There were two leaked videos a couple days ago. Link wears a darker green hooded cloak on top of the outfit seen here, and there’s a black horse with a black and red saddle. It looks like Zelda has a tawny horse with a gold and black saddle.

Also Dichen Lachman (Ms. Casey from Severance) is playing Impa, based on the video below.

At least from the costume perspective, I think they did a good job.

https://youtu.be/7rJ8AzdUAi8 https://youtu.be/vHRXr0_Mxhk

I’ll give it a chance. These two care about telling a good story while being faithful to the subject matter. That said, their entire resume is jokey movies, which works well for something like D&D but not so well for Star Trek. I wonder if they’ll be able to go in a new professional direction and tamp down on that… or if they were hired for that, since Paramount seems to think Star Trek needs to be more Buffy the Vampire Slayer than TOS or TNG.

That said, part of the reason DS9 was so great in later seasons and so rough and uneven in earlier ones was because the drama was fantastic in later seasons and the comedy was so awful in early ones. So who knows, maybe there’s a chance to strike a balance and not have it come out as shallow as the 2009 movie.

It’s Doomsday.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doomsday_(2008_film)

Does it have an intermission or do I need to prepare for this like I’m going to filibuster the Senate

I predict a trailer with a slow, downbeat rendition of the main theme

Brendan Fraser and Rachel Weisz are the mummies in this one

It’s a $1-2 per month increase.

FWIW I cancelled HBO Max a couple years ago once Barry ended because there was nothing new worth watching and they had started to go full tilt into reality TV at the time. Peacemaker was good but it was going to be years until season 2. I didn’t really care for House of the Dragon.

Two years later there’s still not anything new worth subscribing for. I picked up The Last of Us and Chernobyl on Blu-ray.

I’m fine with no laughs. This looks interesting.

I saw it yesterday at a morning IMAX showing. Jared Leto is gross to me, and he’s in this movie a lot—roughly equal time to the other lead, Greta Lee (who did a good job).

That said, Leto plays a very low-key role throughout, which somehow made it easier, like a lower dosage. I was able to sit through his performance. Hasan Minaj was also randomly in this in a supporting dramatic role.

The harder thing for me was the constant work of suspension of disbelief required for this movie. The trailer had done nothing for me and I straight up didn’t like the idea of “Tron in the real world,” despite the ending of Legacy.

I found the entire thing incredibly silly, which kept me at an emotional distance from the movie, but there was an extended sequence in act 2 that I actually did quite like. The story was a bit too simple: there wasn’t even really much of a B-plot until partway through act 2. There were some non-crucial plot holes, so just don’t think about anything too hard.

Basically, the visuals were great, the soundtrack was good/fine, and the story was silly but serviceable. This will be no one’s favorite Tron movie, but it’s watchable.

Badlands […] focuses on synthetics, the Yautja (the name of the race of aliens who assume the Predator role), and various other monsters, rather than humans. Indeed, not a single human character is hurt during the movie.

Jackie Brown

I say this as someone who’s read the comics and was really looking forward to this movie:

It was not good.

Mostly, I think it was horribly miscast and the pacing was weird (as I recall).

Hopefully I can catch this in 70mm!

Speaking of which, I’m still waiting for the 70mm roadshow version of The Hateful Eight to land on 4K UHD, Lionsgate.

I asked him about how he’d respond to Zaslav’s ‘courage’ quote. Once he’d got over the shock of it, he argued that “courage would have been sitting down in front of me as a person, and looking at me as a human being, and telling me this, so that I could at least respond back. And say, you know, you have killed my lifelong dream.

I’ll see it

The article is two paragraphs. Here it is in its entirety:

Israeli Culture Minister Miki Zohar is threatening to pull funding from the Ophir Awards, Israel’s version of the Oscars, after a film critiquing Israel won the top prize. The Sea, helmed by Israeli director Shai Carmeli-Pollak and Palestinian producer Bahaer Agbarian, tells the story of a 12-year-old Palestinian boy living in the West Bank on his way to visit the sea for the first time. His journey is halted when Israeli authorities deny him entry at a checkpoint, per Deadline‘s description. “Determined to fulfil his dream, he sneaks into Israel and embarks on a dangerous journey to the coast, dodging checkpoint, military and police,” it continues.

“There is no greater slap in the face of Israeli citizens than the embarrassing and detached annual Ophir Awards ceremony,” Zohar, a member of Israel’s conservative party, said in a statement calling the win “disgraceful,” as reported by Israeli media (via Deadline). “Starting with the 2026 budget, this pathetic ceremony will no longer be funded by taxpayers’ money. Under my watch, Israeli citizens will not pay from their pockets for a ceremony that spits in the faces of our heroic soldiers.”

I thought this was an interesting take:

“The reason I did Mandalorian was that Luke had a beginning and an end. There was no middle. It was like making a trilogy about James Bond as a young boy who first became aware of the Secret Service and wanted to be a part of it. Part two was him training to be an agent. Part three is earning his license to kill — The End. No From Russia With Love, Dr. No or Goldfinger. You never got to see Luke as a Master Jedi at the peak of his powers.”

It’s bad faith, of course

This looks interesting… if only Jared Leto wasn’t in it. I don’t know why this creep keeps getting cast in anything, and in a starring role no less.

The plot of this is basically what CLU was trying to do in Tron: Legacy. He wanted to escape the Grid and impose his vision of perfection on the real world. In this it seems like humans just did it for him.

I would like to know what happened to Sam and Quorra, the characters from Legacy. Even just a cameo or mention would be fine.

In general most people are just not intentional about what they watch and will just watch whatever’s popular, in whatever the most convenient format for that is. They wouldn’t be able to name a single favorite director. Streaming is fine for them.

I own thousands of movies and TV shows on Blu-ray and 4K Blu-ray, and I have a home theater. I’m crazy enough that lately for some streaming-only movies I’ve gotten into buying Academy screener Blu-ray copies on the second-hand market. They pressed DVDs for that purpose until just a few years ago, because no one seems to care about presentation—even people trying to sway directors to vote for their film.

My mom still has the TV on a swivel up by the ceiling. I secretly turned off soap opera mode the first time I visited after she bought it. She can’t tell the difference.