I think the key is, part of the legend was that Azor Ahai gained his magical weapon by plunging his sword through the heart of his beloved, killing her. While this doesn’t quite track with Jon (he didn’t personally kill Ygritte), Dany got her dragons by killing Khal Drogo and taking her petrified dragon eggs into his…

Most of the criticisms I’ve heard of Iron Fist don’t have much to do with political/social issues. While it’s true many people were disappointed the show didn’t go with an Asian lead, the big criticisms are:

I scarcely remember this movie. The plants on Pandora looked really cool in 3D, but it’s telling that my big memory of the movie is CGI sensitive plants. It wasn’t a hit because it was a great movie, it was a hit because the 3D technology was new, and Cameron was working with Sigourney Weaver and Space Marines again.

I feel like there should have been some Darla love up in here. She set the tone as the first character we actually met in the first episode, the at the time stunning reversal where the “damsel in distress” turned out to be the monster. And Julie Benz saying “God doesn’t want you. But I still do” gives me chills every…

Most of these I’ve never seen and have no interest in seeing, but for the ones I have seen, this isn’t that embarrassing a list. Everybody used to like Independence Day, and still would had it been released in the 80s since it’s such an 80s movie. Jason X I remember as amusing for some reason, I think it was that two…

I’m disappointed but not surprised to hear that this didn’t work, and I’m on board with everybody who says they should have gone with an Asian actor. It’s not that a show or movie with a white lead CAN’T do a good job and make a compelling martial arts show, it’s just that:

Let’s break it up by movie, because everybody’s partially right.

Didn’t Meryl Streep essentially play Carrie Fisher in “Postcards from the Edge?” Right now, emotionally I’m not in favor of a recast, but I’d definitely make an exception for Meryl Streep. Stockard Channing has an impressive IMDB entry full of things I have not seen. The Good Wife and the West Wing were really not my…

I don’t like football, but enjoy beer and sarcasm, so I used to ironically attend a football party or two a year, like if the Bears were losing the Superbowl or OSU was in a championship game or else beating up on Michigan. I mean, I don’t like football, but my animosity towards all things Michigan is much stronger.…

Yeah, the crux of it is, Rogue One looks like a good movie. I’m certainly going to see it. But it’s unnecessary. One thing that was great about the original 1977 movie was how it started in medias res, implied a much larger universe and didn’t explain much. Darth Vader was looking for the stolen Death Star plans, the…

Sadly, I never figured it out because my brother did and texted me about it early on. I’m not sure when I would have figured it out on my own. But in this case I liked being “spoiled,” because the first couple episodes were needlessly confusingly plotted, and the show made more sense, and thus was more enjoyable, when…

Boring, that’s how he stacks up. The editing was weird, it seems like a lot was cut out for time, but the Joker didn’t generate any energy with what time he did have on screen. I’ve read articles here this morning that discuss whole plot points that I don’t recall seeing, and I just watched this movie last night. It’s…

Game of Thrones, Star Wars, now Marvel - she’s earned some kind of nerd hat trick. She should just roll with it and audition for the new Star Trek show.

With the notable exception of Agents of SHIELD, which stars Ming Na Wen and former Chinese pop star Chloe (Bennett) Wang, obviously.

Since they just basically blew them up with a bomb anyway, it seems like a drone strike would have been a better option than a team of supervillains.

Now I’m sad I had to use the restroom at the wrong time and missed that guy’s head exploding. Maybe selling booze at the movie theater isn’t such a great idea after all.

I really enjoy these movies. B-movies are an underrated art, when they don’t take themselves too seriously they can be a lot of fun. Jovovich has repeatedly said there are few good roles for women and that playing the girlfriend is boring. She doesn’t have any financial need to work anymore and keeps making these…

I’m not sure I realized this show was still on. The first season was actually pretty good, but then . . .

Big Trouble in Little China should be first.

The haircut is a relief. I hate to be so shallow and nitpicky, but I really don’t like Ezra’s hair in the first two seasons. (Actually I didn’t like anyone’s hair, at all, ever, in Clone Wars either.) I’m glad to hear the character is changing, too - it really looked to me like Maul got in his head in the finale, and…