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Historical films needing to be "accurate" was a relatively recent thing.  At least through the fifties and a good bit beyond (not going to get lost in the swamp of deciding when/if things changed) a film about a historic event or character being historically accurate was pure happenstance.

Watched the latest Who last night on D+.  In my opinion it suffers from the same thing the Star Trek reboot suffered from (though nowhere near the same degree).  Too many action set pieces and not enough of the banter.  I felt the same way about the "Rose" episode that started off the new Who era way back when so perhaps it will find a more sedate pace.

In general I like the new Tardis interior but it seems like a lot of wasted space for the set.

Very nicely done.  I love that line after the credits, makes it complete.

From exhilaration from a Kaiju size Ultraman to "what the heck is with those body proportions" to "this looks like utter garbage".  All in the space of one minute and thirty-eight seconds... 

Nicely done.

5 hours ago, Spark-O-Matic said:

I'm really not a big cinephile. it's been so long since going to theaters, is the Imax the best? is there a brand of movie theater I'm going to get the best experience watching Minus One?

I don't bother going to movies UNLESS they are in IMAX.  Regular movies just can't compare.  That said there are good Imax theaters and bad Imax theaters.

1 hour ago, Big s said:

Oddly, I think the animated Boba Fett in the holiday special was way cooler than the Live action Series Book of Boba Fett 

Nah - they were both garbage.  (though perhaps, if one uses enough illegal substances, the animated special might make sense).

Inside out was very good and I'll watch the second one when it comes out on D+.  Hopefully the Parent's emotions get another brief appearance, they were the highlight for me.

17 hours ago, jenius said:

Feels kind of hollow when a guy on an English language Macross site probably pressing 50 years old says Robotech didn't have much of an impact. 

You ask a couple average people on the streets of the US what Robotech is and you will almost certainly get a response of "what?".  Ask what Transformers is and you will almost certainly get a hate it or like it response.  Same for GI Joe or Scooby Doo (for my generation).  

On 10/17/2023 at 10:55 PM, mikeszekely said:

The statues aren't from the books, they're from the Clone Wars show.  Check out season 3, episodes 15-17.

I did watch it and have no memory of them.  Three episodes from a six season show is still a bit thin to base a cliffhanger on.  A tiny bit of exposition would have been good there (or was there some at the statue scene and I forgot it)

4 minutes ago, mikeszekely said:

I haven't been following the online chatter... are they mad about something specific, or mad because the plot is unresolved? 

I thought the ending was Meh, I'm not mad.  No idea if I am any kind of representative sample though.  I guess the biggest problem for someone like myself who follows the movies and the TV shows but not the books - those two statues at the end meant nothing.  

It is amazing to see how a little kids educational program turned into THE powerhouse Science Fiction show in the UK.

1 hour ago, F-ZeroOne said:

 Now you too can discover if "The Tomb of the Cybermen" is the greatest achievement in the whole of human history! 😉
 

I still can't figure out if people are joking when they say that...  They seem to say it so earnestly and the serial itself is so very very bad.  I still remember thinking "where did that giant block and tackle come from"?  It took me a good long while to figure out it was just a special Effects prop to make it look like the Cyberman was holding a character up - normally there is some kind of effort to hide things like that...

On 9/30/2023 at 8:56 PM, Bolt said:

 we all know that the New Republic didn't take the Imperial remnant seriously enough to prevent the First Order from rising. 

That is a real problem in this particular time period  anyone that fought the Empire would almost certainly jump on any rumor of a remnant and squash it.  Perhaps overplaying the response and causing more of the remnants to spring up from heavy-handed responses.  Instead we get an apathetic council at best.  Another route they could have gone, which was only hinted at in a different show, was that the New Republic was stretched too thin and this was just an operation that would have used resources needed elsewhere.

On 9/29/2023 at 10:59 AM, Roy Focker said:

The opening was bad.  All of Hera's stuff solo stuff is bad. Filoni can't write political drama.

To be fair, neither could Lucas.  The instant he tried to go beyond Empire bad, Rebels good he fell flat on his face.

On 9/29/2023 at 10:59 AM, Roy Focker said:

I think the 2 dark Jedi mercs are the most interesting because we still don't know that much about them. 

Be careful what you wish for, you might get it.  Cough, Boba Fett, cough.  (Darth Maul ended up pretty good though).  

Another good one.  A really short one but any longer and the joke would have worn way too thin.

4 hours ago, Hikuro said:

Now why the 14th Doctor regenerated back to the 11th being Tennant is not very clear...but it was implied that the 15th doctor only in appearance is the 11th but will be very different than the one we all knew and loved back in that era. 

 

I read that too but, the snippets we see of him in the trailers he acts pretty much the same.  Maybe he changed catchphrases to Geronimo...

Batting a thousand so far with these.

11 hours ago, Swann said:

You don't have to come here. If You dislike it. Orguss still has fans.

You don't have to comment if you don't understand what your commenting about.

That is great, the attention to the details of the old Filmation jerky animation and film smudges being icing on the cake.  Did they get the same guy who did the Star Trek the Next Generation by Filmation to do these?

The first one was a fun little romp and I have Netflix anyway, so I'll watch it.

5 hours ago, CoryHolmes said:

I haven't seen Ahsoka, nor do I have any interest in doing so.  But is it just me, or is she Dave's "creators pet character"?  'Cuz it seems like she's shoe-horned into any story he's involved with to me.

At this point I think she is more a "glue" character that holds the old Skywalker centric Star Wars together with the non-Skywalker future (there are none left after all - I don't count Rey as a Skywalker).  We will see if she ends up being everywhere.

As for her personality, in Clone Wars and Rebels the largest part of her personality was as a foil to Annakin/Vader,  basically she is the Annakin that does not turn into Vader).  They have not given her any real existence outside of being that foil yet.  Your correct though, they need to get her some personality.

Cool.  I liked the first two, they had the stupid eighties vibe I missed.  The third one I did not even bother to watch.  This one looks to be back on track.

15 hours ago, renegadeleader1 said:

Chronicles of Star Dune Episode 1: Return of the Avatar Riddick and the Rings of Jupiter Ascending.😝

I'd watch that for a DOLLAR!!!

11 hours ago, TangledThorns said:

Snyder's adaptations (300, Watchmen, DC movies) are really good however his original films (Sucker Punch, Army of the Dead) are not IMHO. Netflix films in general are kinda weak overall tbh.

 

Watchmen was really good...

You got your Avatar in my Space Nazis!