Recent content by sabrinathecat

Season 4 of Young Justice had a comment about the number of human Lanterns. Remember the movie "John Carter of Mars"? It flopped. Why? People walking out of the theater were complaining that it was a rip-off of Star Wars.

The droid and Vader were the only good parts of Rogue One. Director seems to be in severe need of a reminder that movies are meant to be seen. In the original movie, even when it didn't make sense for there to be any lights in the trash compactor, it was always easy to see what was happening...

Never watched. I was too disgusted by "Book of Boba Fett," and "Kenobi" that I have lost all faith, confidence, and interest in Di$ney's $tar War$ to be willing to take another chance on being so disappointed ever again. Not until KK and her lot are gone will I give any SW product a chance.

Getting back to the trailer, I'm not expecting anything good. Last "New" shows I enjoyed were Burn Notice and Person of Interest. Mandalorian started off well, then suffered from higher management interference.

Thor's change was utterly unmotivated and unearned. Why did he change? He got drunk in a bar and woke up a completely changed person. ??? He did absolutely nothing to prove himself worthy. Honestly, it took 4 or 5 movies for them to get Thor right. Thor! The single simplest of the Avengers. Loki...

Key to any movie or story is to make the audience care about the characters. 2nd is to make us care about the stakes. This is where most comic book movies & TV shows (and indeed most movies and TV shows) fail. If I don't care about what happens, I'm not going to keep watching.

THe cartoon "Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes" did a better job of introducing both Thor and Captain America (and their worlds) in 22 minutes than those movies did in 2 hours. I would argue that they did detract, because there was the baggage of poor concepts afflicting--um... "Informing" the...

Not really. Cap 1 was boring as hell. Great scenery and evoking the mood, but boring as hell. Thor 1: Thor completely changes his personality for no reason, evolving from Iron Age Brute to sensitive modern guy Literally overnight, with no motivation whatsoever. The Asguard reliance on horses...

I have no problem with movies in the same universe being different tones: Shazam and Superman and GL, and Batman, and Steel should be all different. But if you're building a "Cinematic Universe," then like an actual team, it is only as strong as the weakest movie. Avengers suffered from Thor 1...

That's part of why I hated "Torchwood." All the swearing didn't feel like adults swearing--it was more like teenagers. Same with the sex--it was either voyeuristic or "Ha ha--I got you" mean spirited. There was no mature, healthy sex

Maybe Manheim and Intergang have some (hopefully non-Apocalypse) weaponry, and are working through lesser minion members to corrupt a small town as an experiment. Or maybe it's the latest LexTech. The bar for quality writing for movies and TV has fallen so far, that almost anything is an...

Not Starro again... (sigh)

One Green Lantern is supposed to be enough to patrol an entire sector, presumably with multiple planets. The idea of two of them (even if one is a recruit) being used to take out a small corrupt town is massively overkill. It would be like using a team of fully armed and equipped Navy Seals to...

I needed something on the airplane and the subsequent road trip. (Rescued my nephew from having to live in Sioux Falls or having to move to Arizona). Will look at sequels when I've cleared off some other books.

Just finished Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone. It was a fun, self-aware mystery.