The Backend
With «The Last Jedi» hitting theaters this week, it’s time for the updated interactive guide to all the important Star Wars characters and how they’re interconnected.
Now in german and english: Check it out on Blick.ch
Or directly via: https://storytelling.blick.ch/infografik/2016/starWarsUniverse/index.html?l=e
What a gem: «Thor: Ragnarok» turns out to be a colorful piece of unexpected light-hearted delightfulness oozing with forgettable stupidity and fun, shining in all the colors of a disco-dripping CGI-rainbow with some delicious Goldblum on top.
Not too bad, quite good actually. In no way, shape or form as iconic as the original, but one has to admire how «Blade Runner 2049» tries to recreate the character and look and feel of its predecessor and how it does a helluva job in doing so (the cinematography and production design are just wonderful).
The pacing gets a little slow in the second half but I might just prefer it this way in contrast to the restless editing and convoluted storytelling we get too much of these days in this genre.
We did it! Thanks to the rafe new world sister watch initiative, my sister finally watched «Guardians of the Galaxy». I’m proud to say this goal was achieved in less than 48 hours thanks to my constant nagging and a website specially made for this purpose: sisterwatch.rafenew.world.
But did she like the movie or is she just a bad person? I’m very honoured to let my sister speak for herself in her very first guest article on rafenew.world:
And a very special THANK YOU to my mother who did her part in working on my sister in this matter. I love you, mom! And since there’s still hope for my sister, I imagine she does, too.
I’ve got a situation you might want to help me out with: My sister refuses to watch «Guardians of the Galaxy».
In an interview with Stephen Colbert Craig confirms his return as 007.
Reason enough to push my own old content once again:
My website CraigIsBond (then available on craigIsBond.net) was my spontaneous reaction to the 2006 online campaign against Craig taking over.
Celebrating the launch of «Spectre» in 2015 I was reviving the site to let you revisit and enjoy all the support and comments that had been posted between the years 2006 and 2009.
BREAKING NEWS: 🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨
Daniel Craig, will you return as James Bond? – @StephenAtHomeYes – #DanielCraig #LSSC pic.twitter.com/FroXh2qsp4
— The Late Show (@colbertlateshow) 16. August 2017
Just another very gorgeous looking, very soulless version of how Luc Besson thinks movies are made. I more and more wonder how he managed to create «Léon» where he still seemed to care about characters and storytelling (I think, at least; haven’t watched it in ages).
However you may feel about Neill Blomkamp’s «Chappie» (I know I was disappointed as hell). His new project creating experimental short films is absolutely worth a look.
Drop whatever you’re doing right and now check out the studio’s phenomenal work on https://www.youtube.com/user/OatsStudios.
Warning: Not for the faint of heart!
Just realized I never got around to review Netflix’ «Iron Fist»:
Yes, it sucks.
Moving on…
Wow, I almost lost my wallet there at the theater! But I wouldn’t have lost the money: The latest cinematic iteration of Spider-Man is well worth its admission price.
It’s got heart, it has humour, it’s got a great cast. And as unbelievable as is sounds, this co-production between Marvel Studios and Sony (who still hold the rights to the movie character, technically, I think) has something the «purer» MCU films had yet to deliver on: A great villain! Michael Keaton is perfect in the role (winged superpersons obviously just seem to be his thing) and his persona «The Vulture» equally satisfies as antagonist as well as a driving storyelement.
Tom Holland’s Peter Parker is great, too; but no surprise there. And the suits (as in «the VFX») are fun to explore but interestingly enough not as overwhelming and important as let’s say the «Avengers» movies.
So no, I don’t regret to have worn my Spidey T-Shirt to work today. And yes, in the end, I found my wallet under the seat.
