Tobar

I just mean I don’t count them as actual films. It’s an “interesting” mini-series at best.

Yeah that trilogy was real weird and disappointing. I certainly won’t be counting it as part of the larger film canon.

I’m all about those eyebrows.

Added trailers for:
Fast Color
Beyond White Space

indeed.

Anchorhead said:

Cherie has long been one of my favorite parts of the GFFA.

bay-yay-bee… 😉

Yeah, I’ve lost faith in the franchise. Especially in the hands of Kurtzman.

UNBREAKABLE (2000)

Solid film from back when M. Night Shyamalan was at his peak. Solid direction and performances from everyone.

SPLIT (2016)

A solid thriller and return to form from Shyamalan after a long slump. Fantastic performances from McAvoy. I wish I hadn’t missed this opening weekend and been one of those caught offguard by the ending.

GLASS (2019)

After nearly two decades we finally and suddenly have a complete UNBREAKABLE saga. Excellent execution and integration of SPLIT and UNBREAKABLE. Great performances from all, I was delighted to find that the actor that played Willis’ son also returned to his role 19 years later. I was surprised and amazed to discover this was a co-production between Universal and Disney, major kudos to Shyamalan for pulling that off. Hopefully he can continue on this streak of winners.

oojason said:

Quality work as ever Tobar 😃

Thanks!

Added trailer for:
High Life

Another year, another new set of films and TV! Here’s what we have so far–
Film:
IO
CAPTIVE STATE
Men in Black International
ALITA: BATTLE ANGEL
Replicas
GODZILLA: King of the Monsters
Terminator: Dark Fate
Star Wars: Rise of the Skywalker
Ad Astra
Beyond White Space
Fast Color
High Life
Gemini Man
The Last Man
The Wandering Earth
Warriors of Future
Starfish
Aniara
Chimera Strain

Television:
Weird City Season 1
The Orville Season 2
FUTURE MAN Season 2
Star Wars: Resistance Season 1
Roswell, New Mexico Season 1
Star Trek: Discovery Season 2
Stranger Things Season 3
The Expanse Season 4
Killjoys Season 5
The Twilight Zone Season 1
War of the Worlds Series 1
Lost in Space Season 2
The Mandalorian Season 1
Star Wars: The Clone Wars Season 7
WestWorld Season 3
Snowpiercer Season 1

This is the second year where I’ve had to expand the categories from just film to television as well. What do you think about this explosion of Scifi on the small screen and what are you most looking forward to on either?

Marvel Studios’ Captain Marvel | Special Look

Meanwhile in an alternate universe…

Sorry To Bother You (2018)

Um…

I wish I had seen this with an audience.

Guess I’ll chime in and say I’ll be glad if the battle droid is removed. It always irked me to see a reminder of the PT in the midst of enjoying a good film.

Mortal Engines (2018)

Beautiful designs throughout. A really interesting world full of uninteresting people. The characters are never really given anytime to breath or endear themselves to the audience. Instead the film rushes at a breakneck speed seemingly trying to stuff every last plot point from the book into a two hour run time. The material feels like it would have lended itself more to a mini-series.

AQUAMAN (2018)

This felt like what a modern Republic serial would be like. A real fun popcorn movie. I don’t think you could make a better movie about this character.

Bumblebee (2018)

The first Transformers movie with heart. Great little film, it’s a wonder what can be done when Michael Bay isn’t at the helm. Also shows how well the G1 designs would have looked in live action. Hopefully we’ll see a lot more from Travis Knight in the future.

Valheru_84 said:

when the multiple directors are put into list form as rodneyfaile has done, there looks like maybe a few too many chefs in the kitchen.

Just about every television show uses a host of different directors throughout a season.

I enjoyed the season as well. It wasn’t bogged down by a bunch of UNIVERSE ENDING nonsense. But the views here are not unique, everywhere I’ve gone I’ve seen nothing but negative reviews of the season.

Humby said:

Anyways, I think there’s some really good potential to get a near perfect deepfake if you can find enough decent source photos. Even the one that was mentioned earlier I would call a passable attempt. It’s a pretty straight forward shot which always makes things easier.

Here’s a more recent attempt.

Once Upon a Deadpool (2018)

About what I expected. A PG-13 cut of Deadpool 2 bookended by Fred Savage. It was about as funny as the original cut with different jokes and some alternate scenes. Real nice tribute to Stan Lee in the film and a surprisingly touching clip after the credits.

Spider-man: Into the Spider-verse (2018)

Wow. Best super hero film I’ve seen in a long time. Definitely the best Spider-man film. It’s getting award buzz, I hope it does well at the box office.

Death in Winter by Michael Jan Friedman

Having started playing Star Trek Online recently and with the announcement of the new Picard series I suddenly found myself interested in what the novel canon for the Prime Timeline was like post-Nemesis. So I decided to dive in. This book is set just after the events of Nemesis and primarily takes place on a conquered world in Romulan space. I liked how it utilized little tidbits of information that were dropped in the television series and expanded on them to support the novel’s narrative. Especially since I had just heard that information while doing a rewatch of TNG before encountering it in the book. Overall a nice diversion but I think the meat and potatoes of this era will be in the Titan novels that follow Riker into his first command.

That’s awesome!

I dunno about the special but the Strips and other things of that era were also copyrighted to Black Falcon which was the Lucasfilm licensing division at the time.

DominicCobb said:

I don’t really see the need for a “narrative lead.”

The only reason the ST has a chance of feeling like its narratively cohesive is that Abrams is returning. Had Trevorrow headed IX as was originally intended, it would have ended in disaster.

The canon is already a mess thanks to giving everyone free reign to take things wherever they want.

The GCW ends just a year after ROTJ thanks to Wendig, 30 years of potential were thrown out when Gray cemented that it was a solid period of peace and complacency. TFA is the very start of the new war and TLJ leaves no gap at all for anything in-between.

It would have been incredibly simple to work in room for expansion without affecting the narratives of either film but no one was there to guide it. It’s all a lopsided patchwork that will only get worse over time.