pik_d posted:

Should I be watching the movie Willow before the series?

Azhais posted:

That depends, do you want to see a young hot Kilmer?

thrawn527 posted:

The show uses footage from the movie in flashbacks to fill you in a couple of times, and tells you anything you need to know from the movie. Also the focus so far has largely been on the new characters. So, while keeping in mind that this opinion is only from having watched the first two episodes, I think you're fine if you don't want to watch the movie.

But it certainly wouldn't hurt, as they're definitely referring to it a lot.

That's a good point. It may be Kilmer at the height of his hotness.

Everyone posted:

True. Although there's serious competition from Real Genius Kilmer.

Soonmot posted:

How does Real Genius hold up as to problematic stuff. I remember loving it, but I loved Revenge of the Nerds too, and welp

TIP posted:

I haven't watched it very recently but I think it holds up alright

I don't remember any comedic rape at least

Soonmot posted:

How does Real Genius hold up as to problematic stuff. I remember loving it, but I loved Revenge of the Nerds too, and welp

Quinton posted:

I haven't seen it in some years, but believe it holds up better than a lot of 80s films.

This post digs into some details:
https://www.tor.com/2015/05/21/30-years-later-real-genius-is-still-the-geek-solidarity-film-that-nerd-culture-deserves/

Parkingtigers posted:

https://twitter.com/kortizart/status/1598800231680086016?s=61&t=O6-W39QJEfY6tmPPSY-X4w

PriorMarcus posted:

Remember when Loki (really only a few days ago from his point of view) wanted to enslave all of humanity and was compared to Hitler?

Mameluke posted:

he had watched the tape of his future life and become our lovable scamp by that point

Marsupial Ape posted:

To be fair, in the scenes before that, Loki had it firmly established for him and the audience that all this time travel/timeline fuckery is very real and dwarfs even the power of the Infinity Stones. So, while it is lazy-ish writing, at least there’s an attempt to lend gravitas to Loki’s viewing of the “this is your life” film. Clever-lazy? I think it ‘works’, but you’re right, it’s unsatisfactory.

chitoryu12 posted:

It’s also Loki experiencing the worst possible repudiation of his philosophy. He just learned he’s always destined in every universe to be a failure and die, and the TVA prunes any possible differences. He’s a loser and the universe is conspiring to ensure he always is.

Soonmot posted:

Is there no thread for the Willow series on D+? First two episodes were lots of fun.

chitoryu12 posted:

https://twitter.com/jamesgunn/status/1596631007452692480?s=46&t=6F2qmWuToRBsCaIgrqqIrQ

ApeHawk posted:

drat, I was riding the "Oh, they FUCKIN'" train. Thanks for wrecking it, Gunn.

ApeHawk posted:

drat, I was riding the "Oh, they FUCKIN'" train. Thanks for wrecking it, Gunn.

chitoryu12 posted:

https://twitter.com/jamesgunn/status/1596631007452692480?s=46&t=6F2qmWuToRBsCaIgrqqIrQ

ashpanash posted:

Granddad you mean?

So I don't remember where I read this and I could be entirely wrong here, but I seem to remember James Gunn saying something like Peter for various (perhaps PTSD-related) reasons hates Earth. When he was stuck on Earth at the end of Endgame he couldn't wait to get off. He finds it repulsive, sort of like how I find Florida

chitoryu12 posted:

TwoPair posted:

Ah, as soon as I saw the animated segment I thought it was aping some obscure Christmas special I haven't seen but just Bakshi in general is nice too.

Marsupial Ape posted:

I prefer to believe Nebula hosed her way through the Dora Milaje until she learned the secret “touch here to make arm pop off” trick. I can’t believe we aren’t referencing that fight scene.

quote:

Besides buying their records at Amoeba, can you share your history with the Old 97’s?

They’ve been my favorite band since the ‘90s, and I’ve seen them in concert a billion times. I met [lead vocalist] Rhett Miller in 2005 because I put an Old 97’s song at the end of Slither, my first movie. It plays over the end credits, and Rhett and I have stayed in touch ever since then. And so I started writing this song for the beginning [of the special], “I Don’t Know What Christmas Is (But Christmastime Is Here).” So I had all these lyrics for it, and it kept changing. I walked around my house, singing into my iPhone and trying to figure out how the song was going to work. And finally, I approached Rhett and asked, “Will you help me write this song? Because I can’t do it by myself.” And he said, “Absolutely.” And so we started sending tons of recordings and lyrics back and forth, and we wrote that song together.

And after we wrote that song, I was like, “Why don’t you guys play this alien band? Why don’t you come on set and act?” And he was like, “Okay.” And then we took a previous song that they had recorded, and they re-recorded it with Kevin Bacon for the end of the show. So Rhett had to act, and he’s never really acted before. He said, “I’m really nervous about it. I don’t know what to do.” So I said, “This is like when I saw the Doobie Brothers on What’s Happening!! when I was a kid. They were terrible actors, but that almost added to the charm. So if you’re a terrible actor, it’s going to be just fine. I don’t care if you’re a terrible actor.” And instead, he was great. He’s great in the role. So the whole thing was really a joy.

Marsupial Ape posted:

I will say that the guys in the alien band did an excellent job of emoting under all that makeup. They legit looked like happy space guys and not actors in heavy prosthetics smiling weird so the makeup doesn’t fail.

Marsupial Ape posted:

I will say that the guys in the alien band did an excellent job of emoting under all that makeup. They legit looked like happy space guys and not actors in heavy prosthetics smiling weird so the makeup doesn’t fail.

thrawn527 posted:

https://twitter.com/realscreengeek/status/1601342763580420097?s=46&t=XF7R-1fItuzU994C25Z8tA

Well poo poo.