The Last Post

     In the last few months I've started blogging for my english 112 class at Nova community college. I've done blogs before, but not for class. Even so, I did learn how to hyperlink, and that will be helpful in any other blog I attempt. I think that blogger is a bit more geared toward hardcore writers like journalists, or science writer. A lot of lighter material can be found on Tumblr. If I were to continue this I would probably post it there.
     If I've learned anything on my topic it's that you can't judge any two movies by the same standard. Each genre is geared toward a different audience, and therefor has different guidlines to judge them by. The same is true from movie to movie.
     I most likely will not keep blogging, at least on this subject. I don't like writing about my own experiecnes. So, writing about something that's very hard to find objectivity on is difficult to me.
     I didn't really enjoy reading other movie bloggers. I found most of them to be boring, and I would rather just watch a movie myself.

Star Wars Sold Its Soul, Preparing For the Apocolypse

     In recent movie news George Lucas has sold “Lucas films,” to Disney. This was met with severe criticism by the big Star Wars fans.This is mainly because the prequel series wasn’t seen as on the level of the previous three films, and this was only adding insult to injury. I don’t think this should be  such a black and white issue as other fans think it will be.

The first reason is that Disney already owns “Marvel.” There hasn’t been much change in that franchise. So, why expect Star Wars to be any different? We don’t see Mickey Mouse rearing his ugly head into “The Avengers,” and by the way Disney owned them while they made that movie. 

Although, I don’t like the choice of screenwriter. It was the same guy that made “Toy Story 3.” That movie, really? Why not get zombie Hitchcock to direct “Icarly,” while you’re at it? 

The other thing is that they’re planning to do the next installment in an alternate plane of existence, at this point. This is the best move I’ve seen so far. This will keep the libraries of fan, or professional literature safe, and let Disney have the opportunity to make a new film.

At this point it’s all about keeping the fans happy. Personally, I would love to see Matt Sloan play Darth Vader. He played the Sith Lord in the most recent installment of “Force Unleashed,” video game, and does a series on his youtube channel about Darth Vader’s younger brother Chad who is a day shift grocery manager. 

All in all I think we’ll have to wait to get a good idea of what these new films will be like. Often, in life that is what we must do.     

Big Bang theory, the sucess

A few years ago I started watching a show called “Big Bang Theory.” The show was a pretty new concept, and a good one as far as it went. The idea was to have a show where the main characters were most of the characters were these geeky nerds, each with a specialized problem and interest. The show is a success on many levels.

                The goal of a good show is to reach out to as big a viewership as possible. The humor in the show seems to be slightly reminiscent of the same network’s “Two and A Half Men,” of the same network. Even though some of the references are for a few they don’t negate, or are necessarily part of the overall humor. This can keep both the geek, and non-geek audience happy and well pleased with viewership rather effectively.

                I think the other reason that it does well is that almost all the characters are pitiable in some way. There’s the nervous one, the one that tries way to hard, and the one who has a somehow playful disorder. We can empathize easily with these roles.

                If this wasn’t good enough the show has been running for six seasons. Most shows don’t make it past the first, if they’re good. “30 Rock,” being the obvious exception. When one of the main actors was asked about the show he claimed that he didn’t expect them to get past the pilot, but because it was somewhat of a good, and new concept it got past the fresh season, and became a fairly successful show.