With Threshold, it wasn't the actual direction, acting, pacing, F/X, whatever that was the issue, but the baseline concept. The special crazy-fast warp drive that was never modified later to be useful. The epic evolution fail (for the 1000th time,  there is no genetic map to a specific end we're slowly becoming!). The…

I'd like to think Gary has realized he had good run, got some songs done, and now just sits back, spends quality time with the kids and works on his YA adult novel about time-travelling unicorns fighting Genghis Khan. 'Cause he just don't need that band drama no more.

Watching Star Trek reminded me of how uncomfortable poorly-chosen trailers can be. Ender's Game? Sure, same audience. But that interns one with Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson that just went on and on? If it were TV I could hit Mute or something, but in a theatre it just went on and on and got even less funny every…

@avclub-323ca7b091beb1b26cc7a2612f1475d5:disqus Yeah, I remember that was the time when people went "holy shit, a good game based directly on a movie property!"

I have to believe it's not a look you just stumble on - you have to really be going for it. But there's probably parts of the country where that look will get you trim like nobody's business!

Why would people want to see sexy people drive fast in cars? No one likes sexy people and/or fast cars!

"I'd like that remark stricken from the record!"
"…uh, little help?"

They should use Layne Staley's mom; she seems to take aging grunge band authenticity very seriously, and it's not like anyone compares Weiland with Sinatra anyway.

He doesn't look so tuff.

He's not the Anderson-director we love, but the Anderson-director we deserve (we're not quite bad enough to deserve that other guy, but give it time, America).

Is she related to Brit Marling (she sorta looks similar, at least from memory)? Because I'm not sure I need more than one Marling.

Eh, it's the same stuff we get now, where once you cross over into mainstream fame, you've sold out even if you haven't. Never forget the douchebag mantra: "It sucks because it's popular (i.e., if the people I'm so much better than like it, how could it be good?)!"

She was a girl Poochie. They made a generic, whiny, agency-free space elf to appeal to an imaginary Twilight-esque girl audience while also going for really, really repressed nerdboys who wanted some sexuality, but dialed down to 1. She was slotted by committee and created cluelessly. She was awful.

I actually know more or less nothing about Shasty McNasty beyond a vague idea of the lead (he was the guy from The Offspring, right?), but the idea that someone greenlit a show with that title makes me happy inside.

It was bad form the womb. "Gilligan's Island in space" was rightly ridiculed when it was announced, and when they immediately went to generically-humanoid versions of standard trek cliches for adversaries it just showed how empty the idea well was at the time. Star Trek routinely flunks science, female…

Well, when you have an identity and it isn't the triumph you think it is, doing "regular stuff" likely seems like giving up. If your shit smells like everyone else's, why bother pooping at all? Does generic pop song 501 mean any more than 500? Go back to school and learn accounting; if you can't beat the robots, might…

Sort of like the last movie, it never was able to justify its existence. There were no true breakout characters (the Doctor was like a mostly-competent Rimmer at best) except maybe Seven's catsuit, and it had no urgency or apparent ambition or… anything. You always felt like there were hundreds of other ships in…

Throw in John Doe's "it's zero hour" cult leader as her dad, and that actually sounds pretty good.

I dunno; that massive boob disparity up there is kind of hard to ignore.

I do wonder if stop-motion affects people differently. Some people love it; others like me see only the jerkniess and artifice. Do other people see it as largely fluid and thus effective and evocative? Or is the artificiality itself the point?