No, it will just be a further elimination of labour. The money will simply flow directly into the pockets of the share holders. Concentrating wealth even more in the 'owning classes'.

yes! Or possibly Orson Welles.

it's Terry Gilliam!

The failure of the Golden Compass is mostly the fault of the studio that threw Weitz out of the editing bay and cut the ending and hired a new editor to recut the whole film.

well, that sounded like a ringing endorsement from Zachary Quinto. The enthusiasm was just jumping off the page.

Okay, so it wasn't just me. Because my reaction to this is 'I should know these people?'
Ripps seems like a narcistic jerk who can't paint, and good for ms. Ho that she's achieved success on her own, but getting a career out of being skinny and pretty is not exactly revolutionary.

just finished The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood; a pretty good novel about a tragically sad woman's life mixed with some very Edgar Rice Burroughs-like science fiction mixed in there.

Technically he is a little too old, but I can't think of any actor who could better inhabit the part. Just imagine a more stylised and theatrical film than your standard biopic.

Off the top of my head: this guy!

So basically this is just fanfiction with a budget. I don't know if Blomkamp would have been more capable of directing an Alien-movie that would live up the expectations of every science fiction-fan anymore than Scott was. Certainly Elysium proved that what Blomkamp needs is someone to rein in his excessive…

Sidenote about Glaurung and Turin Turambar, that whole story is a pretty obvious copy of the story of Kullervo from the Kalevala (A book of Finnish mythology).

but isn't that part of the same problem? Instead of simply getting it right in camera, he can just decide to cast a new actor and use mo-cap to replace the 1st guy. It's tinkering on a George Lucasian level and only makes the film more unreal.

oh absolutely, two movies of about two hours would have been just enough. It would have given everything enough breathing room without having to stretch stuff out and add a bunch of useless diversions. The budget should probably also have been a lot smaller. It would have forced Jackson to use more real locations,…

Isn't a giant pig for a dwarf, just a regular pig?

let's see he's actually directed a few movies, and he doesn't go online to air conspiracy theories, bash Hillary Clinton, or yell at fans for pointing out his scripts don't make sense.

it's certainly similar, but Gallifrey is gone. Vulcan was just collapsed into a tiny black hole. It's still in our universe. So you could reverse the timeline of its mass and bring the planet back into the present.

Ha! No, it's more like the device from City of Death. A 4th Doctor story.

I completely agree that it would be the wrong choice for a movie. Although it would be preferable to another story that's mainly about defending earth.
I was hoping the third movie would deal with the Klingons.

Oh, I know. I wish that one of the shows would have ever dealt with the way Vulcans rationalize the many illogical things they do.

At the same time, part of me thinks it also seems rather emotional of them to want their old home back.