It's also a bit cheap-looking. Nimoy had a few more bucks to work with than Meyer had on KHAN, iirc, but he wasn't able to stretch his dollars as effectively, IMO. Not the worst slam on a first-time director, and Nimoy improved dramatically in this regard by the time he got to IV.

They didn't really deny the names, though, did they? So I'm going to keep hoping for EJO. I can completely see him playing a distant perfectionist father that would have created the approval seeker that is Amy Santiago.

I was mad they didn't "save" Laura Vandervoort for Power Girl. It would have been much better use of her than that Mystique-looking thing she played last season.

(That said, I find Ms. Jones and her enthusiasm shown above generally delightful)

I enjoyed it as part of of Ms. Jones usual schtick, but after seeing stuff like this (http://www.hitfix.com/harpy…, it does seem a little double-standard-y that she isn't called out as well.

Counter: ROSEBUD is fairly terrible. THIS IS ORSON WELLES is terrific, though, and the recent YOUNG ORSON was quite good. Leamming's bio is excellent if a bit too fawning; CITIZEN WELLES isn't bad either.

Well, for one thing, Reagan *lived*. . . also, I'm not sure too many people are cool with Hinckley's release.

I need to stop reading dumb quotes like this from Heller. It's making me retroactively like ROME less.

Is that you, John Byrne?

It's far weaker than JFK and NIXON, but not a complete waste of time. I remember really liking the pre-POTUS stuff (and being shocked at how sympathetic the film was to George W), but found the White House stuff to be almost entirely made up of broad, sub-SNL caricatures. Dreyfuss's Cheney and Newton's Rice being the…

1. Tennesee Plates by John Hiatt
2. Black Velvet
3. Graceland

Yup. It was a real pitch - written by Mark Evanier, IIRC.

"SissyMARY," actually.

"SissyMARY," actually.

Corman's FF was never released. And wasn't MAN-THING a tv-movie?

That was basically the plan for TNG, with Picard and Riker as co-leads. I still imagine an alternate universe where the more talented and charismatic actor was cast as Riker and the show adjusted to favor him, instead of the other way around. (No slight on Stewart - Picard is one of the richest characters in the…

The analogy I always made was if there had never been any STAR TREK films and then Cruise made one where he was an up-and-coming Starfleet Officer betrayed by James Kirk.

Ava Gardner says otherwise:

Yup. One of the dumber things in Snyder's film is using the name "Watchmen" for the characters. The in the comics it was The Minutemen and then The New Crimebusters (the latter didn't stick).

I'm not sure anyone outside the school called them that, but I'm pretty sure Xavier and the X-men referred to the group by name. As in "Kitty, you are no longer an X-Man. You will now join The New Mutants."