Hello again ! dark for last week ’s absence seizure , but you for sure gave me a bunch of first-class letter , so it technically worked out for all of us . This week : Is Rey in peril from Episode IX director Colin Trevorrow ? When is a clip locomotion movie not a time change of location movie ? And most importantly , is Batfleck a Batcoholic ?
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Chris P. :
Is a film more successful , critically or financially , if it is faithful or reverential to the origin material ? As a nerd , I want the answer to be yes . The difference between Marvel Studios ’ cinema and BvS or Fant4stic 4 seems to be safe evidence , but are there other factors involved ?
The answer is a qualified yes . If studios made movies solely , specifically according to the informant textile , it would be a nightmare for everyone , including the fans . Think how much stuff and nonsense has been retconned or swept under the carpet or even just been deemed terrible for every single comic ledger character , and envisage trying to somehow make any of it make gumption for aggregative audiences — or nerds , for that matter ! We all have different ideas of what constitutes “ canon ” based on the specific comics and cartoon and shows we ’ve savour , often bond to when we enjoyed them . Not even all nerds could stand for their comical picture show to be too accurate .
That said , there is a generally assume sensation of canyon about each and every fictional character — it could be bountiful and elaborated , it could be little and undefined , but there ’s still a kind of base grade that the bulk of nerds need precise . Marvel Studios has been very honorable at this , and Nolan ’s Dark Knight flick become a pot more right than they did incorrectly , and these picture have both been critically and financially well - received .
The matter is , it ’s not being comedian - accurate that is now make this success . Yes , keeping the nerds happy is good , because nerds bitch online forever about anything that displeases them — myself totally included , more than most hoi polloi , as I ’m really paid for it — and we ’re generally tacky enough now that we can feign how the general populace foresee a movie ( The Fantastic Four reboot being a brutal example ) .
But the key here is that if a bunch of people love a character , or a series , or a property , and have get laid it for up to 80 or so yr , chance are there ’s a specific reason for that : That they ’re pretty practiced already . All these things are beloved for who and what they are , not because people have been waiting around cerebration , “ Oh , these Deadpool comics are ok , but I ’m really reading them in hopes that one day Hollywood will make a live - action at law version where the character is all different . ” People like Deadpool because he ’s comic , crimson , crass , and extremely comic volume - wye , and guess what ? Someone made a movie where Deadpool is funny , violent , crass , and extremely comical Word - atomic number 39 , and it turns out mass consultation liked the character that way , too . Deadpool did n’t necessitate to be “ touch on ” or “ improved . ” Most of these things do n’t .
Now , you’re able to still make a perfectly strip - exact motion-picture show that is still a very defective movie , and plenitude of masses have ! But that ’s an answer for another question .
Trevorrow Never Knows
Jonah :
Dear Postman , I never see Jurassic World , mainly because I did n’t like what I take heed about how the distaff character were handled in it . As a sheik who happens to be a feminist , as well as one who is raising a girl , this seemed perturbing . I am also a huge fan of how The Force Awakens wield cleaning lady , especially Rey . I have no care about her character arc for installment 8 , free-base on what I ’ve hear . BUT : With Colin Trevorrow directing 9 , should I be worried beyond that ? Please reassure me !
I would n’t needfully occupy . I have my doubts that Trevorrow come into Jurassic World , saw a rich female character and ordered that she be turned into a cold business woman who require to awaken to the magic of her ovaries to find fulfilment . avowedly , Trevorrow did have a hand in Jurassic World ’s screenplay , so peradventure he ’s partly culpable for sticking to a clichéd stereotype for Bryce Dallas Howard , but to be just none of the characters in Jurassic World were particularly full-bodied .
That said , Trevorrow is come into Episode IX , which think he ’s actually pretty limited in how much he can alter . Lucasfilm will have sussed out the major plot of ground point , like Rey ’s parents and general grandness to the galaxy , and maybe even some specific scenes and setpieces . But unless something moderately crazy befall in Episode VIII , Trevorrow is not going to be able to break off Rey from being the trilogy ’s main character and the key chassis in this part of the Star Wars saga .
Also , I think Lucasfilm chairwoman Kathleen Kennedy and J.J. Abrams , who almost for certain aid regulate the flight of the sequel trilogy , had a invest concerned in giving the lead to a female character ( much as they did with Rogue One ! ) If somehow Colin Trevorrow really wanted to wreck Rey ’s theatrical role — which again seems very unbelievable — I sense jolly surefooted that Kennedy would shut him down very chop-chop .
Wasting Time
Robert N. :
Dear Mr. Postman ,
Hello from the far past , Mr. Postman ! I have a dubiousness for you regarding time - travelling movies , and what counts ( and does n’t count ) as one . Every February I take in a metre - travel pic a mean solar day with friends . I ’m always felicitous to field requests , but every yr I get some suggestions that do n’t quite palpate proper ; specifically , motion-picture show where the booster travels into the futurity via suspended - aliveness / thaumaturgy / cryogenic freezing / etc . , and wakes up in a futurist order .
I can mostly get behind the idea that Austin Powers and Idiocracy are fourth dimension - locomotion movies , but if the main fictitious character ca n’t get back to his or her early clock time , is it REALLY a clip - change of location moving picture ? Because if so , then I ’ve amaze to append titles like Encino Man and Timothy Hutton ’s Iceman and then where does it turn back ?
you’re able to see my brain-teaser , and after having this conversation half - a - twelve times every February 1st , I figured only a postman from the futurity would be able to settle this once and for all .
If the gadget that send part into a different prison term can not go backward , it is not a time machine . It is a suspend life twist . Yes , people who get in one technically “ travel ” to the future , but only like you or I are also currently jaunt into the future by existing and perceiving the fourth attribute linearly .
If I fell asleep for 20 class , outside of some sort of a machine , would I have time traveled ? If I fall gone for eight hours , would I also have sentence - traveled ? No , of course not . Time machines and “ affair that just stop you from aging while time go by ” are two different thing .
Unfortunately , this means that the first Austin Powers movie is n’t a time = travelling movie , but the two subsequence are . Sorry about your luck .
The Drunk Knight Returns
Luke P. :
There ’s been much commentary about Batman and Superman ’s mis - characterisation in Zack Snyder ’s latest film , especially all the execution . One aspect that has stuck with me , and that has n’t ( to my knowledge ) received much attention is when Bruce Wayne ’s alcoholic drink phthisis / dependance . He waken up in his bottom and instinctively reaches for a glass of wine , which is empty , along with the bottle , the implication being that he drink until he transcend out the night before . Alfred , quite soon after that , makes some scuttlebutt about Bruce Wayne drinking the cellar prohibitionist . I ’m surprised that this has n’t receive much attention , Zack Snyder turning Batman into a borderline alcoholic and , to my psyche , another significant passing from the eccentric .
Is my geek knowledge failing me here ? I ’ve experience Batman to drink a lot of coffee , but not have alcohol dependence issues . That ’s normally reserved for another rich - dude hero .
You ’re totally right , actually . It ’s a topnotch - weird thing for Batman to be , but it ’s give more tangentially than … have ’s say other deviance from more established Bat - canyon . The flick pretty much sticks to referring to this newfound enthusiasm for liquor as an excursus , which is why it ’s not gotten the same aid as the gun and stigmatization and stuff .
Actually , there ’s one other thing that mitigate this a bit , even though regular drunkenness would spoil Batman ’s power to fight crime ( especially at his forward-looking age ) . In The Dark Knight Returns , we see Bruce really have a few glasses of wine-colored , although it ’s after he ’s hung up his cowl . It ’s clear he ’s coping with not being Batman in the comedian , and once he puts it back on , I ’m pretty sure-footed we never see him touch the stuff again .
Ben Affleck ’s Batman is Dark Knight Returns - like in a lot of mode , and he ’s clearly nab with his lengthy , not - entirely - successful career in several slipway . Drinking is plain one of them , and it ’s very un - Batman - like than he does it . But grant he ’s so disenchanted with his fight on offense that he ’s killing and branding the mass he fights , a few bottle of wine each night seems pretty sane in comparability .
Sense and Spider-Sensibility
Matt H. :
Spidey Sense : Can wonder get it right ?
Totally . If they could make Steve Ditko ’s giant , smutty - delineate , all - white - pupilled Spider - Man centre work on - covert and at the same time look like they ’re part of some sort of plausible , perhaps even useful Tony Stark technology , then I would not wager against them to give us a spider - sensation that looks both precise and awesome . I have absolutely no approximation what that will reckon like , but after those eyes I ’m giving Marvel Studios the welfare of the incertitude to all things Spidey .
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Stage Fright, Go Away
Ryan S. :
Dear Postman , I hope this letter finds you well . I ’m 33 long time former and have recently finished watching the first season of Robotech . It is a really great show with an awful amount of depth , peculiarly for the time from which it comes . My one major review would be the “ To Be a Star ” song . I know it ’s all important to the plot , but this birdcall is terrible .
Did the maker of the show think they had something blend in here ? Sometimes the song diddle three or four times an episode , even during scenes of bulk large and thoughtfulness creating a form of flakey surrealist aspect . I see why the Zentradi like it as they had no decimal point of comparison but how could the people who made the show think it was so practiced they needed to play it ALL … the … time .
Let me break it down for you . In 1982 Japan , kids animated cartoon are highly democratic and the brand - new anime serial publication Macross is capable to hire a fresh signalise singer named Mari Iijima to vocalize the role of one Lynn Minmei , whose call will recreate an intact role in the show ’s story . There ’s serious corporate synergy going here between the gum anime studio , the TV internet that air the show , and the euphony label that have Iijima ’s contract bridge and free the show ’s soundtrack . Plus , Iijima is a really good Isaac Merrit Singer ! Of course her music is used a lot in the anime .
In 1985 , Macross is one of three anime TV serial publication imported to America , meld and rebranded as a individual show titled Robotech . This is done by a pretty small company distinguish Harmony Gold located in Los Angeles , America , where nipper ’ cartoons do not attract top - tier euphony endowment . Harmony Gold has to redub the series into English , and , for whatever rationality , also redoes all the music to the show — maybe it ’s comfortable for them to dub the English nomenclature , maybe they could n’t afford the rights to the anime ’s original music , maybe there was another issue . But for certain there ’s no way in netherworld Harmony Gold could license what are effectively hit pop songs in Japan , and there ’s no way American kids would handle even if they did .
So Harmony Gold has a show that need euphony , including some popular call that are integral to the plot , and it require a singer , and the company has very little time or money or time . In fact , they may have already hired a little - known actress to vocalise the fiber of Minmei . She is not a professional Isaac M. Singer , but Harmony Gold does n’t have the time or money to afford one , and besides , the American kid who are watching Robotech wo n’t care . So they give the vocalism actress a few drinking , push her in the transcription studio and tell her good luck .
But Harmony Gold still has to pay up someone to pen these pop song for the show , and their euphony budget is limited — for every Minmei song , that consume away from all the other musical composition . So maybe Harmony Gold gets a little originative with the soundtrack to each installment . Maybe they repeat a twosome of pieces here and there , by which I intend they use a small selection of medicine almost constantly , because it ’s all they ’ve got . And at the conclusion of the twenty-four hour period Robotech is still awesome .
Seeing as how Minmei ’s euphony saved the SDF-1 and arguably the entire human race , I ’d say we can cut her some slack .
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