Well, that's disappointing. I mean, I don't except Whedon to fuck anything up, but the Age of Ultron storyline was kind of awful. I hadn't read any of Marvel's big events since the skrull thing, which was pretty fun, and I like Bendis still and think Ultron's pretty interesting, but that whole miniseries was a big,…

@The Archmage of the Aether Actually, hadn't thought of Chomsky that way, or any of the more lefty libertarian. Also I was obviously identified the entire political philosophy with one of its most rabid ideologues. Anyway, point conceded, there are non-Randian libertarian philosophies out there that get some airtime.

If you're a sympathetic libertarian, you're a pretty shitty libertarian. Ayn Rand, praise be the name of the prophet of profits, etc. etc. basically considered empathy, sympathy, and compassion to be serious human weaknesses that lead to unproductive activities like not ruthlessly crushing your fellow man at every…

Disagree. His latest trilogy is classic cyberpunk, it just happens that real life caught up to his ideas and he can now write about his usual themes without having to dream up new technology.

Sucker Punch almost worked on two levels, which was a shame since the movie was trying for three.

Where's the spoiler space? I was hoping someone could confirm that the twist is that the film is set, in fact, before earth.

So my knowledge of quantum physics more or less starts and end with the fact that the dude who came up with the multiple-world theory is the father of the frontman of The Eels, but I thought that there actually were an infinite number of parallel universes under that interpretation. Something something waveform…

It doesn't come close to Brown Bunny in terms of sucking.

I'd say this was worth watching, but kinda only just. I didn't enjoy the experience, but it is sufficiently different from any other director's use of cinema to be worthwhile. A lot of films are ones I don't really enjoy watching but get something out of due to innovative use of the form, this just barely fits into…

Oh man, super excited to see some Sky High love here. I literally only saw this for the supporting players, but I liked it so much I went out and bought the Blu-Ray, probably still my silliest buy, and I have no regrets.  Kurt Russell is completely hilarious in full on dad mode, I think my favorite joke in the movie…

I also thought it was him grabbing Helene right away.

I thought that was actually pretty illuminating. I mean, who knew Pressgang was one word?

Winchester '73 is in my top tier of westerns. It's beautifully shot, has a great, obsessive, and surprisingly dark performance from Jimmy Stewart  and the ending action scene is maybe the best sniper duel I've seen, super tense and fun.

Agreed. I generally root for the underdog, and I generally have warm feelings towards NBC, but the second they started advertising this I began desperately hoping it'd be a bigger flop than, I dunno, "Do No Harm," and they'd loose all the money they put in to promote this STUPID FUCKING SHOW WITH THOSE STUPID FUCKING…

I started reading cosmic Marvel like, a month ago, and picked up right after Annihilation. The Star-Lord Dirty-Dozen mini might have been my favorite thing in the whole line. Aside from that though I thought the whole thing was solid to great, with the Guardians of the Galaxy book being a general stand-out and most of…

Well, I'm in for the pilot at least. Important question you forgot to cover: Compared to the epic 1958 masterpiece "The Vikings," how often do people scream "OOODDDIINN" before say, stabbing someone, eating meat, kissing a girl, or dying? Because while I never assumed that movie was historically accurate, I hope it at…

Sean, you deserve a non-ironic slow clap for this one. I never thought I'd say that sentence. Well, type that sentence.

I saw this in theaters
and rather liked it. It has pretty cinematography, some good suspense, and a
undercurrent of seriously dark humor. Kinda like a less funny, more
legitimately Noir-y, not-as-good-but-still-pretty-good Fargo. The only acting that
seriously impressed me was Bana, who was having an absurd amount of fun…

I saw this in theaters
and rather liked it. It has pretty cinematography, some good suspense, and a
undercurrent of seriously dark humor. Kinda like a less funny, more
legitimately Noir-y, not-as-good-but-still-pretty-good Fargo. The only acting that
seriously impressed me was Bana, who was having an absurd amount of fun…

I've long thought the stupidest thing about The Mob Doctor (note: I've never actually watched this show) was it's title. It's simple, idiotic, on-the-nose, and utterly without elegance. It seems like there should be a better title, or at least a more enjoyably stupid one, but since Fox started advertising the pilot…