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Let’s begin the day with this phenomenal article from badassdigest.com about how Optimus Prime’s death defined a generation of kids. Do you want to understand the depths of my geeky heart? Then read that article. My parents wouldn’t let me see Transformers: The Movie in theatres, but I was allowed to rent it on video. I didn’t cry, but I was shocked by the brutal deaths of all my beloved characters in the film’s opening minutes. When Optimus Prime bought the farm I was changed forever. I had loved the Transformers before, but one viewing of Transformers: The Movie sealed that flick’s place in my heart forever. “Megatron… must be stopped. No matter the cost.”
Boy, those crazy guys and gals at badassdigest.com have a direct line into my psyche these days, because while the experience of seeing Transformers: The Movie was seminal, so too was my discovery of Voltron. This magnificent article examines the mysterious origins of Voltron, a show that combined and repurposed several different Japanese cartoons. Oh my lord I loved Voltron. The continuity of that show — the way story-lines flowed from one episode to the next — was a staggering discovery to me as a kid, and I fell in love hard. To this day, I have a love for long-running continuing stories in any media (Movies, TV, books, comic books, etc.), and I think that began as a kid when I discovered Voltron and Robotech…
I just discovered Jerry Seinfeld’s web-series Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee, and it is magnificent. I love stand-up comedy and I loved Seinfeld, so no surprise I think this series of shorts of Jerry hanging out with his very funny pals is phenomenal. With this project, Seinfeld has inched even closer to truly having made a show about nothing. Genius. I have already watched them all. If you haven’t seen this, click on the above link immediately.
Want to watch Ewan McGregor tell a hilarious story about filming the Star Wars prequels? Jump to 7:50 below:
So far I am very, very excited for next year’s X-Men: Days of Future Past. My only cause for worry? The film’s very unimpressive redesign of the Sentinels. I wish they had stuck a lot closer to the classic, iconic original design by John Byrne. The Sentinels aren’t just any robots, they have a very specific look, and this isn’t it.
As for this summer’s X-Men movie, I have already written my review of the good-but-not-great new Wolverine solo film, The Wolverine. Click here for a fascinating interview with Chris Claremont, who shares his thoughts on the film. Chris Claremont didn’t create the X-Men or Wolverine, but in … [continued]