I think it’s become obvious that Hollywood these days is pretty much out of ideas. It’s why we end up with so many shitty sequels to movies no one asked for sequels for. I don’t think anyone was ever like “You know, I really wanna know how those two guys meet in that movie that’s now 10 years old”, yet we got Dumb and Dumberer: How Harry Met Lloyd. While many sequels are quick cash ins (see Aladdin IV: Jafar May Need Glasses), many times the sequel ends up being far superior to original film.

Sometimes a sequel can be much better that the film it was spawned from. We’ll get to those later. But this week I examine those films that just suck in comparison to those that came before them, and in fact can make those first movies even worse just by existing.

Memes? Who doesn’t love em? The power of the internet to force feed funny (or unfunny) things down its own throat for extended periods of time is totally awesome right? Because it’s not a thing on the internet until it goes viral!

Everyone has a sidekick. That buddy they seem to always pal around with. The Yin to their Yang. The Peanut Butter to their Jelly. The Brodie to their T.S. Or the T.S to their Brody, for all I know they could be your sidekick instead of the other way around.

I haven’t really done any gaming marathons in a long time, since I was a Destruction Warlock in WoW running Kara and Gruul’s Lair waaaaay back in the day. Star Trek Online isn’t really a “marathon” type game, as it doesn’t have any content that takes longer than 45 minutes. But I’ve marathoned Star Trek or Planet of the Apes or Clerks movies many a time.

What can I say, my taste in cereal is like my taste in drinks. Things that are fruity and taste good.

With today being May 4th, even though I’m at the Star Trek Con, I thought I would do something Star Wars related.

I used to be huge into Star Wars. Back when AOL was only 5 hours a month, I spent those 5 hours in a 1 hour Star Wars trivia chatroom each Friday night. But then the dark day came on May 19, 1999, and I decided to switch my primary allegiance to Star Trek.

Cell phones are ubiquitous these days. Everyone has one, and just about everyone thinks they have to best ringtone ever. I’m here to tell you, no, no you don’t. Pretty much every ring tone is annoying. It’s that way by design so you pick up the phone as soon as possible. Some are just worse than others.