Recent content by Walter Kittel

Party pooper! :) My recollection is that Lucas intended for the droids to provide continuity between the various SW films (as inspired by the two peasants from Akira Kurosawa's Hidden Fortress.) By making them droids they would avoid issues with actors aging out of parts (or more morbidly...

If you are saying that most of the 'cute' droids except BB-8 have been fairly minor characters, then I would agree. If you are comparing all of the droids to BB-8, then I would argue that there have been some prominent droids that are much more than minor characters... K-2SO - Rogue One C1-10P...

Not that anyone is asking; :) but I tend to go back and forth between The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly and Once Upon A Time in the West in terms of which film I enjoy more. ( Both films are in my top ten all time Westerns. ) I prefer Moriconne's score for TGTBTU, but the exploration of the...

Not a terrible list, but the omission of The Big Country is a major failing. Arguably one of the best Western scores ever put to film. I am quite comfortable mentioning Jerome Moross' work on this film in the same sentence with Ennio Moriconne. Also, perhaps a bit too much reliance on John...

Lord of the Rings: The Hunt for $$$ Despite that observation; if the film can maintain the quality of the prior works in the franchise, then it is welcome. - Walter.

Repeating myself here, but... Two words: Oscar Isaac. - Walter.

Element - Walter.

The series was kind of all over the place for me, but Isaac was just terrific. I wouldn't mind seeing a second season that gives up more Jake Lockley. - Walter.

Thanks for highlighting the channel. I've been browsing over on You Tube and it brings back some memories. Too lazy to look up the specifics :) but I recall when there were competing musical shows on the big three networks. NBC had The Midnight Special, CBS broadcast Don Kirshner's Rock...

Interesting observations by Mr. Hunt. I will be curious to perform my own comparison between the forthcoming release and the earlier BD. I do wonder how much 'very different looking' will translate for me. It doesn't sound like the color palette is markedly different which is usually the...

Re: Joe's wiki plot spoiler in post #24... Yabushige would have approved. :) I'm still thinking about this show since viewing the finale last week, and I'd be hard pressed to name something I enjoyed more, at least recently. I tend to believe that there needs to be some passage of time...

I believe the general idea of the film was to shape a narrative that conformed to a lot of the tropes associated with UFOs at that time, not to make sense of an extraterrestrial agenda or to necessarily examine all the ramifications of the events depicted. As noted in the first post, there are...

Old man yells at clouds. I am of the same generation, so I feel pretty comfortable stating that he is old and perhaps he isn't as relevant as he once was. It is the same every generation with those of a certain age decrying youth. - Walter.

In the words of Roger Ebert... "It's not what a movie is about, it's how it is about it." - Walter.

It doesn't happen often, but sometimes I will discover a new (to me) filmmaker or artist and I'll mine their earlier oeuvre via BD; which can include pre-2010 BD releases. While older releases have sometimes been supplanted by newer ones, I tend to not wait if the title holds my interest. -...