Imagine showing this to a studio exec from 25 years ago and trying to explain it all.

Eastern Arm of the Milky Way Promises

I tried to read the first book over 30 years ago when it came out in paperback, and even to my then-postadolescent brain it just felt like the most generic, cliched Fantasy Saga™ imaginable, like someone had taken their awesome D&D campaign from middle school and adapted it into a novel.

Coming to Tubi in the summer of 2027!

There was a period immediately after Easy Rider when people thought Hopper would become a major director. But he followed that up with The Last Movie, which is one of the most batshit films ever made and effectively derailed his directing career until the ‘80s. I’ve never seen the movie — it was out of circulation for…

I have to assume he was scared shitless of being sued. You never really heard him talking up Campbell until 1980 or so. The timing is interesting because the year before A.E. van Vogt had sued Fox over similarities between Alien and his 1939 story “Black Destroyer.” The studio settled for $50,000, which is about…

I remember Singer going on Charlie Rose (yeah, real pair of upstanding citizens there) and insisting that X-Men was not a comic book or superhero movie, but a science fiction story. That was how much Hollywood hated the source material back then.*

I remember being so pissed off when I was 13 and Marvel resurrected Jean Grey after years of insisting that she was never coming back. Uncanny X-Men was my favorite comic when I was a kid, because it treated issues like mortality and loss in a serious manner. And then I realized that Marvel and DC did this shit all…

I don’t remember it getting it a wide release. None of the actors were really big stars at the time — Johnson was trying to transition to movies after Miami Vice, Madsen and Connelly were stuck in the bombshell phases of their careers — and it was produced by Orion, who were about to go bankrupt at the time. The only…

This is the only movie titled Hot Spot I will recognize, full stop.

The secret of Marvel’s early success was that Stan Lee was constantly ribbing the readers from the sidelines, going, “Can you believe this crazy shit, True Believers?” There was always a near-perfect balance of melodrama and ridiculousness. And then the fans went pro and everything got super-serious and mature. And…

You’ve got some serious-ass sasquatch problems!

It’s pretty deep....

This is a Deadpool movie, so I don’t think “earnest” is gonna be an apt descriptor. It sounds like some of the other Fox X-Men besides Jackman are going to figure into the movie, so it’s likely that a lot of that’s going to be so the movie can dunk on the bad old days of Marvel movies. This is not going to be No Way…

Not so much ‘membaberries as Marvel taking a victory lap in the smouldering ruins of Fox. “Hey, remember those shitty movies based on our comics from another studio that came out twenty or so years back? Sure, Garner looked pretty hot in the leather bustier, but those movies really sucked ass, didn’t they? Anyway, we…

If there’s a show or movie you like or love and it’s on physical media, BUY IT, that’s all. 

Or devoted Precious Roy shoppers.

But she kinda liked Lynch’s Dune, so there’s that...

With streaming you’re looking mostly at shows with 6-12 episodes per season at most, as opposed to a traditional 22-24 episode season. There are few if any standalone episodes, the overall emphasis tends to be on story rather than characters, and there’s generally an idea that the shows will only last a set number of…

I don’t see how Narnia and Rebel Moon are remotely alike. The latter is a space opera, and that genre is at least a century old. Star Wars itself is heavily derivative of space opera works that came before it, in addition to many other things. Almost none of the elements in Star Wars were particularly original (the…