It's a controversial idea, but I really see no way that multiple levels of fake-reality could have actually hurt the Matrix sequels and many ways they could've helped.

It's a controversial idea, but I really see no way that multiple levels of fake-reality could have actually hurt the Matrix sequels and many ways they could've helped.

When that "Point Break: Live!" stunt stage show made a gimmick out of grabbing a random, confused audience member and having them play Keanu Reeves' character by reading cue cards, I am willing to bet that at least 50% of the time this method still created a better, more believable performance than the real Keanu…

When that "Point Break: Live!" stunt stage show made a gimmick out of grabbing a random, confused audience member and having them play Keanu Reeves' character by reading cue cards, I am willing to bet that at least 50% of the time this method still created a better, more believable performance than the real Keanu…

White's trolling seems to extend mainly to shitting on *popular* movies that critics like while shilling for *popular* movies that critics hate, because this is the only fun way to be a contrarian. In particular when a movie that actually has a big Hollywood budget gets liked by critics it gives him the ability to…

White's trolling seems to extend mainly to shitting on *popular* movies that critics like while shilling for *popular* movies that critics hate, because this is the only fun way to be a contrarian. In particular when a movie that actually has a big Hollywood budget gets liked by critics it gives him the ability to…

@avclub-d03b651ed0295a6f71eafa2690d30295:disqus It's not just an aesthetic thing, it's a cost thing, sadly. It's cheaper and, more importantly, easier to do all-CGI than to actually go to the work of setting up practical effects on location with real actors and real stuntpeople who all have to get paid.

@avclub-d03b651ed0295a6f71eafa2690d30295:disqus It's not just an aesthetic thing, it's a cost thing, sadly. It's cheaper and, more importantly, easier to do all-CGI than to actually go to the work of setting up practical effects on location with real actors and real stuntpeople who all have to get paid.

Original Terminator is when all is said and done the only defensible opinion if you care about anything other than eye candy in movies.

Original Terminator is when all is said and done the only defensible opinion if you care about anything other than eye candy in movies.

The IT Crowd was in the 2000s, when geekiness was becoming mainstream and therefore I think Moss being a geek was less of a big deal. (I think the Awkward Black Girl thing is a big deal because of all three factors there — geek girls and black geeks both lag behind white male geeks in representation and this is…

The IT Crowd was in the 2000s, when geekiness was becoming mainstream and therefore I think Moss being a geek was less of a big deal. (I think the Awkward Black Girl thing is a big deal because of all three factors there — geek girls and black geeks both lag behind white male geeks in representation and this is…

tl;dr — Because for the paradox to make sense Lister has to be the same person "every time" it happens, the Lister DNA in the sperm cell that combines with Kochanski's egg to make Lister has to be exactly the same "every time" it happens.

tl;dr — Because for the paradox to make sense Lister has to be the same person "every time" it happens, the Lister DNA in the sperm cell that combines with Kochanski's egg to make Lister has to be exactly the same "every time" it happens.

The idea that there even are "successive parental generations" is a fallacy (the meta-time fallacy, we can call it). It *feels* like Lister is conceiving himself "over and over again" but he actually isn't — there's one instance of Lister conceiving himself, once, and because it's an Ouroboros that's the only time it…

The idea that there even are "successive parental generations" is a fallacy (the meta-time fallacy, we can call it). It *feels* like Lister is conceiving himself "over and over again" but he actually isn't — there's one instance of Lister conceiving himself, once, and because it's an Ouroboros that's the only time it…

I give them serious credit for the fact that Will by the end of the series is a far more mature and likable person than the guy he was at the beginning of the series.

I give them serious credit for the fact that Will by the end of the series is a far more mature and likable person than the guy he was at the beginning of the series.

Time travel paradoxes can't work like that — 100% of Lister's DNA can't come from Kochanski, because then where did the Y-chromosome come from?

Time travel paradoxes can't work like that — 100% of Lister's DNA can't come from Kochanski, because then where did the Y-chromosome come from?