Sony needs Marvel more than vice versa. Spider-Man is huge, bigger than any other movie superhero (yes, even Batman), but he’s one character. (There are ancillaries of course, but they benefit from the proximity of the parent franchise, as Spider-Man benefits from the presence of the MCU characters.) Marvel has the…

A lot of actors are multitalented performers, but they only have so many opportunities to demonstrate their abilities. There’s this tendency to see careers as works of art in and of themselves — we value actors who mature over time and take challenging roles as they grow older — but the reality is that jobs are…

I remember him mostly from Warrior of the Lost World, an Italian-produced Road Warrior ripoff from the early ‘80s with Persis Khambatta, Donald Pleasance, and Fred Williamson that was the subject of a memorable MST3K episode in 1993. One ongoing joke is that Joel and the ‘bots can’t remember Ginty’s real name, so they…

An election year??

End of Times stuff man! Definitely on point!

I don’t see how that translates into any kind of cultural influence. It’s not like people are going around quoting their favorite lines from Red Notice to each other or whatever. It cost hundreds of millions of dollars to make and had big name stars, but it might as well be a made-for-TV movie starring Robert Ginty…

Twitter last night: “Snyder fanboys are ruining the Oscars!”

So that’s when Smith’s fist entered the Speed Force

Yep. A lot of it seems to be coming from like twenty-year-old dudes on Twitter who’ve never lived in a world without extended shared universe franchises and think of standalone movies as these freakish exceptions to the rule. 

Hackman seems like a perfectly competent PI in Night Moves, though he’s clearly in over his head — and ignores a key clue in a way that modern technology like smartphones and instant text messaging have rendered obsolete. (Though that’s true of a lot of thrillers from before, say, 1994 or so.) The movie also about the…

Re: Sutherland’s character — I think this is the end result of decades’ worth of “save the cat”-style screenwriting gimmicks, that we can’t formulate our own ideas about the protagonists in movies, but have to receive endless reinforcement of their essential goodness or decency or what have you. Whereas in the ‘70s…

Those dinosaurs ended up in the Delta Quadrant on Voyager.   let it never be said that ST ever left a story idea on the table.

Nimoy’s character is about the earliest example I can remember of a parody of the self-help movement — the whole notion that all of your problems are at root self-created and only you can fix them. (And if you can’t fix them, it’s all your fault.) There’s a rock critic I like named Greil Marcus who interviewed Kaufman…

Fog. It’s San Francisco, after all.

I always think of Harlan Ellison’s comment that Roddenberry could only write one kind of Star Trek story: the Enterprise meets God, and it’s either a computer or a child.

Non region locked trailer

The Director’s Cut trims a lot of those extended shots, though that’s a letdown for me (gimme more long pans across those bridge sets).

I appreciate that he was trying to make thoughtful sci fi, I just think he missed and it is dull.

Can they fix the script now? Or digitally put them in uniforms that don’t look like velour pajamas?

Some of the new effects look a little too shiny/clean — the 2001 version was in 480p only but generally the new stuff had more visual fidelity to the 1979 movie and the look of ‘70s effects overall.