Tag Archives: #Disney

40 years of ‘Star Wars’

Posted on May 25, 2017 by reelentropy

Forty years ago today, 20th Century Fox dropped Star Wars off into the 32 theaters they could convince to screen it. It was a Wednesday. The studio was worried the movie would be swallowed by other summer releases, so they … Continue reading →

Posted in White Noise | Tagged #20th Century Fox, #Disney, #george lucas, #jaws, #jurassic park, #return of the jedi, #star wars, #the empire strikes back, #the force awakens, Attack of the Clones, ET, Heir to the Empire, Revenge of the Sith, rogue one, The Last Jedi, The Other Side of Midnight, The Phantom Menace, You think God is in control here? | Leave a comment

Stay home! Watch the original! Save your money!

Posted on March 17, 2017 by reelentropy

2/10 Everyone’s tired of the endless stream of sequels, remakes and adaptations coming out of Hollywood these days, but they don’t have to be bad. Remakes can make an old story new again, or tell it in a completely different … Continue reading →

Posted in Entropy | Tagged #alice in wonderland, #Disney, #emma watson, #france, #homophobia, #ian mckellan, Beauty and the Beast, Bill Condon, creature design, Ewan McGregor, explicitly gay moment, Legion, Max Stevens, save your money, stay home, watch the original | 1 Comment

The most important films of 2016

Posted on January 2, 2017 by reelentropy

Annual top 10 lists are boring and dumb and arbitrary and full of movies nobody’s ever heard of. A big goal of this site is to try and extrapolate the future of movies, so, instead of talking about the year’s … Continue reading →

Posted in White Noise | Tagged #10 cloverfield lane, #batman v superman, #DC, #deadpool, #Disney, #ghostbusters, #hail caesar, #jared leto, #johnny depp, #jungle book, #margot robbie, #mcu, #pixar, #rotten tomatoes, #ryan reynolds, #sony, #star wars, #suicide squad, #the force awakens, #the witch, #warcraft, #warner bros., #zootopia, Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, Captain America, captain america: civil war, Chinese New Year, comic con 2015, Darth Vader made a pun, DCEU, Disney made $7 billion this year, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, finding dory, Fox, gareth edwards, his name rhymes with Pullverine, Hunger Marketing, Lights Out, Logan, Marvel, now you see me 2, rogue one, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, Ryan Reynolds crossed with a Shar Pei, Scientist Man, Secret Life of Pets, Shut down Rotten Tomatoes, Sing Girls, Steven Chow, The Ghostbusters cinematic universe, The Mermaid, X-Men Origins: Wolverine, Zach Snyder | 1 Comment

Rogue One’s got jokes, all right

Posted on December 16, 2016 by reelentropy

Hell, it’s got Darth Vader (James Earl Jones) making puns. At the start of Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, imperial weapons researcher Orson Krennic (Ben Mendelsohn) coerces scientist Galen Erso (Mads Mikkelsen) to work on the Death Star. Years later, … Continue reading →

Posted in Documented entropy, Entropy | Tagged #Disney, #star wars, Ben Mendelsohn, Cartoon Grand Moff Tarkin, Diego Luna, Donnie Yen, Felicity Jones, Grand Moff Tarkin, James Earl Jones, Jiang Wen, Mads Mikkelsen, Peter Cushing, poorly rendered Playstation 2 version of Mordor, rogue one, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story | 1 Comment

Applying Chaos Theory: Rogue One’s got jokes

Posted on December 8, 2016 by reelentropy

Oh, wow. Suddenly, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, this PG-13 movie about a desperate suicide mission, something much darker than the Star Wars franchise has ever approached, is looking pretty cute. By my count, that’s four snappy one-liners in just 1:35, almost … Continue reading →

Posted in Applying Chaos Theory | Tagged #darth vader, #david ayer, #Disney, #Fantastic Four, #godzilla, #josh trank, #jurassic world, #star wars, #suicide squad, #warcraft, A Star Wars Story, Colin Trevorrow, DCEU, Donnie Yen, duncan jones, Felicity Jones, gareth edwards, Han Solo, James Earl Jones, Kate Mara's wig, MatPat, Monsters, Moon, rogue one, Safety Not Guaranteed | 1 Comment