Heh, that’s not even the half of it:

Technically everything that’s not Episode X is a prequel.

But Superman II is... “just” a superhero film.

I feel sad whenever I think about comic books in the U.S. in particular because it feels like audiences have gotten stuck on the superhero genre to (almost) the exclusion of most everything else... at least when it comes to sales.

Hell, CDs still sell upwards of 30+ million every year. Even if a format is no longer popular, it doesn’t mean that it lacks in tenacity. They’re like cockroaches. Even audio cassette sales rose last year — the totals were low, somewhere in the 400,000s, but that’s still a viable consumer base.

Compression is definitely a factor but I think the issue is compounded by the fact that a lot of streaming shows, even “premium” ones, just don’t look that good. Rings of Power, in particular, had terrible cinematography for nighttime or otherwise dark scenes, especially compared with similar scenes in Jackson’s LotR.…

One thing I’ve always appreciated about Lynch’s Dune is that it’s unapologetically, aggressively weird. This is not Star Trek or Star Wars, where the main characters are basically 20th/21st Century Americans in outer space. These characters are the product of a feudal, anti-democratic, and fairly decadent society…

The weirdest (and saddest) thing is his belief that he’s a SEAL, because he trained briefly with them in preparation for one of his movies. It’s like a weird, not-particularly-bright little kid’s notion of adult life.

All of these fashions would probably be pretty amazing if you could, you know, see them in the movie in which they appear. Instead everything is either filmed in GlaucomaVision or that thing where the actors are violently overlit from behind.

I think the idea was that the Baron had most of the medical staff working on him deprived of sight and hearing (not the mutilated ears) so only his inner circle would know how far along his diseases had progressed. The idea, I think, was that he was gradually dying of Space Syphilis.

It is a Peckinpah parody, after all. And that dude practically invented slo-mo movie violence.

But damn does it just invite criticism to make them look like that especially because it is common knowledge that this was once a Star Wars script that they rejected.

The meh-nority.

Tig Notaro is the Force of this franchise.

OTOH I can totally picture those titles on the covers of old ‘80s sci-fi paperbacks and that actually makes me excited for this, somewhat. 

Kind of wild that they have both red and blue “light sabers”, where it seems the only difference from the ones in Star Wars is that they’re a little more “fiery” than Kylo Ren’s “cracked Kyber crystal” light saber.

It’s been done.

I really dug Ilium but Olympos was about unreadable (I had to force my way through the last couple of hundred pages) and that was around the time Simmons went off the rails with his Fox News Uncle paranoia, like that short story he posted to his website in which he’s visited by a time traveller from the far-off future…

WARNER BROS. WILL SELL THE SNYDER DCEU TO NETFLIX AFTER GUNN TAKES OVER I SAW IT ON YOUTUBE STOP TALKING I’M NOT LISTENING I’M NOT LISTENING I’M NOT LISTNaaaaagggghhh

This has an agreeably dumb look to it, Chronicles of Riddick without the Riddick part, plus lightsabers.