I still have the hots for Claudia Christian.
Posted on 12/18/2017 9:57:14 AM PST by EdnaMode
What a fantastic lineup of movies!
There’ll be sure to be a line around
the block of expectant 12 year-olds.
If they want adult viewers, forget it.
Two of us saw Star Wars Saturday morning for $10.
Still a packed show.
I am in agreement that it takes a special movie to leave the house for.
We sat through 40 minutes of previews and commercials, 100% avoidable by the theatre owners in making patrons happy and a big contribution to why I no longe consider a dinner and a movie date attractive.
Star Trek’s sets and special effects
were cheap and cheesy in that order.
But what you would expect from the 1960s?
If there’s no depth to Babylon 5,
or the remake of Battlestar Galactica,
or Firefly, there ain’t a cow in Texas.
Aquaman will be the Waterworld of superhero movies. Warner has NO ideas how to do comic books (outside of Batman’s success). Aquaman is not a strong enough or interesting character to base a big movie on.
“Blockbuster” = LOUD, endless and boring CGI, lots of explosions, no plot, no character development, and crappy acting. No thanks”.
That’s right. The last movie I saw in a theater, which was about 7 years ago, was a Star Trek movie and the special effects were outrageously exaggerated, the plot was terrible and the acting was PC idiotic.
Give me Shatner, Neimoy and Scotty, any time.
It’s not just the tax man who gets stiffed by Hollywood accounting practices. Every profit participant whose contract is less than dollar-one gross is in the same predicament.
DC has never been able to bring its great stable of characters to the Big Screen effectively.. outside of Superman and Batman.... And their latest reboot of Superman was a dud and a half....
Wonder Woman was the sole exception to this, and my bet is they will somehow figure out a way to muck it up whenever they make the sequel.
WB just can’t seem to, in general, get the corporate crap out of the way.
Rebirth has saved the actual comic books, though DC has gone too PC and full on poofer promoting in a lot of its books as well.
Marvel hasn’t had a flop yet.... though IMHO some of its movies have been stinkers, so far they haven’t seen a drop in attendance. Quality has clearly visibly dropped, but audience haven’t had fatigue yet.. though I think they will soon. We shall see.
We now know the reason they are “stars” is not their physical attractiveness or talent, but rather their willingness to allow Harvey Weinstein to take photographs of their butt hole.
Only a few of the B5 actors are still alive. Would have to start over with a new cast pretty much
B5 had plenty of depth and was very well put together.
A tough act to follow, no doubt.
“Aquaman is not a strong enough or interesting character to base a big movie on.”
Actually that is not true at all.. but WB won’t remotely rely on source material effectively.. the Aquaman in Justice League is not Aquaman... He’s not a rhoided out caricature... with the depth of a piece of paper.
The problem is WB just turned him into that character for JL... They really just don’t know how to respect the characters they are making movies based on......
Just like when they cast Ryan Reynolds years ago as Green Lantern... that was a Miss out of the gate...
They literally treat their characters like Poochie from that simspon’s episode... what traits generally test well with a focus group? Okay, lets find a character in our universe and just make him that... instead of what they are.
I completely agree, the character they showed in Justice League has all the depth of a soup spoon.... but the true character is far more interesting... like most of DC’s characters..
The whole Superman Vs Batman was full on example of this.... the makeup of those characters are what leads them to conflict in the original story... There is no manipulation by Luthor to get them in conflict, that was thrown in and it was stupid.... It was the motivations and world view of the 2 characters that sent them on a path for conflict that was the original story that film was based upon.
A pragmatic fatalist, who cannot help but see the potential evil and threat all around him, and a character who is virtually all powerful and puts faith in the system and always sees the good. That’s what drove the real story of the two into conflict... not some stupid idiotic manipulations by Luthor.
B5 should never be remade. One irritating thing is that the Blu-Ray B5 discs have all the special effects shots in low definition while everything else is HD.
Funny how things go.
I also have the complete set of China Beach and had to pay a big whack of money to get the original sound track on it because they had so many period songs on the show, they issued two versions of DVDs. One with the royalty-paid sound track and one without, for the proles.
Yeah I think it will flop big time.
“I would rather watch old Star Trek episodes from the ‘60s, rather than today’s sci fi. Even though the special effects then were primitive by today’s standards, the overall storylines had more depth to them. Just my opinion”.
That’s also my opinion. Give me an old Star Trek any day.
"That's our Hitler!"
Agreed about DC. I don’t see their upcoming movies (outside of those top character) doing well. Not sure how Marvel does it, but they are on a roll. It will be interesting to see if Captain Marvel will do as well as Wonder Woman.
We’ve met her at some DragonCons when we were heavy goers.
She was always very pleasant and talkative.
Claudia handled whole panel discussions by herself.
“I’m looking forward to the next round of The Man In The High Castle on Amazon.”
ditto.
“OG Smith is my favorite character. Totally ruthless. I like the Japanese trade minister guy too.”
and ditto again.
Percentage of gross it the way to go.
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