{"id":9811,"date":"2025-07-25T20:32:05","date_gmt":"2025-07-26T02:32:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/?p=9811"},"modified":"2025-07-25T20:32:05","modified_gmt":"2025-07-26T02:32:05","slug":"good-stuff-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/2025\/07\/25\/good-stuff-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Good Stuff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been months since Parris and I last went to the movies, but we finally got out of the house last week, and bopped down to the Violet Crown to catch SUPERMAN.\u00a0 \u00a0I&#8217;m glad we did.\u00a0 \u00a0Supes and I are old friends, and this is one of the best Superman movies in a long time&#8230; maybe ever.\u00a0 \u00a0This new Superman reminds me of the version I used to read about when I was a kid, the strange visitor from another planet who came to Earth with powers and abilities far beyond those of mortal men.\u00a0 \u00a0(And yes, an innocent, of course, he&#8217;s always been an immigrant.\u00a0 \u00a0And an <em>illegal<\/em> immigrant, when you stop to think if it).\u00a0 \u00a0The film looks great, and James Gunn did a great job with the casting.\u00a0 \u00a0Rachel Bosnahan was terrific as Lois Lane; I&#8217;d say it&#8217;s between her and Margot Kidder for Best Lois Ever.\u00a0 \u00a0And there&#8217;s no doubt whatsoever for the Best Lex.\u00a0 Nicholas Hoult was far and away the Best Luthor of All Time, a truly chilling villain.\u00a0 The kid in the cape was excellent as well.\u00a0 \u00a0I hope he gets to play Kal-El in another dozen movies.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s been some great SF on television as well.\u00a0 \u00a0The Murderbot stories are always a lot of fun, and the TV show did them justice.\u00a0 I look forward to another series.<\/p>\n<p>ANDOR was this year&#8217;s highlight, though.\u00a0 Far and away the best of the Star Wars spinoffs.\u00a0 \u00a0Looked gorgeous, Diego Luna was first rate, and there was a realism and tension to the story that was sadly lacking in most of the other spinoffs.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s nice to see someone doing science fiction right.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been months since Parris and I last went to the movies, but we finally got out of the house last week, and bopped down to the Violet Crown to catch SUPERMAN.\u00a0 \u00a0I&#8217;m glad we did.\u00a0 \u00a0Supes and I are old friends, and this is one of the best Superman movies in a long time&#8230; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[218],"tags":[56,18],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9811"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9811"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9811\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9813,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9811\/revisions\/9813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}