#stf max

[hang-on-lil-tomato]

oh good! This one is all about season 1.

so not so spoiler-y as the other stuff MAX is turning out.

of course, normal people look at all the previews and go “ok, I might watch that.” And we look a the trailers, previews, teasers, and behind the scenes, capture EVERY nanosecond, and analyze it.

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Tim prova que Moraes está errado em relação a Filipe Martins

Foto: Arthur Max/MRE   Dados de geolocalização do celular do ex-assessor de Jair Bolsonaro, Filipe Martins, foram enviados pela operadora Tim para o ministro Alexandre de Moraes, do Supremo Tribunal Federal (STF). O documento trata do período de 30 de dezembro de 2022 a 9 de janeiro de 2023. De acordo com o conteúdo enviado ao magistrado, Filipe estava em Brasília no dia 30 de dezembro, mesma…

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AEW Dynamite 1/4/23 

Chris Jericho vs. Ricky Starks -- Starks comes in hot out of the gate. Starks is on the apron, and Jericho springboards off the ropes, but Starks halts him with a big forearm! Jericho lands a suplex on Starks off the apron to the floor! Back in the ring, Jericho bounces Starks' head repeatedly off the turnbuckle! They trade chops and elbows in the middle of the ring!!! Sit-out powerbomb by Starks! Lionsault by Jericho, but Starks gets the knees up! Superkick from Starks! Cover, but Jericho kicks out! Codebreaker by Jericho lands!!! Jericho attempts a Judas Effect, Starks tries to counter into Roshambo, but Jericho turns the tables again and locks in the Walls! Starks crawls toward the ropes, but Parker stops him with a bat to the face!! Starks looks like he is out!! Ref lifts his arm. The arm drops to the mat twice, but he keeps it up the third time!! Roll up by Starks, and Jericho barley lifts his shoulder up! Starks lands a tornado DDT, takes out Mernard and Parker on the apron, and then lands a huge spear on Jericho!! Cover!!! 1, 2, 3!!! Wow!!!!!! Jericho loses again!!!!! Good match here and nice finish. Rating: 3.5

JAS comes out to attack Starks after the match! Action Andretti comes out to save Starks and avenge himself, with a burn still on his eye from the fireball. He gets a low blow from Tay Melo, and Starks gets powerbombed through a table. 

Hangman Page tells Schiavone that he is not yet cleared to compete, but he will be by next week if he doesn't get into a brawl with Moxley beforehand. Out comes Moxley! Moxley cannot get a functional mic. Lmaaoooo. Moxley says he is sick of the flowers and the sympathy cards and the candlelight vigil for Page just because he got knocked out. Page says he isn't mad at Moxley for knocking him out. That's part of what they do. Hangman says he is angry, because, when he came face to face with Moxley after the knock out, Moxley didn't let him get a word in before making a joke. Page wasn't there for revenge then, but he is now. Moxley says the only joke is that Hangman thinks next time is going to be any different. Next time, he is going to make sure Hangman doesn't get back up.

The Acclaimed (c) vs. Jay Lethal and Jeff Jarrett for the AEW World Tag Team Championship -- This is a fine match. Good action from The Acclaimed and Lethal, but the mere presence of Jeff Jarrett, who is too senile to know which corner to stand in, takes it down many notches. Bowens with a nasty rolling elbow to the back of Lethal's head to counter Lethal Injection. Jarrett lands the Stroke on Bowens and covers. Bowens gets his foot on the rope, but Dutt knocks it off. The ref doesn't see this and calls for the bell. Wtffffff. Aubrey comes in to tell the other ref what happened and they restart the match. Bowens lands a superkick, but Lethal with a roll up! Bowens kicks out and rolls Lethal up for the three count!!!! Acclaimed retain! Thank god. Rating: 2.75

Hayter and Baker sit down with Renee. Baker asks how Saraya has not decided who her partner will be in their tag match when she has had two of the best wrestlers in the world, Storm and Shida, next to her. 

Bryan Danielson vs. Tony Nese -- Massive ovation for Danielson in his home state!!!! Danielson's elated smile at the crowd reaction has my heart overflowing!! Danielson puts on a clinic of hard chops and kicks. He lands the psycho knee, kicks Nese's head in, and then locks in an STF-esque choke to put Nese out for the win in a three and half minute squash. BEAUTIFUL!!! Rating: AWESOME SQUASH 

After the match, Danielson grabs the mic. He says he is feeling a little froggy and is ready for another fight!!!!! He tells MJF to get his ass out there!!!!! AAAAAAHHHHHH!!!!

MJF's music hits! Max comes out, takes his gum out of his mouth and slings it, and greets Danielson, calling him "Brain Damage Bryan." Lmao. MJF says he is not going to wrestle Bryan tonight. "Unlike you Bryan, I don't get my rocks off by putting my body on the line to entertain these schmucks. I don't care about them at all. Cause you're a mark, bud. I'm fully aware I've got a big fat check in the mail whether I wrestle or I don't. That's what makes me a special attraction. These people clearly love you. They chant your name every single week. I'll give you credit. You're pretty solid. But I was just standing in the back while you were talking. With all due respect, Bryan, if Lance Storm and Dean Malenko were somehow able to procreate and have a child, it would still be more charismatic than you. Just cause you look like a goat, it don't make you the greatest of all time. I mean, you really look like a goat. Matter of fact, I wouldn't be shocked if back in 1981 in rural Aberdeen, Washington, mama Danielson, much like all the mothers here in Washington, couldn't find a human suitor." 

Bryan responds, "I'm glad we're making jokes, because in the back, all the boys talk about your mother and how many human suitors that she's had. In fact, probably enough human suitors to fill this whole arena. Hell, she might have had some human suitors who are in this arena right now. Who here has been Max's mother's human suitor?" Lmaoooo, go off, Bryan. MJF says Bryan is delusional. MJF says Bryan really buys the hype and thinks he's the best wrestler in the world, but that can't be true, because MJF is, and the Triple B around his waist proves it.  "I'm just curious, Bryan. Who died and made you the king of wrestling? Journalists who have never stepped foot in the ring, let alone stepped out of their mother's basement? Or even worse, these MARKS, who don't have one athletic bone in their parasitic bodies. See unlike you, Bryan, I am touted as being the best in the world by some people who have actually been in this business. (Asshole chant!!) Top names, guys that are putting me over, like Disco Inferno, Eric Bischoff, and the smartest man of them all and my number one fan Jim Cornette." Looololol. 

Bryan cuts MJF off and tells him to just shut up. "We've heard the spiel, we've heard it a million times. I hate you, and I think it's time for us to fight." MJF freaks out and quickly runs farther back up the stage toward the commentary table, yelling, "Wait, hold on, hold on one second, slow your roll. Jesus, Taz, the anger issues on this guy, can you believe this?"

MJF says, "You might not realize this, Bryan, but I actually came here as a favor for you. This ain't play wrestling, this is pro wrestling. In this company, wins and losses matter. If you want a shot at the grandest prize of them all, you have to become number one contender. I talked to that nerd Tony Khan in the back. He said if you were to wrestle every week on Dynamite and win from now until February 8th, you would be number one contender. I usually make my opponents jump through hoop after hoop to get a match with me, but I'll make an exception for you. If you can do that, I'll give you a match for the title at Revolution, no questions asked." Bryan says no, he will wrestle whenever he wants, beat his opponents, and then beat MJF for the title at revolution. MJF says, "That's not how this works. Tony Khan doesn't run this company, the EVPs don't run this company, I do, me. If you don't become number one contender the way I am telling you to, you will never wrestle me for this belt. It's my way, or it's no way, got it?"

Bryan: "I'll agree to your cute little stipulation if you agree to let me make the stipulation for our match at Revolution." MJF: "You wanna make a stipulation, so I can cheat in front of the ref? Go ahead, please, pick any stipulation you like." Bryan: "I don't think you understand. In this stipulation, you won't be able to do anything that gets you DQ'd. This is the true test of whether you're a great pro wrestler. My challenge is for a 60-minute iron-man match." After taunting from the crowd, MJF finally accepts. 

AWESOME SEGMENT HERE!!!! I AM SO EXCITED FOR THIS MATCH!!!! THIS RULES!!!!!! CAN'T WAIT!!!!!! 

Swerve Strickland vs. AR Fox – Swerve lands a DEATH VALLEY DRIVER OFF THE TOP ROPE ONTO THE APRON! OH MY GOD!!!!!! Swerve rolls Fox back in the ring and lands his stomp from the top for the pinfall. Great match here. Rating: 3.5

Saraya, Storm, and Shida sit down with Renee. Saraya very rudely announces that she has chosen Storm as her partner, turning her back to Shida to say this to Storm. Shida looks offended. Hope Shida kicks her ass! 

The Gunns have a funeral for FTR's career, with a large graphic reading "FTRIP May 2020 - December 2022" on the big screen. They talk about how FTR lost to them and lost all their titles. They bow their heads for a moment of silence. Lol, ridiculous. 

Samoa Joe (c) vs. Darby Allin for the TNT Championship -- Darby with a suicide dive out of the ring to Joe on the outside before the bell!!! Darby smacks Joe's back with his skateboard! Darby lands a huge diving stomp off the stage with the skateboard under his feet, driving the board into Joe's back!!! Holy shit!!!! Darby lands a senton off a huge ladder onto Joe on the ramp! Darby tweaks his knee on the way down. Back toward the ring now. Joe slams Darby down back-first, uranage-style into the edge of the ring steps! Joe bounces Darby hard off the ring post, and Darby sells that shit like a pro, flying off the apron onto the floor and lying there lifeless!! Darby finally makes it back in the ring. Headbutt and kicks from Joe! Joe misses with an elbow, and Darby jumps onto his back, locking in a sleeper! But Joe reverses, jumping down onto his back and nailing Darby with a senton in the process! Chopblock and big double knee breaker drop by Joe! Joe with a vicious kick to Darby's chest and a senton onto Darby's knees, but Darby kicks out!! Single-leg crab by Joe, but Darby gets to the ropes! Darby escapes a Muscle Buster attempt and goes for a roll up, but Joe stops it, deadlifting Darby up to his feet! Standing switch and waist lock by Darby. Into the corner, and Darby keeps the waist lock on. Joe holds onto the ropes to resist, but Darby finally lands a German suplex!!!!! Wow!!!! Joe pulls the top turnbuckle pad off in the process. Darby with a pin attempt, but Joe kicks out and immediately transitions into a sleeper!! Darby with a slick reversal, rolling back into a pinning combination! Joe slips out at two! Darby lands an elbow and attempts a stunner, but Joe reverses into a sleeper! Darby does the Sting chest pound and escapes by driving Joe into the exposed turnbuckle!!! CODE RED BY DARBY!!!! COFFIN DROP OFF THE TOP FROM ONE CORNER, BUT DARBY ISN'T FINISHED!! COFFIN DROP OFF THE TOP FROM THE OTHER CORNER! Darby covers!!!! 1, 2, 3!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Ahhhhhh heck yeah!! 

Really great match here. Both guys were awesome. Love seeing them wrestle each other. Darby's selling was fantastic here, but that is nothing new. Rating: 3.75 

Sting comes out after the match and picks Darby up in a hug. My heart. What a nice moment for Darby here, winning the title back in his hometown. Two-time TNT Champion!!!!!

[alacunaquefaltava]

Respondendo aos comentários dos leitores

Volta e meia me passa pela cabeça fazer uma resenha em que possa responder aos comentários dos leitores. Nunca me foi possível, pela completa ausência de comentários e, provável e consequentemente, de leitores.

A solução que acabo de encontrar é responder comentários dirigidos a outros comentaristas e colunistas da imprensa. Não parece muito boa, mas pode dar certo. É mais ou menos como plagiar o leitor, para depois detoná-lo.

Para correr menos riscos não vou identificar diretamente os escribas e leitores. O assunto se identifica por si só.

“Que texto formoso! E que interessante descobrir que a palavra avião vem de ave grande.”

Minha Resposta: Faço minhas essas palavras.

“Não sei se sou alcoólatra ou não, mas tomo diária e religiosamente duas doses de cachaça ou de whisky, duas taças de vinho no almoço e duas cervejas à noite. Bebo sim, estou vivendo! E viva a vida!!!”

Minha Resposta: Escreveu essa depois de qual?

“A Decisão foi torpe, mísero, nojento, baixo, indigno, hediondo, repugnante, desprezível, esquálido, vil, nauseabundo, asqueroso, ignominioso, ignóbil, miserável, sujo, indecente, indecoroso, infame, reles, contemptível, sórdido, imundo, pífio, pulha, repelente, desprezível, desonesto, obsceno.”

Minha Resposta: Procure organizar melhor suas ideias, talvez colocá-las em ordem alfabética. Nem a Decisão não concorda, em gênero.

“Você tem o direito de acreditar no que você quiser. Mas isso não tem nenhum compromisso com a realidade.”

Minha Resposta: Parece profundo, não vá cair aí dentro.

“(respondendo a outra leitora) Paula, você descreveu perfeitamente a direita agro. Em toda sua cafonice – na moda, na “cultura” e no modo de ver o outro...”

Minha Resposta: Crentes e militares estão na fila, à direita. Também trouxeram seu modo de ver o outro.

“Estude, mulher, e tire notas boas. Destaque-se pela inteligência. Não está escrito na testa de ninguém a religião que frequenta. Universidade não é lugar pra ficar de tró-ló-ló com ninguém. Eu sou preto, veado, católico, e nasci pobre de marré deci. Se não fosse a universidade pública, eu tava no sal. Fé em Deus, boca calada e pé ligeiro. Aprendi isso com a minha mãe centenária. Pare de alardear religião e seja feliz com quem lhe quer bem.”  (O conselho do leitor é para uma socióloga que faz mestrado em universidade federal, que se disse discriminada por sua cor e religião. É preta e evangélica.)

Minha Resposta: O conflito deve ser entre sociologia e religião, ambas não admitem ser contrariadas. Tentar explicar uma pela outra, mas nem com doutorado.

“Primeiro, Toffoli era advogado do PT e foi escolhido por Lula para o STF com o claro objetivo de defender os interesses do partido e dar proteção aos seus inúmeros corruptos. Segundo, Lula foi condenado com base em provas (materiais e testemunhais), delações de companheiros de crime, em três instâncias e por nove juízes. Isso elimina qualquer hipótese de injustiça e menos ainda de perseguição. Lula é um corrupto contumaz.”

Minha Resposta: Primeiro: são poucos os juristas que têm apreço pela atuação de Toffoli. Já decidiu a favor e contra Lula, errando nas duas situações. Segundo: quanto a provas, o pouco que consta no processo é insuficiente para condenar um ex-presidente à prisão. Não encontraram com Lula nenhum real indevido. Também, pelo que se vê publicamente, depois de conhecidas as revelações da Vaza Jato, é improvável que todos os oito juízes que assinaram a condenação mantenham a mesmo voto. Oito, porque um dos ministros de 5ª Turma do STJ se declarou impedido e não participou do julgamento.

Leitores, por ordem de entrada:

Ricardo Batista, FSP; Sergio Vicentin, FSP; Max Morel, FSP; Marcus Vinicius Correa Leite, FSP; Silvia Klein de Barros, FSP; Raimundo Carvalho, FSP; Jorge Rodrigues, FSP

[taxitonki]

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[princessstia]

Part 2/2 THIS is what happens after cedrics dad told him his robe was trash

[stfshipappreciationweek]

Hello everyone. We will be having a stfshipappreciationweek Sweetheart's Day special; and we thought it would be fun to allow everyone to help pick out the prompts.

Prompt submissions will be from Dec 27-31 (may submit a max total of four). After which voting will commence Jan 1-5.

If you have any questions. Please contact @tenapricots

[softballum]

Watching STFS because I’m a bitch for Max & Tony ngl

[ober-affen-geil]

My Roswell Rewatch liveblog

Episode 2x11 AKA Kidnapping and Roadtrips and Flashbacks, Oh My

i’ll admit this scene threw me for about 3 seconds and then i went “oh it has to be a flashback”

i do like liz’s look here actually

THE LIMIT DOES NOT EXIST

i do like diego here but i do not trust him

NOT ON THE COUNTER JESUS THIS IS A LAB SPACE

morning sunshine, like you weren’t also asleep for like 3 seconds jfc max

wait five minutes isobel lmao

how long has he been gone exactly?

I LOVE SANDERS MY HEART

“that was not made in roswell” HAHAHAHAHHA

i do really like the echo dynamic, i love them a lot

KYLE LMAO

stop doing science in the kitchen

but also like diego can do whatever he wants

lets see how many horror tropes we can fit into this season huh

FUCK YOU JESSE FUCK YOU STF

why do you think he has ptsd huh fuck YOU

i like this dynamic between isobel and rosa, neither of them takes the others shit and i’m here for it

kyle *has a bad day* *buys an entire pizza* SO RELATABLE

i do love how people keep going “make alex do it” lmao

STOP. DOING SCIENCE. IN THE KITCHEN.

my man do you know what an NDA is? also its not that off to have a lab do that if they’re doing new shit

MY GIRL LIZ DOESNT EVEN HAVE TO THINK FUCKING GET THAT NOBEL PRIZE YES

my man it is highly sus that you keep asking

i am having heart palpatations over those files all over the table pls

here for the kyle and max dynamic

i’ll be honest i still don’t understand exactly who took alex and whose idea it was, did jesse take him first???? i have no clue

FOR WHAT, FLINT, NEED HIM FOR WHAT I THOUGHT THE BIOWEAPON WAS JESSE’S IDEA

ok go off michael damn vlamis killed this scene

tbf he doesn’t really call alex his son but point

poor kyle

GOOD QUESTION MAX

though biochemical warfare i think is super against the geneva convention

DO YOU REMEMBER THOSE WORDS NOW LIZ, HUH

so....the private citizen is jesse?

LOL RIP FLINT

jesus helena

GO OFF LIZ

THE HARDY BOYYYYSSSSS this is now my second fave behind science bros

the closet, really max

also did we ever address what was on that usb drive?

WHO HIDES THEIR SNIPER RIFEL IN THE FRONT CLOSET

dammit kyle

ok, what is the significance of the hunting van

yay for development isobel! also SOMEONE CARES ABOUT MICHAEL BLESS

do love that the lightning marks maguffin turned out to be a super taser lmao

yeah court martialed BECAUSE YOU MADE HIM AWOL YOU ASSHOLE

so greg knows about michael, flint knows about michael, what exactly is the bother dynamic that they both know what michael means to alex? is this a surveillance thing?

also kiowa go OFF that smile is terrifying

i do love that max is like “maybe your mom got kidnapped to make you do something” and liz is like “lmao nah fam”

do appreciate the motivation here for liz actually

i love that they give both sides of this issue here, poor kyle

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“are you angry at me for bringing your sister back?” “hey!” LMAO AHAHAHAHAHAH

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The Drama

[taxicomum]

MAIA E ALCOLUMBRE: E AGORA STF?

Sim Max, O All Gore em coluiu com a ONO/EUA/IPCC. fizeram e corromperam todo a mídia e muitos governos. UMA MENTIRA MUNDIAL.

[buzzdixonwriter]

Sci-Fi And The Sincerest Form Of Flattery

I know many of you prefer “science fiction” or “science fantasy” or “speculative fiction” or “sf” or even “stf” for short, but I ain’t that guy…

I’m a sci-fi kinda guy.

I prefer sci-fi because to me it evokes the nerdy playfulness the genre should embrace at some level (and, no we’re not gonna debate geek vs nerd as a descriptor; “geeky” implies biting heads off chickens no matter how benign and respectable the root has become).

. . .

A brief history of sci-fi films -- a very brief history.

Georges Melies’ 1898 short A Trip to The Moon is one of the earliest examples of the genre, and it arrived full blown at the dawn of cinema via its literary predecessors in Verne and Wells.

There were a lot of bona fide sci-fi films before WWII -- the Danes made a surprisingly large number in the silent era, Fritz Lang gave us Metropolis and Frau Im Mond, we saw the goofiness of Just Imagine and the spectacle of Things To Come and the space opera appeal of Flash Gordon and Buck Rogers.

And that’s not counting hundreds of other productions -- comedies and contemporary thrillers and westerns -- where a super-science mcguffin played a key part.

That came to a screeching halt in WWII primarily due to budget considerations and real world science easily overtaking screen fantasy.  Still, there were a few bona fide sci-fi films and serials during the war and immediately thereafter, but it wasn��t until the flying saucer scare of the late forties that sci-fi became a popular movie genre again (and on TV as well).

Ground zero for 1950s sci-fi was George Pal’s Destination Moon, which was an attempt to show a plausible flight to the moon (it was actually beaten to the screens by a couple of other low budget movies that rushed into production to catch Pal’s PR wave for his film).

This led to the first 1950s sci-fi boom that lasted from 1949 to 1954, followed by a brief fallow period, then a larger but far less innovative second boom in the late 1950s to early 1960s.

BTW, let me heartily recommend the late Bill Warren’s magnificent overview of sci-fi films of that era, Keep Watching The Skies, a must have in any sci-fi film fan’s library.

Seriously, go get it.

Bill and I frequently discussed films of that and subsequent eras, and Bill agreed with my assessment of the difference between 1950s sci-fi and 1960s sci-fi:  1950s sci-fi most typically ends with the old order restored, while 1960s sci-fi typically ends with the realization things have changed irrevocably.

In other words, “What now, puny human?”

I judge the 1960s sci-fi boom to have started in 1963 (at least for the US and western Europe; behind the Iron Curtain they were already ahead of us) with the Outer Limits TV show, followed in 1964 by the films The Last Man On Earth (based on Richard Matheson’s I Am Legend), Robinson Crusoe On Mars, and The Time Travelers.

But what really triggered the 1960s sci-fi boom was Planet Of The Apes and 2001: A Space Odyssey.  The former was shopped around every major Hollywood studio starting in 1963 until it finally found a home at 20th Century Fox (whose market research indicated there was an audience for well-made serious sci-fi film and hence put Fantastic Voyage into production).  Kubrick, fresh off Lolita and Dr. Srangelove (another sci-fi film tho not presented as such), carried an enormous cache in Hollywood of that era, and if MGM was going to bankroll his big budget space movie, hey, maybe there was something to this genre after all.

From 1965 forward, the cinematic space race was on, with 1968 being a banner year for groundbreaking sci-fi movies:  2001: A Space Odyssey, Barbarella, Charly, Planet Of The Apes, The Power, Project X, and Wild In The Streets.  (Star Trek premiering on TV in 1967 didn’t hurt, either.)

And, yeah, there were a number of duds and more than a few old school throwbacks during this era, but the point is the most interesting films were the most innovative ones.

Here’s a partial list of the most innovative sci-fi films from 1969 to 1977, nine-year period with some of the most original ideas ever presented in sci-fi films.  Not all of these were box office successes, but damn, they got people’s attention in both the film making and sci-fi fandom communities.

=1969=

The Bed Sitting Room

Doppelganger (US title:  Journey To The Far Side Of The Sun)

The Gladiators

The Monitors 

Stereo 

=1970=

Beneath The Planet Of The Apes [a]

Colossus: The Forbin Project 

Crimes Of The Future 

Gas-s-s-s

The Mind Of Mr. Soames 

No Blade Of Grass 

=1971= 

The Andromeda Strain 

A Clockwork Orange 

Glen And Randa 

The Hellstrom Chronicle 

THX 1138 

=1972=

Silent Running 

Slaughterhouse Five 

Solaris [b] 

Z.P.G.

=1973=

Day Of The Dolphin

Fantastic Planet 

The Final Programme (US title: The Last Days Of Man On Earth)

Idaho Transfer 

=1974=

Dark Star 

Phase IV 

Space Is The Place 

Zardoz 

=1975= 

A Boy And His Dog 

Black Moon 

Death Race 2000

Rollerball

Shivers (a.k.a. They Came From Within and The Parasite Murders)  [c]

The Stepford Wives 

=1976= 

God Told Me To [a.k.a. Demon]

The Man Who Fell To Earth 

=1977=

Wizards

[a]  I include Beneath The Planet Of The Apes because it is the single most nihilistic major studio film released, a movie that posits Charlton Heston blowing up the entire planet is A Damn Good Idea; follow up films in the series took a far more conventional approach to the material.  While successful, neither the studio nor mainstream audiences knew what to make of this film, so 20th Century Fox re-released it in a double bill with another problematic production, Russ Meyer’s Beyond The Valley Of The Dolls, and holy cow, if ever there was a more bugfuck double feature from a major studio I challenge you to name it.

[b]  Other than Karel Zemen’s delightful animated films, Iron Curtain sci-fi films rarely screened in the US, with the exception of special effects stock shots strip mined to add production values to cheapjack American productions (looking at you, Roger Corman).  Solaris is the exception.

[c]  David Cronenberg made several other films in this time frame, but most of them were variations on the themes he used in Shivers, including his big break out, Scanners.  Realizing he was repeating himself, Cronenberg reevaluated his goals and started making films with greater variety of theme and subject matter.

. . .

The astute reader will notice I bring my list to an end in 1977, a mere nine-year span instead of a full decade.

That’s because 1977 also saw the release of Close Encounters Of The Third Kind and Star Wars.

The effect was immediate, with knock-off films being released the same year.

1978 saw Dawn Of The Dead, a sequel to 1968’s Night Of The Living Dead, and Superman, the first non-campy superhero movie aimed at non-juvenile audiences.  

1979 gave us Alien, Mad Max, and Star Trek: The Motion Picture.

These films were not just successful, they were blockbusters.

And none of them were original.

Close Encounters served as an excuse to do a Kubrick-style light show; plot and theme are about as deep as a Dixie cup, and of all the blockbusters of that era, it’s the one with no legs.

Alien’s pedigree can be traced back to It! Terror From Beyond Space (and It’s pedigree goes back to A.E. van Vogt’s “Black Destroyer” and “Discord In Scarlet” in the old Astounding Stories) and Demon Planet (US title: Planet Of The Vampires) by way of Dark Star (Dan O’Bannon writing the original screenplays for that film and Alien as well).

Mad Max, like 1981’s Escape From New York, differs from earlier post-apocalypse movies only insofar as their apocalypses of a social / cultural / political nature, not nuclear or biological weapons.  Mad Max, in fact, can trace its lineage back to No Blade Of Grass, which featured it own caravan of refugees attacked by modern day visigoths on motorcycles, and the original Death Race 2000, as well as an odd little Australian non-sci-fi film, The Cars That Ate Paris.

Not only was Dawn Of The Dead a sequel, but it kickstarted a worldwide tsunami of zombie movies that continues to this day (no surprise as zombie films are easy to produce compared to other films listed here, and while there are a few big budget examples of the genre, the typical zombie movie is just actors in ragged clothes and crappy make-up).

Superman was…well…Superman.  And Star Trek was Star Trek.

And the granddaddy of them all, Star Wars, was a cinematic throwback that threw so far back it made the old seem new again.

Not begrudging any of those films their success: They were well made and entertaining.

But while there had been plenty of sequels and remakes and plain ol’ knockoffs of successful sci-fi movies in the past, after these seven there was precious little room for anything really different or innovative.

1982’s E.T. was Spielberg’s unofficial follow-up to Close Encounters.

1984’s Terminator consciously harkened back to Harlan Elison’s Outer Limits episodes “Demon With A Glass Hand” and “Soldier” (not to mention 1966’s Cyborg 2087 which looks like a first draft of Cameron’s film)

All innovative movies are risky, and the mammoth success of the films cited above did little to encourage new ideas in sci-fi films but rather attempts to shoehorn material into one of several pre-existing genres.

Star Wars = space opera of the splashy Flash Gordon variety

Star Trek = crew on a mission (Star Trek: The Next Generation [+ 5 other series], Andromeda, Battlestar: Galactica [4 series], Buck Rogers In The 25th Century, Farscape, Firefly [+ movie], The Orville, Space Academy, Space Rangers, Space: Above And Beyond, plus more anime and syndicated shows than you can shake a stick at)

Superman = superheroes (nuff’ sed!)

Close Encounters / E.T. = cute aliens

Alien = not-so-cute aliens

Terminator = robots vs humans (and, yes, The Matrix movies fall into this category)

Escape From New York = urban post-apocalypse

Mad Max = vehicular post-apocalypse 

Dawn Of The Dead = zombies

Mix and match ‘em and you’ve got a nearly limitless number of variations you know are based on proven popular concepts, none of that risky original stuff.

Small wonder that despite the huge number of new sci-fi films and programs available, little of it is memorable.

. . .

It shouldn’t be like this.

With ultra-cheap film making tools (there are theatrically released films shot on iPhones so there’s literally no barrier to entry) and copious venues for ultra-low / no-budget film makers to show their work (YouTube, Vimeo, Amazon Prime, etc.), there’s no excuse for there not to be a near limitless number of innovative films in all genres.

But there isn’t.

I watch a lot of independent features and short films on various channels and streaming services.

They’re either direct knock-offs of current big budget blockbusters (because often the film makers are hoping to impress the big studios into giving them lots of money to make one of their movies), or worse still, deliberately “bad” imitations of 1950s B-movies (and I get why there’s an appeal to do a bad version of a B-movie; if you screw up you can always say you did it deliberately).

Look, I understand the appeal of fan fic, written or filmed.

And I get it that sometimes it’s easier to do a knock-off where the conventions of the genre help with the final execution.

But let’s not make deliberate crap, okay?

Oscar Wilde is quoted as saying “Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery” but he was quoting somebody else, and that wasn’t the whole original quote.

Wilde was quoting Charles Caleb Colton, a dissolute English clergyman with a passion for gambling and a talent for bon mots.

Colton’s full quote:   “Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery that mediocrity can pay to greatness.”

Don’t be mediocre.

Be great.

   © Buzz Dixon

[itsladykit]

Plum vs Razz (I have to search lotus in bloom cause I forgot what stf sans is called :3)

Hmmmm....

Usually, the 2-series boys can come out on top against the 1-series boys pretty easily and consistently. (Sorry, folks, I know that’s not the popular stance, but I don’t really find it reasonable for their low stats to be so easily overcome.) But Plum has KR and Razz has LV, which complicates things.

In the end, though, Razz would win. His LV isn’t maxed out, so Plum’s KR wouldn’t be super effective, and his HP is high enough that he’d eventually be able to wear Plum down and hit him.

When fighting the 1-series boys, it’s all about wearing them down to the point they can’t dodge anymore. As long as the 2-series skeleton has high enough HP to last until then, they’ll win. The 1-series boys only need to be hit once, afterall.

[deivissonlopes81]

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