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I liked it, but time travel has to be really bad for me not to. For all the comparison to Ministerio del Tiempo, there's definitely a similarity in the basic concept (2 guy-one woman team consisting of a soldier, scholar and someone in a more modern profession and one of the men is mourning a dead wife) but not any of the specific stories. I actually liked how they ended up changing history. I would be curious if it's an ongoing thing, where they keep changing history so that by the end of the season, Prince Abraham Lincoln III flies in on his airship to the secret time lab to see what's happening or something. I would give them points for creativity if this did this or even reveal that our history is a "wrong" timeline that Flynn is trying to fix.

The 2010 Russell Crowe Robin Hood was forgettable (he only did one Robin Hood-esque deed in the whole movie) but Alan Doyle as Alan A'Dayle was pretty awesome (and single-handedly introduced my sister to the music of Great Big Sea)

Michael (on suspenders): So dumb! So much dumber than belts!

I read that a few months ago and I really liked it and now I keep meaning to watch the movie. Right now, I'm reading The Gaslight Dogs by Karin Lowachee which is a sort-of-steampunk fantasy with Inuit influences. It was slow to start but I'm liking it so far.

I saw the movie about a month ago. While I am a fan of SW, I would not call myself a superfan. I've always been more into Star Trek than Star Wars (but don't get me started on Abrams Trek movies). I agree with pretty much everything you said as well. Looking back at the prequels, they had some really good ideas, I think they just bungled the execution. This new movie has no real new ideas, and any that appeared, like the the identity of a Stormtrooper being a real person came up because they needed a companion for Rey. It even lacked the grand sense of scale of the originals and the prequels. At the very beginning of A New Hope we all remember seeing that huge Star Destroyer fly overhead. There is nothing, save for a few vistas on Jakku, that gives any sense of scale. When the Starkiller attacks, we see a beam shoot out and destroy some planets. Are they in the same system? Light years away? Kylo Ren is a very weak villain. He was upset enough to hack up the bridge with his lightsaber, in front of his crew. Any villain that can be rattled and lose control to that degree is not that big of a threat. Vader was scary because he was so in control. He casually force-choked the one imperial without any emotion, and only stopped when Tarkin told him to. Even then he wasn't upset about it. The Emperor too was in control, watching his plans play out exactly as he foresaw them until Vader threw him down the reactor shaft.

I expected to go in disappointed and I was still let down. This movie had all the flaws that J.J. Abrams' movies always have (crappy plotting, coincidence, lack of scale, overuse of fanservice and so on). I was spoiled, but I still didn't feel anything for Hans' death, it was thrown in there because like Obi-Wan in the original, the old mentor had to die. TFA felt like some teenager's bad fanfiction (like Abrams' movies usually do). I thought Daisy Ridley and John Boyega were good and Rey and Finn could have been very interesting characters in the hands of a better storyteller. I liked Poe Dameron, but he wasn't really in the movie enough to get a good sense of him. But it pisses me off that we're never going to get a scene of Luke, Leia and Han all together again. After I finished, I reread Heir to the Empire and realized how much better a sequel that it was. Grand Admiral Thrawn could have mopped the floor with Kylo Ren.

I watched the first ep and learned my Spanish is not as strong as I thought. I loved the show and the actors but I know I missed a lot of the nuance. Now I'm hoping Dramafever or someone will pick it up.

Wow, it really sounds like NBC/Sony ripped it off and so shamelessly. I'll still check it out, but now I have to find El Ministerio del Tiempo

It's pronounced "Frahnkensteen" (I had to say it) He was the best and greatly missed.

I'm a sucker for time-travel stories, so I'll check it out.

Haven't seen Zendaya in enough things to say whether she would be good or not. Don't have a problem with an African-American MJ. Queens is a lot more diverse than it was in the post-WWII era when Spiderman was created. Not sure about the Flash casting, since a lot of the bullies I encountered in school were jocks. I wonder if they're going for the "protected bully" type. You know that one asshole, who may not be big or strong, but gets away with everything because teachers/school officials/higher-ups look the other way. I think there's also a generational thing with Aunt May's age too. My grandmother had six siblings with a 20 age gap between oldest and youngest, so an old woman like in the original comics as Aunt May was more believable then.

Don't forget the awesome Scottish scenery in Highlander. Still one of my favorite movies. Can't forget Waterworld, which I usually end up watching that whenever I find it on TV. Dennis Hopper at his scenery-chewing best. Although the soundtrack was cool. I've only ever seen parts of Showgirls. But it always makes me think of a story a friend of mine told: When she was in college, she and a friend went to see a third friend in Seattle. They got in late and the third friend was determined to see a movie and they went to the only thing showing at the time: a midnight run of Showgirls. She said she was sure all the pervs and weirdos in the theater saw the three of them and thought were the menage-a-trois lesbians. She also said the movie was terrible.

As a lieutenant commander, I'm guessing she'll be high enough up to have an influence on events in the ship, but still have the captain over her head, which could set up some interesting dynamics. I'm not against a prequel per se, although I would have preferred one between TOS and TNG, centering around the Tomed Incident like some of the initial speculation. Done well, a prequel can fill in the gaps in the Trek Universe, it's just Star Trek hasn't done prequels very well. My problem with Enterprise was Braga's general attitude to world-building (that it's too hard) and things just rehashed previous episodes and contradicted things we saw later.

After my disappointment with The Force Awakens, I'm actually been looking forward to this. And that was before I saw Darth Vader at the end. And we get to see Alan Tudyk play a 7 foot tall droid, so even better

Wow, this sounds like a trainwreck all around. Remember months ago when the news broke that they had a therapist on set for the actors to deal with the "dark themes" of the movie? Everyone laughed and thought it was for marketing and that they were trying too hard to be 'dark and edgy' (but now it seems like the therapist could have been there for the abuse everyone was suffering). Then came the trailers with Bohemian Rhapsody and Ballroom Blitz and actually made it look like it could be fun. But no it seems the first impression was right. That's how I felt about BvS. It was Batman and Superman, and the trailers did little to convince me and then the reviews came out and I discovered I would wait for netflix or cable and still haven't seen it yet. SS will probably be the same.

I hate the Former-Navy-SEAL trope. Note: not about Navy SEALs doing Navy SEAL things, but where a throwaway line at the beginning tells us the character is a former Navy SEAL just for the badass points and it has no bearing on the rest of the movie.

Gone too soon. My condolences to his friends and family.

Alex with the flashlight I can forgive because she was clearly freaked out. As for Timmy and the vision-based-on-movement thing, I'm not sure how common knowledge that was at the time, and Timmy was hardly in a rational place then either. The velociraptors were scariest in the first movie. But personally, I want to see Velociraptors with feathers. Wayne Knight's character was stealing the DNA for the rival company who we never hear from ever again. Although they could bring the rival company back in the Jurassic World sequel as a competitor: "Forget Jurassic Park, Come to Cretaceous Gardens! Our dinosaurs have NOT run amok!" As for why Timmy didn't hand Ellie the gun, I got nothing. Maybe 'cause he got zapped on the fence?

I can see what you mean about Simon Pegg as Scotty. I had forgotten (or blocked the memory of) Scotty being shunted through the various pipes of the Enterprise Brewery, I mean Engine Room. I can't really judge Alice Eve as the character was written so differently from the Original Carol Marcus, I can't see her as the same character. I also agree with your take on Pine and Quinto. I also think Nicole Beharie would have made an awesome Uhura. I think Saldana could be all right, if she hadn't been hamstrung with the Spoke romance. Totally agree about Nimoy. I think Leonard Nimoy was there to draw in the old fans so they can say "yes, this really is Star Trek". Without him in Star Trek Beyond, any connection to the Real Star Trek is lost. Add in the fact that Brian Fuller's bringing Star Trek back to TV (and awesome fan projects like Prelude to Axanar), I think people are seeing that Abramstrek is going stale.

I agree with pretty much everything you say, except I like some of the Beastie Boys songs (just not in Star Trek). I've always hated JJ Abrams, I think he's a hack whose sole talent is generating hype and his movies come off like bad fanfiction. Not only did he include the Beastie Boys in that scene but he also had Kirk steal a car (in the future where they have transporters) get pursued by a robot traffic cop (where they have transporters), and then drive off a cliff (in Iowa). It looks the same for Beyond judging by the motocross scene in the trailer. It doesn't feel like the future and betrays a lack of imagination on Abrams' part. Karl Urban was the best thing about those movies. The rest of the recast ranges from Meh to OK (although I think with the right writing, John Cho would be a good Sulu).

I just can't see DiCaprio playing Rumi. I personally would go with Hrithik Roshan or Ranbir Kapoor (who have a better claim to "Aryan" than DiCaprio).

Howard seemed to have the life philosophy of "it's easier to beg for forgiveness than ask for permission" but Tony seems to genuinely have trouble understanding that other people could see things in other ways even when those other people are a man from another time and an alien god. They both seem to get so into the problem they're currently working on, they can't see the forest for the trees.

I'd love to see a Doc Savage movie, but I agree it should be set in the 1930s. That comes from Philip José Farmer's Wold Newton Family, and I don't know if the filmmakers would have rights to that. Be cool if they did, though, it would be the ultimate Cinematic Universe.

I like Samantha Fish, Cassie Taylor and Dani Wilde's version of "Jet Airliner" which sounds more bluesier than Steve Miller's version, and closer to Paul Pena's original. Paul Pena's original, which wasn't released until years after Steve Miller turned it into a hit.

Now it's come out that the reshoots are not happening: http://www.slashfilm.com/rogue-one-reshoots-details/ According to Christopher McQuarrie himself: