That they kept making mistakes is a profound understatement. They made mistakes that no present-day lay person with half a brain would make. Tell me you wouldn't have had the sense (to cite only a few of many examples) to study the planet from orbit first, or to map and explore the alien structure remotely before…
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Yeah. The earliest attestation in the Ngram Viewer is from 1984.
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Speaking to the head of a radical splinter group of disgruntled engineers: "It might interest you that I studied Proto-Indo European on Rosetta Stone...."
People seem really desperate to find reasons to hate on this. A teenage geek finds himself with superpowers and the inevitable bravado that comes with that and people can't abide his snark toward a car thief? Car thieves are dicks pretty much by definition, right? Parker looks like he's fairly new to crime-fighting…
Are we meant to think that David reconstructed Indo-European through a two-year study of the Rosetta Stone catalog (instead of, you know, just uploading the languages)? Early humans spoke Engineer? Anyway, I'm happy to have found this clip, which I instantly thought of when David apparently offended the Engineer:
"It's the biggest question of the movie, and it's never directly answered."
Posing questions and not answering them is a virtue. Who, for example, would fault Alien for not explaining the space jokey? We desperately want to know, but it's the mystery that makes it so haunting.
Finally saw the movie. It looked great, of course. But what an abysmally stupid script. Here we have the most important scientific exploration in human history and the professional scientists are so dumbfoundingly unprofessional and unscientific as to drive the unnecessarily swift cascade of disasters by the…
You really need to ask? You're genuinely and truly "baffled" by this?
Scrolled through the posts to make sure someone had mentioned this. The ending is devastating and heartbreaking.
Which is why the running conceit in X-Men of comparing mutants to other marginalized groups is lazy and stupid.
Unbreakable minus Mr. Glass should have been season one of Heroes. Season finale/cliffhanger? He meets or gets an inkling for the first time of someone else with superpowers.
Please distinguish an artificial vs. a natural plot complication. Whether batman had to fetch a witness from a hideout somewhere in Gotham that law enforcement didn't know about or whether he escaped their jurisdiction by fleeing the state or the country doesn't strike me as particularly relevant. The actual story…
No Q? No Frankenstein? No Frankenstien?
I remember watching this on a local station as a kid, and hilariously, before and after every commercial break, as was this station's custom, some Afternoon-Movie screen would come up and you'd hear an announcer's voice say something like: "We will return to our feature presentation, Sssssss, after these messages" and…
Ah ha.