I am somewhat embarrassed that it wasn't until the last episode that I realized "Verna" is an anagram for "Raven."
This is the BEST Star Trek series.
That's it. That's the post.
How did it take me six episodes to realize that Luke Skywalker is Captain Pike's lawyer?
(I knew who the actors were, I just didn't think about their nerd franchise relevance before.)
Freeman: My crew doesn't get all emotional for no reason!
Me: Yeah, this ain't Discovery.
A nice, sweet standalone episode.
A wonderful coda to the Babylon 5 saga. It gives us a chance to look across the history of the world J. Michael Straczynski created, allowed us to reunite with some old friends, and in the end even gave us a glimpse of hope for the future of Babylon 5. Very much worth waiting for.
This is a baffling film. The synopsis of this film promised a story about Superman, Batman, and Wonder Woman fighting to free Warworld from the clutches of Mongul. Instead, it's an anthology movie where each of the Trinity appears inexplicably in another time period and/or genre and meets a character from a lesser-known DC series. There's no connection to the greater story promised in the synopsis until the last 20 minutes of this 90-minute film. Worst of all, it's done in such a way that the first two segments are rendered utterly inconsequential. You can start watching with the third segment, the Superman segment, and you will not have missed anything of importance. You can do this sort of thing in an issue of a comic book or an episode of a TV show -- something where people EXPECT an episodic story. But to do it in a feature film is baffling and disappointing.
If this had been billed as an anthology movie or an Elseworlds film, it would have been fine. There's fun to be had in watching DC's top three heroes dip into other realms for a change. But as much as I hate to use the term, this feels like kind of a bait and switch. I always say that it's not fair to judge a movie based on what you WANT it to be instead of what it IS, but considering how this film was presented to the fans, I think this might be the exception to that rule.
Is Liam Cunningham as Wade becoming anyone else's favorite part of this show? I mean, he was awesome on Game of Thrones, but he's such a magnificent bastard here that I'd follow him into the breach.
"Of my friend, I can only say this: of all the souls I have encountered in my travels...his was the most...human."
Ya gotta love how Robin says something rude and O'Hara's immediate reaction is ,"This girl in the pink cat costume did something to his head!"
Me: Neelix is so goofy. I wish they could find a way to give him a little emotional complexity.
Me watching "Mortal Coil": Oh geez, not like THAT.
Okay, I was with this movie for about 95 percent of the running time, but the end kind of throws a monkey wrench into the whole thing.
You see...at the end, Willy learns the lesson that it isn't the chocolate, it's the people you share it with. Okay, sure, standard fantasy movie message about the power of friendship. That's all to the good. But after building up to this moment for the entire film...we're hit with a message that completely UNDERCUTS the character. Think about this. In every version of the Willy Wonka story, whether it's the book or the Johnny Depp movie, or the Gene Wilder version (which this one seems to be linked to), Wonka is UTTERLY AND COMPLETELY ALONE, THUS NECESSITATING THE GOLDEN TICKET CONTEST IN THE FIRST PLACE.
WHAT THE HELL HAPPENED BETWEEN THESE TWO MOVIES THAT MADE HIM ALIENATE EVERYBODY WHO LOVED HIM AND FORCED HIM TO BECOME A RECLUSE?
I don't know if I want that to be the plot of the sequel or if I'd rather they just point at a shiny object and run away while the audience is distracted.
Why in the HECK does Trakt.TV think this 73-minute RiffTrax special is THREE HOURS LONG???
Daphne: Zombies? There's no such thing
Me: You've been trying to put escaped ghosts into a magic chest for 13 episodes!
Funny. Creepy. Lots of great nods to the theme park attraction(s). Good performances all around. And they even found a clever way of getting around the whole "why don't they just LEAVE?" problem that a lot of haunted house movies suffer from.
I liked this.
This show is always good, but this episode in particular hit me in my gut as a father. Damn.
That was incredible. That's got to be one of the gutsiest tries a TV show has ever made.
Thoughts upon watching this movie for the first time in probably 20 years:
Whenever the question goes out, "What's a movie that deserved a sequel but didn't get one," this is at the top of my list. Billy Campbell and Jennifer Connelly are spot-on perfect in this film, and Joe Johnston gives the whole thing a flavor of joy and magic mixed in with a healthy dose of nostalgia. It also did the whole "even the bad guys don't like the Nazis" thing years before John Byrne did it with the Joker and the Red Skull. It's a pretty perfect movie, and it's so sad that the attempts to do something with it over the years have mostly fallen flat.
