It depends on what you want. If you play MMOs just to get to the end, collect loot and "win", the things they've added won't mean anything. OTOH, if you're one of the people who always complain that MMOs have no "R" in RPG and no story, it's a big step forward (in that way). Yeah, the big question is what it looks…

Suddenly there was no trail. There was no giant, no monster, no thing called Douglas to be followed. There was nothing in the tunnel but the puzzled men of courage who suddenly found themselves alone with shadows and darkness. With the telegram, one cloud lifts, and another descends. Astronaut Frank Douglas, rescued,…

I guess but that would require people to see, and thus be insulted by it. This'll be out of theaters and into the "…wait, is this one of those Asylum movies?" section of Netflix by next Monday.

Warrior of the Lost World is also great in that the "hero" is neither heroic nor charismatic, with his vaguely-swollen face and general disinterest. Yet it did feel like somehow, there was someone behind the scenes that actually thought they were telling an important story.

I remember seeing Mad Max on TV and being underwhelmed. But on a big screen, the practical car-destruction effects were dynamite - I'd never seen a movie that was improved so much by sheer screen size. Yeah, it's not "traditional" sci-fi, but it is a compelling early-stages-dystopia, with zero reason to believe the…

It seems like a lot of the best shows are unafraid to make their leads really terrible people, without the wink-wink, deep-down-they're-good-guys stuff that undermines that. Tony Soprano, Walter White - these can play at being what we want good guys to be, but at their core, it's completely rotten. That doesn't mean…

People with limited personality, or personalities based off of TV psychologists, are much easier to write than actual humans, especially those you don't deal with often. If only there was a behavioral disease that only affected ethnic minorities, women, or the poor (old people have alzheimers, gay people have AIDS)!…

Cowboys, Yankees, Lakers, Duke and the Fighting Irish. As for politics, Satan clearly favors whatever side would require you to admit being wrong about, well, anything.

Why does every WWI movie have to be about suffering British people?

Do they even make Flavor-Aid any more? I mean, it's kind of hard to overcome that kind of bad rep, but OTOH, everyone now says "Kool-Aid" anyway, and you can still get that? I'd like to think if I were in a cult, I'd demand top-shelf death-punch, but maybe I'm just too picky for that kind of thing.

I like how he's not just a footsoldier schlub, but also a general's son surrounded by thugs. And she's not just Muslim or Bosnian, but both! It's those understated, subtle touches that really identify the top-quality movies the critics love.

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a tough-talking Scarlett Johansson"? I'm sold! I love those movies that cast actors into roles that are instantly believable and subtly compelling! All it needs is Eddie Deezen as a drunken ex-prizefighter Irish patriarch!

Of those I saw I Saw the Devil. Which, admittedly, was good (by showing people being really, really bad).

This album is fun for in the same way Manowar is. Or, say, a Coleman Francis movie. You feel a little bad at simultaneously enjoying the cheesy excess while mocking the less-talented, but at the core it's so misguided that it just can't seem to fall into cynicism (even when, like here, by all rights it should jump…

But again, your response (which is meant as a joke, IK) simply goes right back to the media "arguing definitions" tactic that works so well. Like people I know who are against hate crime laws not on the basis, application or prosecution of the actual laws, but "all crimes are about hate, so it's stupid" - which not…

Looking at that guy on the right reminds me of the MST3K of Mitchell, with the "did I tell you I'm Italian?" guy, who Crow says of "he was hastily assembled". He's like a guy in a videogame where you keep fiddling with the face-design sliders and realize it isn't salvageable so you start over.

I've only known one and… yeah, complete tool. You may be on to something there.

Comics book death is such a cliche that I wonder if the writers just fail to understand how cheap it makes everything, or if instead it's just me and most readers don't really care that Captain Amazing has died for the 40th time? To me it seems like just a cheap way to avoid having to come up with new marketing…

But… why? Why should the medium be locked into being safe for a specific demographic, simply because that's how is started? We accept that movies, music, books, magazines, video games, even TV is often not appropriate for kids even though much of the rest is - we're even close to accepting that some cartoons are…

Yeah, but for BB, it wasn't designed as an AMC show; it was a pilot they shopped around (hence the boobs in the pilot) and they eventually made a deal. Not sure how Mad Men worked, but there's a huge difference between finding a good program and bringing it in-house versus building it from the ground-up. Major…