Being the continuance of a series abandoned… I never read any of D.C.’s New 52, because I objected to it on principle. The whole point of comic books is that they provide the balance of new tales as part of a coninuity. I get that managing said continuity can be a challenge. But re-booting is… Read More Comic Book Post #5
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I’m going to discuss the film at length in the next podcast, but here’s a point dependent on my memory: A gulf in tone lies between the reviews about The Force Awakens and those that greeted The Phantom Menace sixteen years ago. Then, the critics were numb and bored with the exercise of finding something to say… Read More How do you Know Star Wars is Back? Because You Can Critique it and Still Love it.
J.J. Abrams Executive produced this one, and, as the trailer indicates, it was directed by the guy who did Fast & Furious 8. So, there’s that. In the comments, they are NOT taking it well. And I definitely see why they wouldn’t. Star Trek was not supposed to be an action-movie franchise. It was supposed… Read More Star Trek Beyond Trailer Causes Trekkie Rage
He keeps remembering things creatively: Lucas says Han shooting first in the Mos Eisley cantina — which is what happened in the original edit of 1977’s debut Star Wars film — ran against the character’s principles. “Han Solo was going to marry Leia, and you look back and say, ‘Should he be a cold-blooded killer?’”… Read More Unsatisfied With Being Wrong About Star Wars, George Lucas Decided to be Wrong About John Wayne
Knock it off, nerds. More than a month ago, I made some jokes about Star Wars on Red Eye, a satirical political comedy show that airs at 3 a.m., and it has resulted in me being verbally abused and told to die by a mob of enraged fans for the past four days now. The… Read More Anyone Who’s Offended by Anyone on Red Eye is Too Stupid to Watch Star Wars
Being a fan of Star Wars is hard. You have to recognize that for all the fun it gave you, it’s also created a mass of boredom and Gungans. So very little of the Expanded Universe is done right. So much of it is a pastiche of the magic that made the first movie such… Read More Keeping Expectations Low for The Force Awakens
Watching Star Wars – the original trilogy, I mean – as it was before George Lucas screwed with it is what we’ve all been hoping for since the Disney buyout. Rumors of this were floated about last spring, but Disney did not confirm that they even wanted to do this. A debate was prompted about… Read More Disney is Going to Re-Release UnAltered Star Wars, Says the Same Stupid Rumor That Said So Last Year
It was pretty cool. First off: the slow intro, empty desert, sense of dread, reminiscent of There Will Be Blood. Dug it. The darkness sitting dormant. Stormtroopers: Same but different. Questions abound: Are these Republic Stormtroopers? Some Imperial rump state? Is the guy who pops up in the desert a good guy pulling a Luke, or… Read More Nerds are Never Happy: The Force Awakens Trailer
Kevin Williamson opines on how monsters make the ladies swoon. The phenomenon of young women falling in love with death-row inmates, particularly with serial killers, is not new: Women flocked to Ted Bundy’s trial — his trial for raping, torturing, and murdering young women as a prelude to acts of necrophilia — and he received… Read More Charles Manson, Star Wars, and the Joy of Hate
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