stridewideman
stridewideman
stridewideman

It’s the car they* didnt want you** to have.

Seriously? Not one jab at “but the sand gets everywhere”? 

I took too many shrooms during Part One and thought I was IN the ornithopter when it crashed.  That’s how you experience true 4D.

I saw it in IMAX, so it didn’t have all the fog and spray and whatever, but our seats definitely rumbled and shook when big things happened onscreen, and I thought it really did add to the experience.  I don’t know if it was just because the speakers in this particular theater were just that powerful, or if there was

I’m pretty sure the writers feel the same way. The problem is that the older Lorne gets, the more broad and lowest-common-denominator he wants the sketches to be. He really HAS to go. 

The Shayamalan Plot Twist will be that there isn’t one, because Ishana Shayamalan hates them.  

Once you learn the twist, you can see all the clues peppered throughout that it was just M. Night Shyamalan in disguise all along.

On the whole I enjoyed Solo, but its insistence on explaining so much of Han’s backstory that didn’t need to be explained grated on me, with its insistence that no, he really did do the Kessel Run in under (not “order”, oy) 12 parsecs being only the third most annoying backstory patch job. But I will admit that I

Batman: I’m not the one wearing hockey pads.

The Prestige is absolutely worth checking out. That, not Tenet, is the underappreciated gem in Nolan’s repertoire.

Aside from the Batmans, I’ve never watched a Nolan movie that I fully “got” the first time around (and I’ve seen all of them.) Part of the fun is watching a second or third time and picking up all the little clues that were hidden in plain sight the whole time.

The Prestige is a top-5 all-time movie for me. The Illusionist stinks.

Joker: I’m gonna make this pencil disappear.

People always learned the wrong lesson from Batman Begins and The Dark Knight. Just because they weren’t high camp of Schumacher’s Batman didn’t mean they were ultra-serious or gritty. Batman Begins might have taken the Batman character seriously, but it’s full of fun moments breaking up the gloom and doom. But for

The diversion Joker uses to force a re-route on Dent’s convoy involves using a fire truck...that’s on fire.  Probably my fave Nolan joke.

So let me get this straight:

Therein lies the rub. SHE keeps saying she was fired. DISNEY has said they did not renew her contract. Without knowing the terms or dates of her contract, we are all just speculating. IF it was just not renewed, she is probably shit out of luck. But even if fired, I would think Disney has some pretty strong boiler

Bring her character back, but make the storyline about Cara Dune going through a gender transition before saving the town from a racist group storming the space-capitol hill.

See, that’s why entertainment journalists suck in general. This is a vital distinction, yet every headline after she was let go used the term “fired”. The quote Lucasfilm released at that time even suggest that there wasn’t even plan to bring her back even before her comments.

She wasn’t fired, though. Her contract was up & they didn’t renew it.