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D:Ream - Things Can Only Get Better

...ouch? Respectfully disagree with m'learned coll here, especially as they DID make two of those specifically (Caravan Of Courage and Battle For Endor, plus the cartoon series. They're all available on D+ now, should you be so inclined, though nobody has yet dared ask Lucas to upload the Holiday Special.)

So, as you may have heard from the howls of blood-curdling outrage from Certain Corners Of The Internet Where They Have Opinions At You, the Ms.Marvel trailer dropped today. And here it is... Stuff to note: The powers have changed a little bit to energy projection, coupled to what looks like a rather elegant quantum device of some kind. I suspect this is either going to tie up with Shang-Chi's rings, Photon and Cap M's energy powers, or both. I like. Easier/cheaper to film convincingly than stretching skin, certainly, and gives her a wider toolkit of powers. Iman herself looks pleasingly normal and more than slightly adorkable. (Teamup with Turning Red's Mei would be hella fun, as they're both Disney properties...) As you're aware if you've read my other threads, I'm a Level 47 Social Justice/Righteous Rage Armour Scrapper with a fully slotted Epic Wokeness set. Buuuttt... the trailer is ever so slightly too worthy even for my tastes. Was expecting more Parker-level wisecracking. Also feels a lot like a high-budget version of Disney or Nick's endless superhero/wizard-based teen comedies*. Half expecting a Mitchell Musso guest shot somewhere. (Would be quite fun if he turned up as a villain, mind.) Speaking of which, not clear who the antagonists are or why we should care about them. All that said, it seems there's a lot of love for the original books here - particularly that last shot of her on the lamppost. Packing everything about why you should be excited for a flick or series into 90 seconds is not easy. I'm not sure they've made the best choices they could here, but willing to give it a shot. *...though not the one where someone keeps three teen superheroes locked in their basement and feeds them limited info about the outside world, which is in no way a supervillain/Weinstein-level supercreep move and would not cause me to telephone la police/SHIELD if I found out about it.

Carly Simon - Let The River Run

Things I'd like to say about this movie: See it. There's an awful lot of fun stuff we've not seen in Pixar before, especially all the lifts in tone and style from anime. Oddly for a Pixar movie, while there are many, many feels, absolutely nobody dies in it... ...but you might suddenly die of embarrassment from recognising yourself in the [mumbles year range under breath]'s as the absolute alien dorkoid creature you were/still are... ...maybe wish you'd had friends as good and sorted as Mei's... ...and accept that no matter what age you are, accepting yourself and your imperfections is and always will be a work in progress, but it gets SO MUCH BETTER - and succeeding so much easier when you do. Oh, and don't go on the Rotten Tomatoes comment section, because it's a sausagefest trash fire - some kind of unholy hot dog barbecue, generally repeating rote anti-woke points that show they haven't seen the movie. It's not exactly PC, and if there are any parents reading this, it is a PG Pixar for a reason. Very, very much PG, there are things you might have to / not want to explain to younger viewers, and nudging up against the limits of what you can do or say in that bracket, let alone Disney. And all the better for it. Instead, read the assorted Twitter tags and the wonderful fan art.

Scandroid - Thriller (Fury Weekend Remix)

Dance With The Dead - Hex (Pretty sure the Freakshow like this one)

George Harrison - Only A Dream Away

BTW: if you like mobile games, Lego:Legacy is good fun (if a little repetitive after a while, like most 5x5 turn-duel games). It also has a stunningly good soundtrack.

Assuming you allow Ep VIII to exist, Leia survived in hard vacuum outside a spaceship. I'm not sure whether that was the Force or just the Universe not wanting to argue with Space Mom, because it'd lose. ...I miss Space Mom. Now that is one old-school reference. Well played.

More Norfolk headcanon: we get the odd movie filmed here - my favourite being Stardust (the pub were gutted they didn't get to keep the Slaughtered Prince Mural). But the most famous is Avengers: Age Of Ultron, which caused gasps and gales of laughter when we found out we host the Avengers Mansion. (In real life: the Sainsbury Art Gallery.) So a few of us started messing around with sketches about interactions between the Avengers etc and their Norfolk staff. "Ere, Mr. Doom, yew don't wanna go in thair." "DO NOT SPEAK TO DOOM. AND IT IS DOCTOR DOOM, FOOLISH GARDENER." "Arr, so it is, Mr. Doom. But there's easier ways to break in than through there." "DOOM GOES WHERE HE WISHES, FOR DOOM IS BEHOLDEN TO NO MAN." "Fair enough, Sir, but that's the carnivorous plants I've been working on for Mr. Banner, Sir, and" "AAAAAARGGHHH" "...they ain't been... fed... yet. Huh. ...Well, one less job fer me today"

If anyone working in post-prod on Multiverse of Madness (or at D+) is reading this, DO IT,YOU COWARDS. ...ahem. Out of the Potter cast, Grint and Radcliffe are certainly names, but Matt Lewis (Neville!) has yer actual square-jawed hero looks and an ability for total gawkiness.

I am indeed - and from Norfolk, which is pretty much Airstrip One, and taught your lot at RAF Lakenheath. (Preferred the Marines - straightforward thinkers, but actually read and understood texts and did their assignments on time.) I think we... [quick Google] yep, we had RAF variant Mustangs, though I'm fairly sure we had the cardboard ones too. Side story about my part of the world entered local headcanon for a little while - and is also dragon-and-USAF related. The wonderfully rubbish Reign Of Fire has scenes set in the lonely, desolate mountains of Norfolk, which is slightly flatter than Wisconsin. USAF confirmed to the papers (in best Pentagonese) that to the best of their knowledge and instrument readings, they had not seen any mountains. So there were jokes for months about the mystic hidden mountains, where we teach the secret martial art of Ha-Yu-Roite-Ber.

I really liked the idea of Dimensions and it had a hell of a lot of work put into it. (And while there's a certain charm to having them silent, they did get one hell of a voice cast for that.) But I've never owned a console and it's never come out for other platforms.

Headcanon: something about a fandom that you believe or take on faith, without evidence. Or anyone else backing you up. Because you may be insane. But it makes ya happy. What have you either heard of or come up with lately? One I realised today: David Lightman(Wargames) and Ferris Bueller('s Day Off) are one and the same person. Having saved the world with his l33t haX0r and psychology skills, David gets put into Federal Witness Protection: with a new name, new identity, and newfound unassailable confidence from having confronted nuclear armageddon and won, he becomes a vastly cooler version of his old self (but still can't help hacking/phreaking the school).

There's a lot of villainy out there to be done, y'know. But yes, even at the risk of typecasting, you want a great and glorious bad guy, he's your go-to. (Also: if he ever, ever gets billing for a convention you're thinking of going to, GO. 100%. He might not be the biggest name, but far and away the nicest and funniest in person.)

/em holdtorch

Inquisitors. Sith temples(?). An unsteady Obi-Wan, hiding out and refraining from using his powers or intervening in the world - much like Gandalf, knowing that the eye of darkness will fall upon him if he does. Good premise... Cast & crew notes: that booming, mocking voice is clearly Rupert Friend. Not quite sure what Kumail Nanjiani's up to in this one (possibly a droid). Fine journeyman actor Joel Edgerton turning up as Owen: expect some friction, maybe friends falling out. Relative newcomer Moses Ingram looks like an Inquisitor (edit: she has a name, Reva - that mean anything to anyone?) on a journey of discovery: perhaps being tempted by the light side? Nobody from the Mando/Boba crew writing or directing on this one. Joby Harold's only major previous credits were Army Of The Dead and King Arthur: Legend Of The Sword, which... don't inspire confidence or hatred. Hannah Friedman's done broad comedy and cartoons. Hossein Amini has many Serious Drama creds and was brought in in post-prod, which reads to me as script surgeon. So: definitely looks the business, just a little worried about the writing crew hewing a little too close to the original Lucas vision (and leaden scripts) for a generation who've had the lighter, fluffier, more kinetic stuff. Will still be watching it, though. Ewan's gonna nail it. Let the wild, unfounded speculation begin...

Considering some of the other stuff that made it to D+ (The Black Cauldron for one), still seems like an odd omission.

Weirdly, Condorman is not on Disney+. I'm not sure whether they're just embarrassed about it or there's some kind of terrible thing I've forgotten in the movie.

Will have to dig that one out. Also, some weirdo called James Gunn had a crack at the same theme a couple of years later. Not sure he went on to have a career.

Well that's just wait what...Hancock is old folks' stuff now? SRC: Titanic_84_Years_Meme.gif alt="ironic_fake_code_tag" Okay, here's a curveball I forgot that's one of my favourites - it should by rights be a cult classic. It's a cape spoof (plus quite a lot aimed at American politics), The Incredibles owes more than a little debt to it, there's terrible Thunderbirds-level SFX, it's even got songs by Richard O'Brien - one of them sung by Christopher Lee... ...and it's Australian. So practically nobody's heard of it. Go find it. Or just watch this bit: Picking up on the spy and cape themes - one quite terrible movie I've loved unironically since I was a kid. Condorman was the first (maybe last) venture of comedian Michael Crawford into Whollyodd, famous for playing an accident-prone milquetoast on British TV (and later for nailing the original West End Phantom of the Opera - hell of a casting choice but one that paid off.) It's a straight rip of From Russia With Love for kids - a gorgeous Russian defector wants to make it to the West, but believes only one person can assure her safety. Unfortunately he's a cartoon, so the CIA recruit his creator as the only person who could act and think like him. It's not great. I could go on about the dialogue, acting, etc. But I'm going to shut up and show you one of the single greatest car chases in cinema history. (With that glorious Henry Mancini music. If I ever have to make a public appearance as a hero, I'm nicking it.)

Christopher Lee - Name Your Poison

We're Nazis on the moon, we carry a harpoon, but there ain't no whales so we tell tall tales and sing this whaling tune... ...wait, is that right?

A most excellent list, especially Galaxy Quest. (Oddly, I'm just getting into The Orville, and it's again the kind of spoof that could only be done by absolutely faithful Trek nerds:.Lower Decks has taken a lot of the ideas and satire and run with it but it's canon. Even the bit about Caitians and boxes.) Speaking of space spoofs, the mighty Mel Brooks. Blazing Saddles: absolutely yes, even with the studio breakout sequence at the end. Young Frankenstein: 100% works. Spaceballs... eh. There's quite a few good gags in here (plaidspeed, the video store, John Hurt's guest shot), but not a cogent plot to hang it all off, some less than convincing acting, and some flat-out joke fails that even Mel himself is ashamed of (Druish Princess for one). List denied. Also, it's inconceivable that no-one's come up with Princess Bride, which as both book and movie is a classic of the fantasy genre while exploring/ripping the hell out of a lot of its conventions (giants, revenge, bad guys, kissy bits and Rodents Of UnusuAAAARGHgetoffyoulittlebas[FX/GRAMS: DW beating ROUS with Mac cooler stand]yeah those.