I wanted to buy tickets to Muse but I waited too long. Now I can either sit behind the stage or spend a zillion dollars for a reasonable seat.
Instead, I watched this DVD. I feel like maybe this got it out of my system.
Truly one of the most clever, fun and meta things I’ve ever read. The characters and the world are so rich, even though the story is very simple. Top 10 knows how to evoke just enough out of every cop, sci-fi and superhero film you’ve ever seen to zip its story along. You could go over these pages with a microscope and find easter eggs forever.
Good, it’s about time everyone realized they had a really interesting character in Dr. Phlox.
This is also a great episode for fans (intimations of the Prime Directive), this show (makes Archer a real force in canon) and is a damned pickle of a philosophical debate. Do you interrupt the natural evolution of a planet to save some lives?
Kirk would have found a way to do both.
Sometimes ships in space just want to shoot you. That’s all there is to it.
The team works together to build phase cannons and find out what Malcolm likes to eat.
Ah, yes, the Temporal Cold War from the pilot is back to confuse us again.
Not a bad episode, though.
Cool episode that gives more insight into “Space Boomer” culture vs the rise of Starfleet. Also: First Nausicaan! The kid who plays Travis is an awful actor, but, frankly, he’s the only bad one on there. Usually there are more.
The gang goes “undercover” in what feels like a desperate attempt to reply Errand of Mercy.
Ever been stuck somewhere and think “Wow, someone should make a movie out of this?” You usually follow it up with, “nah, how could you pad that out to 90 minutes?” and then forget it. Adam Green never made that second step.
Read more of my brilliant thoughts at UGO.
I need a few drinks in me to explain why this is the best thing the Coens have done, or how this is the best film ever made about the Jewish experience in America.
It is a masterpiece.
Jesus, I expected this to be bad, but I didn’t expect it to be THIS bad.
Painfully unfunny. Offensively so. I know it is for kids, but, wow. Just awful.
I feel like I’ve written about The Thing 100 times before, so I’ll just say it holds up to scrutiny.
This was the 1st time Ann saw it and she yelled at all the right parts.
A fabulous exercise in tension.
“Oh, don’t be such a putz, David!”
It is *so* hard to mix genres – but this is one of the few that really, really nail it. It is a real horror film and a real comedy. Everything about it just sings.
One point of contention, however! David Naughton’s upper-middle class Jewish parents don’t fly over from Long Island while their son is unconscious in a London hospital for three weeks?!?! I can suspend disbelief about werewolves – but not this!
This “B” might be a little low considering the classic title, but this is actually one of the dopier, far-fetched film noirs. There are a million noirs I like better, that don’t have such absurd gaps in logic and common sense.
Still, though, there are pleasures to be found – particularly in the two lawyer roles by Leon Ames and Hume Cronyn. One can also find a lot of inspiration for the Coens’ fantastic The Man Who Wasn’t There in this film.
I have a hunch both the original novel and the 80s Rafelson version with Nicholson and a David Mamet script are worth looking into.
Larry Niven and John Byrne join forces for some truly insane, time-paradox, theory of relativity quoting nerd-ass shit Green Lantern fun.
Ganthet appears to a strangely bummin-around-the-house Hal Jordan and takes him to Ireland to hunt for Leprechauns. Then, into the reaches of outer space to prevent something in the past that, if I’m understanding it correctly, is important to do and fail in order to insure that it happens. Or something.
Like I say, it’s pretty out-there deep SF nerdass shit. Also, Jordan uses the power of redshifting light while moving at relative speed to engage the power of yellow. I’m pretty sure the math works. Not sure Alan Scott would approve, though.
A TOS/TNG crossover never got the big screen justice it deserved, so that’s why books like this will always have value.
A twin set of four issue stores, the first a TOS tale set just as Chekov comes aboard and takes his first away mission. The second, scripted by my old chum Peter David, brings Admiral McCoy and Ambassador Spock aboard the NCC-1701-D for an orgy of fan service. Dear God, PAD, the bukkake-like lengths of fan-wank on display in these (highly entertaining) four issues would keep anyone sticky for months.
A movie ridiculous enough for one of its lead characters to stop in the middle of anything and say, “This is ridiculous.”
A cult classic has to earn that title and Hausu does this by being genuinely fun, absurd and representative of truly misguided, misplaced effort. Hausu definitely has a look, and while I’d be hard-pressed to actually explain everything I saw (why did Mr. Togo become a giant heap of bananas?) I can say I had a wonderful time watching it happen.
This is not quite as slick as the recent Rebirth or First Flight Hal Jordan origin tales – and certainly not as nerdy – but it is straightforward and good. And anything Green Lantern is inherently nerdy.
Join Hal as he zips through space to Oa to fight Legion and question the ethics of the Guardians. The artwork is pretty good for 1991, too.
They say this this is the book Martin Campbell is cribbing from for his movie next year. We could do a lot worse.
Ed Brubaker’s kinda-sorta follow up to Alan Moore’s The Killing Joke is a fast-paced and exciting Batman tale – but nothing truly striking.
The second half of this book, a Detective Comics run called “Made of Wood” is far more entertaining, bringing Bruce Wayne alongside a somewhat out-of-time first Green Lantern Alan Scott.
