Troy was a bad movie that had a few really excellent elements. That duel between Achilles and Hector at the gates is one for the ages.

In the later adaption they just had Raymond Burr stare out the window offscreen and describe Agamemnon's death.

And Alice Krige, a.k.a. the Borg Queen.

Never played as the female, but the male protag in P3 FES was a complete cipher to me. Necessarily silent but also effortlessly cool, deadpan and neutral.

Mussolini wasn't even a first-rate Mussolini.

Yeah, it's pretty flimsy. He shoots a big, roof-mounted satellite dish with the world's daintiest pocket revolver and apparently destroys the aliens' entire reality-distorting network. Or at least all coverage in the LA area. Then the movie just … stops.

I can't recall any other movie that so goofy and so terrifying in perfectly equal amounts.

Delightful. I hope this haunts O'Reilly's every waking moment as he ponders how many fleeting years he has left before he dies, rich and unloved.

Honestly, you don't even need glitches for cougars to be fucking terrifying.

Arguing with that fractured algorithm masquerading as a person is a waste of your time—you might as well be talking to a lichen. I recommend you move on.

Interestingly, I think that might actually be a bot. That wasn't a response, it was 20-30 pieces of a response in random order.

They're really rather good at it. One key result is that brown young men who kill people are "terrorists" while white young men who kill people are "troubled lone wolves."

Christopher Reeve was so handsome he almost looked like a cartoon of a handsome man.

What bothered me more than the "gladiator kills the Emperor" thing—which, yeah, no—is the fact that

Of that movie's boundless sins and crimes, for some reason the one that sticks with me is that the Psychlos(!) crossed time and space to conquer our world in order to … steal our gold.

If anything, it sort of reads the opposite to me. The "upper class" couple at the beginning might be presented as smart, but they're also prissy, uptight, sexless and repressed. They're definitely the "snobs" in the universe where the slobs won.

It's also the Rock at his absolute hugest, and we haven't seen the strongman hero archetype since Arnie's heyday. Vin Diesel is muscley and all but he's not legally classified as construction equipment.

And Colonel John Matrix is nothing like an actual human.

This explains much. I always thought that they couldn't find an actor who looked like he'd be a match for Arnie so they steered hard in the other direction in favour of Vernon Wells and Carla's ex-husband from Cheers.

I always have a hard time liking characters who consistently let their emotions guide them into stupid decisions. Like, once or twice? Sure, you're human. But Ryuji, like Jon Snow before him, seems so far to follow the See Thing => Get Upset => Make Everything Worse feedback loop that typifies people who I don't enjoy…