Star Wars with occasional sarcasm
George Lucas is (naturally) one of Forbes’ Celebrity Billionaires.
He’s #277 on their list of The World’s Billionaires, and featured in Homes Of The Billionaires… But didn’t the L.A. Times article say he doesn’t live at the Ranch? We need a fact-checker, stat.
You know you’ll recognize several faces in Entertainment Weekly’s salute to immortals.
Over at Rankopedia’s list of the best sci-fi movies, it’s The Empire Strikes Back in the top spot at the moment, with The Matrix and Serenity in second and third. (io9 was clearly a motivator earlier this afternoon when they pointed out The Matrix was #1; it’s dropped a spot since.) Other placers: A New Hope is #4, Return of the Jedi at #11 and Revenge of the Sith at #22. As far as lists go it’s kinda wacky, but that’s the internet for you. It’s not set in stone: anyone can register and shake things up a bit, so by the time you read this entry, who knows?
Sci Fi Wire readers bemoan the lack of The Empire Strikes Back, Aliens and Serenity in the… Wait a minute. AFI’s doing a list of the Best Science Fiction movies? A top ten? Which will air in June? You’d think I’d have noticed that yesterday… Need to stop doing this stuff at 4am, clearly. Let that be a lesson to you all: Don’t blog while drowsy. (She says, posting at 4am. Again.)
Oh well. Whatever the final results, we can at least be sure that Star Wars won’t get beat out by The Godfather.
There are a lot more familiar faces in Entertainment Weekly’s under 30 actress roundup than there were for the men, including Natalie Portman, Keira Knightley, Kristen Bell, Katee Sackoff, Emma Watson and Summer Glau.
New York Magazine’s Vulture blog counts down ten beloved characters who didn’t deserve to die. Wash’s Serenity is the only real genre character on the list, but Samuel L. Jackson’s hilarious end in Deep Blue Sea and Vincent Vega in Pulp Fiction are also contenders.
With that in mind, what sudden character death (outside of Star Wars) still haunts you? (Seriously, if you post any Legacy of the Force spoilers in this thread, I will cut you. Okay, maybe not. Just delete them. But I’m sure there’s a sidebar poll in this about six months down the line.)
Hayden Christensen, Shia LeBouf and Daniel Radcliffe are among Entertainment Weekly‘s 30 under 30. I assume the actresses are waiting in the wings…
Just to prove that even the smartest among us can over-think things, MENSA has released their Top Ten Smartest TV Shows and there isn’t one genre show on it.
Not to say that these aren’t great shows, but to admit that Star Trek and Stargate SG-1 were on the viewing list, but not included? A sad oversight.
What list of fearsome movie gangsters would be complete without Jabba the Hutt? I don’t see any of those other slackers making bikini girls dance for them or displaying those who’ve wronged them in the form of giant foil-wrapped candy bars, do you?