question of the day: Why does geek fandom hold grudges for so long?
Does it serve any purpose beyond tribal bonding? Has the Net era encouraged and amplified geek grudge-holding? Will fandom ever learn how to forgive and forget?
Transformers
Stephanie Zacharek laid off by Movieline (and other adventures in social networking)
What my followers on Facebook, Twitter, and Google+ saw today…
Michael Bay is rebooting Transformers (and other adventures in social networking)
What my followers on Facebook, Twitter, and Google+ saw today…
Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace 3D movie review: escape to the past
It’s still a not very good movie. But… it’s still Star Wars.
Battleship (trailer)
I can see now that this is going to be a movie the terribleness of which I shall be obsessed with.
must reads: “Why renters and pirates watch such different movies”
I thought this was gonna be about how different versions of individual movies appear in legitimate and illegitimate content streams. But, no, it’s even better…
question of the day: Has the surprising success of ‘The Lion King in 3D’ opened Pandora’s box office?
Are we going to see a mad rush by all the studios to convert old — and not so old — movies to 3D and get them back out in multiplexes? Would that be an entirely bad thing? Would it be better if we just got unconverted classics back on a big screen?
Colombiana (trailer)
Written by Luc Besson, who loves women warriors as long as they’re skinny and languid and gorgeous.
Hollywood is just trolling us now: Disney exec says story doesn’t matter
Obvious troll — Walt Disney Animation Studios chief technical officer Andy Hendrickson — is obvious.
on the origin of species (of Cars and Autobots)
It’s perfectly obvious that the Transformers are a more evolutionarily advanced species that has its genetic roots in Pixar’s Cars.
