And suddenly I’m thinking Tom Hardy would not be a bad choice for Foyle.

The writer of the telegram credits Ladd; the writer of the headline doesn’t.

As has already been said here, the first person outside the production to recognize Star Wars’ potential was probably Alan Ladd Jr. — but it’s always a pleasure to read documents from the time that convey just what an explosive event Star Wars really was.

The comments here fascinate me. I wasn’t even remotely “grossed out” by the concept. I thought it was amusing and clever. (BTW, I am a straight male.) I mean, yeast is yeast; there’s no *objective* reason to think this is gross. Why not see it as charming and kind of sweet?

I remember being absolutely astounded by the stupidity of reviewers’ responses to Troopers. At one stroke a whole lot of prominent film critics demonstrated publicly that they did not know how to watch a film.

Yup, it’s from an earlier draft of the first film; I’ve seen those storyboards too. It is a neat scene, so I can understand the interest in bringing it to the screen.

Beautiful reading of Little, Big there. But if twee is the “standard” complaint against Anderson, it’s one I agree with. I don’t feel his movies are defiant at all — they seem irritatingly acquiescent. There’s a bad-faith quality to them — even to their melancholy — which is why I don’t think he can convey the…

Kill, kill, kill.

The Drowned World.

Sort of an upscale version of Goat Simulator.

Presumably that’s your idea of heroic talk.

It’s really not bad — until the last 30 seconds, at which point it irredeemably destroys itself.

As many others here have said, absent any information about the proportion of males and females actually writing science fiction during this period, the conclusions in the article are completely unwarranted. It wouldn’t surprise me at all if, once these proportions were taken into account, the statistics above told…

I wonder if the beginning of this in genre movies, or at least the mythical origin of it that people think of when they try to justify grimdark, is “The Empire Strikes Back.” A lot of people seem to equate “darker” with “better” in relation to that film. As it happens, I think “A New Hope” is better than “Empire,” but…

As others have pointed out here, “Overdrawn at the Memory Bank” was based on a story by John Varley, not Jack Vance.
Moreover, “Overdrawn” came out in 1983 and “Brazil” in 1985. So — yes — “Brazil” ripped off “Overdrawn,” not the other way around.
(I personally suspect that “The Matrix” also borrowed some key sequences…

So if you could, you would engineer such a conference not to happen.

And a bunch of people of color getting together and talking about creating a better future represents the worst of it for you, apparently.

I take it, then, that you dislike science fiction.

Re: the comment on Left Hand of Darkness: “A weird, high-concept fantasy world about interplanetary diplomacy with no stars to headline it? Impossible.” This describes Star Wars.

By the way, was any timey-wimey *reason* ever given for the Doctor and River’s timelines going in reverse of one another? Or is their encountering one another in reverse order just one of the biggest extended coincidences in the universe?