For a certain generation, The Transformers: The Movie (1986) is a traumatic and horrible experience that defined childhood forever. Consider the opening: https://youtu.be/4lo7JPLJUUU We are in space. An eerie, haunting theme plays as, from between two suns, a distant object approaches. It grows closer, and we see it is a large grey sphere, surrounded by spikes, and [...]
I watched Star Wars with a group of teens, most of whom had never seen it before. Here are some of their questions and remarks: --Is Yoda in this movie? --Does anyone read that? (referring to the opening crawl) --Is this one A New Hope? (we were watching the Silver Screen edition, which doesn't have Episode [...]
From J.W. Rinzler's The Making of Star Wars:
Solo: a Star Wars Story Final Approved Story Draft Han is a hip young pilot fresh out of the academy. He's talented and flashy and doesn't play by the rules, but he's also a loyal friend to those he cares about, and committed to causes that engage him. His arch rival was the man who [...]
This is a flexible black box theatre stage: They are one of the most common types of theatre, along with prosceniums, thrusts, and arenas. They are highly configurable, because all they are is a room painted black, and both the seating and set can be placed where ever one chooses. Much black box theatre is [...]
A young man steps into the hanger, accompanied by the wizened old mentor who has told him of his mysterious past, and the two slaved that have brought a mysterious message that could save the world. The young man has just sold his speeder, a vehicle that he treasured, but that he acknowledges is no [...]
Canon is pretty funny to discuss. For example, what's that lady in white's name? It's Mon Mothma, obviously, and she's about to tell us about how many bothans died to get the plans for the second Death Star. But her name isn't actually used in Return of the Jedi. It is mentioned once in Revenge [...]
X-Men: Apocalypse is a hot mess of a film, with some lovely action sequences, some well done CGI, fairly good acting, good make-up and costuming, and an overstuffed plot that has a few too many twists and characters to make its nearly 2 1/2 hour run time feel worth it. Compounding the strangeness is that I [...]
Literal Machines 