“With 50% less Poochie!”

Truth is, without McQuarrie’s concept artwork, Lucas would never have been able to get financing for the movie. Studio executives in the mid-70s could never have imagined or pictured what Lucas was selling, so he took concept artwork to explain his movie, and only 20th Century Fox bought. We fans owe the late Mr…

Tarentino’s skeevy “apology” was no such thing; he admitted that he knew what Weinstein did but was ok with it because he knew Weinstein would steer clear of his girlfriend because of his claim on her. He is clearly still part of the problem. Contrast this with Kevin Smith’s response and the difference could not be…

McQuarrie was also an illustrator at NASA, providing drawings of things like the Apollo mission for distribution to science publications. I think his real world know how for actual spacefaring vehicles made him uniquely equipped for designing science fiction ships... and why no one since has ever really approached…

Tarentino’s “apology” re doing nothing about Weinstein is no such thing. There was a big contrast to the response of Kevin Smith, another Hollywood man who had benefitted from Weinstein. He had a response that was honest, heartfelt, and combined with a solid effort to make amends. I posted some quotes and Mary Sue…

I bought it when it first came out; I was 13, and had just finished reading Dune, so I was down for a story of desert planets, galactic empires, and protagonists with inherited psychic powers.

Actually, having read Tarentino’s “apology,” I believe it is no such thing. I think the analysis at the Mary Sue blog is right on this. See this post on Tarentino:

The regular battle droids were based on African masks, and looked pretty cool — until we actually saw them in action.

I saw the blurb on the cover but couldn’t find the actual article. That couple of pages seems to be missing.

Ya know maybe you ought to rethink the layout. Seeing as a third of the news stories are about awful men behaving terribly I don’t know that the likes of Moshe Kasher and Natasha Leggero want their pictures featured in the middle of the story.

This was one of the reasons why Lucas wanted the merch rights- he was afraid Fox wouldn’t promote the movie enough, so he made sure that there was a novelization, a comic adaptation, and posters and T-shirts etc.

Because Disney is so terrified by the spotty legacy of the prequels that the new SW movies are ridiculously beholden to the OT. And not just in a story sense (no need to rehash the arguments about how TFA is a remake of ANH, etc.)

We’re fine. We’re all fine here now, thank you. How are you? 

I picked it up as I wanted a pulp break from the usual new wave SF I was reading at the time. It was a fun read and it said it was going to be a film. I ran around telling all my friends that they had to see this thing.

The lack of a McQuarrie on the recent movies has really been noticeable - one of my favorite things about the movies in general is that most of them have come with a bunch of new spaceships, but the recent movies have really been lacking in that regard. We’ve gotten a handful, but nothing like the movies McQuarrie was…

I don’t think you can really blame Trump for avoiding anything wth RICO in the name. I would too if I’d done that much business with the Genoveses and Gambinos.

Well, and Teen Vogue.

I think of TDCS as sort-of, kind-of the American Network Television equivalent of The Sex Pistols: not actually very good, but bracing and exciting in how completely dedicated they were to immolating themselves and pissing on any corporate entity willing to give them a chance.

Even speaking as a member of the privileged gender, I find Young’s diagnosis of Hollywood attitudes to be completely true. You’re told to accept abuse and belittlement from more powerful people, and the minute you take a stand, suddenly you’re the one with an ego problem. It’s an industry run by sociopaths.

We now live in a world where the hardest-hitting coverage of important world events comes from The Fucking Weather Channel.