Posts made by Arkandel

@Macha Mygawd, that is @Ganymede's music!

Well, there it is. Reddit surprised me again.

/r/dogfree , a subreddit for people who dislike dogs. Who dislikes dogs, gdammit! Apparently about 26,000 people.

I don't want to say this but democracies deserve the leadership they elect, so unless Trump stays in the White House through force of arms then there comes a point it's not really on him any more.

Y'all had four years of that presidency so it's not like he's an unknown. Vote him out, or live with the idea that - for better or for worse - that's the will of the people. No one promised it'd be perfect.

@GreenFlashlight said in Good or New Movies Review:

Real talk, I kinda want them to just give the role to Tyler Hoechin. He's killing it on the CW.

Real talk, I wanted Grant Gustin to play the Flash in the movies. Of course that was during the first couple of seasons but still - it'd have been fun!

@GreenFlashlight He impressed the fuck out of me in the Witcher. And he was really good in The Man From U.N.C.L.E. as well.

In fact come to think of it his roles as Clark were easily the worst ones I've seen him in.

Henry Cavill signs up for three more movies as Superman.

Height won't be an issue at all. I mean if you want to to do She-Hulk then you need to start paying for some serious FX, and at that point how tall a character will appear is already the least of your concerns.

While on this I really wonder if TV expanding budgets will start pushing big tentpole movies out. That is, if it's a better RoI to go with a TV show that costs, say, 150% of what a movie would over the course of its entire season, but you're counting on making it back from subscriptions, merchandise opportunities, holding audiences loyal for multiple years, etc.

Especially in the post-Covid19 world where cinemas are about to start closing this could be the way things go, instead of simply streaming the same films instead.

@WildBaboons Right? I seriously want to do it for the new Stormlight Archive installment coming out soon but maaan those are some big-ass books. I love them, but...

@Alamias said in Books...Books...Books....:

@Arkandel said in Books...Books...Books....:

My only complaint is that it's getting to the point there's so much history that the metaplots themselves are hard to track down sometimes, especially since it's been a while since I last read the previous books.

I solve this by re-reading the entire series when I know a new book is coming out so it is fresh in my mind. Thankfully, since I just did this for Peace Talks I don't have to do it again for Battle Grounds

Lets just hope it isn't another six years before the next book drops.

At some point it becomes too cumbersome to re-read the entire series once the novels' count hits double digits.

@Coin said in Good TV:

Tatiana Maslany will be She-Hulk.

I wonder how they'll do it. I mean in terms of the special effects. Then again Disney has deep pockets and if they gave it the Mandalorian treatment...

I just finished Peace Talks, the latest installment in the Dresden Files series by Jim Butcher.

The spoilers free review is that if you already like the series then you'll enjoy this one as well. It's a two-parts novel (the second half is going to be published at the end of September) so I can't comment on the entire thing but I liked the direction.

My only complaint is that it's getting to the point there's so much history that the metaplots themselves are hard to track down sometimes, especially since it's been a while since I last read the previous books.

Ah, shit.

Stumptown was cancelled.

Terry Goodkind.

I don't mind some aspects of the cancel culture. I do dislike this immense effort to preemptively not possibly do anything that can be taken as offensive, though, regardless of intent.

Case in point was a potential plot for a new Star Trek movie (... for some reason that's on my newsfeed a lot lately) where a virus was killing large parts of the galactic population, which was nixed due to Covid-19.

We can't make movies about pandemics now? Would someone think they were too pro-virus?

@Lotherio said in Good or New Movies Review:

@Arkandel said in Good or New Movies Review:

Basically it'd have been set in an Earth-in-the-1930s-like gangster setting, presumably while trying to not break the Prime Directive. I dunno, that's certainly different!

Its called The City on the Edge of Forever, where McCoy travels to 1930s NYC and saves someone who was supposed to die, they start a movement that delays the US entry into WWII, and the Nazi's develop nukes 1st and win. Like that 1930s try not to break the Prime Directive, or different?

Given Tarantino's penchant in his last couple of movies for changing the past I suppose the time travel angle was more likely.

@Aria said in Good or New Movies Review:

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@Wizz said in Good or New Movies Review:

@Auspice said in Good or New Movies Review:

it really is terrible how studios keep doing things that make money so they can keep making more movies i mean god they should just go full french art house ugh

I mean wouldn't a French art house Trek be kind of amazing tho

You know Tarantino planned to do a Star Trek movie? But it's apparently not happening any more.

Oh, wow. Someone I'd be even more pissed off to see doing Star Trek than Abrams.

Please excuse me while I get a rage nosebleed at the mere thought.

I don't think I'm spoiling anything since the movie isn't happening, but the information about the script is here: https://www.indiewire.com/2020/08/quentin-tarantino-star-trek-idea-1930s-gangster-movie-1234578751/

Basically it'd have been set in an Earth-in-the-1930s-like gangster setting, presumably while trying to not break the Prime Directive. I dunno, that's certainly different!

@Wizz said in Good or New Movies Review:

@Auspice said in Good or New Movies Review:

it really is terrible how studios keep doing things that make money so they can keep making more movies i mean god they should just go full french art house ugh

I mean wouldn't a French art house Trek be kind of amazing tho

You know Tarantino planned to do a Star Trek movie? But it's apparently not happening any more.

Imagine how Adam Silver feels about these two scenarios:

Battle of L.A. (Lakers vs Clippers) leading to Lakers vs Celtics finals. Huge ratings.

Lakers vs Nuggets leading to Heat vs Nuggets finals. 2020 ratings.

@GreenFlashlight said in Good or New Movies Review:

@Arkandel said in Good or New Movies Review:

Should I be yelling at the damn kids to get off my lawn?

Not precisely. The contention here isn't age, it's either that you think you have a greater right to dictate what Star Trek is than the people who own it have, or that you think Star Trek can only be one limited thing.

I think I'm entitled to have preferences while aware they don't constitute rights, no?

In a nutshell there are so many franchises and properties out there which are based on big action pieces. I liked (sometimes loved) Trek because it occasionally - not always - strayed from that formula and gave us ethical, educated, optimistic thinkers as its protagonists, and problems that were solved by deliberation and reason rather than out-phasering the enemy.

I'd still like to be catered to. Believe me, I'm quite aware why I won't be, at least in the movies (in fact that's the whole point of my post) but do I need to like it?

Not quite a new movie review, but just based on rumors that Jennifer Lawrence will be part of the next Star Trek movie.

On its own that's fine. But my problem with bug budget Star Trek is that it's not really... Star Trek. You don't blow $150 million on a movie then base it on characters reasoning their way out of situations or finding complex diplomatic solutions to problems - which is arguably when the franchise is at its best.

In that case you need phaser fights for the big names to pew-pew their way out, which... is not inherently bad, but I feel it's moving further from its core identity.

Should I be yelling at the damn kids to get off my lawn?