Really loathed the Ewoks when “Jedi” came out but enjoyed the rest of the movie, especially the opening rescue. Unless you’re Seth McFarlane, if you’re going to make bear creatures into main characters, you go for grizzlies, black or brown bears as a model, not koalas or teddies. As a cynical kid back then, the Ewoks…

Now that you mention it, it did seem like Uhuru was always trying to get that huge bluetooth to stay in her ear in TOS.

That would be too funny, 23rd Century re-enactments of our pop music culture.

Guess I’m one of those old fogies that expects his sci-fi to have a glimmer of intelligent thought. Still reeling (as former military) at the awfully generous “field promotion” Kirk gets in the first film. Yes, our Navy had a “Seaman to Admiral” program but, uh, it didn’t work THAT fast. Have yet to see the second one…

This. More of a 70s kids myself, so it was about moon buggies and Tang with post-11 missions, and anything to keep Watergate off TV. Neil DeGrasse Tyson talks about science and science education needing a “Sputnik Moment” to combat the lackadaisical atttiude towards science (and science budgets) by the general public.

Yeah, the after parties at the pride parades tended to get mighty rough back then...

“Science miscalculates!” Love that line. It’s like all of science is just one single guy with a slide rule who forgot to carry his 9 when doing long division and doomed humanity.

He took it off at the end, which made the character in that particular story, I think. I kind of liked that they went with the silver age “Luthor’s pissed because he’s bald” vibe, which fit the very hairy 70s back then. Everyone thought Telly Savalas and Isaac Hayes were cool but no one really wanted to LOOK like them.

And those were my favorite parts of SII, all those under-the-breath comments alternating with cheap, obvious, phony sycophancy, lol. The sociopath meets new (and bigger) sociopath kid on the block. My favorite Hackman before Zod line (walks into destroyed Daily Planet after massive superfight and says something to…

Being a 70s kid, I liked the Hackman take on the character, especially the comedy of an evil genius cum cheap ambitions of a Donald Trump/Rupert Murdoch personality (“Australia!”). Seemed to match the suffocating gaudiness of that decade (I thought at the time). I can still laugh at the fact that the first human being…

Wow. My arc for the released trailers has been 1) meh; 2) hmmm, somewhat interesting; to 3) oh good lord, hot mess!

They can add the trailer to the inevitable Wikipedia plot summary that will appear the day of its release and I’ll save yet another $10 on avoiding a crappy film!

Well, god bless your innocent, white libertarian heart! As a black male, I’ll break it down for ya: Spike Lee really IS that dense. The density is from compressed ego. We’re talking Superman-crushing-a-piece-of-coal-with-his-bare-hand-turning-it-into-a-diamond dense.

This. Thought the same. Actually, the first time the picture is shown, I thought it was Connery.

I wouldn’t say “Skyfall” was shit, but I’d agree it wasn’t the artistic gem people make it out to be. Good action flick. As much as I love the Craig films, my standard bearers for actual plot and screenwriting are “From Russia With Love” and “On Her Majesty’s Secret Service”

I half-jokingly guessed the main plot about Bond/Blofeld in an io9 post earlier this year. I enjoyed “Spectre” even more than “Skyfall” (sorry folks, I don’t see how this movie is any less spectacular than the previous film for pure popcorn purposes). My only problem with the fraternal conceit is: a) it seems like the…

If Planned Parenthood could figure out a way to make the abortion of Congressmen retroactive, I would gladly pay more taxes.

So true. Just shows how bat shit crazy the American Taliban aka Tea Party House members are. They think they’re sticking it to the man, when basically they’re wasting more tax dollars than any proverbial welfare freeloader. My friend who was furloughed in 2013 was more pissed than relieved about the back pay. He was…

Actually that’s not the case, you can apply for unemployment. A friend of mine applied in 2013 by sending his furlough notice to his state’s agency. He got processed and was about to receive his first unemployment check when everyone was called back to work.

I’m seriously misty-eyed at this, as I recognized what looked like the first “video phone” I ever saw, on the counter in the pre-fire photo. My dad worked for AT&T and I remember their booth at our 1973 state fair with some of the first (desktop) video phones. I remember asking him could we get one and he said it was…