I think the reasoning is a) due to the reboot, the name is now known again, and b) the reboot burned itself out. So, if you're going to take advantage of the franchise, you start over again.

Ah, so it's some kind of scandal.

I finally saw Gravity on DVD.

I avoided the film in theaters for a couple reasons. One, the plot, as I understood it, didn't interest me too much. It's a castaway story, abet one where living off the land won't last for long. Second, I no longer care much about visuals for visuals sake, if I ever did. I've seen real space in Imax, did I need to see the CG version? So, I stayed home, and waited for the movie to come to me.

It was... eh. It's hard to articulate. I fast forwarded through George Clooney's stories. Part of it was, yes, that the "mission specialist" non-astronaut wouldn't be on the space walk, they'd be in the shuttle directing things from there. I know it wasn't the movie's intention, but after the shit went down I had a feeling of "oh, so YOU are the one who survived. That's not fair." Understandably, that never came up If nothing else, it made me want to re-watch "Marooned", the 1969 Gregory Peck and Gene Hackman film about a Skylab crew who's Apollo capsule can't land.

He was auditioning for Oscar the Grouch.

A good episode, and I like the idea of the series. If The Cowboys doesn't get into the queue this way, I'll be very disappointed!

I can only see it working if the entire thing is tax supported, and there will be quite a lot of waste so the number of new power plants needed will be quite large. No obstacles there that I can see As with most claims of this type, I think I'll ignore it until we see working hardware.

The first Turtle movie still captures the original comic the best.

I wish we'd go back to the days where they'd change the name of the movie, and you'd never know it was based on a book unless you caught the small print in the credits.

My dad's college roommate became some sort of Christian minister, but the honest kind who was poor much of the time. Our families often got together, did things. Once, in the early 80's, I taught their son who was my age about D&D, and he loved it. A month or two later, he mailed me a copy of an article about how roleplaying games were evil. If you want some fun, go check out the Tom Hanks TV movie "Mazes and Monsters", about how RPG's drive you insane.

Well, his name is on it. Given his age, and how collaborative animation is, there's lots of leeway. I'm not saying this as a negative, I'm just observing that the voice of others might be much higher than they were in something like Nausicaa. It wouldn't surprise me if, had thing film come out years ago and it wasn't to be (again) Miyazaki's final film, someone else was listed as the director as was the case with Whispers of the Heart.

He's at least doing the first script, which for a Pixar movie means nothing. Of all the Pixar movies, The Incredibles is the one that cries out the most for more. Hell, it would make a great TV series.