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I just watched the first episode last night. All I could think of was “what a waste of a great cast and good design on a very disappointing show.”

I mean... we kinda have to see the movie first to even start to assess that, right? I’m not the biggest fan of how superhero films have subsumed basically everything in pop culture, in how the dominant form of superhero film is the live-action PG-13 epic, a form that does the least with all the opportunities superhero…

The worst thing about CGI’d dead/deaged actors is that they’re just going to look more uncanny valley’d with time, once the novelty factor wears off. Young Leia in Rogue One looks like a palsied animatronic Muppet just five years on. The technology cannot outrace the viewers’ sense of reality when it comes to real…

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I just watched it last night - my only gripe is Marvel’s continued use of videogame looking CGI and doppelganger fights. How many more times do we need to see plastic looking versions of characters do the same moves with different colored lights?

I enjoyed the film as well. Though I think it’s getting a little more praise then it deserves. I feel this movie is like buying a used car. When you view it you’re excited about the pristine condition of the interior and exterior of the car. Then when you pop the hood, you notice some issues but you brush them off…

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Knowing very little about the original IP, the music seems great but...

I’m confused, a dark comedy with a fantastic actress playing an excellent character and high production values isn’t enough? Like what more are you looking for here?

The repetitive theater-bashing here is getting tiresome.

The Daniel Craig era has been marked by a turn to “gritty realism”, which has taken all the fun and humor out of Bond.

I mean, it’s a Bond movie. Has any Bond girl ever made it to the end of a second movie alive? I mean, never say never (again), but I’m absolutely expecting her to die.

Remember when Bond movies came out every two years and were a semi reliable source of fun, relatively harmless action movies. I feel like since the FF and M:I movies have basically taken over that market, the Bond producers have been trying to elevate these into some higher “artistic experience” or something. Hence…

For fuck's sake really? Its 007 not The Lord of the Rings

I will still never understand complaints about knowing the character will live and/or how she’ll die in the future. The mystery of the hero surviving or whether or not they’ll win in the end has almost never been a driving consideration in MCU movies to me. The question is always how.

We could probably bore each other to death. I would make a distinction between writing the first of a genre and popularizing it. While some Sci Fi fans may read Wells, very few have read Stapledon (who Clarke popularized) or Shelley. As far as reading everything - please don’t - as Sturgeon said 85% of everything is…

Not necessarily. The “If This Goes On” tradition of SF was established by H.G. Wells, who was writing “future histories” before Asimov and Heinlein and was a huge influence on both. The split between “serious” and “escapist” SF stems largely from American SF’s origins in the pulps of the ‘10s and ‘20s, dating back to…

And I’m really glad we’re all ignoring the second foundation trilogy.

The biographical stuff in Nevala-Lee’s book is very interesting, especially Asimov. It’s sort of like Astounding was Delta House and Isaac was its Flounder.