It was reported by some that there was a three hour cut of the movie with more Bowie that would explain more about his character, but that cut never materialized. From what I read Lynch doesn’t like to explain things which is why his movies never have behind the scenes docs on their DVDs.

I always thought Deliverance was an influence too, the way all the characters are related. :)

The LOTR influence is also very apparent. Cameron also swiped a lot of Avatar from a Alan Dean Foster book called Midworld.

Actually, Gary Kurtz has said that Hidden Fortress was only coincidentally similar and that princesses in trouble is a common trope. Star Wars is largely swiped from Dune, which was more clear in earlier drafts of the script which had “spice” and that is referenced in a scene in the final product

Simple answer: Inertia. In 1976 that was a cool futuristic idea. But the 80s it was more approachable but the film makers just copied what was done in the first movie when they shouldn’t have. The holos in Jedi should have been way better than this. But Star Wars is full of stuff that makes no sense like abysses in…

Look again. They’re in there.

I would like to see a live action Crusher Joe movie.

BB-8 let herself go. Been doing too much Ben and Jerry’s

They made them that way on purpose because IRL there are no perfect solutions. Human nature means there are always flawed people running whatever group to come up with. I chose the Institute because they had the means to change things, under my leadership I was hoping I could change the Institute from inside. But of…

The past is always going to be there. This kind of guilt tripping about the actions of people long dead is just stirring the pot of division. Trying to make out that it’s evil there are so many white people in Oregon is just another kind of racism. A lot of this stuff is cherry picking examples and not proof of actual…

Some people today think everything is based on racism because they were sold this by grievance mongers. It isn’t. The country was mostly white in the past and that’s where the money was. Businesses like Hollywood respond to the cha-ching thing. They also operate on fear of losing money by taking risks, though you…

Aliens, dude. You left them out.

I found the movie unwatchable even tho I liked the anime. The fact it was a POS is more offensive. But the irony is, white people created the TV show which didn’t have any white people for some reason. The movie was directed by an Asian-American who disputes your characterization, but it all begs the question, were…

Actually, most Egyptian gods didn’t even look human. But I guess it would be a hard sell if Set had a snake head.

Yes, except it has more to do with inertia than anything. 90% of what people do is based on inertia. Casting directors tend to go for actors who are established as popular by some metric they use. Taking risks to cast some lesser known ethnic actor is riskier from a BO perspective, though many actors of color are…

It’s a movie. It’s certainly more relevant today to cast better than they did in the 50s. There are so many actors that are established and qualified to star in a big picture. I would say, someone like Liev Shriver would make a better Moses than Christian Bale. And Ramses would have certainly been better cast. On the…