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Do you mean when it went deeper into the exploited Bartertown underbelly society? Not just the tribe of storytelling children, which slowed the pace down, but the sub-culture proletariat worker classes that had to rise against their evil oppressors and their "Aunty"... haven't we seen it done to...

If they had added an extra necessary body, even a cheap one like most of these third party figures tend to have, they could have pitched this as a DX set at the same price point. The optics would be much better and it would be an easy sell for $250 as two complete figures. They must have spent...

Do we really need another Max-centric film? Sure, I'd like to see Max again, but its nostalgia and dedication to the franchise concept that leads me to that desire, more so than any reason or sensibility. What kind of story would Max have now? It was done with the first two films and that's...

It might be watchable. I don't see the premature "woke" accusations when the Bene Gesserit storyline is so significant in Dune - If you really want to make those accusations then you'd have to do so with fairness throughout the Herbert Dune legacy dating back decades. There's a lot of it there...

Back in the day, this design was the most jacked-up werewolf, pumped up on steroids and fired up with a tonne of coke. It still holds up! A testament and pinnacle of peak 80s special effects (makeup/costume/animatronic) craftsmanship. There were a lot of great 80s werewolves, but this one was...

Last minute reshoots and they could only get Dominic Monaghan back so they made him up to look like Viggo's Aragorn. It's not bad, I see the effort here, and it looks okay in certain angles. Ten years ago we would have been all over this, but today it falls short when we have InArt expectations.

This is the last thing the Balrog saw as Gandalf stared him down. InArt really needs to get their eye system worked out. My Gandalf was a bit "crosseyed and painless" looking too, with the left eye being set a little too far inward. Not enough that it's a deal breaker, and not enough that I'd...

Too much forehead. It's like if Dr Frankenstein made his Vito Corleone. Also, the cap of his hair is too full, almost like a cheap wig. He should have a thinning, receding hairline, of an aged person. The face is distorted, but I think it's negligible compared to the head issue. All human...

That's so sad. Maybe there's a whole new generation of kids discovering Star Wars chronologically from Episode 1, but being so disappointed by it they decide not to follow through to the rest of the episodes. I joke, because I know the Prequels found a new audience 25 years ago, they grew up...

You're lucky and I envy you! I wish I had seen Road Warrior (Mad Max 2) without any prejudice or preconception with a fresh mind on a big screen. I did, however, see it on video only a few months after its release, so there was some sense of discovery about it. In North America (Canada on my...

Fury Road had some "infuriating" weak spots, but for the most part it was an impressive wild ride and I prefer that it exists in the Road Warrior world, and our cinematic experience, rather than not. There's still a lot of space in the Road Warrior franchise for expanding the world-building and...

Yikes! Aragorn's Appalachian inbred half-cousin, who the family chooses not to talk about.

I dare say this Mythos Obi-Wan PF is better than the original, mostly for the real fabric outfit. The original is pretty hard to beat and I actually think it was one of the best Sideshow PF figures ever made, but here we are. One thing I liked a little more about the original, and it was a real...

If only there were some toys and movies to talk about. All we have is a trailer and that swiftly triggered another forced agenda about forcing agendas.

The idea of claiming "forced agendas", or merely "agendas" at all, has become a quick knee-jerk reflex form of accusation, dismissiveness and attack. A weak one at that. When you want to rant the first thing to do is reach for an easy overused label-term that has no discourse value. Does anyone...