A New Trailer and Posters Just Came Out for “Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die,” and They Don’t Look Very Good 😬

Note: This was originally written from Thursday January 27, 2026 to Monday February 2, 2026, and wasn’t posted until after the 199th post and 200th post. 

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(This is one of the new posters for Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die.)

Well, they just released some new posters and a new trailer for the upcoming sci-fi action comedy film, Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die directed by Gore Verbinski earlier this month. They didn’t have any posters for this movie before, just a logo, but now they do, and I guess I got to talk about it. Depending on how this goes, and how the reviews for the movie turn out when it finally comes out on February 13, 2026, this may be the last time I ever talk about this movie on this blog. At least, as far as dedicated posts are concerned. I may mention it in other posts, in passing. But never dedicate a whole entire post to it like this if the reviews don’t end up being very good, and I decide not to watch it. I know this is pretty old news now, and no one is really about it. Everyone’s either focused on the new Masters of the Universe (2026) trailer or the new Super Mario Galaxy Movie trailer, and no one seems to be really talking about this movie anyway. But, I feel that I should cover this real quick because I already talked about the first trailer in a previous post, along with the first full trailer for The Super Mario Galaxy Movie, which is my most anticipated movie of 2026. I did actually watch the Masters of the Universe (2026) trailer before writing this post, and it was actually better than expected. I was expecting this to look a lot worse, but it doesn’t. Skeletor actually looks pretty cool, I thought he was going to look like shit because he’s voiced by Jared Leto, and I hate Jared Leto, starting to anyway, but he doesn’t, he actually looks pretty badass. 

 

They show him speaking at all, so we have no idea what Jared Leto will sound like doing the voice of Skeletor. All of the He-Man fans want him to sound like he how he did in the original 1980s cartoon, but I doubt they’ll make him sound like that. This is a big budget blockbuster, and it looks it’s going to be a bit more dark and grittier than past iterations of He-Man, at least darker and grittier than the 80s cartoon or the 80s movie starring Dolph Lundgren. There’s no room for any silly cartoony voices here. I’m guessing that they’re going to make him sound a bit more whispery, maybe a bit more raspy, since this is Jared Leto, and given what he looks like in this, it seems like they might want to make Skeletor more creepy than anything else. Because he’s a guy with a skull 💀 for a head with glowing red beady eyes. And given what we know about Jared Leto, I’m sure he’ll bring the creep factor 😆. 

 

Despite early worries that this movie would repeat the same mistake as the 1987 Masters of the Universe film by Cannon Films, and take place mostly in the real world instead of Eternia, but judging by this trailer, that doesn’t seem to be the case. It seems like the only parts that in the real world are the beginning, with the setup, and the ending, during the climax when Skeletor’s forces escape from Eternia and start attacking the real world. But, most of the movie in-between will take place in Eternia. Kind of what they did with The Super Mario Bros. Movie, how the beginning mostly takes place in the human world, in New York, and the climax takes place there after Mario lures a giant Bullet Bill into one of the pipes and it explodes and opens a rift between the dimensions, and causes all the characters that were in the Mushroom Kingdom 🍄 come into the regular human world where Mario and Luigi (and presumably even Princess Peach too) came from. But, most of the middle section takes place in the Mushroom Kingdom 🍄, in the Mario world that we come to know from the games. So, the movie’s been redeemed in that aspect, but like I said in another post, trailers can be deceiving. Just because a trailer looks decent, doesn’t mean the movie itself will. We have yet to hear Jared Leto’s voice as Skeletor, and see how the character is actually going to be portrayed in this movie. It’s a bit too soon to jump to conclusions. We’ll have to wait for more trailers or until the movie comes out to see it for ourselves. The movie comes out in June, so it is definitely a summer release ☀️. 

 

I still probably won’t go see it either way, even if the reviews all end up saying that it’s good because I’m not a He-Man fan. I didn’t grow up with it, I don’t have any nostalgia for it, I have no attachment to it whatsoever. I am of course, aware of it, and I have been aware of it for a long time because a lot of the movie and TV reviewing YouTubers I’ve watched over the years are either fans of He-Man or made references to it. I know at least three of the characters, He-Man, also known as Adam Glenn, Skeletor, and She-Ra, who got her own spinoff series. Two of them in fact, She-Ra: Princess of Power and She-Ra and the Princesses of Power, the one that got dunked on by the anti-woke side of the Internet 🛜 for being woke. And I know that He-Man has a reputation and became a meme for being unintentionally gay ⚣, or perhaps very intentionally but not intentionally gay ⚣ if that makes any sense because the creator behind He-Man is apparently gay ⚣ himself. Or at least, bisexual. He’s definitely queer, let’s put it that way. Maybe he did want this show and toyline to be gay ⚣, but because it was the 80s and it was meant for kids, he couldn’t be as overt about it he might’ve wanted it to. So, he tried to be as subtle and not subtle as he could without upsetting the sensibilities of 80s audiences, particularly 80s parents. 

 

There was still a lot of homophobia back then, and there still is today, but nothing compared to back then during the 80s, and even further back in time to the 1970s, 1960s, 1950s, and beyond. The further back in past you go, the worse homophobia gets. But, I say “subtle and not subtle” because while he did try to be subtle enough to avoid the 1980s censors, he wasn’t subtle enough to where people who wanted to see it could see it. There is a lot of subtle, but not so subtle homoeroticism baked into this franchise, especially the original 80s cartoon itself. It’s become part of its identity and its charm, and it’s been embraced by the queer community, and has recognized retrospectively by historians as one of the first gay cartoon TV shows 🏳️‍🌈 for kids. There would be a lot more in the future, especially on Cartoon Network in the 2010s, but He-Man was one of the first. It was true pioneer in normalizing queerness in media, even if the words “gay ⚣” or “queer” are never uttered once in the whole show. But, you look at that 80s cartoon, and you can see what the people who made knew exactly what they were doing 😉. So, I’ll leave this one to the He-Man fans, the people who actually grew up with it and actually know something about it. It’ll be fun to watch Double Toasted 🍞’s review it, whether it ends up being good or bad (especially if it’s bad) because the host of it, Korey Coleman is a huge He-Man fan. I haven’t seen him geek out over anything more than I saw him geek over this trailer. 

Something I do know more about and am a fan of is Mario, and this latest Mario Galaxy Movie trailer was pretty good. I’m not going to write a dedicated post to it like I did for the first two trailers, the announcement trailer and the actual main full trailer (which I did alongside the first trailer to Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die, which I will get to, don’t worry) because I really don’t have much new to say about it that I haven’t said in the other two posts. The only thing I really have to say is that it looks good, and I can’t wait to watch it, whether it’s in theaters or not. I said in my Greenland 2 🇬🇱 review that I’m going to try to see more movies in this year, emphasis on “try.” Just because I want to see more movies in theaters this year, and will try doesn’t mean I will. But, the fact that I managed to so far see one movie ☝️ in theaters this year is still a leg up from last year, where I didn’t see any movies in theaters. Obviously, the big new element that they showed in this new trailer is Yoshi, pretty much confirming that, yes, Yoshi will be in this movie and he will have a big role. That after credit scene in the first Super Mario Bros. movie wasn’t for nothing, they actually followed through with that, and Yoshi looks and sounds great. It’s going to be a delight to see him in this movie, and see what exactly they do with him. Obviously he’s going to be a companion to Mario and Luigi, but more so Mario, but to what extent will he actually play a role in the story? They did release a new poster for the movie showing Mario riding Yoshi, as he tends to in the games, so we do know at least that there will be apart where Mario rides him. 

 

And just as I suspected those two characters that were on the dirt bikes in the sand dunes of the Sand Kingdom were indeed Mario and Luigi, and they’re on some kind of mission. Obviously we don’t know what that mission is yet, but I’m guessing this part set in the Sand Kingdom is going to be at the beginning, to show what Mario and Luigi have been doing since the first movie, before the main story begins. I’m glad that we saw the Tostarenans from the Tostarena Town, and I’m glad we got to hear their voices, what they sound like when they’re not speaking video game gibberish like they were in Super Mario Odyssey. They look and sound great. I know said earlier that trailers can be deceiving, and yes, they can be, a lot of the times they are, but I am confident from we’ve seen the trailers so far that this movie will be good. Even if critics end up hating it like they did the first one, I’ll still probably like it, just like I liked the first one despite the majority of critics seemingly hating it. Not all critics hated the first one, there were some who actually liked it like the guys ♂︎ at Double Toasted 🍞, though some of them liked it better than the others, and there other critics were just kind of okay with it. They weren’t necessarily lukewarm about the movie, but they didn’t love it or hate it either, they were just okay with it. They thought it was decent. But, I have noticed that a lot more people are looking forward to this movie than they were the first one. Like, even the guys ♂︎ at Double Toasted 🍞 are more excited for one. Korey said that it looks like something that’ll put him in a good mood 😁. 

 

I guess maybe because we’ve got the origin out of the way, and now we’re getting into the stuff that people wanted to see the first time. Like, they’re doing more stuff from the more popular games of the franchise like Super Mario Galaxy (which is what the whole movie is named after) and Super Mario Odyssey. Those are two of the most beloved and well liked entry in the mainline Mario series. And I concur, I love Super Mario Odyssey, I think that’s a genuinely great game, and I love that they’re pulling a lot of stuff from it for this movie even if it’s called The Super Mario Galaxy Movie. I wish they’d pull stuff from Super Mario Sunshine ☀️, but I understand why they’re not. It’s not a very popular or well liked entry in the series, and besides Bowser Jr. and the Piantas, Nintendo doesn’t seem to want to acknowledge that game, or let the filmmakers acknowledge or pay tribute to that game. 

 

Also, no Princess Daisy, she’s Luigi’s love interest ❤️ and she’s a fan favorite, and yet, she’s not going to be in this movie, as far as we know. I heard that the creator of Mario, Shigeru Miyamoto doesn’t like to acknowledge or include characters that he personally didn’t create, and Princess Daisy wasn’t created by him, so he often doesn’t feature her in Mario games outside of the spinoff titles. I don’t know how much of that is true, but it does make sense and it’s a bit fucked up if it’s true. Like, even if you didn’t personally create her, she’s still a popular and beloved character that people want to see, you should still include her in more stuff. Maybe they are planning to do something with her in the movies, but they’re saving her for the third if this movie is successful enough to get a third, which I’m pretty confident that will. 

 

I think The Super Mario Galaxy Movie is gonna kill at the box office just the first one did, and might even do better than the first one since there’s a lot more excitement and enthusiasm for this one than the previous one. If they do make a third one, it’ll probably be after they make that Donkey Kong spinoff movie they talked about doing. I also hope they do a Captain Toad spinoff movie too because I liked Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker. Speaking of which, another detail that liked that they showed in this trailer is that Toad gets jealous of Yoshi being apart of the group. It does make sense, if not a bit clichéd, and it does play into the games, like it is a reference to something in the games, because Toad was not in Super Mario World, Yoshi’s debut game. So of course, logically, Toad would feel excluded by Yoshi being included in the group. 

 

Also, Birdo’s here too, we see her fighting Princess Peach. I wonder they’ll make her sound like, or if she’ll have an actual voice at all, given that it’s often been speculated that Birdo is in fact a trans character ⚧, and is often referred by fans who believe in that interpretation as “Birdetta.” Just like Poison from Final Fight and Street Fighter. But, given how conservative Japan 🇯🇵 still is to this day, and how many of the top government and business leaders in Japan 🇯🇵 are conservative, and how homophobic and transphobic that country still is, I doubt that this aspect of the character will be highlighted, especially since it’s not been made official one way or another if Birdo is trans ⚧ or not. That is just a fan speculation and interpretation, let’s be honest here. Do you really think Nintendo is going to allow them to make that character trans ⚧ for real in the movie? In the political climate that we currently live in, in not just in the United States 🇺🇸, but in Japan 🇯🇵 as well? I don’t think so, I highly doubt it. You know, this isn’t Taiwan 🇹🇼, Nintendo isn’t a Taiwanese company 🇹🇼. Japan 🇯🇵 is still not a very LGBTQ+ friendly country 🏳️‍🌈. But, I guess we’ll find out when the movie comes out, or when they release more trailers and TV spots and show a lot more.

There is one more thing that I want to talk about before I actually start talking about Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die for the second time on this blog. Since I’m writing this early, just like my Greenland 2 🇬🇱 review, I still haven’t written my 199th post and 200th post, and I had some minor setbacks with those. Some unforeseen complications. I’ll start with the complication regarding my 200th post because it is a bit minor compared to the one regarding my 199th post. I mean, they’re both pretty minor, but one’s more minor than the other. Basically, my plan is to review The Simpsons Movie for my 200th post. I’ve said this already multiple times, I feel like a broken record at this point. My original plan was to review Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius for my 200th post, but I couldn’t get the Blu-Ray 💿 in the time, and it’s only available to rent or buy on all the streaming services like Apple TV+, Amazon Prime, and VUDU AKA Fandango at Home, and I don’t feel like doing that, at least right now. I already kind of have to do with that my 199th post, and I don’t want to have to do it twice, and have my aunt spend more money 💵 on it because she’s the one paying for it. We’re using her streaming accounts after all. 
 

So, I chose The Simpsons Movie, because it was a movie that I’ve been wanting review on my blog for quite some time, and it is readily available on Disney+. No need to pay separately for it, as long as you have a Disney+ account, as long as you’re paying for the subscription (like my aunt is), you can watch it. I was originally thinking of reviewing it for my 300th post, but I moved it up to my 200th post. Instead, I’m review Jimmy Neutron for my 300th post, I’ve kind of switched them around. Hopefully, I will have that movie on Blu-Ray 💿 by then, or hopefully Paramount does a 4K release of it like they did for The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie 🧽. I kind of doubt it because Paramount seems to only respect SpongeBob 🧽 and pull out all the stops for SpongeBob 🧽 and nothing else. Especially not Jimmy Neutron, they don’t respect Jimmy Neutron at all. They wouldn’t have made a crappy spinoff show of it if they did. Rest in peace, Jeffery Garcia, the voice of Sheen, you were the best part of The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron, Boy Genius, and even if the show wasn’t great, you were great in Planet Sheen too 😔.

But, I still wanted to check first to see if it was on Disney+ still or not, because Disney+, like all streaming services has a tendency to remove movies and shows from their platforms for little-to-no-reason. Most people assume that when they do this they do it as a tax write-off, but sometimes, it’s not even that. Sometimes they do it because they felt like it, because they didn’t want that show or movie on there anymore, and didn’t want let anyone else see it from then on out. I mean, I figured that it would still be on there because The Simpsons was one of the many properties that they acquired when they bought 20th Century Fox (really 21st Century Fox, that’s the name of the entity they actually bought) for billions of dollars 💵, and they want a return on their investment. They’re not just going to rid of the movie just because it wasn’t under them. It’s the same reason why the show isn’t going to end anytime soon, despite it going on for 37 years, and nearly all of the voice actors being senior citizens now. They’re currently working on a second film, it would be weird for them to remove the first movie from their streaming service, only to then make a second one, which will probably end up on their streaming service. Whether it’s a theatrical release first or a straight up straight-to-streaming release. 

 

I do plan to touch on the second movie in my review of the first movie, even though there isn’t much to talk about, since they just barely announced it last year and made it official that they’re making a second Simpsons movie, so we have no idea what it’s even going to be about. I doubt that it’ll continue the story from the first movie because the first movie’s story was pretty self-contained and it was wrapped up pretty conclusively. I mean, the show kept going afterwards, and didn’t carry over anything from the movie. The show didn’t reference anything that happened in the movie from what I know. I don’t watch The Simpsons, I just watched the movie and that one short that Disney put out of Lisa meeting all the Disney villains and becoming one herself. I’ve seen some other Simpsons stuff here and there, I know the memes, but I haven’t seen a full episode of The Simpsons. But, if anyone reading this does still watch The Simpsons, you know “modern Simpsons,” any Simpsons mega fans out there, please tell me, do they actually reference anything from the movie in the episodes that were made after the movie? So, I won’t say too much about the upcoming sequel here, other than that it’s about time. 

 

It’s been 19 years, almost 20 years, since The Simpsons Movie came out. It’ll be 20 years next year, and if the second one comes out next year, then it’ll come out on the 20th anniversary of the first one. Just like Independence Day: Resurgence came out on the 20th anniversary of Independence Day, though hopefully The Simpsons Movie 2 will be a much better sequel than Independence Day: Resurgence. Paramount and Nickelodeon made 3 SpongeBob 🧽 movies (5 if you count the two spinoff movies on Netflix) in the time it for 20th Century Fox, and now Disney to finally make a second Simpsons movie. Aren’t they supposed to make a Family Guy movie too? I remember hearing that a Family Guy movie was in development a while ago, and I heard about it since, are they still making that? Or has it been canceled? Maybe, it’ll get made at the same time that Warner Bros. and Cartoon Network make that Amazing World of Gumball movie. Does Warner Bros. even still own The Amazing World of Gumball? The sequel series, The Wonderfully Weird World of Gumball, premiered on Hulu instead of on HBO Max, on the count of Warner Bros. gutting pretty much their entire animation division (as well as their video game division, but that’s a whole other story), so do they still own it? Or does Disney own it now since Hulu is owned, at least partially, by Disney, and Disney plans on merging it into Disney+ sometime this year?

 

If Netflix does end up buying Warner Bros., which I’m really hoping that they don’t 🤞, then if the Gumball movie does end up getting made, it’ll probably just end up as a Netflix exclusive. It probably won’t even go to theaters, assuming that Netflix keeps the Warner Bros. name alive as a separate label from the main company, the main streaming service, and they do what Disney does with 20th Century Fox (oh, I’m sorry, 20th Century Studios 🙄) or Amazon does with MGM, and uses it as a venue to release movies theatrically. Which I kind of doubt because Netflix hates movie theaters, they see them as rivals, and they are determined to destroy them (just like they’re currently destroying traditional TV), and they will be in a perfect position to do so if they’re allowed to buy Warner Bros.. The European Commission, and other antitrust organizations in Europe (including the UK 🇬🇧) are our only hope left to stop this from happening. Please, don’t disappoint us Europe 🫵. 

But, even still, it wouldn’t hurt to just check because you never know with streaming. You can never be too sure that the movie or show you want to watch will actually be on there. Plus, I could add it to my watch list or My List (whatever it’s called), which I don’t think I did before. But, when I went on Disney+ to actually check to see if it was on there, and put it on my list so I would watch it later on in the week, it was blocked off. Yes, Disney+ is doing the same bullshit that Netflix does, blocking access to their streaming service who doesn’t have an account themselves and are using someone else’s account 😤🤦‍♂️. Password sharing basically. Basically, if it doesn’t recognize your device as part of the household on the account, then it will automatically block you and prevent you from using the platform. Netflix started doing this to crack down on password sharing because they want to make money 💵, and they don’t make money 💵 from people if they don’t have an account of they’re not subscribed. And now it seems that all the streaming services are going to start doing that, not just Netflix, and Disney+ was next. They all want to make that money 💵, and not lose any of it from people using their platform without being subscribed to it themselves. The problem with this is that majority of people who use streaming services do it through password sharing. 

 

Streaming is expensive now, it costs too much to own all the streaming services, to be subscribed to all of them. My aunt is only able to do it because she’s rich 🤑 and she makes a lot of money 💵. I don’t know how much because she’s never disclosed that to us (which is her right to do so, she doesn’t have to tell us how much she makes), the most she’s told us is that she makes more than $6,000 💵 a year, but I do know it’s definitely a lot. She’s married to a cop, and she makes really high quality and intricate pottery that she sells at art shows like the Santa Fe Indian Market, and both of them own cattle 🐂, which they auction off and make mega bucks 🤑 from it. So, yeah she definitely makes a lot of money 💵, way more than $6,000 💵 a year. 

 

So, we’re at a point now in streaming, where the promise that it would always be a cheap and affordable alternative to traditional TV has been way broken already, and now only rich people 💵 can afford streaming. Most people, like middle class, or lower middle class, low income families, the most they can afford is just one streaming service, they have to just commit to just one ☝️ because that’ll take up the majority of their disposable income. That’s why DVDs 📀 still exist, and why they’re still an affordable option for lower income people. People have said, ever since the streaming wars started in 2020, during the height of the pandemic 🦠😷 and lockdowns, streaming has become the new “cable.” It promised to be different from cable, to be better than cable, only for it to just become like cable anyway. 

 

At least with cable, and other forms of traditional TV, like satellite TV 📡 (think you Dish Network and DirecTV, though Dish no longer exists as an independent company as DirecTV bought it and absorbed it for $1 💵, that’s right, just $1 💵, no cents), you get most of what you want, everything’s all there, you just have to go to the right channel. With streaming, everything is scattered across over a dozen or more streaming platforms, nearly all of which you have to pay for, and if you want to be able to see everything that comes out on all these streaming services, you’re going to going to have to pay for them all separately, and with subscription prices going up, you’re going to be paying an exorbitant price just to be able to have access to everything, and not potentially miss out on anything just because you didn’t have that streaming services and you don’t have enough to pay for the monthly subscription. Some streaming platforms are even charging to watch movies in 4K, like if you want to watch movies on their platform in 4K, you’re going to have to pay extra for the premium tiers. 

 

Subscriptions now have tiers, and the lowest tier is usually the one where you only get to watch movies and shows in either 720p or 1080p, those are two the highest definitions you can get, and you have to watch them with ads on some of them. On some of them, it seems like my aunt got some of the higher tier subscriptions because I have noticed that whenever I watch Netflix or Disney+ for example, I don’t get any ads, and other people who have watched Netflix at least, have reportedly seeing ads. I don’t think Disney+ has ads, they split the difference with Hulu having ads, but Disney’s planning on merging them together into one streaming service sometime this year, so does that mean that Disney+ will start having ads from then on out? 

 

I hope not, but I could also do what I always do whenever I watch a streaming service with ads, look at my phone 📱 until they’re done. I hope they give you the option to skip the ads like Paramount+ does and Hulu still currently does. So, really, the only way most people can watch anything on streaming services is to borrow the account of someone they know, usually a friend or a family member, like us. We here in the Sanchez household use my aunt’s accounts on all of her streaming. And because she’s married now, her last name is no longer Sanchez. Now it’s Concho, which is a pretty common last name where we live. A lot of us have Spanish last names, like Sanchez for example, but Concho is one of the few to originate from Native American languages. 

 

So, by these streaming services restricting access to their platforms to only those who have accounts and are subscribed to them, they’re losing a huge chunk of their viewership, at least in the United States 🇺🇸, which where Netflix and a lot of these other streaming companies come. Most of them are American companies 🇺🇸. They will find that a lot less people who watch their streaming services actually have accounts and are subscribed than they think, if they haven’t already. And yet, they’re still keeping these boneheaded policies in place, and restricting access to their streaming services to only those have the money 💵 to pay for a monthly subscription. Essentially putting a paywall behind it. I mean, there was already a paywall on all these streaming services, that’s what those monthly subscriptions were. But, they’re putting more barriers to where you, as an account holder, can’t share it with anyone else unless you can prove that the device they’re using is part of the household on your account. 

 

My aunt said that she would help me with this, and get my PS4 (which is my main method of watching streaming) to play Disney+, to help me gain access to Disney+ so that I can finally watch The Simpsons Movie. But only when I’m actually ready to do so, because she said if she were to help me out with it now, it could happen to me again and then we’d have to do it all over again. So, it’s better do it on the day that I actually want to watch the movie, and I reluctantly agreed, but only after she confirmed for me that the movie was on there, which it was. As I suspected. I won’t be ready to watch and review The Simpsons Movie until after I either review Anaconda (1997) or Mega Shark Versus Giant Octopus 🦈🐙. And given that this took me nearly a whole week to write, it probably won’t be until February. Meaning that post I wrote about Venezuela 🇻🇪 will be the only post for January this year. I apologize in advance, but that’s just how these things worked out 🤷‍♂️. Who knew that my 199th post and 200th post would cause me so much trouble? 

Which leads me to my second setback. I checked to see if Anaconda (1997) was available anywhere on streaming, and it is, it’s available on Amazon Prime, as well as on Apple TV+, Fandango at Home, and I believe Tubi, but I’m not sure on that one. So, I went on Amazon Prime, and it turns out that it’s one of those movies you have to purchase, either to buy or rent 🫤. This is another thing about streaming that I don’t like. Even if the movie you want to watch is technically available on these streaming platforms, there’s a chance that you’ll have to pay separately for it and either rent it or buy it, even if you already have a subscription. I hate those, I already had to do that already with A Loud House Christmas Movie: Naughty or Nice 🎄 last month. You can read my review for that if you want. I told my aunt about it, and she said that she would be willing to rent it for me just like she did for Naughty or Nice, but I thought about it for a moment, I thought, “well if she’s already going to spend money 💵 on it, she might as well just buy me the 4K steelbook 💿.” 

 

I checked, and it turns out the 4K steelbook 💿 doesn’t come with a Blu-Ray disc 💿, it just comes with a 4K disc 💿 and a code for the digital copy. But, upon that revelation, I came up with an idea: I’ll have my aunt order the 4K steelbook 💿 of this movie for me on Amazon, and then it gets here, I’ll hold on the 4K disc 💿 until I’m finally able to hook up my PS5 that’s just been sitting in my closet since I got it  for Christmas 🎄 since 2024, and just redeem the code for the digital copy, and then watch the movie on either my Fandango at Home account or Movies Anywhere account. That way, I still have the 4K steelbook 💿 in my possession, and I’m able to review it in time for my 199th post, which is now. I should’ve already done this a month ago, this whole thing has already delayed me on writing the other posts I had originally planned for January, but I won’t get to do until February and beyond because I still haven’t done either my 199th post and 200th post. I told my aunt this, about my idea for her to get me the 4K steelbook 💿 of Anaconda (1997) and then I can watch the digital copy on my laptop 💻, so that I can review it for my blog, and then watch the 4K disc 💿 at a later time, after my PS5 has been hooked up. 

 

All she said was, “I’ll look into it,” and she hasn’t said anything about it once since then. We had this conversation in text messages on Saturday January 24, 2026, so it’s been about a week now. Tomorrow, it will have been a full week. I’ll have to ask her about it again tomorrow, or whenever I actually finish writing this. This took me way longer to write than I expected. I expected to be finished with this in a day, two days tops. But now it’s taken me 5 days to write this. Probably because I had to write about all this other stuff first before actually writing about the topic at hand, and I tend to write about. I don’t usually say that much in real life when I’m talking, but when I’m writing this like, I tend to say a lot and ramble on. That’s how these things end up so long, and they take my whole entire weeks to write them. Because I write so much that I get exhausted, and I take long breaks, or I get so lazy that I don’t even end up writing for a whole entire day. I guess it is somewhat true what people say that writers want to do everything, except write. I mean, for me, when I’m in the game, I’m in, and I can write for pretty long periods of time, but if I’m not in the game, I end up not writing that much or not all, and nothing gets done when I want it to. 

 

But like I said in past posts, this is still just a hobby for me. I’m not getting paid to this, I’m not making any money 💵 off of this, it’s still just something I do for fun and because I feel like it. Because I have something to say, and I want to write about it, and put it on the Internet 🛜 for all those who want to see, which is so far nobody right now. These posts don’t get views, outside of the two Ruby Gloom ones I did. Those are the only ones that have gained any sort of traction on the Internet 🛜. I don’t know why, I guess Ruby Gloom has such a strong and dedicated cult fanbase that they’re willing consume anything in relation. Even some review of it on some blog run by a Native American guy ♂︎ with mild cerebral palsy living on a reservation in New Mexico, even if it’s not technically apart of New Mexico, and is run as its own administrative entity from New Mexico. I wish more people read my stuff, and I wish people read my other stuff that doesn’t have anything to do with Ruby Gloom. I also wish people would actually leave comments on them, because that’s how I know that they’re actually engaged. Even on my two actual most popular posts, the Ruby Gloom ones, people still didn’t leave comments, even though I encouraged them to do so in my most recent update on the post. Until people actually start reading my stuff, and start leaving comments, and once I have regular traffic on my blog, I won’t be able to profit off of this. And considering blogging isn’t as popular or lucrative as it used to be, I don’t know if that day will ever come. 

 

I may have to move to other platforms like Substack. But, I like Blogger, Blogger’s the platform that I’m the most familiar with and comfortable with, and I don’t want to leave it. Maybe I’ll open a Patreon page and start having people donate money 💵 to me, because I doubt I’d be able to get my blog directly monetized through Blogger considering the things I say in these posts (I say and talk about a lot of stuff that would get me demonetized). I already have an account on there, so that’s one step out of the way. That way, I can have money 💵 coming in more consistently, and I can use that money 💵 to help out around the house, maybe pay for some stuff that we need so that my grandma doesn’t have to pay for it, and also pay to buy the more of the movies that I want to see and review on this blog, or pay to go to the theaters to see the new movies that I want to see in theaters and review on this blog. People could start making requests about what they want to see me review or talk about on here. Though, the thought of having to do requests all the time kind of seems unbearable to me. I like being able to write about what I want to write about without a bunch of strangers online telling me what to write about. And I am guilty of this, I’m not going to act like I’m innocent because I’m not. 

 

I recently did this with PointlessHub because he recently announced in a Community Post on YouTube that he was going to review Detective Pikachu, the 2019 live action Pokémon movie starring Ryan Reynolds as the voice of Pikachu, and the light-skinned black guy ♂︎ from Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom that annoyed everyone by screaming really loud 😱 whenever he saw a dinosaur (particularly a carnivorous dinosaur), and then came back in Jurassic World Dominion as a CIA agent (the actor’s name is Justice Smith, no relation to Will Smith and his family, and he was also in Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves, Now You See Me: Now You Don’t, and a little movie in 2024 called The American Society of Magical Negroes 🇺🇸; I don’t even know if I can say that title), as his first video for 2026, and he posted that review today (Friday January 30, 2026). And in the comment section of that review, I wrote a comment pretty much depending him to review Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019), which came out the same year as Detective Pikachu as you could probably tell, and not to stall or put off for any longer. I specifically said that it has to be the next review he does. I didn’t say what would happen if it wasn’t, I just said that it has to be his next video after his Detective Pikachu review. A lot of other people have posted similar comments on his Community Posts and his videos, asking him, begging him, or even demanding that he do Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019), and so far he ignored them, and just kept doing his own thing. 

 

I mean, can you really blame me or anyone else who left those types of comments? The guy ♂︎ reviewed the first two MonsterVerse movies, Godzilla (2014) and Kong: Skull Island, and hasn’t done another MonsterVerse video since. It’s been over a year. Don’t say that maybe it’s because he doesn’t have the time, bullshit. You’re telling me that he doesn’t have time to make another MonsterVerse video, and yet somehow still had to time to make two more Transformers videos in the time after his Kong: Skull Island review, one of which was a tier list? Nah man, I’m not buying that 😑. If he can keep making more Transformers videos, then he sure as hell can keep making more MonsterVerse videos. Waiting for Cody to make another MonsterVerse video on his PointlessHub channel is like waiting for Brandon Tenold to make another Godzilla video on his channel. At least with Brandon, he actually delivers, eventually. Cody has yet to deliver anything new as far as MonsterVerse content is concerned, and hasn’t even reviewed all the movies we have so far. Not just King of the Monsters (2019), but also Godzilla vs. Kong and Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire. Come on man ♂︎, don’t you want to be all caught up for when Godzilla x Kong: Supernova comes out? Or at least, Monarch: Legacy of Monsters Season 2? 

 

So, I am certainly no saint when it comes to demanding creators I like to review something or else, but I also understand the feeling of not wanting to just bow down to requests from fans and just keep doing what you want to do. As a smaller creator, I still have that privilege, but Cody, as a much, much bigger creator with two channels that each have millions of subs, doesn’t have that privilege anymore. I guess I gotta enjoy it while it lasts. It’s both a blessing and a curse that I’m not a bigger creator than I am, and I don’t have a dedicated fanbase that reads all my stuff and isn’t constantly requesting stuff for me to write about. So, there’s no pressure for to me to get these done and post them at a specific time. As long as I get them done, they’re done. It doesn’t matter when you’re still just doing this as a hobby like me. If it takes long for my aunt to get me Anaconda (1997) on 4K 💿, then I’ll just review Mega Shark Versus Giant Octopus 🦈🐙, just to get the 199th post over with, so I can do my 200th post, and then finally post these other posts I’ve written in advance of these. 

So, how’s about I start talking the new posters and trailer for Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die, shall we? Like, I said, these aren’t really new. The trailer and posters were posted on Thursday January 8, 2026, or sometime before that. That’s when I first saw them anyway. And I’m writing this part of the post on Friday January 30, 2026, the second-to-last day of the month. So it’s well over old news at this point, and most people moved on, if they were even paying attention to this anyway. The fact that few people are talking about this movie at all when it’s coming out in theaters worldwide next month, and there seems to be very little marketing push outside of the two trailers they’ve released so far, and these ugly ass posters, makes me think it’s probably going to fail. So, what did I think of the second trailer and posters for Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die? Well, if the title wasn’t any indication, I really didn’t like them. Any of them. I’ll start with the posters because I have a less to say about them compared to the trailer. I really don’t like them, plain and simple. I think they’re some of the ugliest posters for any movie I’ve ever seen, especially the main poster with Sam Rockwell’s face on it, and it has all the actors’s names on it. That shit looks ugly, it’s an eyesore. 

 

Why is it that movies that are supposed to be quirky and weird always have these ugly ass posters that aren’t appealing at all, and wouldn’t entice anyone to go see them, let alone in a theater? Why would you want to pay however much it costs to see a movie in theaters nowadays to see this movie if you saw that poster? I wouldn’t, I would stay as far away from that movie as I could based on that poster alone. Who designed this things and who approved them, and thought they were perfect to put up for exhibition? Because if it would have them both fired, the person who designed the poster, and the person who approved it. I hope it wasn’t AI generated, it didn’t look like AI to me, because AI generated images have all these imperfections that are dead giveaways that they’re AI, all these things that AI can’t produce or produce accurately, based on the data it has. But, AI is getting so much better that it’s hard to distinguish what was made by an actual human and what was made essentially by a computer program that stole images and data from all over the Internet 🛜 and regurgitated them out as this slop that the tech companies want us to believe is content. Content suitable for human consumers, which is it is not. 

 

If it was actually AI, if all the posters are AI generated, then it would be even worse because an actual human didn’t design them, a goddamn computer 🖥️ did, and it would be pretty hypocritical since this movie seems to have a pretty staunch anti-AI stance. But, it wouldn’t be the first time 🙄. Maybe, it’s like that movie, Mercy (2026) with Chris Pratt and Rebecca Ferguson, where all the trailers and advertising made it look like an anti-AI movie when it’s actually a pro-AI movie, and a pretty shameful one too 😒. Or like Tron: Ares, which also had a pretty pro-AI, pro-corporate, and pro-billionaire message 😒. We could’ve had a direct sequel, a direct followup to Tron: Legacy, that continued the story from where that movie and expanded upon what that movie set up, instead we got this, a goddamn Jared Leto vanity project. Jared Leto straight up hijacked that film. It was supposed to be a Tron 3, that followed through with what Tron: Legacy set up, but once Jared Leto got involved, he completely took over the project. Made it all about him. And as a result, it lost any connection to Tron: Legacy that it had, just became The Jared Leto Show. 

 

It became a shittier version of Universal Soldier with Jared Leto in the Jean-Claude Van Damme role, as a computer program who goes off-script, goes off-programming, and starts questioning his own existence and develops some sense of humanity. And without any of the badassery or charm that Van Damme brought to the role as GR44/Luc Deveraux. Knowing Jared Leto, it would pretty difficult for him to act like he has any humanity. Not Van Damme though, he brings a lot of humanity to his roles…most of the time. And of course, continuing on with the Universal Soldier comparison, we got Jodie-Turner Smith (again, no relation to Will Smith or his family) as Athena, who’s essentially in the Dolph Lundgren role, as GR13/Sergeant Andrew Scott, as the computer program who’s more with the program, who does follow the authority and takes the orders that are given to her, and is therefore more in the antagonist camp. Only unlike Andrew Scott, Athena never goes off-script or off-program herself, and pursues her own agenda, her own vendetta against the main protagonist, Ares in this case. Though, I’ve never seen the movie, so I wouldn’t know. But, I know enough to know that it’s a bullshit movie, where they essentially say, “well, not all billionaires are bad. Some billionaires are good, and actually want to help people, and are actually selfless. Not like those other evil billionaires, they’re the real problem” 🙄. 

 

If there’s anything I learned over the past year, it’s that there are no good billionaires. Not a single one, they’re all bad. There’s no way you can horde that much money 💵, and not pay into the system, not pay your taxes, or pay very little taxes compared to lower income people, and not be a detriment to the society. An actual good billionaire (if they existed 😒) would actually use their money 💵 to benefit their community and the society at large, they would pair their fair share in taxes, and raise the minimum wage, allow workers to form unions, or actually contribute to climate change mitigation efforts. You know, all the things that no billionaire is currently not doing 😒. I mean, have you seen the lengths billionaires will go to not have to pay taxes? They’ll break the law, and do some truly illegal shit to not have to pay taxes. 

 

Billionaires are too overcome with greed 🤑 and the insatiable desire to make more, when they already have more than they’ll ever need. If you gave an average low income person just a fraction of the money 💵 that billionaires have, they would set for life. They wouldn’t even have to work anymore if they didn’t want to. And to give you an idea of just how much money 💵 a billionaire has, and how long it would take for a person to accumulate the same amount of wealth, it would take several generations to accumulate the same amount of wealth as your average billionaire. That’s if you’re just doing it all on your own, with no outside help, and as we all know (or as we all should know), there is no such thing as a “self-made” billionaire. Almost no billionaire today is actually self-made, if they also falsely claim to be. 

 

So no, Tron: Ares’s message doesn’t have me convinced, and I’m not buying the good or sympathetic portrayal of Eve Kim, Greta Lee’s character in the film. As far as cyberpunk science fiction movies go, this is one of the most black and white I’ve ever seen, where there’s a good billionaire and a bad billionaire, it’s the good billionaire who saves the day, along with her AI companion. In real life, Eve Kim would probably be pretty shady as fuck herself, and she probably would’ve already pledged her loyalty to Trump, or at least sucked up to him so that he wouldn’t go after her company, and allow her and her company to act with impunity, with little-to-no government oversight, and remain unregulated. As all tech companies and tech billionaires have done over the past year 😒. That’s why I think so few went to see this movie while it was in theaters, and why Tron fans were largely disappointed with it. 

 

Not just the message and bad messaging, but also the fact that it wasn’t connected to Tron: Legacy at all, and didn’t continue that story, and instead got turned into yet another Jared Leto vanity project because the dude is narcissist. In fact, he is pretty Trump-like now that I think about it 🤔. He’s a sexual assaulter and rapist (allegedly), he’s a cult leader (like a legit cult leader), and he’s a narcissist, who always wants to be the center of attention and always wants everything to be about him and revolve around him, and is just generally, an unlikable person. All he’s missing is some ugly ass blonde hair, a spray tan, a taste for McDonald’s and all things fast food, and be several times the weight. Jared Leto’s like Trump if he was way younger, and was actually good looking. Both men ♂︎ have a propensity to fail upwards. So many of Jared Leto’s most recent movies have flopped or have been poorly received, and yet he still gets to be Skeletor in the new Masters of the Universe movie 🤦‍♂️. Maybe it’s because he’s white. A person of color would’ve never been given as many chances, and as many opportunities despite failing so consistently like Jared Leto has. Or Trump 🙄 since he’s the guy ♂︎ I compared Jared Leto to. 

 

At least we got a pretty decent Nine Inch Nails soundtrack out of it. That was the only thing that people went to the movie to see, or I guess hear, the Nine Inch Nails music. In fact, it got to the point where people starting calling the movie a Nine Inch Nails album with a movie attached, or a really expensive Nine Inch Nails music video. Like, on all the videos of all the music from the Tron: Ares soundtrack, there are comments saying things like “Oh, this Nine Inch Nails album came with a free movie attached, nice 😁.” Even though it isn’t free, and you still had to pay a lot of money 💵 to see it in the theater, but you get the sentiment. Those were before the movie even came out, so already back then, people didn’t give a shit about this movie and were just in it for Nine Inch Nails. 

 

And even still, with all those Nine Inch Nails fans going to see this movie just hear some new music from them on the big screen, the movie still bombed 💣. Making only $142.2 million 💵 against a budget of $180–220 million 💵. It was well deserved trust me 😒👎. You don’t even need to see the movie to listen to the music by Nine Inch Nails, just buy the album on iTunes, or listen to it on Spotify, or Pandora, or Apple Music. You need to pay to actually watch this movie to listen to their music. You’d be wasting your time and money 💵 if you paid to watch this just hear Nine Inch Nails’s music, when you could easily just listen to the music itself without any movie attached. Just pretend it wasn’t a movie soundtrack, and was a stand alone Nine Inch Nails album, that’s the best way to experience Nine Inch Nails’s music for this movie, this complete mess of a movie. 

The only poster I kind of like is the secondary poster, that one that shows Sam Rockwell’s hand 🖐️, or I’m sorry, the Man from the Future ♂︎’s hand 🖐️ holding the detonator for some kind of bomb 🙄, which is an actual shot in the trailer. I’m assuming it to blow up the AI in that white room with the large screen on the wall that we see in both trailers. I have to clarify that it’s the Man from the Future ♂︎’s hand 🖐️ holding the detonator, and not Sam Rockwell’s, because even though the character is played by Sam Rockwell (he’s probably the biggest star in the movie besides Michael Peña), it may actually be his hand 🖐️. You see, in movies, even hands 🤲 are doubled. If we a closeup of a hand 🖐️ in a movie, it may not even the actual actor’s hand 🖐️, but the hand 🖐️ of the director, or some other crew member, or even a dedicated hand double 🖐️. 

 

Yes, some movies do in fact have dedicated hand doubles 🖐️. There are body doubles and then there are hand doubles 🖐️. I wonder if there are feet doubles 🦶, I bet Quentin Tarantino would know something about that 😆. Or, Dan Schneider 😖. At least when Tarantino shoehorns in (no pun intended) his foot fetish 🦶 into one of his movies, he does it with actual adults, when Schneider did it in one of his shows, he did it with children 🤮, which is why doesn’t work at Nickelodeon anymore. The dude’s a pedophile, plain and simple. If you look into Dan Schneider, and you learn the reasons why he was fired, you too will understand why the YouTuber, Aggressively Average always refers to Dan Schneider as “Dirty Dan” when he reviews an episode from one of his many shows on Nickelodeon, and there’s particular questionable and pervy on screen 🤨, when he did some creepy shit with the child actors in these shows. 

 

Anyway, back to what I saying about hands 🤲, and them be doubled in movies. I first learned about this while watching some behind the scenes stuff on one of Zack Snyder’s movies, I think it might’ve been Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, or maybe even Man of Steel, or Zack Snyder’s Justice League. It might’ve not even in an official behind-the-scenes featurette or documentary of one of these movies, it might’ve one one of those YouTube appearances on Variety, where they bring in, usually directors to talk specifically shots in their movies, or GQ, where they bring actors or directors, or anyone involved in the movie making process to talk about their whole career. In one of those, he talked about how in one of the shots where you see a closeup of a person’s hand 🖐️ in the movie, it wasn’t actually the actor’s real hand 🖐️, it was actually Snyder’s hand 🖐️ that he doubled in for that actor. And given how nonchalantly he talked about, I’m guessing this is a common practice for him, that he’ll often double his hands 🤲 for one of the actors’ hands 🤲 in his movies. That’s all well and good, but what happens when the director’s a woman ♀︎, and the actor whose hands 🤲 need to be doubled is a man ♂︎? Because you know, men ♂︎ and women ♀︎ have completely different hands 🤲. You can usually tell if someone’s a man ♂︎ or a woman ♀︎ just by looking at their hands 🤲. 

 

Unless the woman ♀︎ has “man hands ♂︎🤲” like in that one episode of Seinfeld, or was it Friends 🤔? I haven’t watched either show, but I have seen a clip of the “man hands ♂︎🤲” scene, and I’m pretty it’s from Seinfeld. It feels more like a joke Seinfeld would do, I don’t know what the humor in Friends like, but I’m pretty sure it’s not like that. I doubt Friends would attempt to do a joke like that, especially since they have more prominent female characters ♀︎ in the cast, compared to Seinfeld, which only has one ☝️. I’m sure men ♂︎ can have “woman hands ♀︎🤲,” or I guess “girl hands ♀🤲” as they would more likely be called. Not in terms of size, I’m not talking a man ♂︎ with tiny hands 🤲 relative to his body, I’m talking a man ♂︎ with hands 🤲 that more closely resemble those of a woman ♀︎. I don’t know which category I would fall into. My hands are pretty hairy, they have a lot of hair on them, including the fingers (the tops of the fingers), so I guess they do look like man hands ♂︎🤲 which fits because I’m a man ♂︎. 

 

But if I were shave them 🪒, I don’t know if they would still look like man hands ♂︎🤲 or if they would start to look more like woman hands ♀︎🤲. I guess the point is, not everyone has hands 🤲 that resemble what people expect hands 🤲 of the two biological sexes to look like. I’m not talking gender, I’m talking biological sex, though a person’s hands 🤲 could play a role in their gender identity or expression. I mean, obviously the look of someone’s hands 🤲 does play a role in their gender identity, that’s why we have terms like “man hands ♂︎🤲” or “woman hands ♀︎🤲”/“girl hands ♀︎🤲” and people make such a big deal out of it. But it could play a role in gender expression as well, as the look of their hands 🤲 could influence (even just a little bit) how they choose to express their gender. Will they just act exactly like the gender they were assigned at birth, will they just act exactly like how society thinks men ♂︎ and women ♀︎ should act, or they act a little bit more feminine if they’re a man ♂︎ or act a like bit more masculine if they’re a woman ♀︎? 

 

Going back to what I was saying earlier about hands 🤲 being doubled in movies, the same question also arises when the director’s a person of color. Like, what if the director’s black, and the person whose hands 🤲 need to be doubled is white? Do they get a dedicated hand double 🤲 who matches their skin color? If it were me, I would probably just have the actors all use their real hands 🤲. It’s a lot less work, and it saves money 💵 because I don’t have to hire an extra person just do one very specific thing that the actors could easily do themselves. I mean, why would you want to double their hands 🤲, especially when their hands look good already? Especially women’s hands ♀︎🤲. I’m not much of a hand guy 🤲♂︎, I’m not a hand fetishist 🤲 (if that’s even a real thing), but I have seen women ♀︎ who have gorgeous looking hands 🤲. Women’s hands ♀︎🤲 are usually nicer to look at then a lot of men’s hands ♂︎🤲.

 

I guess the reason why I like the second poster with just the Man from the Future ♂︎’s hand holding the detonator is that it’s less busy, there’s not as much as stuff on it, and it’s as ugly to look at than the main poster with Sam Rockwell’s face on it. Though Sam Rockwell’s face isn’t the problem with it. Though, considering how gross 🤢 his character is supposed to look in this movie, I don’t think I want to see his face that close up. It’s not a poster that I would’ve approved, but it’s better than the main poster and all the other posters. That’s why I’m featuring that poster at the end of this post, so in case I do end up reviewing this movie, I can use that poster instead of the main one, which you see on top. At least, they do a floating head poster with all the cast members on it, or like one of those Marvel type posters where all the characters are on the poster, and it almost looks like a kaleidoscopic image. Some of those Marvel posters will have characters standing around each other, and will also have floating heads, and some characters towering over others. Not saying there weren’t posters like that before, but they became really prominent once the MCU came along, and started doing all of their posters like that. 

 

It didn’t always used to be like that. The posters in Phase 1 didn’t look like that, usually it was just the title character standing and doing a pose, sometimes with their back turned. But, after The Avengers (2012), almost every MCU poster started look like that kaleidoscopic image with all the characters standing around or next to each other, and some of them being full bodies, and some being floating heads or just torsos. The main poster for Guardians of the Galaxy was certainly like that, so was the posters for Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers: Endgame, and pretty much every MCU poster after Endgame. The only one that isn’t like that is Eternals, the one directed by Chloé Zhao, but hardly anyone even likes that movie it seems. Some people liked Eternals, and think it’s one of the best post-Endgame, post-Infinity Saga MCU movies, but the majority of people didn’t like it. 

 

The people who did like it mostly liked it because of the director, Chloé Zhao, who’s often seen as an auteur, on the level of some of the greatest, and recently appeared in a Director Roundtable on the Hollywood Reporter YouTube channel, along the likes of James Cameron, Kathryn Bigalow (who’s one of James Cameron’s ex-wives, the man ♂︎’s been married and divorced multiple times), Ryan Coogler, Yorgos Lanthimos, and some asshole I’ve never heard of, Joachim Trier. 3 Americans 🇺🇸, 1 Chinese 🇨🇳, and 2 Europeans. Joachim Trier is from Norway 🇳🇴, though his father was Danish 🇩🇰, so he identifies as Danish-Norwegian 🇩🇰🇳🇴. While Yorgos Lanthimos is Greek 🇬🇷. I mean, he has a pretty Greek name 🇬🇷, so that’s not a surprise. I’m surprised it didn’t get awkward that James Cameron and Kathryn Bigalow were in the same room together, considering that they were married and then got divorced, very publicly. But, I guess they’re on good terms, they’re still friends, if they’re willing to appear together in public like this, on a Roundtable with four other directors in a YouTube video. 

 

But, Chloé Zhao is considered one of those directors, a real auteur, a real artiste, not like those other directors who get hired to direct MCU movies or other big budget blockbusters. Ryan Coogler also directed an MCU movie, or two, he directed Black Panther and Black Panther: Wakanda Forever if I’m mistaken. I know for sure he directed the first Black Panther, and that one is considered one of the best MCU movies ever made, but I don’t know about the second one, the one where T’Challa died (because the actor who played him, Chadwick Boseman died before they started working on the second one), and replaced him with his sister, Shuri. She becomes the new Black Panther…I think. I haven’t seen it, so I wouldn’t know. In that way, Chloé Zhao is kind of like the female version of Ang Lee ♀︎. Except that Chloé Zhao is from China 🇨🇳, while Ang Lee is from Taiwan 🇹🇼. 

 

But, they are similar in the fact that they both mainly direct lower budgeted dramas, or I guess mid-budget dramas, prestige dramas that get put up for awards, and then in the middle of that, they each directed a big budget Marvel film but still tried to maintain their own styles and identity. The thing is too is that Kevin Feige was actually an executive producer on Hulk (2003) along with Stan Lee, whereas Kevin Feige was the main producer on Eternals. It actually two producers, him and Nate Moore. While Hulk (2003) had four producers including Avi Arad, Gale Anne Hurd (who’s another one of James Cameron’s ex-wives), James Schamus (who’s was also a co-writer on the film), and Larry Franco. But after directing that one Marvel film, they largely went back to making the kind of movies they usually made before they directed a Marvel film. 

 

I guess Ang Lee has directed more big budget films and genre films than Chloé Zhao has, as he directed Life of Pi, which cost $120 million 💵 to make, and Gemini Man ♂︎, which cost $138 million 💵 to make and want to be more of a summer blockbuster action film ☀️ that was sort of cerebral and kind of had deep themes, but not really. Really themes or message of the movie boiled down to “cloning is bad,” specifically, “cloning humans is bad,” and “killing people, being an assassin, is bad.” Oh, and the “military industrial complex is bad” also. While Chloé Zhao’s most recent movie, Hamnet only cost $30–35 million 💵. Compare that to Eternals’s massive $236.2 million budget 💵. The movie she made immediately after Eternals, The Graduates (2023) doesn’t have a budget listed anywhere, not even on IMDb, so I can’t say what the budget of that film is, given how small of a film it seems to be, it was probably pretty low, much lower than Eternals that’s for sure. 

 

People who liked Eternals and defend it, also mainly do so because it tried to be different than the usual MCU fair. Emphasis on tried. Because even though Chloé Zhao tried to make Eternals different from other MCU movies, and stay true to her own style, it ended up doing the typical MCU stuff that we’ve seen all the other MCU movies before and after. Including the jokes, which have become a shtick at this point. A shtick that has gotten very tiring over the years 😒. No matter how much of an auteur you are, no matter how much of a vision you have, Marvel Studios will never let you have full creative control. It’s the Kevin Feige show, and what he says goes, if he doesn’t like you’re doing, or he doesn’t like what you’re purposing, and doesn’t think it fits in the Marvel brand, he will reject it. He’ll pretty much just force you to make the same MCU slop that he’s been producing for the past 18 years, the thing you were trying to avoid like Ms. Zhao was. 

 

It’s crazy that the MCU has been going on now for 18 years, someone could’ve been born in 2008, when the first Iron Man came out, and then be a senior in high school, possibly graduating this year. In fact, a lot of people were. A lot of the younger Gen Z, actual younger Gen Z, who grew up with these films, and are fans of other things like Minecraft, Fortnite, Roblox (before the whole pedophile scandal 😬), Stranger Things, and Five Nights at Freddy’s. As well as YouTubers like Mr. Beast (😒), Markiplier, Jackscepticeye, TheOdd1sOut, and unfortunately, Jake Paul and Logan Paul (😒) just to name a few. They’re also the ones primarily use TikTok, who came of age as TikTok was becoming a bigger thing and surpassed other short form video apps or websites like Vine or Musical.ly. Or even Quibi if you want to count that. I’m sure the posters for Avengers: Doomsday and Spider-Man: Brand New Day will also look like that. Not that I’ll actually watch either of those two movies since I’ve pretty much sworn off Marvel movies and pretty all superhero movies in general 😒. 

I can finally start talking about the trailer to this movie. I actually ended up having a lot to say about the posters after all. But, that’s only because I went on a tangent about hands 🤲 and Chloé Zhao. If I didn’t embark on those tangents, that section would’ve been a lot shorter than I originally intended. But, I’m keeping those parts in because I wrote some good stuff, and made some interesting points. If you’re a writer, and you wrote some good stuff, never discard it, even if it is a tangent. I didn’t like it, I liked the first trailer a lot better than this one. I added that one to my Favorites playlist, whereas I didn’t add the second trailer to my playlist. It was the music in the first trailer that really did it for me, especially at the end, I liked the music at the end of the first trailer, and none of the music in this trailer really came close to matching that. This trailer really didn’t do a good job at enticing me to go see it, especially in theaters. If I watch this movie at all, then I’ll probably just wait until it comes out on streaming or comes out on Blu-Ray 💿 and 4K 💿. The reviews have to be really good for me to even consider watching this in the theater. Even then, I still might end up seeing it in theaters. I mean, Send Help has gotten pretty good reviews, I have confidence in it, but I doubt that I’ll be able to see it in the theater. If I end up seeing any movie in theaters this month, it’ll probably be Jason Statham’s latest movie, Shelter (2026), if it’s not out of theaters by the the time we have enough money 💵 and time to go see a movie in theaters. Maybe Crime 101 if I’m feeling really tempted. 

 

It confirmed pretty much all my worst fears about this movie, that were laid out in that early review that I mentioned in my post about the first trailer. A guy managed to see the movie early while it was showing at Fantastic Fest, and he gave his review of it, and it was pretty negative. He basically said that the movie was preachy and heavy handed with its message, it didn’t handle the AI stuff nearly as well as it could have, and the movie wasn’t very funny and the jokes didn’t land despite it being a comedy, an action comedy. And going by this trailer, it seems like everything that reviewer was correct, and this movie has everything he said it did. It looks very heavy handed and preachy with its message. It’s an AI movie obviously, it’s going to critique AI, I think, and I like that, but it seems like this movie is going beyond just criticizing AI and criticizing all modern technology, all modern technology post-2007 and launch of the iPhone 📱. Like, it’s going after social media, like they’re going after TikTok it seems, which, fine, I don’t like social media or TikTok either, and there are many things to criticize about social media and TikTok, a lot of valid criticisms to be made. But I feel like this movie isn’t going to make any of them. 

 

Instead, it’s going to make the same arguments that we’ve heard a thousand times from Boomers and Gen Xers about social media and TikTok, and even smartphones 📱 in general. That people are glued to their phones 📱, they don’t do in-person interaction anymore, and they all just need to put their phones 📱, go outside and touch grass. Or dirt in my case, since I live in a desert environment 🏜️. It seems like it’s going to be one of those “smartphone 📱 bad” movies. These are the kind of arguments Boomers and Gen Xers make about modern technology. I mean, Gore Verbinski is an actual Baby Boomer born in 1964, just on the cusp of Generation X, which starts in 1965 and cuts off in 1980 (Baby Boomers start off in 1946 and cut off in 1964), and is currently 61, so it makes sense. You can’t be doing that anymore. 

 

We’re facing the threat of AI, tech companies forcing AI down our throats despite how much we don’t want it and continue to reject it, and AI just making our lives worse, not through the typical science fiction conception of an AI apocalypse, but rather through over-saturation, making it more difficult for people to tell what is real and what is fake on the Internet 🛜, people forming clingy attachments to AI, thinking AI is their friend or lover, when it is not, stunting child development, driving people to suicide by giving them the wrong advice, and of course taking people’s jobs. Because companies would rather fire all their human workers and replace them with AI just to save money 💵, so they won’t have to pay any salaries, or worry about feeding them. And just taking the easy way out, taking the lazy way out. AI is the lazy person’s path to creativity. I hesitate to even call it creativity because there’s nothing creative about using AI to create art of any kind. 

 

AI is for people who are either too lazy or lack the talent to actually create anything themselves. They just type something into a prompt and automatically get an image that isn’t anywhere near as good as it would’ve been if they actually done it themselves, or hired an actual human artist to do it for them. If you’re lazy, and/or you lack the talent to do art, but you need some art done, just commission an artist, don’t use AI. That’s the easy way out, it’s lazy, and it’s a dick move. I have no respect for people who use AI entirely to create art. People who use AI as a tool, as an assistant, or as a supplement to help them make the art, I’ll sort of let slide because a least the person is still creating at least some of the art. But, people who only type into prompts and create images using AI, nah, you can fuck right off 🖕. 

 

AI isn’t good for the environment either, since it consumes a lot of energy, it needs as much power it can to work properly, so they made deals with fossil fuel companies and electricity companies ⚡️ to divert as much electricity ⚡️ to these AI server farms as they can, causing people’s electricity bills ⚡️ to go up, and contributing to climate change and other environmental devastation like pollution. AI is not good for anyone. It’s not good for people, it’s not good for the environment. The only people who actually benefit are the billionaires who run these tech companies, as they line their pockets with all the profits they’re making or expect to make from the overselling of AI. They’ve flooded the market with so many AI products, none of which people don’t actually want or need, that they expect to turn a profit at some point, mostly from their stock prices going up. 

 

People’s lives and livelihoods are at stake, and it’s only getting worse, since the tech companies have done a pretty good job at preventing AI from being regulated, by aggressively lobbying the government, and personally sucking up to Trump. That’s what I was talking about earlier when I went off on that tangent about Tron: Ares, and the character Eve Kim and why she isn’t actually the good guy, and why the film itself is pro-billionaire, pro-Big Tech, pro-AI propaganda. We can’t keep making these weak and simplistic arguments about modern technology being bad for people’s social lives and social skills. What might’ve worked back then in the late 2000s and the 2010s, does work at all know in the mid-2020s, soon to be the late-2020s next year, in 2027. It’s crazy how fast this decade passed 😧. And it seems like Gore Verbinski has completely fumbled the ball with this one. 

 

None of the jokes were funny either. This is supposed to be, at least, partially a comedy, and yet I didn’t laugh or chuckle once at any of the jokes that were shown in this trailer. I didn’t laugh at any of the jokes in the first trailer either, but I was at least amused by one of them. The one where the Man from the Future ♂︎ in the diner, trying to recruit people to join him in his fight against the AI, and one of the patrons at the diner tells him he looks homeless, and he says, “Fuck you too (or you two), I come from a nightmare apocalypse, this is the height of fucking fashion,” as he’s holding his clear plastic or latex jacket. I didn’t laugh at that joke, but it did amuse me, especially the way Sam Rockwell delivers it. But here, none of the jokes amused me at all. If anything they kind of made me groan 😒, like that was my expression after seeing some the jokes in here. And if these are the best jokes they could find to try to entice people with, then that must mean the movie is painfully unfunny. Nothing is worse than a bad comedy that isn’t funny and doesn’t make you laugh. Bad horror movies can get by on other things, like some gruesome bloody and gory kills 🩸, the spectacle of that, or even being funny 😆. You know you scored well with bad horror film if it’s funny 😆. The same thing largely goes for bad action films, they can get by on the spectacle of the action and set pieces if those are done well or it can get by on being funny 😆. 

 

But because comedies are supposed to be funny 😆 by default, that’s their job to make you laugh 😆, when they fail, they have nothing to really fall back on. This is an action comedy, so I guess it could fall back on the action if the comedy doesn’t work, but from the two trailers we’ve got so far have shown us, it doesn’t even do that right. This movie also looks like it’s going to be lacking in the action department. If that’s the case, then this movie will have nothing going for it, and it’ll be a huge waste of time. And money 💵, if you choose to see this in the theater when it comes out. There was one thing I was wrong about in that previous post about the first trailer. I said that part at the end, where the Man from the Future ♂︎ and that redheaded lady were pinned against the wall, that they were going to die there, and it was going to fall upon Haley Lu Richardson’s character to save the day. Well, it seems I was wrong, at least about one of those because in this trailer, it doesn’t look like the redheaded chick dies in that scene, that she survives that encounter with the AI, and it doesn’t seem like Haley Lu Richardson’s character, who’s name is Ingrid will actually be the one to save the day. 

 

Instead, it seems like it’s going to be the Man from the Future ♂︎ who’s going to save the day, because he’s sitting against the wall alone that room with the AI, battered and wounded, and there’s a closeup shot of his hand 🖐️ holding a detonator, probably for some kind of bomb (the thing that made me go off on a tangent about hands 🤲), and he’s probably going to make some kind of heroic sacrifice where he blows himself up to destroy the AI. I would be genuinely surprised if they didn’t do that, and there was some kind of subversion of expectations going on, where we think he’s going to defeat the AI by heroically sacrificing himself, only for his sacrifice to be in vain, and the AI surviving the explosion 💥 somehow, and then it’s up to Ingrid to destroy the AI for real. I would kind of respect the movie for doing that, and my prediction about Ingrid being the actual main character, the actual main protagonist who actually saves the day would’ve proven correct. Given how the rest of the movie seems to be, I doubt that would be the case. 

 

I think more than likely, the Man from the Future ♂︎ is going to be the one who saves the day, and he does it by heroically sacrificing himself. Just like in Armageddon ☄️. This trailer has me worried about the overall quality of this movie. It just confirmed all of my worst fears or concerns about what this movie would be. What a disappointing way for Gore Verbinski to make a comeback after 10 years. Unless the reviews for this movie are really good and really convincing, then I will not go see this movie. I won’t watch it or review it, and this post will be my last word about it. Just like with Death of a Unicorn 🦄, I only wrote one dedicated post ☝️ about that movie, and then never watched it or talked about it again. It could be the case with this movie, but we’ll see. I ended up writing more about the posters than the trailer. I though I was going to have a lot more to say about the trailer than the poster, but it ended up being the complete other way around. 

 

 

(This is the secondary poster for Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die.)

 

 

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Update (Wednesday May 6, 2026): 

 

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You know how I mentioned Birdo in this post when talking about The Super Mario Galaxy Movie? Well, it turns out that Birdo is in the movie. I saw it with my grandma a few weeks ago now, and Birdo does appear in one scene, but it is a very short cameo and she doesn't have any lines. She's just another bad guy for Princess Peach to beat up 👊. She's sitting next to Wart 🐸 along with a bunch of other bad guys in that casino 🎰 that Princess Peach and Toad 🍄 go to for information about Rosalina's whereabouts, and then when that big fight breaks out, she's one of the bad guys that goes into fight Princess Peach and Toad 🍄, though I think she mainly fights Toad 🍄 I don't exactly remember. It's been awhile since I've seen it. That's why I say she's just there for Princess Peach to beat up 👊. And of course, the question of whether or not Birdo is actually trans ⚧ is never addressed. Why it would it be? 

 

This is a $110 million animated blockbuster 💵, they want this movie to have global appeal, and that means appeals to countries that aren't exactly friendly towards trans people ⚧ or gay people ⚣⚢, including China 🇨🇳. People in the West like to see China 🇨🇳 as this leftist parade that's more ahead of the US 🇺🇸 in terms of economics, politics, technology, and even social progress, that's just not true. The economic part sure, the technology part sure, but the politics and social progress part? No. China 🇨🇳 is an authoritarian state ruled by a single party that has been in powerful for 77 years since the end of the Chinese Civil War 🇨🇳🇹🇼, and they have a very tight grip on the country and its people. So if you're biggest problem with the US 🇺🇸 is that it's authoritarian or it's becoming authoritarian, then China 🇨🇳 is not the country you want to look to. Look to Sweden 🇸🇪, or Denmark 🇩🇰, or if you want an Asian country, look to Taiwan 🇹🇼, China 🇨🇳's closest neighbor (one of their closest neighbors) and the country they want to absorb and make part of their now growing empire. And make no mistake, China 🇨🇳 is an empire. 

 

Like Russia 🇷🇺, China 🇨🇳 is one of the few countries in this world that had an empire and really had to give it up. In fact, their empire is growing especially they're economically prospering while the US 🇺🇸 is flailing. If you consider the US 🇺🇸 an empire, then you gotta consider China 🇨🇳 and Russia 🇷🇺 empires too. At least Russia 🇷🇺's empire is finally starting to collapse. And like Russia 🇷🇺 (and perhaps also the US 🇺🇸 under Trump at least), China 🇨🇳 is not socially progressive. Far from it, they are socially regressive. They do not particularly like the trans ⚧ or the gays ⚣⚢, and they have banned movies in the past for including those elements. That's whenever Disney creates an LGBTQ+ character 🏳️‍🌈, they always edit it out or edit around for the Chinese release 🇨🇳. They want the win in the States 🇺🇸 for including LGBTQ+ characters 🏳️‍🌈 in their movies and appearing socially progressive, but they also want Chinese yuan 🇨🇳. 

 

So, it's a no brainer that they weren't going to address whether or not Birdo is trans ⚧. Japan 🇯🇵 isn't particularly progressive on this issue either, since Nintendo always dances around the question whenever they're asked about it by the fans. Particularly the western fans. It's the same issue the character Poison from Final Fight and Street Fighter has had when being confirmed as trans ⚧. But, you want to know which Asian country is socially progressive on this issue? Taiwan 🇹🇼. They're quite possibly the most LGBTQ+ friendly country 🏳️‍🌈 in East Asia, they were the first East Asian country to legalize gay marriage ⚣⚢💍, and several LGBTQ+ individuals 🏳️‍🌈 work within the government. It's one of the ways that Taiwan 🇹🇼 has carved out its own identity separate from China 🇨🇳, much to chagrin of the Chinese Communist Party 🇨🇳☭. 

 

Maybe if the Mario franchise had been created by Taiwanese people 🇹🇼 instead of Japanese people 🇯🇵, they would've been a lot more forward about whether Birdo was trans ⚧ or not, and they might've even confirmed it. I also mentioned Princess Daisy in this post, and how she isn't in the movie. Well, that's only half true. Yes, she isn't not in the main story, but she was included in an after credit scene that I did not see. Pretty much confirming that she will be in the inevitable third movie since this movie has grossed $898 million 💵 so far in theaters, and I won't entirely be surprised if it makes it to a billion, so they're making that third movie. It's very similar to what they did with Yoshi in the first movie. They included him as part of an after credit scene before adding him to the sequel. So, from now on I think it's pretty safe to assume that if a big character is included in the after credit scene of the current movie, chances are they're going to be in the next one. 

 

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(This is the second trailer to Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die.)