Basically, except for Obi-Wan, having a British accent is a sign of being evil in the Star Wars universe.

To be fair, it seemed like Luke understood R2 just fine in the original series and obviously Han knew Wookienese.

Or the inverse problem in Star Wars. With all the gadgets packed into R2D2 (or BB-8, but I image that's an intentional reference), they couldn't include a speech synthesizer?

Not to mention Roy Scheider's "laptop" in 2010 — which was obviously an Apple //c with the optional LCD screen — actual available technology in 1984. That was just lazy. They could have at least painted it black (which was futuristic before computer companies made black equipment rather than white or beige).

Perhaps it was inspired by the fact that when you open a program file by accident in a word processor or similar, the binary code is incorrectly interpreted as text, often including foreign characters.

how something as simple as eating hundreds of slices of pizza can be the catalyst for personal growth.

The one thing people miss about this movie is that it really wasn't meant to be a "Ripley" movie — it really was about Americans and American culture influencing German culture. It is pretty telling that Hopper's Ripley is constantly wearing a cowboy hat — you can't get more iconic of an "American friend" than that.

Better yet, the rather cramped three-wheel jalopy—which the animators apparently modeled on the real-life Harper Invacar

Or maybe the people obsessed with Euro Truck Simulator are actually responsible for Amazon's deliveries. Yes, this would be far more novel than yet another Enders Game rehash

It just was such an obvious twist - basically there's only two twists possible in a story like this - either the simulation is a cover for a real war or that the "reality" is yet another layer of simulation. Both have been done countless times before.

They should call movies about New York Mafia "Easterns" and ones about Chicago gangsters "Midwesterns".

What was the UBC campus representing in the series? I didn't notice it — maybe I need to watch again.

Yes, historically Heisenberg was working on the German A-bomb project (which failed).

And blame Stanislaw Lem. Damn you, Solaris-writer!

You know, Blomkamp, I don't know which species is worse. You don't see them fucking each other over for a goddamn sequel.

To use an analogy, the Soviets used native communists to rule their enslaved territories. People like the infamous pair of Erichs (Hoenecker and Mielke) who ran East Germany and its secret police, were long-time communists before the post-WWII takeover.

And he got to live, yay, I guess? I mean Heydrich seemed pretty icky, but really worse than Hitler?

Would Joe really have figured it out if it weren't for the phone call, though?

To be fair, the dinner scene with Childan was fairly accurate as well.

Because the book describes the "grasshopper" Allied victory resulting in a Cold War between the US and Britain rather than with the Soviets.