I think it's hard for me to upgrade my opinion of a bad movie simply because I'm not likely to give it a second viewing. More likely is a movie becoming less in my eye as I become more familiar with it.

As Dorkman mentioned in the grab bag episode, this has happened in Anime. in a long running series, they simply put in filler episodes for a season or two until there's enough new comic book pages to fill a season of animation. For shorter series, they plan on just diverging from the original at some point and doing their own ending. Full Metal Alchemist did this. Then, once the manga ended, they went back and did another series which skipped much of the first half and adapted the new ending.

A Feminist plea to NOT have women in the new Star Wars films.

http://skepchick.org/2014/04/one-woman- … epchick%29

"The prequels also had one major female character. I think. I can’t be sure, because I fell asleep in the middle of every one. They were some of the worst movies that have ever been made. Ever. Dull, boring, insulting, grating — I wish there had been no women in those movies. When future generations look back at this ridiculous time when Hollywood insisted on churning out film after film told from the perspective of straight young white men, I want them to look at Attack of the Clones and say “Women had nothing to do with that.”"

Which can be fun when the ads at Atheist sites are all for religious products.

Oh, agreed. Mind you, it was different back in the day when studios felt free to change everything about the story they were adapting, including the title

Although Doctor Who is a case where there had never been any continuity, or attempt to keep it, until the 80's when the fanboys took over the show. Unless you were the one who wrote the old episode, and you had your script, it was up to your faulty memory to try and bring up a past event. Every new production team DID wipe the slate clean, doing things their own way. That's why the show lasted so long (and is why the new show is already getting creaky from all the new baggage).

Can we remember that most HB cartoons were not that good, and in no way can sustain a half hour story let alone a full movie? Jonny Quest, sure, even the 90's version, but apart from that?

There are docs who are rated on their subject and not their quality, and this is probably one of them. I just want the information: if it's put together well, bonus!

Through whatever magic, this one just showed up on my iPad, with the correct date and everything. Also, the full movie seems to be on Youtube, but it wouldn't let me watch it on my iPad. Probably because the app I was using wouldn't let me see the ads.

Interesting episode I do like how nobody remembered why Alicia Silverstone became a thing. She was in three Aerosmith videos when they had their comeback, including one with Liv Tyler. So, she was the next upcoming star for a bit, until she wasn't.

Turning existing works into musicals is a time honored tradition. Who can forget how the cynical play Pygmalion became My Fair Lady, over the creator's dead body (Shaw refused to sell the rights, so they just waited until he died). Now you have Broadway musicals based on Ghost, 9 to 5, The Producers, etc. There's even a Last Starfighter musical. Results with these adaptations, naturally, vary

There's two ways to adapt War of the Worlds: you can adapt the plot, or the idea. The plot is about aliens invading England around 1890. The IDEA is aliens invading "now". After all, Wells wasn't writing a period piece, he was commenting on British colonialism, and what if someone tried to do it to them. Neither movie has much to do with the plot or characters of the book. If you want to see the plot adapted well, you want the rock opera.