Zero Day

I finished watching the Netflix series Zero Day last night.  WOW!!!!  Great plot, script, acting (from DeNiro across the board)!!!  The entire series is riveting and keeps you guessing until the very end.  What makes it that much more intense is the plausibility of it.  I don't want to give away any details in the event you decide to watch it.  It is well worth the time.

For those of you who are more politically aware, you'll start to pick up the thinly veiled parallels to the current administration.  Many of the current casts of characters have counterparts in the series.  Any Sex Pistols fans out there will appreciate the inclusion of the song Who Killed Bambi?

That's all for now.  Remember to be good to each other.

Mars Attacks

These little green men are from the Mars Attacks game by Mantic Games.  I kept the paint scheme as close to the images I saw online from the movie.  Overall, I pretty happy with the end result.

Our Martian friends (foes) are joined by a trio of other aliens.  The one in the middle is a Shangheili figure from the Halo Board Game.  The two figures on either side of it are Kasatha Operatives by Starfinder Battles

Get ready Space Force, it seems like an alien invasion is eminent!  Look to the skies!!!!

Misfits*

Last night I watched Thunderbolts* on Disney+.  I was a big fan on the team when Marvel launched it way back in 1997.  That team was made up of a bunch of criminals disguising themselves as heroes in a time when the Avengers were nowhere to be found.

This new team is made up of B-List Heroes with a ton of baggage.  The new Black Widow, U.S. Agent, the Red Guardian, Ghost, the Winter Soldier, and Sentry are manipulated by Allegra de Fontaine into first fighting each other, and then coming together to save New York.  

I'm sorry but this film just didn't work for me.  Taskmaster ( a great Marvel character) was killed off in like the first 10 minutes of the film. What a waste!  The Red Guardian got on my last nerve in a hurry. Bucky, a U.S. Congressman, what???  I never cared for the Sentry character and after the film I like him even less.  The story was just too cheesy to be good.

On the upside, Florence Pugh's acting was fabulous.  Kudos to Julia Louis-Dreyfus as well.  Hannah John-Kamen did a great job as Ghost who was constantly saving the team's backsides throughout the film. (I love this character and would like to see more of her in the future.) 

SO, fan boys and girls, that's my 2 cents on the film for what it's worth.  Peace, Out, Sauerkraut!