I’ve often wondered if people who work in some professions really like or hate their jobs to the point they’re embarrassed to tell anyone what they do. One of my friends was going to interview for a position at Adult Video News but decided at the last minute not to go because he wouldn’t know how to tell people if he had gotten the job. I mean, we grew up in a conservative town but we’re more liberal leaning. Even though I didn’t go to church, his family was involved in the Methodist church and other civic duties. His father was the chair of the English department at the school, for God’s sake.
Speaking of which, those who work for adult toy companies and focus on designing dildos and vibrators as well as manufacturing them must look at those paychecks and say, it’s just a job. The people who work on Hentai, aka Japanimation porn, go through so many details it makes you wonder if they don’t do other legitimate artwork elsewhere. The same goes for the vocal actors. Is it just a gig for them or is there someone or a group of people very skilled in moaning and groaning?
As I’ve gotten older, I’ve started listening to more audiobooks and non-fiction novels. When I listened to Stormy Daniels’ memoir, it was read by Kate Burton, daughter of Richard Burton, who is an accomplished actress herself with her work on stage and screen. Listening to a women in her 60s describe sexual activities is something you just have to hear.
Yeah, actors and filmmakers work on projects that look great while filming but turn out to be a mess during the post-production process. Joe Pantoliano, who’s been in both good and bad movies, said they could tell on The Adventures of Pluto Nash it was a bad movie. I’m just wondering if the people behind Kraven the Hunter got the same instincts when they began production in the winter of 2022.
At least David Zaslav looked at Batgirl and thought “this sucks” and quit when they could. This movie sat on the shelf for two years, delayed because of the SAG-AFTRA/WGA strikes of 2023 and probably because they knew the movie was shite. How could someone look at Aaron Taylor-Johnson running on all fours to attack someone and think it looks like an amazing idea?
Taylor-Johnson plays the titular character aka Sergei Kravinoff. And it’s yet another origin story that tries too hard to be different that it ends up being boring. And taking a bad cue from that 2019 Hellboy movie, it’s violent and gory just for the sake of being violent and gory.
Taylor-Johnson is being predicted to appear as the next James Bond. Well, Sean Connery made Darby O’Gill and the Little People a few years before Dr. No, so maybe it’s a sign.
Russell Crowe plays Sergei’s father because now all he wants to do is appear in schlock movies for big paychecks. Alessandro Nivola plays Aleksei Sytsevich, who becomes Rhino. But realizing how silly it is for a man to be trapped in a rhino suit on the silver screen, they decided to make him a human/rhino hybrid, which is even worse. At least Paul Giamatti added some unintended humor and a bad Russian accent when he played the role in The Amazing Spider-Man 2. But there’s no way he comes off as a threatening villain.
The only good thing about this movie is how it is considered the final nail in the coffin that was the Sony’s Spider-Man Universe, a horrible idea that gave us Morbius, Madame Web and those Venom sequels. Not everything needs to be a shared universe or multiverse. It’s almost kismet that the SSU would be killed by a “Hunter.”
Ok, bad dad joke. But nothing in this movie is good.
What do you think? Please comment.
Zane Says 