still a few funny bitters, but then he turned left, and I couldn't say no. I think it would be a lot of fun if he didn't change anything and didn't know anything after being Borat.
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Post by adamclark52 on Dec 31, 2020 2:55:41 GMT -6
2. Mr. Bungle – the Raging Wrath of the Easter Bunny DemoAside from the Faith No More album that came out in 2016 Mike Patton has racked up an impressive string of releasing absolute garbage music that garners interest based solely on his name. But I guess his name value may be wearing out? This was the first time he had to resort to using a legendary name from his past (again, I don’t include Faith No More because he was only 1/4th of the engine behind that reunion) to garner interest after his last project (the equally terrible Dead Cross) seemingly fizzled out. The original Raging Wrath of the Easter Bunny was unlistenable garbage that thankfully was long in the past and obviously Mr. Bungle grew into something so much better. So I can get why go back to Mr. Bungle but why go back to this garbage music? I’m not the biggest thrasher guy but I know good thrash when I hear it. These songs are overly long, boring, repetitive and they all sound exactly the same. Patton himself sounds the same as he always does and one cool thing he does do is emulating the wild, crazy horns that were at the forefront of all of Mr. Bungles good music. And there’s another problem: this isn’t Mr. Bungle. Where were Danny Heifetz, Clinton McKinnon and Theo Lengyel? I get Lengyel not being involved because he left the band a few years before the band broke up. But the other two? Dave Lombardo and Scott Ian are great for thrash musicians but their ceiling with the band is this shit and that’s it. I guess reuniting and only playing this garbage is the “Bungle” thing to do. But it’s such a step backwards for such a talented band. Hopefully this is out of their system now and whatever they do next is good. Bowel of Chiley and Goddammit I Love America! weren't very good demos either (aside from the songs that made it onto their self-titled debut) so hopefully they don't redo those as well. But I hope they do do something else because if THIS is how one of the greatest bands ever ends that’s a sad thing.
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Post by adamclark52 on Jan 1, 2021 0:17:31 GMT -6
1. Nothing…absolutely nothing. Two weeks ago Luke Skywalker made his triumphant return and single handily took out AN ENITRE PLATOON of Dark Troopers without breaking a fucking sweat enroute to rescuing Grogu and continuing the Childs Jedi training. That right there, those ten minutes right there, made EVERYTHING right in the world. All the bad shit Disney has done to my franchise was forgotten. 2020 was forgotten. That moment meant a lot to a lot of people. But I don’t know if you realise how much it meant to me. Star Wars has been more than a series of movies to me for most of my life. It’s a fucking religion. A religion that’s been totally shit on for the last five years. After all the bad I feared Disney was going to do with Star Wars and after they’d actually managed to do a lot of it everything was fixed by them doing THE RIGHT THING. There was only one Jedi that could have been at the end of that episode. Ashoka, that kid with the big nose from Rebels, Mace Windu(?), even Mara Jade; all good in their own rights. But there is only one and Luke Skywalker is THE ONE. The Jedi returned. All is right in the world. I can die today and it will be with a smile on my face and good in my heart.
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Post by adamclark52 on Jan 1, 2021 0:22:30 GMT -6
Finally, peace.
So I guess…that’s it?
Is this…what it means…to be happy?
I don’t know how I can continue doing this yearly angry list anymore…now that I was able to see my dream come true.
Like, 2021 can throw whatever it wants at me…it won’t matter.
That’s what it took.
I’ve finally found peace.
I’ll die now.
Goodbye.
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Post by JRA on Jan 5, 2021 16:27:12 GMT -6
1. Nothing…absolutely nothing. Two weeks ago Luke Skywalker made his triumphant return and single handily took out AN ENITRE PLATOON of Dark Troopers without breaking a fucking sweat enroute to rescuing Grogu and continuing the Childs Jedi training. That right there, those ten minutes right there, made EVERYTHING right in the world. All the bad shit Disney has done to my franchise was forgotten. 2020 was forgotten. That moment meant a lot to a lot of people. But I don’t know if you realise how much it meant to me. Star Wars has been more than a series of movies to me for most of my life. It’s a fucking religion. A religion that’s been totally shit on for the last five years. After all the bad I feared Disney was going to do with Star Wars and after they’d actually managed to do a lot of it everything was fixed by them doing THE RIGHT THING. There was only one Jedi that could have been at the end of that episode. Ashoka, that kid with the big nose from Rebels, Mace Windu(?), even Mara Jade; all good in their own rights. But there is only one and Luke Skywalker is THE ONE. The Jedi returned. All is right in the world. I can die today and it will be with a smile on my face and good in my heart. Are these the Dark Troopers from the Dark Forces games?
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Post by adamclark52 on Jan 5, 2021 16:51:17 GMT -6
1. Nothing…absolutely nothing. Two weeks ago Luke Skywalker made his triumphant return and single handily took out AN ENITRE PLATOON of Dark Troopers without breaking a fucking sweat enroute to rescuing Grogu and continuing the Childs Jedi training. That right there, those ten minutes right there, made EVERYTHING right in the world. All the bad shit Disney has done to my franchise was forgotten. 2020 was forgotten. That moment meant a lot to a lot of people. But I don’t know if you realise how much it meant to me. Star Wars has been more than a series of movies to me for most of my life. It’s a fucking religion. A religion that’s been totally shit on for the last five years. After all the bad I feared Disney was going to do with Star Wars and after they’d actually managed to do a lot of it everything was fixed by them doing THE RIGHT THING. There was only one Jedi that could have been at the end of that episode. Ashoka, that kid with the big nose from Rebels, Mace Windu(?), even Mara Jade; all good in their own rights. But there is only one and Luke Skywalker is THE ONE. The Jedi returned. All is right in the world. I can die today and it will be with a smile on my face and good in my heart. Are these the Dark Troopers from the Dark Forces games? no idea
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Post by sanitarium78 on Jan 7, 2021 14:15:37 GMT -6
All I know is Luke whooped the ass of every single dark trooper. Now they need to get an actor to play him for the series. The digitally reverse aged Mark Hamil face was fine here. But if they are going to do more with Luke then they need an real actor going forward.
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