“Also, a fun fact I just learned, Gustav Holst was actually English. Well, fook me.”

Also, I live in his home town - Cheltenham has a statue of him in a park near here. There’s also a little museum.

Side fact - Holst’s home town just happens to also be the home of GCHQ - the UK’s centre for sneaky communications…

Have you played “Prey”? They have Art Bell in it - while you’re trapped aboard this massive living dyson sphere type alien ship, fighting the aliens, you’ll encounter intercepted radio transmissions, and you can hear people phoning in to talk about what’s happening back on Earth - strange lights in the sky etc

Sadly, you see a whole lot of people popping up on a game’s steam discussion board demanding that Valve fix games they didn’t make. People seem to struggle with general idea of digital retailers.

I think the ultimate “You probably haven’t seem them” pairing of “something strange happens aboard a ship in deep space” movies would be Pandorum and Cargo.

You watch Pandorum, and the plot twists takes you by surprise. You then watch Cargo, and the entire story takes you by surprise, because you assumed it was going…

Also, perhaps somewhat contrary to the above article... the ship is of a suspiciously similar design...

“Flipping the genders creates the same moral dilemma, but makes it an essentially harmless one in the eyes of most moviegoer...”

Misery. Why is nobody talking about Misery in the context of this movie?

There’s also Pandorum.

Why is nobody mentioning Pandorum? This movie is basically the shiny clean mainstream version of Pandorum - except Pandorum had that fantastic double plot twist at the end.

It actually would have made more sense had he awoken several people - that would be a reasonable thing to do, given that him waking up implies something has gone wrong, and clearly the ship’s automated stuff needs a bunch of humans around to keep an eye on things.

So it would be crappy for them, and he would still be…

Er, what are you on about? People criticize the colouring of recent Marvel movies because they look bad. They have a boring look. It’s not that people are failing to grasp some profound artistic style - the colours are just drab. And not even in a dramatic “gritty” realism sense, like in Children of Men, for example.…

After the world saw the perfectly-framed and smooth minimal-CGI action of Fury Road, I don’t understand how anyone could actually sit through a Marvel movie. The action in those movies is terrible - I actually had to look away during some of the Winter Soldier fight sequences because the camera was so shaky, it was…

Very much yes. It’s especially pitiful when you get the common “ridiculous goal in the first 30 seconds” and people ragequit because of that. Like, they ragequit when the ball spectacularly bounced three times and scored after the initial collision.

Also, find some way to flash the words “YOU ARE AN IDIOT” on the…

“If someone is offering you work and money, you take it.”

Unless you don’t actually need the money, because you already have a lot of money.

“improved skills like singing with uncanny beauty...”

Or rather, singing with a weak and whiny voice in keeping with the current movie trailer obsession with slow, whiny versions of famous songs.

Speaking as a zealous fan of Resident Evil 2 (the game, that is) - I really loved the first RE movie. As you say, the fact that the zombies don’t actually appear for ages demonstrated how great the pacing and atmosphere was. It showed some restraint, and that restraint paid off.

And I love the stuff Marilyn Manson did…

“Anderson’s movie, in contrast, took the concept and put it on steroids. It was brash and relentless.”

I find this particularly amusing, given the way movies went since then. You go back and watch the first Resident Evil, it’s really very slow paced by modern standards. Nobody from the main cast even encounters a…

Eehh... given how much money people like him make, I’d say it’s the greedy thing to do. I mean, does he not have enough money yet to actually be a bit more picky, and thus ensure his reputation is more firmly cemented as he gets older? After all, the way the industry works, the jobs you take will ultimately define the…

Define poor people.

Because for a big budget, graphically impressive game like Doom, you require a certain level of hardware in order to run the game.

It would be a more reasonable excuse if we were talking about pirating something designed to run on a potato.

Computer games are a luxury from the consumer’s point of…

Which is also why the movies were absolutely terrible and missed the point - having Sam abandon his master in that one scene absolutely obliterates one of the most important aspects of the story - that Sam is more of a hero, where Frodo is just inescapably burdened.

But... Battlestar *was* meandering. I mean, it has become rather notorious for it - for the way its story just went totally off course and disappeared up its own arse.

As for Breaking Bad, you may not have been rooting for anyone, but the entire story revolved around Walter’s arc. And that was the central thread that…

Not just any time-traveling fake professor! Matt Frewer!