Batman (1989) is the best live-action superhero film of all time.
Low bar.
(half-joking)
The Giza Necropolis after Al-Aziz Uthman failed to have it demolished:
Now looks to be as good a time as any to share this article:
I’ve begun re-reading The Chronicles of Narnia, this time in publication order. Several years ago, I took out a Narnia omnibus from the library which was arranged in chronological order and read it that way, being too young and ignorant to know any better. I can’t undo that mistake, unfortunately, but hopefully enough time’s passed since then that I can revisit the books from this different perspective and come away with a new appreciation.
Stargate was an underrated Space Odyssey.
I go back-and-forth on this. Sometimes I think it’s underrated, other times I think it’s rated appropriately. The script is weak as hell, but every other aspect of the filmmaking is spot-on. Definitely a mixed bag.
SG-1, on the other hand, is grossly overrated. All it does is pilfer from better shows like Trek and Babylon 5, watering down their concepts to be as mass-consumable as possible, seasoned with plenty of casual racism, eurocentrism, and American imperialism. I can understand liking this show as a kid back in the day – I was one of them – but I don’t know how any grown adult can view this show as anything more than a guilty pleasure.
I still like Star Wars … from a certain point of view.
Midi-chlorian microverse trilogy. How the fuck anyone could think that’d ever have been good, I fail to understand.
Stargate SG-1 fanboys: Ra in the original movie is an Asgard, LOL.
Me: This
isn’t this
any more than this
is this
House of Wax (1953) is overrated and a step down from Mystery of the Wax Museum (1933). Mystery of the Wax Museum was a unique film that had a strong female protagonist and a unique visual look that the remake lacks.
Yeah. Vincent Price is the only good thing about the '53 version.
Judy Davis
“Where’s my honey?!” indeed.
The only lightsaber duel I can say I really have no qualms with is the TESB duel. The SW duel’s fine for what it is — Ben distracting Vader to buy Luke & co. time — but it’s hardly thrilling stuff. My issues with ROTJ as a whole put a damper on my enthusiasm for the duel. The prequel duels got more inane with each entry. And the one sequel duel I’ve watched — the one from TFA — is as mediocre as the rest of the film.
I’m too poor to upgrade to 4k. For the same reason, I still buy DVDs alongside BDs.
Cheetos are the worst cheese-related product ever conceived.
I’d say processed cheese slices are truly the worst, but I refuse to recognize that yellow plastic garbage as cheese.
Joseph Scoren
[double post]
“You were right. You were right about me. Tell your sister, you were right…”
It’s the best duel in the PT. Which isn’t saying much, but still.
Zero interest from me. Does every origin story need to be told? Can’t something ever be left to the imagination?
I always liked Qui-Gon but the character fits nowhere in the Star Wars Lucas set up in the original trilogy.
I got into the Jedi Apprentice YA series before I saw TPM. I think my evaluation of the character was informed by those books first-and-foremost, and I wasn’t able to distinguish Lucas Qui-Gon from EU Qui-Gon until years later.
Honestly my head canon after TLJ was that Luke didn’t really “die” from Force projecting himself, but confronting his greatest failure (Kylo Ren) and forgiving himself caused Luke to achieve enlightenment, and he just became one with the Force as the next step of his ascension.
No one’s ever really gone.
*cue RLM video*
Hannah Hussein
My favorite EU is:
Tales of the Jedi
-Ulic Qel Droma
-Exar Kun
-Aleena Keto
-Vima SunriderLove TOTJ, but I’ve never been a fan of how compressed it all is. The Great Sith War spans, what, a year at most? If you’ve read the Dark Empire endnotes, you’d know Veitch originally envisioned the rise of the Krath and Ulic’s fall to the dark side as a process which spanned several years than the weeks/months the comics imply, so I don’t know why the storylines came out so truncated. KJA’s eventual involvement or some editorial decree from on high throwing a spanner in the works?
If I had any faith in the nuEU doing it justice, I’d like to see TOTJ redone as an ongoing title in the same vein as the KOTOR comic, but I just know it wouldn’t recapture any of the magic of the original. Probably end up with a scene of Kun bleeding a kyber crystal red in the process of constructing his double-bladed lightsaber, because that’s the stupid bullshit that typifies modern SW.
Haha Kun bleeding a lightsaber lol I can see Disney Wars doing that cuz Sith only use red sabers! 😄
Hamsters.
I imagine Lucas would’ve had to have taken a more hands-off approach and trusted the directors’ creative vision without his micromanagement, if only for the sake of his own sanity. Filming three trilogies back-to-back over a 30-odd-year stretch would take a lot out of a person.