Time 100 2006 gala, George Lucas. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
There are a lot of museums. Some just house the usual art, fossils, and whatnot. However, some are more themed; around science, sports, music, or a certain art type or a specific age or cultural group, that sort of thing. George Lucas is a storyteller. We can debate the quality but he is mostly drawn to the narrative. And so will the new museum he’s building in Los Angeles. Add that to the list of museums I’d like to visit and probably won’t get to.
I know I’m stretching but I wanted to acknowledge it somehow.
There’s a great video by toy reviewer Pixel Dan about what a loss Toys R Us, the last big toystore, really is.
As to why the “world’s biggest toystore” failed I’ll link to two videos, one by Company Man and another by one of the new contributors to Monstrosities that further explain the problem. (Both channels are worth checking out by the way.) The short version is the company that bought the store used the store they were buying as collateral for the lone, and then a series of other factors led to massive debt. Leveraged buyouts are a bad move.
Speaking of toys, over at The Clutter Reports I’m reviewing the last of the Transformers Alternators I own, Wheeljack. I plan to get back to cleaning projects and digital clutter maintenance for the next few week before going into another Transformers box.
Hopefully I’ll get to Free Comic Inside this week, maybe a Finally Watched if I’m lucky. But I want to get back to the Worldbuilding Project and finish that up so I can start that other comic I want to before having to shift to this year’s Captain Yuletide. In comic reviewing I have the last issue of Total Justice, the Marvel run on Gargoyles, and the final chapter of the “Revelation” storyline in the Transformers Spotlight one-shots. Meanwhile I’ll be starting the next DCAU title, the original Batman Beyond miniseries, which begins with a two-issue adaptation of the first episode.
The other project I want to work on this week is finishing the next BW Panelling video. It’s half-way done and it’s just audio work. Hopefully this will be a distraction free week so I just have to get the energy and desire to finish it. Yes, it’s more work than you think but relatively easier than a Video Review. This should (and hopefully will be) a full week of creating and commentating.
This week I’m using a link rather than posting the video here due to the preference of the host based on past experience. It’s a long story but within a certain group of the reviewing community there are understandable concerns due to past history with people posting their videos to sites without permission even though BW Media Spotlight is a review and commentary blog which is technically not part of the “Channel Awesome” community of reviewers. At least not since Reviewers Unknown closed down. But this is still in keeping with Saturday Night Showcase’s promotion of other material.
Transformers The Movie is the good theatrical Transformers movie if you ask many Transformers fans. It was two years in the making, it was highly publicized, and it’s a lot more fun and closer to what Transformers as a franchise is than the Michael Bay films. That doesn’t mean the movie is perfect but there has to be a reason the fandom loves it despite nostalgia. Someday I may tackle this myself beyond the comic adaptations I’ve already reviewed. I’ll post those below. SF Debris’ reviewhowever is more objective, pointing out the flaws and strengths as a movie. There are two videos, one of which is the reason I wanted to have this as this week’s Showcase. The second is of course the movie review, but the first goes into the history of why certain decisions were made. There are other trivia bits, and a defense of Ultra Magnus’ infamous “I can’t deal with that now” line I’ll keep for my own review, but the first video is what makes this a must-see beyond the fact that SF Debris’ Opinionated Reviews is just a great review series. Have a good Saturday!
My 1980s Marvel and 2000s IDW comic adaptations reviews
Guess what kids? Tonight’s fight DOESN’T feature the Phantom!
Yes, we’re going to turn things up a bit this week. Instead of the Ghost Who Walks it’s old Shellhead, Imperius Rex, and…does Namorita have a nickname? The Wrecking Crew is using god magic to attack Atlantis. The Sub-Mariner isn’t happy about that, and when Namor isn’t happy, nobody else is going to be happy. And Namor is rarely happy.
To Kill a Mockingbird (film) (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
The estate of Harper Lee is suing the creators of the forthcoming play adaptation of To Kill A Mockingbird for messing up Atticus Finch. In the original book Finch is already a crusader against the racism that is allowing the false accusation of rape against his black client in the old deep South by a white woman whose sexual advances the client turned down because she’s married. In the play it seems Finch has to learn that racism is a bad thing over the course of the case rather than already be anti-racist. I guess because he’s a white guy. Really, the book and movie already spoke against racism with everybody else and didn’t need Finch to stop being a racist because he never was. So what is the point? And no, I’m not buying “artistic differences”, the excuse given by the producer. There is no reason for this change. I’m with the Lee estate on this one.
