There’s little that unites Star Wars fans beyond their irrevocable love for the galaxy far, far away, and they’ve proven that yet again by turning a rather simple question into an intricate debate.
Meanwhile, DCU fans realize that The Flash movie is getting at least one thing right, and that’s Ezra Miller’s high-speed run. Check out these beats and more in today’s sci-fi roundup below.
Want to watch an innovative sci-fi flick this weekend? Here’s the perfect franchise to binge through
In the age of content, where streaming companies lean on well-established franchises to rope people in and other industry moguls keep rehashing the same ideas over and over again through reboots, remakes, and incessant sequels, it’s difficult to find a humble movie that envisions an innovative plot and sees it through with a sense of enthralled purpose.
We might not be able to single out a movie that does it perfectly, but we might have the next best thing. Cloverfield is a sci-fi franchise thriving at the edge of the public psyche, and if you haven’t been able to give it a watch until now, this might be the perfect opportunity. In this article, we go through the order at which you should binge this peculiar franchise, where every installment has tried to do something unique and mostly succeeded.
Star Wars fans can’t even agree on whether they’d want legacy characters back
Lucasfilm is spending the majority of its creative juices in the New Republic era, which is after the fall of the Empire and before the events of the sequels. That puts them in a very strange position when it comes to legacy characters like Luke Skywalker, and though the studio brought the protagonist back for The Mandalorian and The Book of Boba Fett, this raises a larger issue.
Should CG de-aging become standard practice amid this surging wave of new AI technologies? And if so, can we expect to see Harrison Ford as Han Solo again, and someone embodying the late Carrie Fisher as Princess Leia? Star Wars fans have recently been found ferociously debating this topic, so make sure to check it out in case you want a refresher on this tired dilemma, which traces back to 2016’s Rogue One.
The Flash is finally fixing Ezra Miller’s awkward gait
For reasons that might elude even the most diehard Snyder defenders, his Flash in Justice League ran in a ludicrously awkward way that twisted his body in the throes of Speed Force. Now, fans have realized that the upcoming solo outing is finally addressing this issue and giving Barry Allen a much more conventional gait.
The last couple of DCU flicks have brought our standards down to such criminal lows that we’re moved to admit, even if this is the only thing The Flash ends up getting right, this venture will have been well worth it.
Published: Apr 14, 2023 12:00 am