Bad movies are fun, especially expensive studio movies with a lot of major talent in the service or a dumb or incoherent story.

theres no using force lightning to save a hoverbus of children for example

It’s kind of funny how the central theme of the ST was “the Jedi and Republic were awesome, we need to keep them around” while the message of almost every show since then has been, “Actually they kind of sucked and enabled the rise of galactic despotism, we should find something else to replace them.”

Villeneuve’s Dune is killing the monomyth, even if some of its more ardent fans don’t realize it yet. 

return of the jedi makes no sense otherwise. why wouldnt luke just assassinate the emperor? why would the emperor tempt luke by taunting and goading him instead of with something tangible like money or a specific position of power in the empire? why does luke lash out when vader threatens to turn leia to the dark side…

Joseph Campbell was a bigoted fraud and the quicker pop culture abandons the monomyth the better.

As of 2022 it was in development at Disney with Marc Forster attached to direct.

Still disappointed that Neil Jordan’s adaptation of Graveyard Book never materialized. That would’ve been a helluva collab with Gaiman, based on Jordan’s previous movies.

Criterion costs eleven bucks a month.

Criterion costs eleven bucks a month.

Depressing realization that between the release of Inside Out 2 and the time 3-4 years from now when Pixar is inevitably folded into Disney’s animation unit, all of the studio’s movies are going to be sequels to its hits from the late ‘90s and early ‘00s. 

I’ve never been a huge Spaceballs fan, but I would absolutely watch a Spaceballs/Jews In Space crossover.

This is awesome, considering that he’s a massive SF fan.

The Jedi Temple and Hogwarts appeal enormously to entertainment and tech bro-types, because it tells them that their success flows from a natural gift rather than dumb luck or flat-out nepotism. Of all the stuff that got walked back in TRoS it’s really telling that Rey was no longer a nobody. She had to be descended…

Remember: they’re not trolls, they’re herbs.

Honestly Howard the Duck is not that bad as ‘80s sci-fi comedies go. No classic, but it seems like people who watch it are kinda disappointed that it’s just kinda meh rather than one of the worst movies ever made.

I suspect it was because for a long time there were only a handful of movies and not too many fans, hardcore or otherwise, were really obsessive about the status of droids in that universe. I don’t really remember it coming up in the handful of EU books I read, or the old Marvel series, which I was more familiar with…

Steve Gerber (1947-2008) was a brilliant and frankly troubled Marvel writer in the ‘70s who scripted The Defenders, Man-Thing, and Howard the Duck (the latter of which he created, and got fired from Marvel after trying to assert ownership of the character). His influence is all over the weird, absurdist humor in the Go…

For me it was seeing Blade Runner at the campus theater when I was in college in the early ‘90s. I’d seen it in the theaters with my parents when I was a kid, and it was one of the first movies I taped off cable when we got a VCR. I’d watched that tape obsessively throughout my teens, but the version I saw in the…

If there’s a single aspect that led to Star Wars’ creative downfall it’s the decision to make the Force a hereditary ability, rather than something anyone could master given time and patience. Early on, that was Lucas’ description of the Force; in one story conference from the early ‘80s he compares it to yoga. But in…