My thoughts exactly.
Maul was a character? He was just some satan knockoff who gets cut in half after saying like 3 lines in the entire movie. Even though he really was the best part of TPM, that's more of a testament to the quality of the film itself.
Mordin Solus singing Major-General's Song from Pirates of Penzance is the next best thing, and we get that.
Have you seen BSG?
No, they're doing it wrong. It's a different actor whose last name begins with R, and who played in westerns - like Robert Redford in Watchmen or Burt Reynolds in... Velvet Goldmine I think?
The Ministry of Justice of my country is headed by a philosopher. It's not that great to say the least.
I'm not American though, far from it. And you can have good teeth without prosthetics, by, you know, brushing them and getting braces when they start getting crooked.
What is up with Sam's teeth? Does he have some sort of "medieval" prosthetics for the show, or is it just the fact that he's British?
Also, I love Qhorin. He has a lot of gravitas, while still being pretty lean and "earthy".
Somehow I was expecting Daisy Bell.
The Kobol starmap as shown initially was a pretty awesome and realistic plot device, and one of the reasons why the finale didn't make any sense. It implied pretty hard that the show takes place at most a few thousand years from now in either direction, because that's the window in which the constellations can still be the same. I recall a post-finale interview with the science consultant who designed it, and later facepalmed pretty hard when he learned that Moore chose to set the show in a time when the zodiac signs were radically different, AND have two planets with the same constellations.
So at least that made perfectly good sense, and then was flipped on its head.
As long as they make the science vaguely believable, and the general feel as spaced-out (pun intended) on drugs as the original, I'm all for it.
Oh and please don't make them return to Earth in, say, 150.000 BC, I'd hate it if a reboot of a cult show had such an *unprecedented* ridiculousness in it. I have no idea what kind of person could come up with a concept like that.
You wouldn't believe how many people argue that One Ring was a superconductor technology.
There's a theory? All I came up with was how Empire's anti-alien policies were caused by the fact that Palpatine had to grow up on a planet populated by Gungans.
Yeah, we already had precedent for crystal skulls in Indy mythos, and "they were left by transdimensional beings" is like the second most prevalent conspiracy theory about them. People are just having the same problem as with Phantom Menace - the film just doesn't work dramatically, but it's hard to pinpoint the weaknesses without analyzing it, so they just blame gimmicks that weren't there in older movies.
You might dislike Plinkett because of the voice, but he raises a lot of good points in his Indy review, like the fact that it doesn't really have a protagonist, there's no sense of danger because Russians aren't really portrayed as evil, Indy can be no longer seen as a self-insert wish-fulfillment for the watcher, etc, etc.
EDIT: don't get me wrong, I liked the film, but there's a lot of valid complaints to be brought up. Aliens aren't one of them, and the fridge really isn't either.
So, "Vampirism Fair"? I'd read/watch that. I hope the "Pride, Prejudice and Zombies" writer is reading this.
I'm guessing the black astronaut will be the closest thing to the main character. He seems to be channeling Will Smith in Independence Day in some of the footage shown, and Smith punching out the alien was one of the few good things about that movie.
It actually kind of does make sense - the wormhole was mentioned in a story much, much earlier than the "Endor Holocaust" came up. They just used an existing piece of background to fix a plothole - which has a certain elegance to it, more than a straight retcon for sure.
Hate it. I had a front tooth knocked out as a kid, and I have a pretty good prosthodontic one - it's indistinguishable from a real tooth, except it doesn't glow under blacklight, making me look pretty freaky every time I open my mouth at a disco.
The truth is in the middle I think. While ASoIaF isn't an elaborate allegory for the housing crisis, war on terror or some other pretentious crap, what makes it so great is the fact that the characters are lifelike and relatable. Their thoughts and interactions could be transplanted into a novel set in the real world. I enjoy escapism from time to time, but ASoIaF with its characters having their heads chopped off sure isn't something I read to escape from the problems of my day-to-day life.
What I'm trying to say is it's relevant without trying hard to be relevant.
While I like Radcliffe and HP quite a bit, I think that it's a sign of how far we have fallen that this film is being hyped as "Hey Harry Potter's in it" rather than "Hammer returns to filmmaking".
