Nelson Au wrote (post #4):
Good one! Sometimes I think you do "get it", after all.
And then, too, sometimes I think you don't ;):
(post #58)
"Homage"?!?
How 'bout "gold-digging"? "Plagiarism"? "Lazy, unimaginative writing"? Or, better still, try "outright stealing".
Hoot, mahn...
This year seems to be shaping up to be a very, very good one for horror-movie releases on blu-ray disc. And I'm not talking about the latest crappy theatricals or "straight-to-video" losers. Mainly thanks to a handful of small, independent companies (Kino, Twilight Time, Scream/Shout Factory...
I've avoided the Game of Thrones threads, since I don't subscribe to premium cable and haven't yet seen or read details about season 3 and don't want to know in advance what happens there. I'll try to wait for the discs.
I've got a question for the Brits (or other connoisseurs of British...
Nelson Au wrote (post #177)
They are not "boomers"! (Go find the definition of that demographer's "imaginative" term in a dictionary or on-line somewhere.) Otherwise, you've pretty much hit the nail on the head. These people have the "re-runs" like nobody's business.
"Used to"? Uh, I...
This wave came, like many others, in "3s". The third movie, though technically not a "werewolf"-movie, that featured on-screen "state-of-the-art" man-to-beast transformation effects was The Beast Within (1982) (itself, coming to blu-ray disc sometime late summer or fall 2013). Of course, it...
Michael Elliot wrote (post #25):
Not me. Mr. Abrams and company are welcome to trash any and all other superpopular Hollywood "franchises" they can get their hands on. Why stop at only one? Qapla'! :laugh:
Jason_V wrote (post #343):
this is a different universe. It has to be a new universe. You can't keep gallivanting around the Prime Universe without bumping into someone/something/some place connected to a previous Trek. By the time you explain the connection, the story is stalled. If you...
Jason_V wrote (post #42):
Not to mention all those times it "repeats" on you, like most of the "food" from McDonald's.
Now, what was Jerry Seinfeld's joke about the "limited-edition model"? That it was "limited" to the number of copies that they could make at the factory, or something to...
Gosh! I'm (almost) speechless over the endless and fascinated speculation on which TOS-character is to be rehashed. Is no one else interested in something "new" (or at least "different")?
Lou Sytsma wrote (post #22):
So "canon" is now code for "rehash"?
"LORD(!) Garth", indeed. From rehashing some of ST's best to rehashing some of its worst?!? "Whom gods destroy they first make sad" (". . . sacks", that is)! Yikes! :eek:
Chris Will wrote (post #6):
You're aware he may not have the freedom to do that, aren't you? The corporates are in control: the marketing people, the "bean-counters", and the "suits". They measure how many more tickets they think they can sell by rehashing a "known quantity"---a "brand", in...
Ockeghem wrote:
Ha! Ha! Rehash City!:D :D :D I can just see the headlines now:
"The greatest Trek ever!!!!!!!!!!"
"JJ is a genius!!!!!!!!!!"
"Water is wet!!!!!!!!!!"
todd s wrote (post #1):
Warner is considering it very carefully, and has been doïng so for years now, right at the very top of the hierarchy. Makes no difference.
Russell G wrote (post #11):
Not just that, but I think it's the same problem preventing the release of the classic 60s kitsch tv...
Steve_Tk wrote (post #135):
This seems to be addressed in a scene in the latest trailer where Natasha(?; Black Widow) tells "the guy with the bow" (Hawkeye) that "this" is something neither of them was ever trained to deal with, no?
Brent M wrote (post #150):
Agreed, but if you go to...
Tony Whalen wrote (post #49):
"Successful"? Ummm, no, not in Universal's eyes. The 1982 movie was made for about $15,000,000, a sum considered phenomenal in those days for a science-fiction film. The "suits", as you call them, were deeply disappointed in the US box-office returns. The same deal...
TravisR wrote (post #15):
For some reason (must be a masochistic streak), I enjoy Ring-A-Ding Girl, Come Wander With Me and The Fear despite their flaws.
"Come Wander with Me" --- certainly one of my favorite episodes, despite "prevailing opinion".
Chuck Anstey wrote (post #51):
Yes, I can see it now: all three captains rolling onto their respective bridges in their automated wheelchair-rockers. Ooops, Chekoff forgets his teeth. That'd be "the bomb"!
Nelson Au wrote (post #54):
{Ahem}, that'd be who, again?
joshEH wrote (post #56)...
Don Solosan wrote (post #208):
Oh, brother, here we go again!
Wrong as ringworm! In today's commercial-movie mad-marketing environment, one can get a damned good idea of what almost any wide-release film is about, as well as picking up a good many of its details...
As far as Star Trek in the cinema is concerned, there has never been such an era. Star Trek's exploration and innovativeness have always been confined to the small screen.
Chuck Anstey wrote (post #190):
Well, he's not a true Asgardian, either, as, at the end of the world (Ragnarok, the so-called "twilight of the gods (reginn)"), he leads the giants (including his own offspring, the gigantic Fenriswolf and the Midgardormr ("Earth-dragon"), and the demons (like...
DaveF wrote (post #3):
What's not to get?
Sounds/looks like a knock at the "intellectual-property"-claimants, on the one hand, and the "intelligent-design" whackos on the other (with a few jokes on places or standard set-up reversals ("the butler did it" -------> "the butler was done...
Chad Ferguson wrote (post #1):
I can't help you directly, but here's a suggestion. Take close-up pictures of the "action-figure's" belt (all around), which appears to have writing on it. Then post the close-up shots here. If someone who reads Japanese (or Chinese?) script can see the...