Tuesday, September 27, 2005

Better than Star Trek

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Ok, that's an easy target since there hasn't been a good Trek movie since First Contact. Never the less, I really liked Serenity . ...
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Sunday, September 25, 2005

Serenity and Battlestar Galactica

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I have a tenuous personal connection with the upcoming movie Serenity . The man who did the special effects is a guest instructor at the Dav...
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Friday, September 23, 2005

Corpse Bride

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The bad news - it probably will not be a classic like Nightmare Before Christmas. It doesn't have the holiday tie-in, the music is not a...
Thursday, September 22, 2005

Lost - Season opener

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Just a few observations: When Jack was poking around the dome there was a painting with the number "128". That is the sum of Hurle...
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Monday, September 19, 2005

The Best LoTR Movie

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The Two Towers was on cable last night. Watching it reminded me why this was the best of the three Lord of the Rings movies. Of course, Retu...
Monday, September 12, 2005

Good Movies with Small Audiences

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In the last couple of weeks I finally made it to Sky High and The Brothers Grimm. Both are last-Summer releases. Sky High did ok at the box ...
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Tuesday, August 23, 2005

Why No New Heroes?

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A few days ago I pointed out most of the Marvel comics being published today date back to the early 1960s. This was not the case in the 1970...
Thursday, August 18, 2005

The More Things Change

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I started buying Marvel comics in late Spring/early Summer of 1964 (I remember the comic and I looked up the cover date). At that time, Marv...
Sunday, August 14, 2005

Batman and Robin

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I recently watched a Batman and Robin serial from 1949. I had heard of it years ago but this was the first time I have seen it. I had heard ...
Thursday, August 11, 2005

Crisis in cross-title stories

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I don't read a lot of comic these days. I mainly select a few based on the writer. One I do read is The Hulk because I like Peter David...
Wednesday, July 27, 2005

Jim Aparo 1932-2005

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Neal Adams is given credit for creating the modern Batman, the dark creature of the night who replaced the camp figure of the 1960s but when...
Monday, July 25, 2005

Logan's Run

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I'm watcing the opening shots of Logan's Run on TCM. This movie won a special effects Oscar? When it came out it looked like they fi...
Wednesday, July 20, 2005

No More Kid-Stuff

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I have been writing about the influences of Stan Lee and Marvel. One big influence was to raise the age of the reader. I saw Stan in the mid...
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Thursday, July 14, 2005

DC Strikes Back

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DC invented the superhero. Their flagship character, Superman, was the original hero with powers. The following year they introduced Batman,...
Wednesday, July 13, 2005

Tying it All Together

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Stan Lee did more than create new characters with problems and continuity. He created a new universe. In other comics in the 1960s everythin...
Saturday, July 09, 2005

The Fantastic Four

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It should have been better than it was. It had lots of classic elements from the comic. These include (spoiler alert): The Torch playing ...
Sunday, July 03, 2005

Characters and Problems

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Take any (male) member of the Justice League as of the early 1960s and switch his costume and powers (if any) with and other member. Could y...
Friday, July 01, 2005

We Now Return to the Continuing Story...

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In examining how Stan Lee transformed comics I've gone over changes in the creative process and the introduction of good villains which ...
Tuesday, June 28, 2005

Bring on the Villains

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In an earlier post on the early days of Marvel. I pointed out how different things were behind the scenes. While this contributed to the end...
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Sunday, June 26, 2005

Bewitched

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It could have been better. It could have been a lot worse. (Spoiler) I sort of understand how Aunt Clara was conjured up to solve things but...