Oh god yeah, Ebooks are convenient, but nothing like a pile of brand new books.

It’s basically the “We Didn’t Start The Fire” of movies. (And I’ve heard that teachers used that song to get kids interested in history, too, which makes me glad I graduated high school the year after it came out.)

It wasn’t based on the Groom sequel novel. It was an original script about Gump’s adventures in the ‘90s, so the end of the Cold War, OJ, the Oklahoma City bombing, Princess Diana, probably the Clinton impeachment, Y2K and the 2000 election in there.

13. Raiders is the only good one

As I’ve said before, streaming is bringing back the world that existed before VCRs, DVRs, and DVDs. Five or six years from now, someone will be like, “Hey, wasn’t there a show with Sarah Michelle Gellar and werewolves?” And no one will be able to find it anywhere, not even the outback of Tubi. 

Works for me!

Is that thing still on?

It’s almost like the guys in charge don’t give a shit about great art or even straightforward entertainment.

Shit, I still buy CDs.

The great Billy Wilder, who kept watching new films and staying in touch with younger directors until his death at 95 in 2002, was a big fan of Gump. But in his reading of the movie, Forrest was the Angel of Death. Almost everyone he crossed paths with, however briefly, either died at some point soon after or met with…

Yeah, so keep buying physical media of shows you like as long as you can. It might not always save the shows from cancellation... but it’ll keep them from being just a memory.

There was an insane piece in Fantastic Films back in 1980 that speculated that the Jedi were the ancestors of Jesus, who was their cloned Earth descendant. IIRC, it also stated that most of the Jedi were clones, and was the origin (or amplifier) of the rumor that “Obi-Wan” was really “OB-1.” But it also described a…

More like 22 years. ANH is 19 years after RotS, and then RotJ is three years later.

No, but I assume you’re also not using all of the notes the computer generated, you’re making decisions about what the final song sounds like. Musicians have been using drum machines for decades and no one accuses them of being replaced by technology.

The second picture is a fucking dorm room. 

There’s also Blue Beetle, which I keep forgetting about and looks way more Marvel than DC. Gunn says it’s going to be part of the new universe, but we’ll see.

The second to last paragraph is the best summation of why I’m no longer interested in the Mandalorian. While I still love Star Wars, there’s SO much of it now that trying to catch up feels like a burdensome task rather than something to gleefully anticipate. I loved Mando precisely because it was, at least in it’s…

I kinda wonder if the DCU is even a thing anymore. I guess we’ll still have The Batman movies with Pattinson and Reeves, and maybe Gunn’s Superman reboot, but there doesn’t seem to be a lot of interest in the franchise as a whole.

IIRC, Lucas’ original idea was that Vader rebalanced the Force by killing Palpatine. This restored the “balance” to one Jedi (Luke) and one Sith (Vader). And then Vader became Anakin again, because his act was one of defense rather than outright murder (killing Palpatine to save Luke, rather than as an act of…

No Firewalker?