A Walk Among The Tombstones (2014)
A solid modern take on the classic private dick.
The Equalizer (2014)
Another solid film. Excellent action and directing. I'm still confused on why it was picked up for IMAX distribution. I saw it on a regular screen and that was totally sufficient. IMAX might give an extra kick to an already explosive film though.
New eNovella:
The wedding of Captain Jean-Luc Picard to Doctor Beverly Crusher was a small, private affair overseen by the mayor of La Barre, France, and witnessed by the groom’s sister-in-law and the mayor’s wife. At least, that’s what the happy couple always told their friends. On the anniversary of that blessed day, however, Worf and Geordi La Forge manage to coax the real story out of the pair, to discover a tale of mythical treasure and a lost civilization in the Delta Quadrant. It all begins when the omnipotent being Q crashes the festivities, declaring himself best man and bringing along an unwilling guest as a surprise for the groom.
I highly recommend the film China (1943).
My experience with Bad Robot television productions is that they're excellent at creating emotional moments but SUCK at plotting.
They often start off with one direction in mind but by the beginning of the next season they seemingly get bored and start heading somewhere else. Plot holes be damned. Most of their productions feel aimless with no ultimate goal in mind. Just making up whatever they can on the fly to keep the ball rolling as long as possible.
The only one of their shows that I truly enjoyed from start to finish was Almost Human and I feel that's because it sadly only had the one season.
But it too suffered from the lazy writing that is indicative of a Bad Robot production. Which was to introduce a new issue (usually mental/emotional) out of nowhere and then have whatever incident that happens that week help to completely resolve it by the end of the episode.
Ultimately, they're expert emotional manipulators not storytellers.
My initial thoughts after finishing Fringe for the first time.
TV's Frink said:
hairy_hen said:
That is the worst idea ever.
I don't know, have you never seen Cop Rock?
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Loved it. They definitely brought their 'A' game!
There's one Jedi, Kanan.
The kid is an orphan with Force sensitivity.
Obi-wan only appears in a prerecorded message and there has been NO indication that Yoda will be appearing.
As for villains, there is one Imperial Inquisitor who weilds a lightsaber. He is not a Sith nor a Dark Jedi.
Kotaku is a cesspit.
The Giver (2014)
A bit of an uneven outing. Able to evoke emotion out of the audience some of time but not every time and certainly not when it matters the most. Fairly decent up until the end.
The Maze Runner (2014)
What a fantastic film. Excellent plot, writing, pacing and decent performances. It accomplishes everything it sets out to. I really hope this does well at the box office. Definitely recommend it.
You keep saying there are JediS. There's a single Jedi and he keeps his saber hidden and only uses it under extreme circumstances.
You make it sound like the show is about a squad of renegade Jedi.
Wedge, Dak, Biggs....
Jeph Loeb recently did a radio interview for KFI 640 AM in Los Angeles where he touched on Daredevil:
"When I watched The Avengers, which is really one of my favorite movies, during the scene when the sky opens up, the Chitauri are coming and there's a giant battle over by Grand Central Station, even in the theater I was thinking, 'In the true Marvel Universe if you go about ten blocks over and an avenue down, there's a place called Hell's Kitchen and in that world are characters like Daredevil and Jessica Jones and Luke Cage, Hero for Hire, and those characters are not going to be involved in an inter-warfare-universe-colliding incident,'" Loeb said. "That's what the Avengers do and they do it really, really well and those movies are incredible. We wanted to have an opportunity to be able to tell stories about our street-level heroes and how that they could possibly interact in the world of Marvel without it feeling like it's completely detached and by the same token feeling like it's part of that world. And it's very much how it is in the comics, which is that Daredevil -- yes, one could argue that at some point he's been an Avenger but hey, you know, the reality is that so has everybody else [laughs]. The idea is that this is the world of people who are there to protect the neighborhood and if you believe in the neighborhood the way you believe in the planet then the emotional context is just strong."
"When we started talking to our actors and to our directors, this is with all due respect to the film, if you want to know what we're not doing, go watch the movie. If you want to know what we're doing, it's very much steeped in the world of the comics, but it also has a life of its own and that's really what television and our films really do is that we take the best....We hope and we're very confident that this is the beginning of something that's very exciting on Netflix."
For the first time, Official Pix is offering officially licensed photos for Clive Revill in The Empire Strikes Back.
I doubt these are GOUT sourced:
Telltale's The Walking Dead Season 2 (2014)
Finally finished the Second Season. =(
Darth Lars said:
That is why I say that I think that Lucasfilm would be disrespectful to the fans if they just ditched the post-ROTJ EU continuity outright.
That's precisely what they've done and why everything is now Legends.
You're playing a dangerous game.
canofhumdingers said:
Perhaps the old x-wings were already just that - old - at the battle of Yavin? It would make sense that a rag tag band of rebels fighting the government doesn't have access to the latest and greatest military technology and instead has to scrounge whatever old junk they can get their hands on.
I'm not disagreeing with you in the fact that I, too, would love to see the classic x-wings in some capacity alongside the new ones. I'm just pointing out that there are some very valid counter arguments to your reasoning and that the new x wings do have a reasonable explanation using "real world" logic.
You seem to be saying that their appearance should remain unchanged in the thirty or so years between the OT and episode 7 b/c that's what happens to aircraft in the real world. I'm saying that, one: that's not entirely accurate and aircraft (commercial and military) DO have significant modifications to their appearance over time - even if the old models are still hanging around when the new ones come out; and two: you're implying by your first assumption that the rebels' ships in the OT were relatively new which I think is a very poor and illogical assumption for the reasons I already stated and this is backed up by the fact that they look freaking old, beat up, and worn out already at the battle of Yavin.
I love the original x-wing and really hope to see it onscreen again. When the new x-wing was revealed I was a bit disappointed at first. But having this conversation has made me realize that it actually makes much more sense to have new and updated x-wings than to have the same old ships still hanging around in large numbers. And so now I'm actually warming up to the new design quite a bit. But I hope maybe Luke at least still flys the same old ship he blew the Death Star to bits with! I mean, who would get rid of that ride after something like that!?
^Yes. That entire post.
Darth Lars said:
I think that a decision to rub out the existence of Mara Jade, Jacen, Jaina, Anakin Solo and Ben Skywalker would be a giant middle-finger to the Star Wars fan community.
Outside the little group of "Original Trilogy Only" die-hards on this and other movie-oriented forums, there is a great community of Star Wars fans out there who have embraced the dozens and dozens of books that have been published since the Thrawn Trilogy.I do expect some things to be pulled from the EU into canon - which has happened before - , but we don't know anything yet about anything because nothing of Episode VII's plot has been disclosed yet.
I don't expect anyone to care about the specific stories, and about various side characters, though. Also, people wouldn't mind if some details are different or of some of the character traits of the Solo and Skywalker children were different.
They wouldn't have done what they did to the EU unless their hand was forced. I can guarantee you right now that VII will completely contradict everything that has happened postROTJ before now.
The biggest indicator of which is that from the evidence we've seen the Solo's only have one child. I doubt her name will be Jaina but we'll see about that.
darklordoftech said:
The new movies should be able to tell their own story, not be beholden to another story.
Sounds like something you-know-who might have said while the prequels were being written.
point5 said:
I've been trying to think of any Disney animations and movies that have explored dark themes or had dark moments.
Gargoyles (1994)
The creator of this series is now an Executive Producer on Rebels.
People's pets brought back to life in the dead of night who then go on a killing rampage.
I saw it coming a parsec away knowing that the new trilogy was being based on an outline from GL.
Despite what the EU fanatics have come to believe, George has always maintained that the EU was not his and he was not beholden to it.
George Lucas said:
Once Vader dies, he doesn't come back to life, the Emperor doesn't get cloned and Luke doesn't get married.
Which is fine with me. A lot of the EU is just terrible. I liked the basic outline of Luke rebuilding the Jedi Order post-ROTJ but the execution of it left a lot wanting.
If what we've heard is true in regards to Luke's life after ROTJ in this new trilogy, I gotta say I'm a little disappointed. Why wait so long?
It seems like George might be recycling the original ideas he had for Luke's sister and using them for Luke now. Which leaves me feeling a little apprehensive.
Pet Sematary (1989)
That was MESSED UP. Not what I thought it was about at all.