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TOP TEN LAMEST STAR TREK ALIENS (Article) - 5/15/2013 1:07:33 PM

There is a race with three hands and three legs. He was in the animated series. I think his name was Artex, Artek?  Whatever it was he is part of Trek continuity.

In Memoriam: Ray Harryhausen (Article) - 5/8/2013 5:25:23 PM

My first Harryhausen movie was the Seventh Voyage of Sinbad. I was around seven or eight years old.  Even though the movie got interrupted by a passing tornado it was fantastic. 

TEEN TITANS GO! LEGENDARY SANDWICH/PIE BROS Review (Article) - 5/1/2013 6:42:55 AM

Man to go from a great show like Young Justice to this crap.  I just don't know what gets into the minds of the people behind this.  Seriously TV programing is not hard to figure out.  If you have a good show that is well written, appeals to a wide spread audience, and is entertaining to watch, then you leave it the hell alone and run the damn thing for as long as people will watch it.  If you want to establish a good show then actually do the research to find out what people like to see.  In the case of superheroes it is not having the heroes that we love sitting around their secret base talking about what colour lip gloss looks best with their costume.  It is about complex characters and their team dynamics both on and off the battlefield.  It is about thought provoking, overarching and overlapping stories. it is also about massive battles against challenging and complex enemies.  Young Justice had all of this in spades, Batman the Animated Series... Ditto! Give us more of this level of programing and we will be glued to our TV's and computers.  This Teen Titans Go style of underwhelming garbage is just going to make us want to throw up a little and go find a good book or throw in the DVD of a series that actually got it right.  Bring back Young Justice I miss feeling whelmed! 

The Lone Ranger Character Posters (Article) - 4/9/2013 6:11:12 AM

I really like the Lone Ranger character.  I also grew up watching the Clayton Moore series.  And while the series might be considered on the racist side by depicting Tonto as a monosyllabic "Indian," at least they used an actual Native American for the part.  I understand wanting to use star power to attract attention to the film, but this whole white painted Indian thing smacks a little too much like a version of Blackface to me.  There are a lot of talented Native American actors out there that could've played Tonto. 

No 9th Doctor for Doctor Who Anniversary Special (Article) - 4/6/2013 7:00:01 AM

In the past there has been cross over specials before where two or more doctors are gathered for a big fight against ultimate evil.  With all the time travel that the Doctors do it is possible for their timeline to intersect.  This was played out in a Tennant episode, until it was revealed that the person simply had absorbed the Doctors memories and thought he was the Doctor.   

Percy Jackson: Sea Of Monsters Trailer (Article) - 4/2/2013 5:07:01 PM

I am reposting a comment about this film that I made earlier, because I still do not see how they are going to do any justice to the series.  The first movie was written so poorly when compared to the book. Original post follows:

The movie had an an amazing, but ultimately wasted cast. The movie did not stick to the book at all, which was surprising considering that Chris Columbus stayed remarkably close to the Harry Potter novels when making the first two films.

Spoiler Alert: The Jackson movie totally ignored the fact that Kronos, not Lucas, is the big bad of the story. In fact the whole Kronos storyline which is the central plot of the novels was ignored and the film simply focused on the daddy issues that Lucas had torwards Hermes. The film also combined Annabeth and Clarisse (the daughter of Ares, and a thorn in Percy's side ) into one character. Furthermore, Clarisse is a central character in the second novel and one of the major heros of the fifth book. Yet, she wasn't even mentioned in the film.

I am fully aware that a book cannot be translated word for word onto a film screen, but it was if they simply picked a few random ellements of the source material and then threw a whole bunch of crap against a wall to see what would stick. However, with the comparible example of Harry Potter or even the Lord of the Rings series, a much better effort could have been made to stay true to the novel and not remove essential story elements that extended throughout the five books; especially as they wish to make sequels.

Han and Boba Movies for Disney (Article) - 2/10/2013 12:17:41 PM

 Well I don't know how good the movie will be, but as for the actor playing Han maybe he could be CGI like Flynn was in Tron.  Not only was Tran a Disney movie, but it has been a couple of years since it came out, so the technology has only improved since that time.  Harrison Ford could supply the voice over and boom younger Han Solo.

YOUNG JUSTICE INVASION: THE FIX Review (Article) - 1/31/2013 8:42:35 AM

Wow! I will indeed heed any person calling both balderdash and shenanigans for they are mighty and powerful words. 

Smurfs 2 Trailer (Article) - 12/19/2012 8:43:33 AM

 I took my kids to the first one, and it really wasn't that bad.  Mainly a kids movie, but some adult humor there as well to keep the big kids entertained to.  Plus Neil Patrick Harris is great in just about anything he does

TV Wasteland: Happy Turkey Day! (Article) - 11/19/2012 6:01:11 AM

I`ve never forgotten Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger.  I saw it in a theatre in Nebraska back when I was 8 or so.  In the middle of the movie an announcement came on that there was a tornado in the immediate area and for everybody to go to the washrooms as it was the safest place in the theatre.  After standing in the washroom for about ten minutes there was another announcement that the tornado was gone and there had been no damage reported over the news service.  Further they announced that they would continue with the movie and anyone who wanted to stay to finish watching the movie could do so, or get a refund and leave.  We stayed and watched the movie.  I try and catch it whenever it`s on TV. 

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