Gotta disagree there, that was a pretty great sec scene IMO (for the fact that there wasn't any nudity, that is). I don't know, maybe it's just a case of differing opinions, but Rachel Weisz is damn hot. And I get tired of the typical Hollywood sex scenes. The awkwardness is kinda the point of the whole scene.

Some of those were only rated R because there was no PG-13 at the time, for example National Lampoon and Airplane. these days they'd easily be PG-13.

I think they viewed humans both as an opportunity and a threat, having suffered a couple setbacks at human's hands already. So the primary goal is eliminating humans as a threat while also maximizing their profit in terms of assimilation, the fall back is to eliminate the threat and still come away with some…

Agreed on Jerry Goldsmith's score. The Klingon battle march was a nice call back to one of my favorite pieces of Trek music.

Nah, he's just THAT TOUGH.

The theory I've read about this argues that men and women are subconsciously looking for different things in a partner, and generally get as much of that as they can. Men look for things that indicate fertility and health in the hopes that their mate will produce healthy offspring; thus, the emphasis on physical…

the best part of that link: "An autopsy showed that Wallace died from a bear attack."

I've gotta disagree there. I know the show kinda presented it from their point of view, and made it seem like a logical decision. But there's no way killing him is even remotely ethical. Ideally, you go inside and ask someone to call for an ambulance - just say he slipped and fell, and started convulsing (take the…

The grenade is a nice touch. What the fuck are you going to do with a single live grenade in a house? If you kill a couple of intruders with the AK you can probably get off on the "make my day" defense (even then you're kinda screwed because it's presumably not registered). But using a grenade in your own home is…

Seems a bit petty to throw him back in prison over the method of transportation, especially since he didn't seem to represent a risk of flight anyway (and prison is presumably more expensive for the taxpayers than a halfway house.

The problem I have with Descent, Part 1 is that, by the end of the episode, Data's really just annoyed the hell out of me. It's pretty obvious as soon as the Borg messes with that little transmitter on his arm that data's going to betray the enterprise (but not really, just long enough to justify the two-part…

I think that's the way most major corporations work to this day.

I think the implication is that Hugh only infected his own ship, which then got cut off from the collective. Maybe they've got some sort of firewall between ships? That's still a cop-out, but at least it makes a bit of sense and allows the old school collective-style borg to come back for first contact.

They already do; it's called "every third episode of 30 Rock".

I think you've got it right here. Personally, I don't give a shit who he offends. Some of the best jokes I've heard have been obnoxiously offensive. I'm talking about the sort of stuff that makes you laugh almost reflexively, even though you know it's not really funny and you'd be ashamed to admit that you laughed at…

It's a pun on his pronunciation of the word tomatoe - tomater. early in the first movie he introduces himself as "Mater, like tomater, without the tuh".

The theatrical versions were included as extras in one of the recent DVD releases of the original trilogy. But they're not anamorphic and they're not remastered, so it's basically like being able to play the laser disc versions from the 90's in your DVD player. The aspect ration is fucked up and the resolution sucks.…

not sure what was wrong with the puppet in ep 1, but it definitely didn't look as good as the puppet in ESB and ROtJ. For a long time I thought it WAS CGI, just because it looked so noticeably worse than the original Yoda.

Yeah, but how vicious can you be if you worship C-3PO? The Gonk droid would make a better deity if you ask me…

Damn!