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well, not so much legs as powerful tentacles.

the 1960s Tarzan movies struggled with the racial element of the material in interesting ways; one of them sent him to Asia… where he faced a black villain who was depicted as his equal in every way: https://www.youtube.com/wat…

It feels more like a sequel to SUSPIRIA than the actual sequels do.

Shatner would TOTALLY have that as his entrance music.
(although BIG TIME would fit him better)

Well, destroying the Enterprise has lost it's resonance (remember how just seeing it visibly damaged in WOK seemed shocking?)… but it at least seems as if they're doing it right at the start, and building the plot around "what'll we do now that our spaceship's gone?"
And they don't seem to just be rewriting an

A particularily nice touch; Sinclair never uses the term "Nazi"; he specifically refers to himself as a "Fascist".

There were only two complete Rocketeer stories published, and both featured supporting roles for thinly-disguised pulp heroes- the character Peevy identifies as "Howard Hughes" in the first is very clearly Doc Savage (his agents are unmistakably Doc's sidekick's Ham and Monk); and the second storyline co-stars an

PHENOMENON.
Any movie with a razor-wielding monkey trying to avenge the death of his beloved master is good in my books.

And because Warners repeatedly rejected his pitches to direct a Batman movie.
Raimi tried to get The Shadow off the ground again a couple of years ago; reportedly, that effort had an R-rated script full of opium parlors, whorehouses, and general 1930s seediness… which, frankly, would have made a nice change from

the live-tv version George Clooney produced a few years back was pretty good, too.

Well, of COURSE "Conan The Barbarian" is one of my favorite soundtracks; it's an undisputed classic. Most of my faves - the Morricones and Goldsmiths and such- are.

But… I REALLY want to see those commercials!

And who do they get to play him? Henry Winkler, simply because they could get a couple of meta jokes out of it.
(which probably makes it the most perfect Ambush Bug casting possible!)

Perfect example: how he defended having his Batman be a killer because Frank Miller did it in DARK KNIGHT RETURNS… you know, that comic that bends itself into knots insisting "Batman Has Never Killed Anyone".

If they hadn't been scheduled to start shooting JL a week after BVS hit theatres, I'm absolutely certain they would have booted Snyder.

Remember, WB is the studio that REPEATEDLY rebuffed Sam Raimi's bids to do a Batman film.

Interestingly, King is dropping big hints that the movies will DEFINITELY not end the same way as the books.

I thought there was a hint of a really interesting idea that John Conner's rep as "the chosen one" was leaving him in a strange place; some of the other resistance leaders seemed wary of him, because he hadn't actually DONE anything worthy of his reputation yet.
I'd like to see a movie actually ABOUT that; "sure,

You can really tell which parts were made in the 1970s (before it was shelved after the failure of COONSKIN), and the stuff that was added years later when he got a chance to finish it. (The 1970s stuff is in his HEAVY TRAFFIC/ COONSKIN down-and-dirty vibe, the newer stuff is awful )
It's kind of like an underground