I’m totally with you, except for one point. I’m sick to death of the Force and lightsabers. I know that kind of Star Wars’ bread and butter, but the Mandalorian proved conclusively that the Star Wars universe is interesting enough without needing to rely on the crutch of dull space-wizards and their improbable magic…

They say there are no wrong opinions, but this is a catastrophically wrong opinion.  Be gone from me, vile man!

Um, I don’t know anyone who thinks Halloween III is even a decent movie, let alone the “best Halloween” movie. I was barely able to force myself to finish it.  The commercial jingle alone is so stupid and obnoxious it makes the movie painful to watch. Halloween as a franchise is prettu weak overall but 3 is barely…

You speak for me as well. I completely agree. The compelling thing about Alien was the idea that there are mysteries out there in deep space that are beyond human understanding and beyond our capacity to deal with. The sequel films, even the very good ones, dilute the mystique slightly. Trying to give us ALL the…

Meh, honestly at this point, if Scott can make a decent movie out of it I’ll be fine with whatever. It’s really hard for me to look at the Alien franchise as a continuous storyline with how fractured and convoluted it has always been. To me, they are best enjoyed as a mishmash of individual stories without any…

Loved Gunship 2000. My family’s PC wouldn’t run anything more advanced than that, sadly. I recently found a brief Gunship clip on YouTube and... Let’s just say it was way more primitive a game than my 30 year old memories suggested.

This whole thing has been a real bummer to read about. I don’t really want to place the blame on anyone here, either at id or Mick Gordon. Both sides seem to have legitimate grievances. But the customers who got shafted with an inferior mix and arrangement of the OST album have the right to be pretty upset too. I…

This happens to me. I was born in '82 so I consider myself an "elder" millennial, and I have one coworker in his early 20s who gets a big kick out of calling me "Boomer." He does it somewhat ironically, but it doesn't help me not feel like there is already a huge generation gap between myself and younger millennials…

Its hard to imagine a movie that I would compare negatively to Salò. I will never forget the intense need to hose off my brain after watching that one.

Current Colorado resident here, lived in New Mexico most of my life. Mail-in voting was a revelation when I moved here. It’s awesome, and makes civic participation so easy and painless there is no excuse not to do it. It’s borderline criminal that every state doesn’t do this.

I’ve been a Doom 64 fan since it’s initial release. It was one of my three favorite N64 games as a kid (the others being Mortal Kombat Trilogy and Star Fox 64- to be fair this was about half of my entire videogame library at the time). Anyway, though I’d played a bit of the original Doom, ‘64 was the Doom I’d always…

Yeah I remember it being 6 AA batteries, which was a pretty expensive demand in those days. But the weight of the batteries made that toy feel heavy and awesome.

I haven’t seen paper caps in a very long time.  I’m not even sure cap guns are still a thing.

I had a couple of the toy guns featured in that video. In particular, the Tootsietoy F/x Devastator, also called “Old Painless” apparently, was one of my most prized possessions. Not only did it have spinning barrels and sound effects, it also had a cap gun mechanism that you could run a strip of caps through for that…

I get Facebook is dumb and out of touch, but this article is, itself, incredibly dumb and out of touch. The analogy, while perhaps lacking in self-awareness is otherwise pretty apt. This editorial however reads more like an excuse to winge about Tolkien’s writing- and is pretty pathetic, honestly.

I rarely say this, but in her case I'll make an exception: it's just a fad. No way will she be a pop culture icon 3 years from now. I'm not hating on her, just peering into my crystal ball. 

I 100 percent agree. The Borg were at their creepy best in their earliest incarnation. The later episodes of Voyager and the movie First Contact may have had more budget to play with costuming, but they lost the sense of menace and, frankly, the aesthetic went in the wrong direction. That is, in my view, they became…

He looks the same, it appears to be more a matter of different lighting and a different pose. And I refuse to believe anyone actually cared about this in the first place, besides a few outrage merchants on Youtube. 

Not so much of a “bonkers” rant. Everything he says makes sense from a writing perspective, and it’s not at all controversial to say George Lucas was borrowing as much from classical mythology as he was from adventure serials and Kurosawa movies. I guess it’s bonkers if you *don’t* think Star Wars super-fans are a…

Definitely. I never understood the nostalgia my generation has for Saved by the Bell. Granted, I was 7 when it first aired in ‘89 but even as I got older I just never cared for it. As far as I was concerned as a kid, it was just another crappy show that was trying to ruin my Saturday morning cartoon marathon,…