also important to remember that whedon is the grandchild and son of tv writers, so he was handed all this shit. cushy office gig at roseanne immediately, failed upwards his whole career.

I did the Google book search and most of the English language sources were things like Cinefantastique and other genre movie-oriented fanzines. It leads me to believe that there wasn’t a lot of interest in the project outside of France. Jodorowsky wasn’t really a known quantity in Hollywood and if anyone had heard of…

I think Zardoz is about as close as the movies ever got to Michael Moorcock’s weird, fucked-up visions of a baroque, decadent future (Dancers at the End of Time, et al.). It’s much more Moorcockian than Robert Fuest’s adaptation of The Final Programme (aka The Last Days of Man on Earth) from around roughly the same…

Good thing I right-clicked on that photo and saved it to my desktop.

Jodorowsky’s Dune was also sort of infamous in prog rock trivia circles for the greatest soundtrack never recorded angle: most famously Pink Floyd were attached and I think maybe Magma at some point, and there was another version of the lore that claimed Jodorowsky wanted a different prog band for every planet.

I’d be interested to see if there was anything like a solid commitment from any of the people mentioned in the documentary. Welles, I’m sure, would have taken any role that paid him, since he spent most of the ‘70s trying to finish The Other Side of the Wind. (The most thorough Welles bios are the ones written by…

Ridley Scott was going to follow up Alien with Dune, but the project hit a number of creative snags — apparently the script was a piece of shit, and added an overt incest subplot between Paul and Jessica, which infuriated Herbert — and on top of that his older brother, who had inspired both Ridley and his brother Tony…

And by that point O’Bannon had already designed the graphics for Dark Star — Cobb designed the ship for the movie as well — so there was nothing uniquely Dune-ish about that. (Also: Butlerian Jihad! No computer graphics in 10191 AG!)

Yeah, but where is the influence? Star Wars was already in preproduction at the time. You could say Alien, but apart from Giger’s design for the derelict there’s not a lot of Dune-y stuff in it.

Yup. It’s a losing battle, but they at least know to stay off our property, for the most part 

Yeah, the Dune novels (the first one in particular) have had a massive impact on scifi over the decades. But I can’t imagine a un-created film that most people had never heard of, and even hard-core fans would have seen only bits of the concept art, until the documentary would have had much larger impact on the film…

But wait, they’re getting Neal Stephenson to write the script!

Josh Marshall of Talking Points Memo summed up crypto and NFTs perfectly by comparing them to the International Star Registry. Remember those guys? They’re still around. You mail them a couple of hundred bucks and in return they “name” a star for your spouse, loved ones, or pets. Except none of it has any authority.…

Peacemaker reminds me of my best friend who was always into Hair Bands and stuff like Kiss, but he was also really into Lynyrd Skynyrd and Creedence Clearwater Revival. The so-called “Southern Rock” bands. Which is weird, because I was always into Jazz and Funk and Fusion, with a side helping of Pink Floyd and The…

There was a very good interview with Claudio Argento, Dario’s brother, in an issue of Fangoria in around 1999, issue 187. Claudio produced Santa Sangre, Jodorowsky’s most coherent film, and was full of praise for the man and the experience, but he also made it very, very clear that it wasn’t something he would ever do…

It could be Apple being poorly run and badly administered, applying the wrong rules to the game because anti-coronavirus missinformation.

your comment makes me realize that the episode that follows is perhaps the only motivation to humanize them in the first place. ugh thats horrible if it was

I mean it was pointed out multiple times in previous articles that they aren’t experienced with appraising Pokémon cards so it’s not surprising that all they did was check whether they were sealed properly or not. Really they should have just refused to look at them if they weren’t confident in their ability to…

Peacemaker Ep’s 1-3 are the best 110 minutes of content DC has made since The Dark Knight.

Yeah but real card collectors can tell almost immediately if the seal has been tampered with. The fact that half the Pokemon community could tell immediately that this was fraudulent means those BCE guys don’t know how to do their jobs properly.