Oh, and here's another uplifting thought: even if this thing flops due to massive fan outrage, Michael Bay will still come out of it clean as a whistle. Because he didn't direct it. People will still go watch Transformers 4: You're Not Even Here For The Giant Robots Anymore, Are You?

If Klingons can be Samurai Vikings, aliens can be Ninja Turtles.

I liked Fighting too! And so did Roger Ebert, which is what made me go watch it.

I eagerly await the fourth installment of Michael Bay's epic sci-fi film series, Formers.

I read somewhere (probably on io9) that Jupiter Ascending is supposed to be about this badass futuristic super-soldier guy who's also gay. So yeah, Channing Tatum.

I love Firefly, but its use of Mandarin infuriates me. A lot of the curses were actually translated into Mandarin from what Whedon and his writers thought were "ethnic-sounding", e.g. "Kuan Yin and her seven wacky nephews". They had their fun with it, but didn't actually bother to try and get it right. (And don't even…

Sigh… our JMS is missing a prime opportunity to do his "B5 did it better!" thing.

Shyamalan's sequel ain't gonna happen. AIN'T GONNA HAPPEN.

I suspect the Cardassians would think our Rashōmon trite and shallow.

Why in the world did it get that Redemption subtitle slapped on it? Who or what is being redeemed here?

Merantau was terrific. Its plot is almost laughably formulaic: country bumpkin comes to big bad city, falls for damsel-in-distress-cum-fallen-woman, spends rest of movie kicking ass trying to save her from being, well, even more fallen. But even that was well done, with just enough care given to characterization and…

Seems most of the bad movie dates start with wanting to watch something that looks like it might appeal to your oh-so-cool tastes and not thinking whether it does the same for your date. Boy can I relate; mine was The Brave One.

I'd just like to say that I love the way Mai and Zuko just sit together. It's like they're perfectly wedded in their studied disdain of everything except each other.

The criticism against "whites save blacks from racism" isn't that such a story exists. It's that it's become a template, an easy approach to tackle a story about racism. It's that so many other stories and movies have employed the same lazy template.

Remember Rapture!

The new Spectre is called Quantum. They had to tie it in to the title somehow.

And bring back Bonnie Bedelia!

Regarding Bashir's prowess or lack thereof with women, it may just be the law of averages. If your success rate is 1 in 100, all you have to do is hit on 100 women.

If that's true about their engagement, it makes for another argument that real-life romantic attachments = absolutely zero on-screen chemistry.

That would be "The Jem'Hadar", last ep of season 2.