Roger Ebert’s review of Aliens (which is very much worth a read, btw) is basically a complaint that the last hour of the movie is an unrelenting, high-tension thrill ride that left him feeling exhausted by the final credits. He gave the movie five stars because it was a perfect version of the movie it was trying to…

Mad Max Fury Road is basically a two hour action movie interrupted by brief bits of dialogue, and remained exhilarating start to finish.

Just spent the last week doing a James Cameron rewatch marathon.

Why not just pay KSR for the rights to “Red/Green/Blue Mars?” I mean, if you want to make a series about terraforming Mars, that's pretty much the definitive work right there.

Chill, dawg. Kotaku isn’t afraid to call Sony on their bullshit when Sony does something problematic. (See: Sony refusing to give Kotaku review codes because they don’t like Kotaku’s reporting.) It’s just that in this case, MS published something that Kotaku can comment on.

Many years ago in the early days of the internet, perhaps around 1998/99, I had a pretty neat email exchange with Greg Bear. I had reread Moving Mars and was really, really impressed with it. I somehow found his email online and sent him a short message saying something to the effect that “Moving Mars rocks!” Within…

Does Eidos-Montreal (Deus Ex series) count with the Guardians of the Galaxy game that was pretty good?

And they were Avatar fans even before buying Fox, as planning on the Pandora section of Animal Kingdom started six years before the takeover was announced.

20 years? It came out in 2009

Cool now shut the fuck up.

Cool. Don’t bother seeing it then.

About 20 years ago I rented Alien 3, and due to some combination of the filmmaking and the wear-and-tear on the VHS tape, the dialog was unintelligible, the sound effects were overpowering, and the picture was muddy except for a few sequences with obtrusive, shiny-looking CGI.

“Tacking Into the Wind” remains the last time Star Trek was truly great.

Deep Space 9 was, and has remained, the greatest Trek series. I can’t be persuaded otherwise. The best plots, the best setting, the best characters - and, crucially to why it worked so well, the best character match-ups. Pick any two characters and they could easily shoulder a whole episode. Maybe Ezri, at a pinch,…

Fuck.

I’m sorry, did you need a more complicated story? Because you must not be from the audience that makes movies with incredibly simple plots make $1bn+ fairly reliably, whilst beautifully complex movies make rather pathetic amounts or don’t even get to the cinema these days.

“And yet... over 10 years between sequels is a lot.”

No one has compared the first one to Dances With Wolves before, that’s a highly original complaint.

I liked Paper Girls. It deserved a better chance imo.

Game translations are rarely good, and I know Power Rings got a lot of people mad (I thought it was ok, but my nerdrage isn’t focused on LotR), but man, The Boys, The Tick, Undone, Invincible, Man in High Castle, AnneDroids, Truth Seekers (RIP)... I think they’ve done more good than bad so far. So I’m cautiously…