Which the article, admits, of course. It's a pretty good book, disappointing in some of the same ways that other superhero fiction has been (e.g. A Once Crowded Sky, Soon I Will Be Invincible), but much, much more along the lines of those than MiB. It would have been more accurate to talk about Sky High or even…

I enjoy that the article is tenth in my first page of Google results. The word doesn't exist, has never existed before, but Google thinks these other websites are more likely to feature it in a more meaningful manner.

I would also point out, though, Peter, that your paragraph makes it sound like it was re-released to deal with story-telling faults with the original. Whereas I understood that the intended ending was always the special edition ending, but that budgetary and SFX restraints prevented it from being realized. (My brain…

I think the ending is better. I think there's one or two extended bits between Bud and Lindsey that help (the titanium wedding ring and the blue hand make much more sense in the extended cut, IIRC) both continuity and character elements. But there's also a lot of flabby stuff between the rig workers. The actors do…

I'm always touched by the (very real!) blessing he uses originally designed for chariots to protect their occupants for the jeep at the end of the film. He's dismissed by the doctors because his role is one of comfort and counsel, and they don't want that for themselves (beyond the physical) and don't feel their…

Wow. That BBB report is incredibly damning. However, at my location, at the New England leg of the tour last year, there was a energetic, fey young man who was huckstering the Last Unicorn merch that accompanied the screening. And he was definitely not Connor, and when I mentioned Connor, with whom I'd had a good…

It isn't the same guy. I met both Beagle and Cochran back in 2008 when Cochran was in the early stages of helping Beagle regain control of copyrights and properties he wasn't making money from. While Cochran hasn't been his most efficient manager (they've been trying to publish a limited edition version of the Last…

I look forward to Chris Cooper getting recast with James Earl Jones as the serial numbers get filed off of this film.