Considering he could have let Mike Pence pick some christian scold, this might actually be the best possible option.
Because I'd have figured he would have picked Sean Hannity's favorite artist: Jon McNaughton, the guy who painted this: http://media.boingboing.net…

So, do we think Lucas actually likes the songs he picked for this movie, or if this was what he thought twelve year old girls like? Does he have terrible, schmaltzy taste, or was he pandering to what he thought children like?
Because I don't know what's worse.
And more generally is the problem with Lucas that he's a…

I think it shows that Lucas is a better filmmaker when he's forced to work within certain restrictions; when he has to focus on story, ideas and work within a tighter budget. It's when he gets to indulge himself that he lets all his worst instincts define the project.

Considering its relative obscurity, I think we can forgive Kushner's oversight. But it's definitely true that Prunesquallor is about as close to a hero as it gets in those books.
One of the original attempts at filming the book involved attempting to get Peter Sellers to play Prunesquallor.
These days I imagine Alan…

I was actually trying to be really precise there by referring to Aliens, not Alien, if you'll excuse me being pedantic. In that there's a marked difference in the aesthetic of Aliens and Alien. Scott used artists like Giger and Moebius to design a very distinct universe. Cameron's sequel has a far more utilitarian…

Everet McGill seems like a good Mr Flay as well. Patrick Stewart could play lord Groan probably.
Casting this is way too much fun.
Sting was desperate for a Gormenghast movie though, he owned the rights for a while and called Terry Gilliam up a number of times.
Tom Hulce would have been a good Dr Prunesquallor too.

Yeah, Dune definitely falls into that more European tradition of lush, baroque, stylised scifi. With Star Wars, Star Trek and Aliens being good representatives of the 'realistic, or naturalistic' science fiction-tradition.

What? No love for Evil in Time Bandits? Between David Warner's perfect delivery and Gilliam and Palin's lines he makes for an absolutely perfect devil (in all but name).
As for the actual Devil in Gilliam's Parnassus? That pencil moustache on Tom Waits was a nice touch, that's probably as much as we should talk about…

I think Greenaway appeals to a certain kind of precocious, snobbish teenager. Though I'm possibly just speaking for myself.

Perhaps it's only two days for faster ships like the White Star and significantly longer for cargo vessels. What bothers me though, that since it's established that the station grows its own fruit and vegetables, why they also can't have a little chicken farm back there.
And I'm guessing that 3d food printers and…

I thought it was more intended that the Vorlons liked to appear as fathers, because of their issues with identity and authority.
I don't disagree with the 'parents of the younger races' angle, but it fits very well with their whole 'order and obedience'-thing.

Actually if you want Superman films to remind you of applying for a greencard and the new film is slow, painful and turgid then they got it exactly right.

I always thought it had to do with the other species on the Centauri homeworld that they wiped out long ago. I figured the Vorlons had chosen those guys and simply didn't expect the Centauri to survive.

Are you sure you haven't watched ahead?

I always thought that he was handed the job because he had the right combination of uselesness and prestige. His name was an old and noble one, that would give the appearance of credibility to the position, but he wasn't powerful enough to resist the assignment. Only when he allied himself with people like Refa and…

Well, and don't forget that Bob Orci is a bit of a conspiracy loon, who has opinions about how the twin towers went down.

Regarding 18, the irony of having Spock voice his objections to revenge motivated policy and then letting him give into righteous rage at the end seemed to be kind of lost on the filmmakers too. I at least didn't really get a sense that they thought that Spock's rage was a tragic loss of control and not a super cool…

It's like a perfectly built model of the thing, but not the thing itself.

There were weird echos of the past films throughout, but the Star Trek VI bits stood out to me as well. That unmasked Klingon looked influenced by general Chang too.

The thing is that apart from the Vorlons really not liking it when you didn't do as they say, the show never really demonstrated that the Vorlon way was as bad as the path the Shadows laid out. Yes, order, when never questioned can lead to some pretty horrible situations. But constant warfare and chaos seem like a far…