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16 Apr

How Pokémon Snap Helped Pioneer the Photo Mode Era

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This article is presented by Nintendo. When New Pokémon Snap is released for Nintendo Switch on April 30, Nintendo fans everywhere will have a chance to experience the long-awaited follow-up to one of the company’s most fascinating and beloved experiments: 1999’s Pokémon Snap. As an on-rails FPS game where the only shooting you did was take pictures of wild Pokémon, Pokémon Snap was a true oddity. While developer HAL Laboratory elevated that premise through Metroidvania-like unlock mechanics and a fantastic photo grading system, most of Pokémon Snap‘s gameplay really was based on the thrill of capturing in-game moments with a…
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22 Feb

Justice League: How Christopher Nolan Helped Prevent Zack Snyder from Seeing the Whedon Cut

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It was a very select group of people who were satisfied with the Justice League movie which hit theaters in November 2017. As a Frankenstein’s monster of cinematic body parts, some derived from the original production helmed by director Zack Snyder and other scenes created whole cloth at the last minute by Joss Whedon during reshoots, the finished Justice League is a patchwork. But no one had more reason to be dissatisfied than Zack Snyder. Hence why Deborah Snyder, his wife and producing partner, as well as family friend Christopher Nolan stopped him from ever seeing it. In previous interviews,…
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02 Nov

How Sean Connery Helped Pioneer Internet Memes

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It’s a well-covered aspect of Sean Connery lore that the legendary Scottish actor and alpha James Bond retired from acting following 2003’s disastrous The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen.  “The last one I did, [director Stephen Norrington] was given $85 million to make a movie in Prague, but unfortunately he wasn’t certified before he started because he would have been arrested for insanity,” Connery told an interviewer in 2007. “So, we worked as well as we could, and [I] ended up being heavily involved in the editing and trying to salvage.” It’s a testament to how bad that film was and…
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02 Nov

How Sean Connery’s Singing Voice Helped Him Land James Bond

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It’s an unusual sight for James Bond fans. Standing in a gloriously green Technicolor field by a California stream intended to pass for Ireland, Sean Connery cuts a more rugged approximation of Walt Disney masculinity, taking breaks between a swing of his scythe to sing, “She’s my dear, my darling one, my smilin’ and beguilin’ one, I love the ground she walks upon my darling Irish girl.” To be charitable, Connery’s attempt at an Irish lilt was no more convincing in 1959’s Darby O’Gill and the Little People than it would be three decades later for his Oscar winning turn…
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22 Sep

How The Venture Bros. Helped Comic Book Tropes Evolve

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There’s nothing new about comic book and superhero parodies. Many films within the current superhero cinema system like Deadpool even turn a self-aware eye to the source material, while shows like The Tick poke fun at the medium with exaggerated character types. A lot of the material that pokes fun at comics, however, does so for the simple joys of parody or to highlight the intrinsic silliness of superheroes. Adult Swim’s classic and now sadly-concluded animated series The Venture Bros. goes about things a bit differently. The Venture Bros. didn’t begin as a direct analysis of the form and genre,…
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01 Apr

How Tank Girl Helped Bring the Spice Girls Together

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I already had many reasons to be thankful director Rachel Talalay has been behind the camera, making movies and TV shows, since the 90s, but add another one to the list. Talalay, who has directed Doctor Who, Sherlock, as well as at least one episode of much of the CW’s current lineup, is kinda, sorta partially responsible for bringing English pop group the Spice Girls together. This is a bit of an overstatement, of course. There were several rounds of auditions including hundreds of women that went into selected one the members of the wildly-successful 90s group, but, as Talalay…
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