Well I'm already up to 2 movies I really enjoy mentioned.

I think I'm just gonna avoid this thread from here on out. I'm not sure I can control that little voice in my head that wants to argue, with so much to disagree about going on here.

Yes.

Oh yeah, the videogames are what ruined it. Not the movies that actually established the force powers trick maneuvers in the universe.

Otherwise, yes, I agree with absolutely everything in your post.

...I want it, I want it so. I want it, and then I'll put in in a movie, and I'll hug it, and kiss it and feed it and love it...

That's always been my feeling.

Although with something like this you run into a catch 22, they're putting in well over the X amount and getting well...this quality. But if this was an original project, no one would take it seriously. The only reason they'll get a pass on the effects and everything is because it's a fan film, and a Star Wars fan film at that.

Wow, that sounds incredible.

The Tron Legacy poster on the main page still says "Down in Front", not sure if that's something you're worried about.

But only one them is TRUUUE!!!!

Do you think you know it? Tune in next week to find out if you're right!!

The Finder
(Moderate spoilers for the first episode)

So I ran across this the other day on netflix and thought I'd give it a try as I'd seen the backdoor pilot they did, and remembered I'd been curious to check out the actual show.

If you don't know what The Finder is, basically an ex-military genius has a gift and an obsession with finding people and things. A pretty simple and fun idea. It's based off some book that I have no idea about, this incarnation first appeared as a backdoor pilot in an episode of Bones, it was fun, light and quirky, the core Finder cast had a really amazing chemistry and it was generally and sincerely fun. So I was looking forward to the actual show (And then forgot about for 2 years).

And I don't know what they hell they did to it, but the actual show is down right verging on horrible. They retain most of the core elements, he's ex military and likes to find things. But removed 1/3 of the trifecta core cast that was in the Bones backdoor pilot, the Saffron Burrows character, So the entire dynamic of that is thrown out of wack. And moreover they kept trying to make it a dark and gritty show about fractured characters and eeeemoooootioooons, and every single time it falls flat. Seriously in the first episode we are introduced to the ex-juvie hippy girl with a vengeful parole officer whose soul mission in life is to send her back to juvie, the idea the Walter (The titular "Finder") is mentally ill, and Walter has some sort of dark and sullied parts of his military history; and it's all presented with the artistic gracefullness of a fully loaded pack mule doing ballet on the freeway. They also introduced the obligatory cop character for every show about a detective, in this case played by Mercedes Masöhn, who... how do I put this, couldn't act her way out a wet paper bag. And I will admit, I've never seen her before, so she might be the victim of bad script or director. I really wish I could find a copy of one part on youtube because it is truly so cartoonishly horrible, basically they are discussing some mob boss Walt wants to meet and the cop character just stops deadpans and mutters the mob bosses name under her breath like some cartoon character, and then when they are on the mob bosses boat (at sea mind you) staring at the mob boss (Played by the delicious Jamie Murray...in a gold one piece swimsuit playing the trombone cartoonishly bad, while surrounded by body guards in florescent orange tracksuits...oh just wait) the trained and seasoned cop stares at her with the kind of look you give someone who just slapped your dog and says (literally word for word here) "We haaate her."

And that's where I pretty much checked out.

The show seems to be constantly trying to straddle the lines of retaining that fun, quirky sensibility and turning it towards this darker more realistic thing, and yet has this weird turrets like tick of throwing in these flat out cartoony moments and it ALL falls flat at every turn. Which really makes me sad. I went into the show, coming off the bones episode, expecting a kind of fun, quirky, lighthearted detective show about a guy who is just really really good at finding anything and everything and so has a kind of unofficial detective business on the side of running his rural florida lakeside bar, kind of a Pushing Daisies crossed with Bones sort of a deal. And what I got was something so completely not that at all.

I do have to credit to a couple things though, Geoff Stults is really good and carries the show as much as he can with pure charm and charisma (But he's carrying a lot of weight), and Michael Clarke Duncan is ...well...  the motherfucking Michael Clarke Duncan and that's all there is to it. (It was really cool to see him again, I miss that big guy).

I don't really have anything more to say on it, it just makes me sad.

Existenz

Tom Hanks as Walt Disney??

That's all I need. Literally. I'm on board. I haven't even watched the trailer, but I'm totally on board.