themovielord's Blog

I have to wait till 2008 for more Battlestar Galactica?

(Mon 03/26/2007 11:37pm)

Seriously, folks over at the Scifi channel, we have to wait till 2008 to find out what happens?  What show waits 9 months... 9 MONTHS to come back on the air?   We need something, anything... some kind of hope that you will be back on in October or sooner. 

Thank you for creating a show that has me chompping at the bit for more.  It really is the best show on Television!

They Don't Know They're Watching Comics!

(Sat 03/10/2007 01:34am)
So after a good night of television I am berated the next day with questions like “What did you think of last night episodes? What do you think that meant?” I am my jobs go to guy for TV shows. The usual complaint this season is why there are only so many episodes or why is there break? It’s fun to see people so caught up in show. Much like how many comic book readers I know who love getting their books on a Wednesday to only be frustrated as hell to get to the end of a book and know they have to wait another month to find out what happens next. So I started to take notice that TV shows are becoming more episodic in nature. You have to tune in each week to follow along. You just can’t jump in and watch “Heroes” or “LOST” and understand what is going on, it’s not possible unless you go and watch reruns or an entire season on DVD. Much like jumping into what’s going on with the Avengers and or why Captain America was killed. You can catch up if you get the trade paper backs that I am sure Marvel will be putting out any Wednesday now.

I like TV in its episodic form. It’s a digital comic every week. I am not turning the pages but I am tuning in every week. I also like the fact that people don’t realize that comics made shows like “Heroes”, “Battlestar Galacitca”, “LOST” and “Jericho” possible. They are after all: The X-Men, The Avengers, 52, and Y: The Last Man. So when I get mocked for reading about the adventures of Spider-Man or the Hulk on my lunch break, I just remind people that they are watching comics every week. There really isn’t any difference anymore.

Animatrix and Star Wars: Clone Wars

(Mon 03/05/2007 02:30pm)

The other day I bought a new rack for my DVD's and I started to organize them.  But how to organize them?  By letter?  By Genre?  As I was stacking them up I started with Genre.  A little different for me but any way.  Something happened when I got to the cartoons.  Particularly when I got to the Animatrix and Star Wars: Clone Wars.   I stacked up The Matrix Reloaded and Star Wars: Attack of the Clones with them and realized how disappointing the films were and how inspiring the cartoons had been.

See for me and I am sure most of you, the Matrix sequels and the new Star Wars trilogy, not the old trilogy, had so much promise before we saw them, read about them, and discussed them with friends and family. We watched the original trilogy and wondered how did Darth Vader become Darth Vader. I sat around and discussed with my boss what I thought where the Matrix movies would go and we discussed what it could all mean. Those discussions and thoughts got my creative juices flowing and apparently it did to other people as well. Which is why we have things like Star Wars: Clone Wars and the Animatrix, both of which spawned comic books and video games that are far superior to the films that inspired them. So I thought are the Matrix sequels and the new Star Wars trilogy great films? Yes, but not because I am the ulitimate fanboy.  No they are not great films or even cinematic giants. Casablanca, the Godfather, Gone with the Wind, and the Wizard of Oz are great films/ cinematic giants. The new Star Wars and the Matrix sequels did make oodles of dough and cluttered a lot of desk tops with action figures. What does makes these movies great is their ability to inspire and create. Star Wars in George Lucas's hands is Bantha poodoo. Star Wars in the hands of Genndy Tarakovsky (director of Star Wars: Clone Wars) is a pure joy and a light in all the darkness that George Lucas has delivered on the screen. So these movies burned out fast and eventually, one day, will fade away, but their impact will be felt for years to come, because they have inspired peoples imagination and creativity. Truely making them great.