I hope they sell-through--but publishers and sellers need to figure out a way to spread book-buying to other parts of the year. Anything that isn’t an anticipated hit isn’t going to get a reprint for a while to come.

Hmm...maybe this will be like the statue situation, where they took one down and put another up a couple of years later. I would think a devoted collectible store—if it stays stocked—could keep business up, but a theme restaurant is probably not an extra draw at this time.

Hmm...I apparently found the team-up editions more paint-by-numbers than other folks. They remind me of crossover issues where everything is thinly covered and the work is done elsewhere, so both Avengers (the first one), and Age of Ultron (remembered by me for plot nothing else) are higher than where I’d put them. I…

Ah! I’ve hit the stage where I revel in knowing “deep cuts.” I think I taped Armitage III off Toonami back in the day. From what I recall, it had amalgam of cyberpunk/Mars stuff plots that seem to re-emerge now and again, but I too don’t remember it so well.

I know Robert Rodriguez directed it—and of course it’s not a new story—but it has a lot of earmarks of James Cameron’s involvement script and otherwise. Cameron likes a straightforward adventure story—most (in)famously obvious in naming the Avatar macguffin “unobtanium”—and I think that focus was put to good use in…

I liked that movie a lot more than I expected. It caught the kind of vibe of watching anime in my youth—something simpler about it.

Just going to take this post as an oppurtunity to ask—anyone remember Armitage III? I wonder how it holds up.

Or, that person has a stutter and they pounced on them? Maybe not, but who knows from this?

I’ve come around to thinking that Dune has benefited by the pandemic and timing of release in a way. It’s got a devoted fanbase that came out—there’s a baseline—but it didn’t have the competition of regular times. I could see it easily being like Blade Runner 2049—though it does appear to be pleasing more people than…

Came into ask this. I wasn’t that bright (no guarantee about now either) when I read it in a class about Lesbian and Gay studies even—but this trailer feels drenched in it. It’s the most intriguing part of the trailer to me.

I shouldn’t have been surprised, but when I watched Road House not on basic cable...damn.

Last Hurrah for feudalism makes for a lot of rousing stories that are great and make my eyes roll at the same time.

In this case, I have to blame James Gunn for responding to a silly conspiracy theory.

I could probably get over his age, but in action sequences he doesn’t look so fluid? Admittedly, that’s probably the hardest thing to replicate from animation.

Yeah, it’s still aping a lot. All that fisheye lensing.

It’s not just a matter of plot connections, it’s the kind of story and arcs that are used. Tone and structure I thought What if was all pretty standard with different winners and loser and some body swaps, and ultimately tied up to a superteam. I suppose the Black Widow/murder mystery and bro-comedy Thor mean there…

I think Blade Runner 2049 and all his movies have legs after the box office, but it didn’t make enough there for a $150+ million budget movie (that’s not even including marketing costs). He’s got an auteur shine so he gets another go at it, but usually just making out isn’t enough to get lots of chances at one of…

Captain Marvel: not enough Ben Mendelson! Which I admit, not the point of that movie, but that was my strongest takeaway.

I think Thanos and a lot of Marvel’s cosmic crew are great characters in their own right, but the Eternals have always felt like an off-brand New Gods to me. I love Chloe Zhao, and the MCU is at it’s worst a still solid enterprise, so this was well worth the shot taken.

Admittedly, his fans probably need to hear this.