Stephen Hawking once held a dinner party for time travelers. He announced the date and time of the party after he held it and invited anyone capable of time travel now or in the future to attend. No one did. This suggests that time travel, at least into the past, isn’t possible. (I think it could just be that Hawking is a total bore and all the time travelers were washing their hair that night.) But that still doesn’t stop Hollywood from playing with the idea.
Some light spoilers ahead.
As I did with other artists recently passed I thought it appropriate to take this week to talk about Purple Rain and its star, Prince. Or, as he was known through much of the 90’s, O(+>.
According to Kevin Smith it was mandated that in his Superman movie there needed to be a giant spider monster, Superman would never fly, and he would never wear the classic suit.
It’s amazing that this thing never got off the ground.
Earlier this week Mississippi governor Phil Bryant signed into law House Bill 1523 to “protect sincerely held religious beliefs and moral convictions…from discriminatory action…” He goes on to say that the law does not interfere with any rights afforded to any citizen under currently existing laws. You can read his full statement here.
I caught wind of this in the form of critics decrying it as legalized discrimination. Headlines described it as awful and articles suggested crazy-sounding potential scenarios like women being fired for wearing pants. I’m also aware of the echo chamber that our social feeds can form. I follow people who share similar views as myself, resulting in everyone reinforcing everyone else and giving the false impression my opinion is the overwhelming majority. So I sought out breakdowns of the bill, taking extra interest in it since it is my home state. I could see and agree with the critics’ point of view. I would normally just leave it at that, as an unfortunate truth that I would quietly do what I could to undo; maybe write a letter, vote for the people I’d rather have making decisions, etc.
Then I saw that supporters of the bill were using this hashtag: #MSLiveAndLetLive. And something in me broke.
What better way to cleanse my eyes of the Snyder-verse than with the DC animated movies which, by the definition of animation, almost guarantees way more colors than I ever saw in Dawn of Justice? And if you want the lowdown on my April 1st post, scroll to the very bottom.
It’s an eternal story. Boy meets girl. Girl falls in love. Girl turns out to be from the Luna Queendom on the moon and is being blackmailed into coming to Earth to carry out a diabolical plot. Boy helps girl lead the aquatic fish people of Earth in a revolt.
I mean, who hasn’t been there?
The Caped Crusader against the Man of Steel! Defender of Gotham against the Son of Krypton! Hardened city boy against country yokel!
No matter who wins…audiences kinda lose.
Some experimental artists can be a little strange. Those people look at Frank and say “dude, that guy is weird.” See, it can be really counter productive when you get too far inside your own head.
(Spoilers for Frank below.)
Let’s take a big budget special effects shaky cam Godzilla inspired monster movie featuring colossal destruction and make a pseudo-sequel that is a small tense thriller set in a bunker featuring only three characters. Yeah, that makes sense.
