Agree here. Jungle Book was the only recent one I thought justified it’s existence and then some. That was made by Jon Favreau, the genius behind Iron Man and The Mandalorian. I had huge hopes for The Lion King with him at the front, and goddamn what a cast, but it felt as pointless as the other Disney remakes. My only regret about The Jungle Book remake being so good is that it fulfilled me so much that I still haven’t watched Mowgli by Andy Serkis, and that’s a shame because I suspect it might be the better movie.
Cinderella looked amazing but wtf at honoring the worst parts of the original.
B&tB was great in parts. Josh Gad in general is delightful and hilarious., and I loved them making Lefou obviously gay and in love with Gaston. But the singing throughout was atrocious and so auto-tuned that it was nearly unlistenable.
Aladdin was stunningly bad. I don’t understand who thought Guy Ritchie should make this one. They added a song where Jasmine proclaims she won’t be silenced, then they go right back to business as usual. And I honestly don’t understand how you can bring back James Earl Jones for Lion King but not bring back Gilbert Godfried for Aladdin.
I’m trying to rewatch Star Trek TMP and I just can’t
All of the at-the-time but now-ridiculously long glory shots.
They’ve got one later where they’re going to unveil the new warp drive FX, so Sulu literally accelerates (??!) into warp drive 1 with a countdown. Warp .7, warp .8, warp .9…
As someone who kept The Physics of Star Trek as my sci-fi bible for many a years, I refuse to accept this nonsense about accelerating toward warp speed. That’s right, I reject the canon from the first movie :P
There is no acceleration, not in the manner in which we think of it. The warp drive creates a “warp field,” which warps spacetime in front of and behind the ship. The ship, now contained in a “warp bubble,” is in a sense surfing upon the warp field as spacetime is stretched, but it’s not moving or accelerating in the traditional sense. Speed, as it were, is determined by the warp drives ability to stretch spacetime without losing integrity while providing a stable warp bubble needed for a ship to survive.
This is a really tricky business, as they discovered in the Motion Picture when they first went into warp drive after refit and caused a wormhole that nearly destroyed the ship.
The dangers of warp drive–in a stunning parallel to fossil fuels–was explored in a quickly-forgotten episode of TNG where it was discovered that using warp drive was damaging the very fabric of spacetime. Vessels were forbidden from using anything above Warp 5 except in emergencies.
Thankfully, all Enterprise-related matters are emergencies. Drill baby, drill!
I sympathise, but canon is wildly, unfixably self-contradictory. >10 warp speeds in TOS vs ‘new lightspeed’ hard barrier of 10 in the TNG era. Transporters work by cloning you, no, by disassembling and re-assembling you, no, actually it’s by squirting you through something quantum and you’re conscious throughout etc. One week they use money and the next they don’t. Don’t try to make sense of it, imo.
So true. One movie, we’re being told greed is good. The next, the stock market is everyone’s dream as long as you’re a good person like Will Smith. Then the next, wall street is suddenly bad because Ryan Gosling says so???
It looks awful LOL, but I’m hoping it’s good. If he’s in the mood for this kind of sequel, I have a script for a Rounders sequel focused on him and Worm. No need for Matty D.
Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn
DC does its best Tarantino impression.
Birds of Prey>Shazam>Wonder Woman>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>everything else
I honestly couldn’t tell you which of the remaining movies I’d want to watch least. Maybe Man of Steel? It’s a race to the bottom.
But this was very good. Huntress steals the show. Ewan chews scenery. Every joke is at least funny and some are hilarious. The action is inventive and later includes a comically real-world version of Matrix choreography.
