Brakespear
Brakespear
Brakespear

Say what you like about that there Wolverine, but his super healing powers seem to also extend to his beard - if I go so much as a day without combing and oiling my own, I start to look like a deranged homeless person who fell face-first into something sticky, then accidentally ended up with several dead rodents glued

Well, no, that’s not entirely accurate is it? Like most of the systems we’ve built, there are clear, logical, evolutionary benefits to things like ethics. Ethics and law exist because when lots of different forms of life with potentially conflicting interests come together to form a culture, a community... the only

“Maybe we can teach the robot anger...”

Hey, don’t pick on him just because he doesn’t have a hare.

I rather think The Machine deserves more credit, at least *some reference* when we talk about Ex Machina, given that it’s basically the same story... but with a much darker vibe, much cooler cyberpunk future setting, and came out first.

The soundtrack alone beats the hell out of Ex Machina.

Should Fury Road actually count for Visual Effects though? I mean, they weren’t really effects... they just *actually blew up a load of stuff*. 

I really don’t understand why they keep trying to reboot Klingons with a new design - every time they do, they make them more generic.

I really thought Klingons had reached a pretty good place - like, by the time of Undiscovered Country, Klingon costume was starting to look a bit more varied and plausible.

But no.

I find it interesting how little anyone talks about surnames.

America likes to talk about “white” people as one thing. But you look at all the crazy surnames among American white people and you see something rather different (and something a lot of American writers fail to grasp, when portraying things other than

I find it interesting that “white” has been so generalised that all white people are lumped together, and that this is somehow seen as okay and not at all racist.

I suppose it’s the American influence. It rather reminds me of the time I was dating a black girl while studying abroad in LA - she insisted that I wasn’t

Batman blatantly has super powers. We act as if his ridiculous physical prowess, incredible training in every field of combat and science, great intelligence and engineering ingenuity and obscene wealth is actually humanly possible in *one person* - he’s a freak, as surely as if they’d given him laser-eyes.

“A black sheep in the 90s, it was precursor, a show before its time,”

Um, except it rather owes its existence to Babylon 5, which did far more daring things with the scale of its story (featuring one big massive arc in a time long before the “era of binge watching” as you put it, and far more consistently than DS9),

Perhaps, but it’s not really the most *fun*, which surely has to factor into such silly, subjective lists.

Like, A Scanner Darkly impressed the hell out of me. But I’ve seen it maybe... twice. The Matrix though? Bill and Ted? I’ve seen those so many times, and they never cease to be “pick-me-up” entertaining.

You gotta hand it to him though... he’s totally right in more than one way. I spent five months doing the student exchange thing in LA (I’m from the UK) and it really, really freaked me out... all the air conditioning.

Like, every place I’d go, you’d step out of the searing desert heat, and into a place so cold you’d

Did you ever see that movie with James Spader in which the casting was like the complete opposite of what you’d expect - James Spader was the good guy cop or whatever, and Keanu was a serial killer.

Quick google reveals... it was called “The Watcher”.

I preferred it too. It was way more imaginative and deranged, and that guy who played Death is excellent (and I can never remember his name, even though he’s been in *everything*), and the hell stuff genuinely freaked me out when I first saw the film as a kid.

“...but him flatlining in the real world and then magically fixing himself gets passed over.”

He’s shown to have had his heart stop in the real world. He doesn’t have any actual *reason* for his heart to have stopped in the real world. Hearts stop and start all the time in the *real* real world - admittedly less often

Most of what you say is true, but you lose a point for not actually mentioning The 13th Floor.

And let’s not forget the fantastic games it spawned - prequels which tell the tale of how Riddick escaped from Butcher Bay, directly leading to the events of Pitch Black and rendering the whole thing even more epic (and making a certain mercenary’s death in Pitch Black kinda more significant).

Also, I find it odd how

Because this is how Chronicles actually acquired its label as a “bad” movie - it wasn’t bad at all. It just wasn’t like Pitch Black, and when a few people said it was bad because of this, everyone just parroted this to seem clever.

And they still do.

Where anything code is concerned, I’d be far more inclined to believe Carmack than just about anyone else. That guy is just... a robot. And I mean that in a good way.