I'd think in most of them it's like "Superfriend Zone" where one person wants more but is willing to take what they can get until they eventually decide they want a "real relationship" and the other person" still doesn't and so it ends badly. It's certainly possible both sides honestly want casual sex (and no romantic…

Yes, but remember how many people "never agree with critics" because some of them have the gall to say a movie Joe Sixpack laughed at was shallow and condescending. Most people seem to rely on trailers, word of mouth, actor lists and other heavily-biased sources of information. So they think "I love Joan Crawford -…

What I got was it was an F for Cowardice, in that for an F it has to be not just merely terrible, but specifically insulting beyond that. By ensuring no real humans were hurt and thus the heroes are still all shiny and pure, in a show about a presumably violent resistance movement, is pretty asinine. Nothing ventured,…

It's laziness. Plus you always run the risk of making the bad guys more sympathetic than the dull, generic heroes - villains being more fun to write and all. So you get stuff like Star Wars I where no one can figure out why the Republic should be saved when it's obviously corrupt to the core and powerless in the face…

Maybe it's some kind of "it takes one to know one" - really bad actors have a preternatural sense about bad scripts as they lack the ability to get lost in the character and focus on their lines and whatever. Unable to act, the mind wanders and discovers how awful everything is. Further, when it would be better for…

But contractions just aren't that complicated. I assume it's yet another asinine "Yay Humanity" where only we are so sophisticated as to be able to master our near-godlike English language, while also being the laziest possible "robotics are hard" straw, but… it's… so very stupid.

Rich people doing interesting things is usually interesting, just as poor people doing nothing is boring and usually depressing. But the review makes it clear these are shallow, pointless, aimless, dull people and the only reason we should care is the imaginary paradox of privilege and ennui. How ironic!

It's the refusal to beam people up that always made me so angry. The rest was just hamfisted "Hey Beavis, what if chicks were in charge and they were like, stupid, heh-heh-heh?". But Crusher's logic of better to die than risk the chance of being sick was just so utterly idiotic and clearly false from even chimp-level…

Isn't she kinda tall for a MPDG?
Informed attributes? Names with MEANING? Navel-gazing twit who can have anything he wants with no effort but feels an emptiness inside?

Idiotic Gang Initiations
I always love how urban legends and movies have these ridiculous "rituals" that are always treated with a shrug by the locals and bored police who are too busy ticketing honest drivers who are just in a hurry. Whereas in real life a single instance would be 24/7 news in 8 States for a month…

Watching Rich People Do Nothing
That's what it sounds like - dull, navel-gazing privileged people obsessed with the imagined impressions they never actually make on anyone, eventually learning to just kind of keep doing the nothing they've always done. Honest? Sure. Worth paying to see? Uh…

Can't find a good clip, but… "I'm Cherokee Jack."

I can imagine being bored enough to try to apply some utterly-unintended (or at least I hope) red v blue state political commentary if I had actually seen this, but luckily I haven't. Still, when a director is clearly trying way too hard, it seems almost impossible for it not to be there somewhere, right? And as for…

He comes off as really funny. I know a lot of these interviews are all 100% positive, but it's hard to beat his story a a successful one.

So V is just a kind of live-action Invader Zim?

I do wonder - we have spent our lives being taught what a film is "supposed to look like", so of course a different result will feel wrong. I agree that some of films, well, shortcomings can actually be very impressive and expressive in a way the warts-and-all effects of DV can't, but I'm not necessarily convinced…

Yay humanity! Being more than human is morally wrong, obviously, and can only lead to the dark side. Silly humans - seek not beyond your ken, as you are best exactly as you are, right now. In 1980s America.

Sure; when they call out distances to other ships in the show, it's always ridiculously obvious that we're not seeing what they're saying (it's always km, not meters). It's so space battles will look exciting (much like Star War's WWI dogfighting battles), though you wonder if you could get away with actual ranges and…

They give grades for PE.

There's obvious and there's obvious. I would think that the nature and relentlessly critical importance of warp drive would mean extensive testing, and development of endless theories about when it can be used and can't, for how long, etc. This one just felt like they needed a reason to make Picard look smart, so they…