*lies down on cross*

K, ready!

Wooky sex:  (1) n. Intercourse involving at least one member of genus Pongo; (2) n. A dessert on Omega 5; (3) n. An interval within the human mating ritual wherein the participants become howling ape creatures, clad only in dense body hair, capable of great strength and bouts of unintelligible grunting.

[Bob] How was the sex last night?
[Doug] Satisfactory, chum, until I felt the need to bellow like a member of genus Pongo.  It all went a bit wooky after that.

P.S. Wookiee.

“What about the Ewoks?”
“Yeah but Jar Jar Binks makes the Ewoks look like fucking Shaft.”

Apologies for repeat quoting from one scene of ‘Spaced’.

* cue bushweed tumble, whistling breeze *

So this saga pivots from the slim possibility of re-igniting the fun in a new generation to a full on cash-sucking yomp through treasured memories and powerful talismans.  It’s a last-gasp cash-grab by the studios before the the goodwill of ANH finally dissipates.

Star Trek was good, although I found the sets to be more 1960s Supermarionation / Space 1999 than even ANH’s visually persuasive level.  But that movie, after the initial thrill of it, lacks depth or impulse for me.

I mean, it’s Hollywood ‘n’ all, so whatever, but there was such opportunity here.

JJA is a nice producer.  He’s hooked into what delivers rush for audiences.  But he’s also hooked into the studio way, which is why, in a sense, with such an expensive project, he’s the right guy for the job.  But not really for me.  I’m feeling sad.

And then, the imdb trivia quotes him as saying – “I’m an impatient guy and tend not to like to stay with one thing for a long time”,  ”I’m just too impatient these days. I want to get on to the next project.”.  I’m not sensing investment here.

I say, guerrilla time – with the lowering cost of CGI and hoardes of out-of-work actors, I might just put up an alternative #7 flick before this baby gets born!

Then you can just look down and go “Oh, right!”

or whedon. sigh.

For The Win.  I quite forgot about Joss and am not proud to say it.

I’d have been tickled pink if del Toro or Blomkamp had been picked.  They can tell a genre story without the particular irritating visual tics (yeah, the lens flare is just the most obvious) that Abrams employs.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUkCJDkG3fg&feature=player_detailpage