Great flick! I loved how they matched the costumes and sets to look exactly like those from the original "A New Hope" movie, almost like it was filmed back in the 1970s. The action was exciting, and I loved how the ending of the movie would almost seamlessly transition into A New Hope if you watched them back-to-back. A lot of great effects and a healthy amount of violence, but also a good story line: pretty much everything you want in a Star Wars movie.
Take control of your home entertainment equipment with this Star Trek Phaser universal remote control. It operates using gesture-control technology instead of buttons, and it makes 10 realistic phaser sounds from the TV show. The Star Trek Phaser universal remote control has four banks of memory so you can program up to 36 commands.
Much like the Communicator from The Wand Company, the Star Trek Phaser is a beautiful piece crafted from apparently quality materials with impressive build quality. The pistol grip is quite heavy and made with with metal, somewhat resembling a magazine from like a Glock or something. The metal "cooling fins" around the rear of the pistol body are also made of metal, and they feel almost silky. Every piece on the Phaser seems to be better than it has to be, and even the plastic seems to be of high quality. You can use either the smaller Type 1 Phaser by itself or plus it into the pistol body to be used as a combined Type 2 unit, and it charges using a standard cord for a Droid smartphone. I haven't actually used it as a TV remote, so I can't really comment on that aspect of the device. But it has 10 different Phaser sounds from The Original Series, including the overload function. It also has a vibration feature built into it, so the Phaser gently vibrates when "blasting" stuff. I sure wish I'd had one of these when I was a kid.
This release contains all 10 episodes of season 2 of Fargo, the anthology series inspired by the 1996 Coen brothers film. Season 2 focuses on a young state police officer and Vietnam veteran in 1979 South Dakota and Minnesota.
As much as I loved Billy Bob Thornton in the first season, the second season has perhaps an even better overall cast. Kirsten Dunst and Ted Danson are probably the biggest names, but there are outstanding performances from the entire ensemble. Jesse Plemons was fantastic, and he seems to have put on about 40 pounds versus his role on Breaking Bad. Jean Smart is great as always, and there are very entertaining performances in smaller roles from Nick Offerman and Brad Garrett. Even though the second season is ostensibly a sequel, it's actually a prequel of sorts, with the events occurring about a quarter century before the first season. There isn't much of a carryover of story lines vis-a-vis to the first season, but one of the characters in the second season does in fact exist in the first season, albeit portrayed by an older actor in the later storyline. And as in the first season, the writing and cinematography are excellent. I can't wait for season 3.
A drifter named Malvo (Billy Bob Thornton) brings trouble to small-town Minnesota and influences insurance salesman Lester Nygaard (Martin Freeman) into murder. Meanwhile, a pair of local police officers are trying to piece together a series of murders which they believe is connected to Malvo and Nygaard.
This first season was very well done! The cinematography is beautiful, and the character progression is awesome. The storytelling is a little bit of a slow burn, but then so was Breaking Bad. Similar to BB, the main character goes from pansy to hardened criminal. And Billy Bob Thornton is absolutely fantastic as the main antagonist!