Too Many Servings of John

Musings and reviews from a weird mind

John Skrip

  • John’s Movie Pitches – Volume Five

    I’ve done a few of these movie pitch posts now and none of them have been made yet. Is it because I’m just throwing joke ideas onto my blog and hoping Hollywood will notice me? Perhaps. But I wouldn’t discount the complete lack of originality in most of the movies being released today. Much like Read more

  • John VS Artificial Intelligence

    If there’s something in the world I really, truly hate, and there’s a lot of them, it’s the threat of artificial intelligence and what it represents to the world of moviemaking and writing at large. I especially despise that abominable creation ChatGPT, produced by the company OpenAI, and would very much like to see it Read more

  • Top 10 Ways To Avoid Other People

    Hey, everybody! In my ongoing quest to improve myself as a human being and write weird shit on a consistent time table, I’m rededicating my efforts to this blog, the magnum opus through which I channel my most inane thoughts. You can expect more posts, more Ruddtrospectives, and more Flying Nun reviews in the near Read more

  • Ruddtrospective #28: A Slightly Frozen Empire

    Previously on http://www.TooManyServingsOfJohn.Com… A movie was bad!Specifically the movie was called Ghostbusters: Afterlife. And it wasn’t necessarily bad, but I didn’t like it. It was one of the first Paul Rudd movies I reviewed for this column, and I thought it was a weird disjointed mash of different tones that didn’t work. It was one Read more

  • John’s Review of Sony’s Worst and Funniest Film Yet: It’s Madame Web Time!

    Full spoilers for this immediately. I’m not stepping around this. Nobody saw it except for me and my friend Jackson. I’ve been watching superhero movies since I was a little kid and I’ve been waiting for a movie this bad in a funny way. Morbius failed because it was just so boring, but this exceeds Read more

  • 2023: A Year in Movies and Other Stuff

    Hey, everybody! It’s that time of year again, by which I mean many days after the year has ended! So here I am to talk about some movies and shows I watched this year. Some of them were good, some of them were bad. I’m going to rant about a few of them here. But Read more

  • Super-Ranking the Comic Book Movies and TV Shows of 2023

    * This post was updated as of December 2024 to correct a very incorrect opinion.Spoilers for all movies discussed in this ranking. Not that most of the public would care at this point. This has been a rocky year for comic book adaptations and superhero media and a good few of the ones on this Read more

  • John’s Semi-Aquatic Review of Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom

    Did anyone see this? Hard to say. The first Aquaman inexplicably made a billion dollars, so even though logically that doesn’t make sense and that movie should have sunk, (Heh) this new one could make money. I think it’ll fail though. Anyway, no spoilers and then spoilers. Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom stars Jason Momoa, Read more

  • John marvels at Marvel’s The Marvels (A Marvelous Movie Review)

    So clearly I came up with the title for the review before I saw the movie. The title of the review only includes such positive verbage because of the title of the movie. I’m sure I’m not the only person who used such fun wordplay in their review title. But maybe I am, because I Read more

  • John’s Movie Pitches – Volume Four

    Now that the writer’s strike is over and the actor’s strike will definitely end soon (Because the AMPTP Jerks are definitely going to give the Actor’s Guild what they want) I’ve decided to start pitching my movie ideas to Hollywood again. Everybody knows the last few batches were conceptual gold and are just itching to Read more

  • Ruddtrospective #27: Only Murders With Paul and Meryl, Building Somewhat Irrelevant

    Spoilers for the third season of Only Murders in the Building, which has just wrapped up. At this point the show has been going for three seasons, so either you’ve been following along or you’re probably not going to watch it and won’t care if I spoil things. Also spoilers for seasons one and two Read more

  • Ruddtrospective #26: Teenage Mutant Cartoon Turtles

    This review is really late because I started it like a month ago and then just forgot to finish it. But since then I’ve watched this movie two more times, which should make it clear what I think. Spoilers for Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem, not that it’s really a movie that can be Read more

  • Guess Who Just Watched All The Fast & Furious Movies For The First Time?

    The answer is me, obviously. It’d be really weird if I said “My Grandma” and then put her thoughts below. But also maybe funny in its own way? Anyway, if you’re disappointed that that’s not the thing I’m doing, then I’m sorry. But yeah, I just watched all the Fast & Furious movies. I’d never Read more

  • John’s Reluctant Review of The Flash (2023)

    Welcome. If you’ve never read my blog before and you just found this and you’re expecting a fair, unbiased, positive review of The Flash, then go away. If you decided to read this because you loved The Flash and you want someone to reinforce your opinions on the quality of the movie and the acting Read more

  • The Flying Nun, Revisited: Volume 1

    Previously on WWW.TooManyServingsOfJohn.Com…“And if I do my job, those answers will finally tell me WHY THE FLYING NUN EXISTS. Who came up with the idea? Who greenlit this stupid show? Why would Sally Field, a renowned and incredible actress, willingly be a part of this? Is this a real thing or did I go insane already? Why Read more

  • Substitute Fish – A John J Skrip Short Story

    I recently wrote three short stories for a class and really enjoyed writing them, so I thought I’d post them here. This is the second story. Enjoy! Substitute Fish “The less you talk to me, the more I like you.”  That partial recollection of vague quotation had been rolling through Walter’s mind a lot recently. Read more

  • Don’t Kill The Rooster – A John J Skrip Short Story

    This past semester, I wrote three short stories for a writing class. I enjoyed doing it and I thought I’d share some of them on the blog. Sorry for the delay on my review of the Fast & Furious movies. I went on strike like all the other writers, and then I remembered that nobody Read more

  • John’s Review of Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3

    Hello! I meant to write a review for Shazam! Fury of the Gods, but it was super boring and I had nothing to say about it. I’ve been busy with lots of writing assignments and finals, but school is now over for the summer and we’re going to celebrate with a review of Guardians of Read more

  • John Rants About The Flash (Comic Books)

    Hi. Hello. Just a quick disclaimer. As I said above, I will be ranting about The Flash, as I most likely have done before in small doses. But I wanted to clarify which The Flash I plan to complain about. I will not be yelling about The Flash, the 2023 movie starring (Notoriously garbage person)Ezra Read more

  • Ruddtrospective #25: Paul Rudd’s Tiniest Adventure Yet

    This is a big movie for me especially. I’ve been waiting for this for some time now. People have neglected Ant-Man as a character in the past but now he’s in a big epic movie and the reviews are not very positive. Did I like it though? Have I been blinded by my love of Read more

  • Ruddtrospective #24: Three Marvelous Movies

    Spoilers for three movies you’ve probably seen before- Captain America: Civil War, Ant-Man and the Wasp, and Avengers: Endgame. I feel a little weird about covering these movies, but you know what? If you think it’s dumb then you can fight me. This may be the geekiest Ruddtrospective yet, where I get to gush about Read more

  • 2022: A Year in Review

    Last year I reviewed all the 2021 movies I’d seen. I had watched about 48. This year, I’m not only behind on posting, I watched 53 movies that came out in 2022 before the year ended, and now I’ve seen about 65. This wasn’t at all purposeful. I don’t want to watch too many movies Read more

  • Super-Ranking the Comic Book Movies and TV Shows of 2022

    Spoilers for everything in this ranking. Obviously. It would be really stupid of you to read this if you had any interest in watching any of these but haven’t yet. We were originally going to get three more superhero movies this year, but Spider-Man Across the Spider-Verse got delayed and Warner Brothers lost all of Read more

  • Misadventures in Knitting

    Not sure if this story is interesting or not but it’s a weird experience and I felt it warranted mentioning. Also you don’t have to read it. You could go read a different blog, or write your own post. Let me live my life! Anyway. Before… Back when COVID-19 initially became a major inconvenience, I Read more

  • A Few Scary Stories

    Happy Thanksgiving! In honor of this holiday all about eating too much food with your relatives, I decided I’d write some horror stories for you. Or at least, horror stories from my perspective. It’s seasonally appropriate! The Midnight ShiftImagine, if you will, that you’re a twenty year old man working at a library. Let’s say Read more

  • John’s Review of Black Panther: Wakanda Forever After

    It feels weird to be back writing another superhero movie review already. It’s been a couple of weeks, right? Black Adam and Black Panther: Wakanda Forever are very different superhero movies. Black Adam is the vanity project of the world’s baldest man. Black Panther: Wakanda Forever is a tribute to a great actor who should Read more

  • Ruddtrospective #23: The Rudd Thus Far

    Spoilers for all Paul Rudd movies and shows that I’ve reviewed at this point. So obviously it’s been a while since I did a Ruddtrospective, and I thought I should try and get everyone back up to speed. Remind myself and my readers which Paul Rudd performances should be revered and which ones should be Read more

  • A Review of The Rock’s Black Adam

    I’m sure nobody wants to see this because this man makes too many movies and this movie looks generic as hell and DC has burned us millions of times. Nevertheless I will start by not spoiling the movie and make it obvious when I switch to spoilers. Black Adam stars Rock ‘The Dwayne’ Johnson. The Read more

  • John’s Movie Pitches – Volume Three

    I’ve decided to continue my weird, time-honored tradition of posting at least five brilliant movie ideas every three months. I’m not sure how much of a tradition it is because this is only my third time doing it. And is it really a tradition or is it just a pattern? How many times do you Read more

  • Why Do I Love Superheroes?

    I think I’ve mentioned before that I’m a little obsessed with comic books and comic book movies in general. They’re a pretty big part of my life, and they always have been. I’m sure I’ve said this before, but I know more about the worlds of Marvel and DC comics than I know about current Read more

  • Quarantining Outside My Comfort Zone

    DISCLAIMER: This post was written one week before I plan on posting it, so by the time this is published I will no longer be in quarantine and I will have rejoined the real world. Just wanted to make that clear so as to dissuade any worries. So a few months ago I made a Read more

  • Can’t The Story Just Write Itself?

    Charlie had been staring at his computer screen for exactly one hour, forty-three minutes and seventeen seconds. In this time he had averaged two blinks every thirty minutes, and had only turned away from the computer three and a half times. Two of those times were so he could flip the novelty hourglass he kept Read more

  • Something is Happening

    Today I’m moving back to Duluth. The city of fog, barber shops and sandwiches. And in three days I’ll be beginning my sophomore year of college. And you may be thinking “That’s very exciting. I bet, given all I know about John, that he’s feeling excited, prepared, and not the least bit overwhelmed. And at Read more

  • Nothing is Happening

    Today’s my day off! I could try and rope someone into taking me to Grand Marais, but I’d much rather sit around and do nothing. But I also wanted to write a blog post. And since I’m doing nothing, I’m going to write about nothing. Real stream of consciousness shit. Completely different from my other Read more

  • John’s Review of Taika Waititi’s Potentially Nonsensical Thor 4

    Despite working at a summer camp with limited access to the internet, I yet again managed to spoil the ending of this movie for myself. But some people are smart and don’t do that. So, as always, I will clearly mark when I start spoiling the movie. Thor: Love and Thunder stars Christopher Hemsworth, Natalie Read more