I held off posting this, just in case I spoiled a bunch of shit, but I don’t think anyone is reading, so it’s not like it matters. 😂
These were just my thoughts as the episode progressed. I now know some of it is wrong, but I’m not going to go back and correct anything.
Continue reading “Stranger Things Watch Notes S04E01 – The Hellfire Club”I gave up keeping notes on Star Trek Picard after the second episode. Never even posted my second episode notes because I began to despise the show. It was the right call to not even bother documenting how absolutely terrible it was.
However, here I am two episodes in to Strange New Worlds and I have to admit I’m kind of enjoying it. I don’t have any notes for the first episode, because I assumed I’d hate it and didn’t bother, but that was a real mistake on my part.
As I’ve already stated I don’t think this is a bad show. I’m surprisingly ok with it. The characters are all terribly written, but the plots so far feel like Star Trek plots. Albeit, Star Trek plots written by dim wits who have watched some Star Trek, and understand the structure, but just don’t quite get the core idea.
On with the comments…
Continue reading “Strange New Worlds S01E02 Watch Notes – Children of the Comet”
I started the new season of Star Trek: Picard, against my better judgement. I made it 10 minutes in before my brain was so confused I had to re-start it and begin taking notes.
This is nothing but spoilers. If you haven’t watched the episode, and actually care, don’t read on. It also requires some context for most of my comments. So if you haven’t seen it; some of this might make zero sense.
Also, a lot of this is just plain nerd nitpicking bullshit.
REVISION: One of my comments about Guinan has been updated. There was something I missed, apparently.
Continue reading “Star Trek Picard S02E01 Watch Notes”I was watching a video about the Galaxy’s Edge attraction at Disney and the statement was made: “The Sequel Trilogy won’t age the same way as the Prequel Trilogy”.
You said that right, my man…
Continue reading “How Will the Sequel Trilogy Hold Up?”
Two hundred years ago I wrote about how Luke’s rescue plan in Return of the Jedi made no sense. It took me a bit, but now here I am to apply the same logic to the cinematic masterpieces that is: The Phantom Menace.
Continue reading “Following Through on a Plan: The Phantom Menace”Hey, it’s “Star Wars Day” and I haven’t bitched about Star Wars yet!
Ok, I won’t complain too much. But imagine if Disney actually had a plan for Star Wars, instead of shitting the bed immediately by backing themselves into a corner with the setting of their sequel trilogy?
Let me get one thing out of the way right away; I don’t hate everything about the new films. I liked the performers and their performances. I liked the idea of most of the characters. I liked some concepts that were explored (and then ultimately discarded) in each film. There were some good things there… like bits of peanuts in a log of shit.
Most importantly, they are still better films than the prequels by FAR.
Godzilla vs. Kong is fine. It’s a perfectly adequate kaiju team-up picture. People don’t like to hear this, because everyone is so hyper critical of everything now, but the giant monster genre has a form and it was fairly true to that form, but it’s not perfect. There are ideas that feel rushed, almost to the point of being superfluous to the story.
So in this exercise the studio has come to me with the following ask: “We’ve already started work. We’ve built sets. We’ve hired actors. The story needs to follow the same basic beats, but it feels a little off. Can you fix it?”
Sure… why not?
This assumes you have seen the movie, so needless to say: spoilers ahead.
I caught a few minutes of the end of the movie Red Tails earlier. I’ve never seen the whole movie. I started it, realized it was terrible, and shut it off. But here I was watching an action scene late in the film with historical inaccuracies my 9 year-old nephew could probably point out. (Seriously, he knows a lot about fighter planes)
Continue reading “Analyzing Five Minutes of Red Tails”
Major spoilers for the finale of season 2 of The Mandalorian ahead. You have been warned. Turn away now.
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Continue reading “The Hero is the one the show is named after”
Imagine this alternate history scenario. It’s May 1977 (if you weren’t alive and/or old enough to understand movies you are in this alternate history). You’re sitting in a cinema waiting to see the latest space movie everyone is going nuts for. The lights go out. The screen comes to life.
THE
STAR
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bursts onto the center of the screen and fades back, and then the following text starts scrolling on the screen:
Continue reading “Star Wars “Original” Crawl”
Armchair Screenwriter 