I just couldn’t get over the plot contrivances. It felt like the writers started with these action set pieces in mind and then just wrote their way to those set pieces with little to no awareness of how those scenes fit together. Half of the plot depends entirely on the opening of a single door! It’s as if the writers…

Didn’t exactly hate it, but was disappointed for a number of reasons.

First, I felt like a good third of the film was completely pointless. The entire Finn/Rose subplot, which BTW, resulted in Benico Del Toro’s character revealing to Hux that the resistance ships were cloaked and escaping, something the new order would…

I really REALLY wanted it to be good. First Star Trek series on TV in almost a decade. But what a total mess. Terrible writing, terrible acting, and with all the dutch angles and lense flares, I can’t help but think it was actually their intention to make this show look as much like Battlefield Earth as possible.…

If the film is going to open exactly where TFA ended, what about the fact that opening crawls crawl through space and this film is apparently going to open on a planet? Hasn’t every film panned up or down onto a ship or ships in space? The Falcon is already planetside.

Same reason that in SciFi movies they always wear the clear, full face helmets when it would make much more sense to design a helmet something along the lines of what you see in Halo or Iron Man, who gets around the can’t see the actor’s face by using those Tony looking at floating graphics scenes. Just a movie trope…

So Ready Player One not out in 2017. The way they crank out films these days, seems like it’s taking longer than usual. Oh well.

“When was the last time Pixar made a good movie??? Toy Story 3? Are they ever going to make an original movie again?”

So how is this supposed story fundamentally different or any weirder from the story in the first Cars? Now we’re looking at things from Doc Hudson’s point of view?

Are you kidding? Like Disney would ever allow that. Imagine the backlash from hardcore fans to even casual fans of the films. To most of the millions who buy tickets to these movies the three main characters are indistinguishable from the actors who portray them. My guess is they will take the safe option and…

And don’t forget that Galen Erso made the conscious decision to help the Empire build the death star, knowing full well the destructive power he was putting in the hands of the Empire all so he could design it with a fatal flaw for the purpose of exacting revenge on Krennic for killing his wife. Helping the Rebel…

I predict that in 2017 some variation of the phrase “we used practical effects” will replace “this film is very dark...” 

Saw Rogue One in standard 2D on a regular screen on Friday and had no idea that Tarken was CG. Since the voice was close but not exact, I assumed Lucasfilm found someone with strikingly similar features and recast the role. On the other hand, Leia looked horrible. Worse, I think seeing her fully realized and too well…

That Expendables III would be the greatest movie ever.

Castle also cancelled, which means Nathon Fillon is now on the market again along with Joss Whedon and most of the Firefly cast. Nah, too much to hope for...

Some great SciFi directors, including Ridley Scott, have tried and failed to adapt Dune into a film. There is this assumption that when CGI became common in special effects that all unfilmable books, like Lord of the Rings, would suddenly be filmable. When you have the ability to render photorealistic dinasours,…

Big DITTO. Darkness Falls is one of my favorite episodes and is one of the best episodes for illustrating to doubting fans why the show was sooooo much better when it was filmed in and around Vancouver, Canada. The dark, damp, creepy vibe of the Candian Boral forest is something you just can’t replicate in Southern…

Huge fan of The Expanse and I love the SyFy series. But, I’ve had a couple of friends who have not read the books that say the show makes no sense and is almost impossible to follow. Both gave up after a couple of episodes because they were so lost. Hearing that despite the second season renewal the series is pulling…

No brainer...

Oh my gosh I hated that first episode. Where to even start? First, Elfstones of Shannara is set thousands of years after the old world fell. It’s been so long, in fact, that few besides Alannon even know the history of their world. It makes no sense to have rusting vans and helicopters, half fallen skyscrapers…