Even as someone who believes as C.S. Lewis did the ending of the "The Last Battle" left me feeling...odd. I guess I wanted a better conclusion. Though, I personally prefer "A Horse and His Boy" out of all the stories.

Way to set the bar

Just relistened to the Matrix commentaries and I am sure it has come up before but would love to hear the guys talk about "League of Extraordinary Gentlemen" and Sean Connery's role in the movie.

Don't use children to do it...*sigh*

Thanks to Bathilda for your point of view.
I think Avengers handles it well enough but that being able to comment on gender issues in movies, especially, as Trey points out, that there is much worse female portrayals in films but I agree with Bathilda that being able to use a super heroine style film to explore gender issues would be an interesting piece.

Showing a world that is struggling with the issues of gender inequality through the view of a super heroine would be a good place to start. Maybe a heroine apprentice rising among the world of male heroes (similar to the Incredibles with Elastigirl in the early part of the film). She encounters the similar glass ceilings and must grow past them.

Just pure speculation right now.

I'll be surprised if they actually do Yoda's story or if it will just be a brief vignette about Yoda and his adventures. But, the speculation is more that they want to do single character, adventure pieces, kind of like many of the young adult series books written about Episode 1 except as the journal entries from a character's perspective.
Singular adventure tales about characters could be interesting-it doesn't have to be Yoda. Han Solo has been thrown out there, and I can imagine that Boba Fett might make it out there too.

Of course, in Trey's poster, they crashed the Falcon then discovered something beneath the sands-the spice, melange
Then the galactic political games of who controls the spice could start

I had to take a quick double read of the OP to make sure I posted the right thing.
Personally, one of my favorite pieces of camera work is in "Pride and Prejudice" with Keira Knightly. There is a scene in there where Knightly and Matthew MacFayden are dancing in a crowded hall. During the shot there is a part of it where the two of them are all alone. The shot continues on with the two then back to the crowd. It always stood out to me as a very interesting and beautiful piece of work.

As with anything, it needs balancing, and I think that part of the problem is that characters are either archtypes (loner, jock, hitman, girl next door, etc,) and are not fleshed out very well, or they are so emphasized that the rest of the cast goes to the back burner.

I think "wunza" movies need to comeback, so much as character development needs to happen more often than it seems to in modern film making.

One example of a "wunza" happens in fan films. One is a master and the other is an apprentice, either Jedi or Sith. Very rarely are they two of equal rank who work together to solve a problem, each with their own strengths and weaknesses.

Dorkman pointed out that "Avengers" is a great example of foils, and complimenting strengths and weaknesses. I haven't seen Dredd yet, but plan on it, so I'll take his word for it on that point.

I don't think we need foils so much as we need compliments. You cannot have a jack of all trades character without it starting to feel like a Bond or MacGuyver parody. Things like the Ocean movies emphasis more the team. Even if just a two man team, its nice to have that dynamic.

Actually, while not recent, "National Treasure" has a good foil dynamic.

Two questions I have, after reading this is:
1. The new Lone Ranger movie? Does that work for the foil between Tanto and the Lone Ranger? Obviously we can't judge the movie yet but I am referring to the overall idea of a sidekick, in essence.
2. Is the lack of foils due in part to pressure of having one big name star rather than an ensemble?

CM is kind of a one trick pony. He is either angry at a film or doesn't bother to review it. I felt simarly to his Avengers commentary, which wasn't really a commentary so much as a review of which he hadn't bothered to do homework for, i,e, watch the other films.

However, his prequel commentaries are worth a listen because I think that is material that he actually cares about and put some effort in to the review. Plus he thinks those are bad so he fits right in here

Its kind of like Red Letter Media. The first couple of reviews were well done, but after they became popular (for want of a better word. Maybe "known" is better) it became same old jokes and kind of tired. I was really annoyed at the Plinkett review of "Baby's Day Out" were even the initial magic bean is not bought in to. Hard to enjoy a movie you don't even accept the premise of

Teague, I LOL'D

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Also, I cannot belive I made it through this thread without mentioning "Gargoyles"