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Sweet! My comment about the other comments being deleted was deleted, just like I knew it would.

The thing about the gods may be the dumbest thing on the list. It makes sense to imagine gods in your own image. What other frame of reference do you have?

Yeah, the problem here is how obvious and lame the jokes are. Zero effort was put into this. It reads like the work of someone whose knowledge of the target comes largely from The Big Bang Theory.

No, in fact, the Edo did not appear on weeknight network television. As everyone but Sean Curry knows, The Next Generation was broadcast in first-run syndication.

And what's a Gorm?

The character was changed because Kirstie Alley couldn't/wouldn't come back, nobody wanted Robin Curtis back, and Kim Cattrall didn't want to be the third person to play the character. Roddenberry's...

You also have to wonder if Spock always has a viridium patch handy, why viridium patches aren't just sewn into Starfleet uniforms, and why prisoners are allowed to wear their own clothes while doing...

1) 2001 did it first, and its effects were revolutionary. But Star Wars made any movie that lingered over staid effects shots seem self-indulgent.

2) Kubrick's intent was to portray space travel...

TMP is quite obviously the work of people who thought the effects were what made Star Wars a hit. That's the only way to explain the interminable reveal of the Enterprise and the endless trip through...

I agree that Search for Spock doesn't get enough credit, but Christopher Lloyd is awful in that movie. And the whole "proto matter" thing is just lazy writing. Anyone who gives it a pass but moans...

I know he's not chasing hits, but the fact that he can't make any meaningful return on even the most meager of budgets is going to catch up with him. He'll eventually end up having to beg for small...

But it helps not to have a track record of losing money. He's already bankrupted one production company.

It barely doubled its budget, which isn't good, especially when that's the worldwide total. Factoring in the negative costs, that's a loss, even for something with a budget that small. And Neon Demon...

Given that both Only God Forgives and The Neon Demon were financial disasters, he'll be lucky if he can raise enough money to shoot a Batgirl movie in his backyard.

Shouldn't Chris Miller also be credited as a writer?

It's definitely true of The Wood and Dope. It's absolutely not true of Our Family Wedding.

"Revered" appears to be a favorite word of CBR writers. Too bad they don't seem to know what it means.

Did Gene show his son which ones to steal from?

Exactly. It's noteworthy that a woman is finally being allowed to direct a big, important film of this genre, but focusing on the budget is misleading. Elaine May was allowed to spend $50 million on...

Rise of the Silver Surfer? This time next year, though, Fast 8 will be the answer.

As has been pointed out elsewhere, Kathryn Bigelow was actually the first woman to direct a movie with a budget of $100 million, that being 2002's K-19.

"Wee part"? Isn't that what she showed in Basic Instinct?

I mentioned Marvel because it was mentioned in the post to which I was replying. Same deal, though. These productions are overseen every step of the way. It's not possible for Fox or Marvel or Warner...

Marvel started messing with Wright long before shooting was set to commence. Fox isn't gracious enough to do that; they wait until the last minute (if not even later).

But this wasn't a movie where the studio had no idea what was going on until they saw the footage from principal photography. They had somebody there every day of production. If what Trank was doing...

How do you sneak all of that past Marvel (or any big studio), though? They approve every facet of production (scripting, casting, production and costume design, etc.), they have people there during...