1970 : “Failure is not an option”, “The crew is coming home”. What an inspiring display of determination, ethics and solidarity ! That’s what the NASA is all about, that’s what America is about ! Let’s make a movie about it.

Also Wolfen/Aliens. It’s very common. Morricone recycled many tunes as well and it doesn’t detract from his quality. Philippe Sarde too. And heck, I’ve just watched Jason and the Argonauts, and it was full of North by Northwest.

My point was really non-specific. It’s that rebellion is a “good” or “bad” side (deserving statues or not) depending only on how comparatively bad or good is the authority they rebel against. In this case, slavery makes it a clear cut stake. The slaver’s side would not deserve statues, whether they won or loss…

However, and this is crucial, feel free to imagine the person underneath the Tigger costume as you will. I just assume they are all naked.

I don’t know this guy but yes, this “machine” story is a bit funny, but still, it seems to assume that we empathize with him, and that we define as “awesome” the exact same things that a russian mobster (or, more generally, a fascist) would. Might-is-right and the liberating lack of empathy for others. “Fuck the…

I so wish I could find an english or english-subtitled version of Des Pallières’ “Mon vieux pays natal”, to link to here.

The ones who fought for the Confederacy were unambiguous traitors. They even called themselves “rebels”. Traitors, especially those on the losing side of an insurrection,

I heard star trek did get some following in the usa though.

The premise being that humans might cooperate in front of common danger. Covid and global warming taught us how ludicrous it is. I love “Space 1999" stuff, but we can only stretch disbelief so far.

Lukewarm take : I liked Shazam but not the sequel its ending announces. I liked the movie being about one weird superhero, but it ends with a dozen shazams, and that deflates a bit the aspect that amused me.

Essentially Q, because it’s interesting to have an insider’s view from behind the curtains, even if he’s sometimes a bit conservative. When it comes to violence advocacy, for instance. Q regrets being associated to increasing displays of violence, but that’s how culture evolved.

It’s just the fact that it belongs to the genre and is well known. I didn’t take it as a specific criticism. If you make a (more or less affectionate) parody of all the stalking monster movies, you’ll start it with references to Jaws and Alien, even if they are the genuinely good ones.

Still keeping an eye on the much needed developments of War on the Sea (updates keep shaping the game, it was really a weird choice to not officialize it as “early access”), I’m splitting my gaming time between the extremely hypnotic Hotline Miami sequel and the differently hypnotic Total War Rome 2. I really love the…

Amusingly, after all this time, I still remember hut of brown now sit down and hiden goseke.

Yet, it is for real a thing that I would have bought.

The only way they can salvage the horrible idea of making yet another indiana jones film after the humiliatingly bad Crystal Skull is by making Waller-Bridge herself “the” next Indiana Jones. I’d enjoy her as a central character adventurous globe-trotting pseudo-archeologist.

no shit

Asterix could also get romans out of their shoes. It’s a thing he could do.