Tobar

This has to be the weirdest case of product placement I’ve ever seen.

^nice!

Is that an ANH helmet?

So yeah, I definitely recommend anyone looking for more insight into the series to follow the official Youtube after show Rebels Recon.

The Flash Season 2 (2015)

Eh…it had a lot of great moments but it never quite lived up to season 1’s finale. But it was still pretty good. I’m probably just bitter because of what they did with a character I really liked.

Well I feel silly. These are two separate things?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duracell_Bunny

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energizer_Bunny

That’s cool with me. It feels like a tradition now, when I think back to this classic.

E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial (1982)

Finally got this on blu-ray. Man, what a wonderful film. The transfer for this was stellar. Beautiful picture.

I gotta say, I much prefer the Klingons of the TOS era. They were more cunning than the later depictions.

Ronster said:

But then Darth Vader sending the distress signal and all aboard were killed. Get’s contradicted by that.

No, the ruse with the distress signal was for the benefit of the senate:

Send a distress signal and then inform the senate that all aboard were killed!

The senate itself was dissolved by the Emperor not long afterward. So it’s quite possible the destruction of the Tantive was never reported.

News of the Tantive never made it back to the base as when Leia arrives their reaction was thus:

“You’re safe. When we heard about Alderaan, we feared the worst.”

For all they knew, she had made it safely to Alderaan before it was destroyed.

Ronster said:

Will the Rebels believe Princess Leia to be Dead and the mission a failure?

You know this entire film takes place before the start of Star Wars, right?

FanFiltration said:
Much thanks go out to Tobar for the heads up on this!

My pleasure, glad you enjoyed it!

You mean this and this?

How is a poster filled by the Death Star and Darth Vader and covered in Stormtroopers and Tie Fighters not Star Wars-y?

SHIN GODZILLA (2016)

Wow. I haven’t seen a Godzilla film that good since probably 1995. Loved, loved, loved the use of iconic tracks from previous films. Hideaki Anno definitely succeeded in making Godzilla scary again. Fantastic film!

TV’s Frink said:

generalfrevious said:

Boyhood’s acclaim only represents the death of American cinema…film criticism has really nosedived where any cheap gimmick gets you instant acclaim, regardless of actual quality.

You might have said more but I stopped reading at this point.

To be fair, there’s some truth to that, but I didn’t notice until Ghostbusters (2016) almost reached 80% fresh on Rotten Tomatoes. Clearly something has gone wrong.

Just saw the special preview for Doctor Strange. It was everything I hoped for. Now I’m really hyped for the film!

Ronster said:

Is a Kids Cartoon going to Kill all These Jedi and Sith apart from… Obiwan and Vader?

Oh you mean like its predecessor The Clone Wars?

Well don’t make fun I came across the planet Despayer which is from the Star Wars EU and the name was taken and possibly some plot also from a guy developing an adventure game (A bit like Monkey Island) also coincidently it was about stealing the death star plans.

And just when was this fan game being made? Despayre’s been around since at least 1993.

Tyrphanax said:

What! Man, I couldn’t disagree more! Frankly, I’d call this episode essential.

Plus, this episode is all about the origins of Wedge Antilles! How is that not worthwhile? He was one of my favorite OT characters growing up, and I really enjoyed his EU exploits as well, so I really enjoyed this look into how he came to fight alongside the rest of the Rebels in the OT. And not only that, we get to see Hobbie, who was a Rogue Squadron member at Hoth.

The opening was amazing. I love the way the space battles feel perfectly OT. The pilot deaths and the effects and everything were perfect. Loved seeing TIE Interceptors again, especially with the red racing stripes like the 181st had in the X-Wing comics, and I believe this is the first Rebel transport we’ve seen in the series so far? So that’s another classic Rebel ship brought to the show.

It was also cool to see someone using the card slot on an R2 unit for the first time since ANH, too. And the Imperial banter about whatever combination of letters and numbers is always funny. The Pryce/Sabine fight was great, I thought.

I always enjoy a look into the inner workings of the galaxy, so seeing things like how TIE pilots are trained was great. Most of it felt like it was right out of the X-Wing books, which I loved. TIE simulators and training scenarios and all that. Something about the design of the Skystrike Academy felt familiar to me, too… I also felt like the music was inspired by Rogue Squadron, at least a bit.

Also, I immediately figured out the Fulcrum Agent during their message.

Plus, not a single lightsaber all episode. Perfect.

As an aside, I think of all the updates to the show’s costumes, I’m most excited about the little orange triangle on Kanan’s tunic. It always screams “McQuarrie!” to me. I’m also catching a lot of the animation updates they’ve made. Movements are much smoother and realistic now. Lots of new small animations adding a lot of life to the characters as well. Also seems like the lighting and effects are improved as well. Some of the space shots looked “real.”

^What he said.

TV’s Frink said:

Everyone who thinks any rating scale is silly is wrong.

I give this post an indigo out of eleventeen puce carbuncles.

Marvel’s Iron Fist | NYCC Teaser Trailer

I personally can’t stand the four star scale. Five stars makes so much more sense to me.

1 - Hated it
2 - Didn’t like it
3 - Liked it
4 - Really liked it
5 - Loved it

With the four star scale there’s no real middle ground.

Highly recommend you check out the original if you haven’t.

DominicCobb said:

It’s a half-hour non-serialized kids show driven by mostly action (basically never character) so I guess that’s to be expected.

I find complaints like these are usually made by people that either never watched the series or never made it passed the first season.

The first couple of seasons, especially the first, are all over the place in terms of when they take place in the timeline. But beginning around season three they really started to focus on keeping the series on a linear path through the war.

Also, the series is packed with character development. And it’s not just focused on the main characters.

We see a batch of clones from their first assignment through to the last days of the war.

Ahsoka throughout the entire series continued to grow and mature as the series went.

Even the villains were never stagnant but continued to grow and evolve as time passed. From Ventress to Maul and Savage, they all got their own story arcs devoted to them. Even a character like Hondo saw some growth throughout the series.

So I find claims that the series was non-serialized and lacked character growth to be outright laughable.