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Commentary on Movies, History and Perspective
What we look for most often when we sit down at the movies is a prevailing sense of having gone somewhere and experienced something. We’re looking for fulfillment or some substitute for it, call them distractions from our everyday or little excursions like holidays. Continue reading
Posted in Essays on art, Essays on Film, Movie I've Seen, My Review of Their Review:, Online, philosophy and film, Rants & Raves
Tagged above the line, Academy Award, Academy Award for Best Picture, Arts, Entertainment, Film, film critic filmmaker, hollywood, hollywoodland, movie, movie rants, movies matter, practical movie reviews, Review, rory dean, why we go to the movies
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Selling Lucasfilm to Disney is like selling Apple to Microsoft.
Selling Lucasfilm to Disney is like selling Apple to Microsoft and asking Bill to slip on a pair of New Balance sneakers to do his best rendition of Michael’s stage slide at the next great keynote speech. The fact that Lucasfilm is no more, priced to sell, sold, is a shameful reality, it’s selling out, literally and figuratively, letting people down. It’s the death of integrity that wounds the soul, not turning the keys over to new young hopefuls to blaze new trails, it’s turning it over to the very thing that’s always been wrong with the industry. Continue reading
Posted in Essays on Film, Movie Makers & Shakers, My Review of Their Review:, On DVD, Online, philosophy and film, Rants & Raves, Speak-Freely
Tagged $4 billion dollar paycheck, acquisition, apple, bill gates, buyout, curds and whey, george lucas, HMS Bounty, HMS Lucasfilms, hollywoodland, ILM, Indiana Jones, Industrial Light & Magic, kathleen kennedy, LucasArts, Lucasfilm, magic kingdom, mayor vaugn, merger, microsoft, miss muffet, movie studios, production company, sheriff brody, Skywalker Sound, Star Wars, star wars episode VII, steve jobs, tuffet, Walt Disney Company, Walt’s Conglomerate
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The Triumphant Returns And Spectacular Failures of Blogging in Hollywoodland
Blogging for the people that read blogs about people retiring from the spotlight for ten minutes and then in a desperate thirst for one more headline slipping back as though they never quit at all is after all is said and done the greatest Everest known to us. Continue reading →