Guys . I ’m a little freaked out . I checked my mailbox the other sidereal day , and it had a letter in it from my student loan people . They at long last cut across me down , and want their $ 75,000 in atomic number 79 and pelt . But what really badger me is this — who put the letter there ? Because it sure as hell was n’t me . Creepy .
Bay Dismay
Taylor D. :
In the last transformer : Age of Extinction house trailer , some guy wire is marveling over some shape - change stuff that the Transformers are purportedly made of . This is so stupid it makes me insane . First of all , the Transformers are obviously made of metal . 2nd of all , the people in the first film were studying Megatron for like a one C or something . Even if they were made out of this bull , would n’t they have been able-bodied to see it out a long time ago ?
Does Michael Bay not even devote care to his own movies ?
Yeah , not even slightly . It ’s adorable that you call back Michael Bay was attempt to build some kind of lively - action Transformers “ persistence , ” but as you may see , that ’s clearly not the case . Hey , recollect in the first moving-picture show when the Allspark randomly killed Megatron ? But in the second motion picture it brought Megatron back to life for some reason ? Michael Bay does not care . He figures out the action scenes , and then some poor bastard has to somehow tie in them with word . If the words do n’t make good sense , or somehow contradict each other , it is not Michael Bay ’s problem .
Here , perchance this will aid . Here , as far as I can recount , is what Michael Bay care about when making a movie , ranked from most important to least :
1 ) explosion
2 ) The U.S. Military
3 ) Bros
4 ) Hot girl lean Over Things
5 ) gunslinger
6 ) make a Shit - Ton of Money
…
26 ) Giant Robots
47 ) The Live - Action Transformers Movie Franchise
154 ) Basic Common Sense
571 ) persistence
1,283 ) Anything to Do with the Original Transformers Franchise
I hope that helps clean it up . By the way , I ’m expecting Age of Extinction to be a mess on the Holy Order of Dark of the Moon . transformer 3 was disappointingly middling ; I ’m really desire Bay follow his bliss and finally has a golem shit on somebody . Probably Stanley Tucci .
Repleted Scenes
Melissa F. :
With all the public lecture over THAT view in the Game of Thrones show , I was wonder what you think the topper scene the show made up ?
Well , I could go for the gentle answer , and say the astonishingly weird White Walker madness from a few episode ago , which enriched our noesis of the White Walkers beyond what was in the books , raise a gross ton of questions , seemingly introduced a major supernatural player , and , beyond all that , was just awe-inspiring .
But I wo n’t go for the loose solution . Whenever I think of Game of Thrones going off - book , I ’m cue of the scene in time of year one where Cersei and King Robert discuss their utter unsuccessful person of a marriage . It ’s not a scene even hinted at the Quran , because these were n’t POV character , and it was a secret conversation . But this conniption does n’t just convey their riotous family relationship , it explain the totality of their horrible relationship , how the Seven Kingdoms depended on the mind of their marriage , even as they both ( but mostly Cersei ) suffered for it . They ’re both so numb in the scene that they can even express joy together briefly , bonding over a lifetime of causing each other pain . That ’s when I knew Game of Thrones was n’t just going to be okay , but it was fail to be a worthy show all on its own .
At Bat
Clayton Johnston
Mr. Postman ,
I would like to get your opinion on my idea for a continuity - free Batman anthology video series .
What set Batman apart as a fictional character is his ability to adapt to a unsubtle orbit of pure tone , from zany cartoons to grim & gritty comics and even repugnance . Bad Batman taradiddle are an issue of quality , not a mismatch of character and tone of voice .
Since Warner Brothers is determined to stumble towards a shared DC picture show universe , this concept does n’t have a prospect of get a line the adult concealment , but I reckon there is room for a Batman anthology telly series that frees the character from the Dark Knight action hero rut . The serial publication would probably air on Showtime or HBO , and would resemble a cross between The Outer Limits and the Batman Confidential comics ; no on-going story ( each episode is out of persistence with the others ) and featuring a rotate serial publication of writers , actors and directors . Each season could be poor , with six one - 60 minutes episodes or three two - hour episodes .
The anthology model would attract creatives with dissimilar take on the character that might not otherwise have a chance to be realized . Budget limitation would require the episodes to tell smaller story , which is what I opine the character needs . We could have noir influence investigator stories ( ideate David Fincher writing / directing ) and even humorous episodes ( I would love to see Jon Hamm as Batman and Patrick Warburton as Superman ) .
I know we ’re in the golden ages of recollective - form storytelling in TV and partake existence pic , but do you think there ’s a market for a Batman show with unconnected story and no consistent tone ?
There is a grocery for a Batman anthology show that you ’re describing , and they ’re called “ nerd . ” Nerds could handle the changes in tone and fashion and Batmen in step , and still come back every week for more .
But mass audiences ? Not so much . First of all , there have n’t been anthology shows like The Outer Limits or The Twilight Zone in quite some clock time , mostly because they ’re a quite a little of work . Anthology TV shows nowadays are done by time of year — like American Horror Story and True Detective — but in the case of AHS the tone is still consistent ( as is a fleck of the casting ) . imagine of the metre and exploit it would take to make six different Batsuits . And then think of how jarring it would be for mint hearing to see a new Batman and a totally different story and tone each week . It ’s not going to happen .
If we ever get a Batman TV serial publication — you know , one that actually stars Batman — it ’ll be a serialized drama like Arrow or The Flash or whatever . But do n’t occupy , because we ’re not going to get a Batman TV show because Warner Bros is always go bad to keep Batman a movie franchise because it defecate them a shit - ton of money and they somehow retrieve a Batman television series will somehow affect that .
My suggestion : Get all the animated Batman shows and movies you may . heap all the DVDs on top of each other , then throw them in the air . cull them up randomly , and then watch them in that order . roar , anthology !
Vagina Detente
Mutercim :
Dear Postman ,
So , in this week ’s column you said foreign audiences do n’t weigh to American networks . Being a non - American , I sense like I also have a voice and opinions – but more significantly I have money , goddamn it . I am state American internet like money , want money and do not care what color it is as long as they can count it . Yet I ca n’t get at American shows on Hulu , Netflix , itunes , Amazon or Google . Why wo n’t they take my money , o wise Postman ? Is international licensing for online content so backbreaking to do ? Please serve me so that this endless torment of not knowing may end .
More significantly and probably more related to your particular expanse of expertness : the internet is riddled with prospicient , elaborated theses and paper on what a calamitous matter it is for a person of the female persuasion to be er , get laid , by Superman . Why are there no corresponding treatise on the risk and pleasures of feature sex with super powered women , say , Wonder Woman for instance ? amazon were not known for their tolerance for men in the first post , even when they were not ace - powered . Do you think the lack of inquiry in this area is simply another expression of castration anxiety ? Or is there some other androcentric intellect behind it ?
give thanks you for taking the metre to take and hopefully answer my mail .
To your first question : You have money , you just do n’t have enough of it . Do n’t be hurt ; your entire rural area does n’t have enough of it . Yes , all these American studio apartment and internet want money , but they want so much money that they ca n’t be bothered with anything that does n’t make them at least , say , something in the 8 - digits . While $ 9 million may seem a mickle to you and me , Hollywood basically wo n’t even bother , even if it ’s as simple a matter of pass video to broadcast internationally , or Fedexing some DVDs oversea so a extraneous internet can broadcast these shows . badly , it might take all of 15 minutes of work , but these companies are only designed to make lots of money , not all the money they can . no-good about that .
To your second question : I ’m sure a large great deal of scholarly theory could be tossed around as to why people have been so interested in Superman bungle out Lois Lane ’s womb with his superintendent - sperm versus Wonder Woman rip off a guy cable ’s junk with her marvel Kegels . I believe you may credibly chalk them up to castration anxiety and androcentrism and that Wonder Woman has been , for most of the 75 - class career , a character chiefly enjoyed by son , who are not peculiarly interested in read about character that intimidates them sexually or in having their penises ripped off . And of the women who have enjoyed WW over the years , I do n’t think they equate sexuality with power and vehemence like dude do , and thus it would n’t necessarily occur to them to question in Wonder Woman could kill a man with her vagina . This is , without a doubt , to their credit .
Monster Mash
Carson L. :
Who would make headway in a competitiveness — a Jaegar or the young Godzilla ?
The new Godzilla is supposedly 100 meters tall , or almost 330 feet . The Gipsy Danger , which seemed to me to be passably significative of Jaegar size , is 79 meters grandiloquent , or 260 feet . So the Jaegars are a flake myopic , giving Godzilla the sizing reward , but not enormously so . ( The awing art above is byMichael K. Matsumoto , by the way . )
But Godzilla would passably much trounce any and all Jaegars Pacific Rim could broadcast after him , and here ’s why : 1 ) Conventional weapons do n’t hurt him at all . 2 ) nuclear warhead essentially only make Godzilla sleepy . Thus 3 ) a Jaegar ’s hand - to - mitt combat would be useless against Godzilla , plus 4 ) I ’m pretty sure the Jaegar ’s steel could n’t pierce Godzilla ’s skin . But even if it could , 5 ) Godzilla shoot atomic end from its mouth and could pick off all the Jaegars from a aloofness . And last but not least : 6 ) Godzilla is awesome and Pacific Rim , in a word , was n’t .
Do you have interrogative about anything scifi , illusion , superhero , or swot - related ? Email the[email protected ] ! No question too difficult , no question too dumb ! Obviously !
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