Pulse is one of those movies that's more about existential dread than visceral horror. Folks prone to pretentious philosophizing about the effects of technology on our lives are more likely to enjoy it, which is no doubt why it's in my top ten.

The conception of the killers (and the actors' performances) were pretty campy, too. (A chick who kicks police dogs to death! A man who hooked his own son on heroin to control him! Another guy who's a sharp dresser! [I don't recall what his criminal superpower was.]) When they're not raping and killing, they chatter…

Yeah, let's have more critic fights! My money's on Robinson and Rabin.

I recall going through the exact same thought process. Maybe the alien thing was obvious from the beginning, just not to six-year-olds? It was only the fourth or fifth movie I ever saw, and the one where I learned that even though you see a car flying on screen, it may not have been magically airborne in reality. (My…

I work at a newspaper, so I have to watch horror movies that local people send us after making them in a few months with a few friends and a copy of iMovie… anyway, Last House on the Left is less inept than those movies. But not by much.

Dead, according to the dialogue, but still visibly breathing. They bring her corpse home and put it on the couch.

Sex scenes just make kids giggle. Arms being sawed off make them get nightmares and wake parents up, never a desirable result.

It would've been cool, but probably too arty for the audience they were going for. In the book, when one of those juxtapositions confuses you, you can refer back to the previous panel(s) and get it. And it does feel "cinematic." But in an actual film (at least in the theater), you can't look back, so you may get…

Rorschach is a fascinating, perversely sympathetic character, but I never found him attractively cool or badass— more like an over-the-top semi-parody of a noir hero. (I can't take his descriptions of the city as great writing, and I hope we aren't meant to.) However, I did get the sense that Moore wanted us to cheer…

Sheesh. If I found some fine lad to marry, the worst I would subject him to is J-horror, and maybe Wendy and Lucy when it's out on DVD.

Yeah, I'm confused as to how someone could call it "unreadable" unless they really hate comics. I'm not a comics fan or a superhero fan, but I still enjoyed Watchmen, both as a story and a piece of art. I can see it not being everyone's cup of tea, but "unreadable"? There are novelists I despise, and I can still…

Reviews are so-so right now, with a few extremely negative ones. (According to Anthony Lane of the New Yorker, anyone who enjoys Moore's work or its byproducts is a teenager, a fascist or a teenage fascist, apparently.)

I think the Baltar-as-cult-leader storyline works because Baltar has a streak of crazy eloquence that has shown up several times to send his life in odd directions— for instance, that's how he initially got into politics, because he was a better speaker than the other VP candidate.

Could be totally off-base, but I got the feeling that Boomer is the furthest thing from a pure machine at this point— in fact, she's never gotten over the trauma of realizing she was a sleeper agent, shooting Adama, being rejected and repudiated by her lover (largely because he was scared people would think HE was a…

I love the "mundane" aspects of the show, but I have been and still am heavily invested in the mystical aspects, because the show is grappling with questions of evangelism and revealed religion that seem very resonant. A lot of liberal Americans— including me — feel deeply threatened by people who claim to know God's…

I live at one of the epicenters of the crazy left-winger/ 9-11 Truther movement. And the funny thing is, many of them HATE Obama. During the campaign, one wing-nut used to march in the mall with a sign claiming Obama caused war atrocities, maybe also 9-11— I'm not sure— because he didn't vote against funding the…

While I agree that literary fiction needs more coverage from the non-stodgy media, I wouldn't have heard of Simmons if I hadn't seen The Terror mentioned on this site. Very glad I did.

In season 1, didn't Head Six tell Baltar some things he couldn't have figured out on his own? While he is a guilt-ridden character, I'll feel cheated if we find out she was just his defense mechanism all along. I guess I don't see Baltar as being motivated personally to do half the stuff Six makes him do— turn his…

Good point, LondonDave. After Caprica was attacked early in the episode, there was a scene of her in the cabin having pains, foreshadowing the miscarriage. It wasn't just because of Ellen.

I agree w/humanist. She was great as Faith. Wooden here. Some actors are great in particular types of role but just can't stretch. If they're smart (like Keanu Reeves, say), they can build a fine career on variations of the thing they do best. I used to love David Duchovny, but I'd put him in that category.