Recent content by jayembee

I didn't realize the the latest episode was Moffat's. I had given up watching the show during the Jody Whitaker run. I love Whitaker in general, and liked her as The Doctor, but the scripts were continuing to decline. To be fair, I thought they were starting to decline during the Capaldi era...

Nah. Decided after the first season was over that I wasn't inclined to come back. Reviews seemed to be relatively positive for the new season, and the few things I liked about S1 felt like they were trying to lure me back in. But there are so many other things I haven't had the time to get to...

Agreed 100%. Well, not 100%, given that none of that explains Days of Future Past, for which he's credited with the screenplay and co-story. 🤔

The paucity of vintage studio classics started with the advent of DVD. Criterion made its name with laserdiscs, and the studios like Warner, MGM, Sony, and Universal were thrilled to license out their catalogs to Criterion. With DVD, they decided to do it themselves, and Criterion lost the...

Sigh. It feels like Paramount execs have been reading too many DC comics, and feel that rebooting their universe every five to ten years is the only way they can drum up any interest in their IP.

Probably for the same reason no one in the Alien franchise seems to like cornbread.

I agree with Jason regarding Michael's "self-discovery". The Progenitors' technology is much like Genesis -- it can be used for good or be used for evil. And having self-doubt is actually a plus. Bad shit happens when someone in control is too cocksure regarding their abilities and motivations...

By the by, I had seen the following as an ad during an episode of The Daily Show. I kept forgetting to hunt it up on the interwebs to post it here: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/amandaclevine_jordan-klepper-x-kingdom-of-the-planet-of-activity-7193780983324643328-4SWK

Considering that it says "Coming July 30th on 4KHUD!" and not "Coming July 30th on 4KHUD and Blu-ray!", as well as "Triple-Layered UHD100 Disc", I would assume there's no standard BD included.

Including the Ted Healy shorts would require them to license those shorts from Warner, so not likely. Just as it would be unlikely for them to license the feature films Soup to Nuts and Snow White and the Stooges from Fox (Disney) and Meet the Baron and Dancing Lady from Warner.

It was Studio Canal, and yes, there was a BD included. I bought it, but haven't watched it yet. Too many other things getting in the way.

I'm not surprised, either. But I'm thrilled.

In other words, let the perfect be the enemy of the good. Here we have an initial press release no doubt made to get people excited at the prospect of the Stooges finally being released in HD, and people seem to be piling on with complaints about why it's not everything they could possibly want...

I was able to hold my bladder at Avatar: The Way of Water. This'll be nothin'.

What we really need is a film adaptation of National Lampoon's Bored of the Rings. "The tumult of their charge would've woken the dead...if they were not already bringing up the rear."