Mostly silent, helmeted warrior in a suit of armor designed and worn by a specific group ...

It’s not a new opinion, of course, but what he’s homing in on is still worth discussing as the genre only grows more popular:

Note to brittle fanboys: “Ridley Scott has made some shitty movies” does not rebut anything he is saying here.

Going by the review, the change of mediums was the least of the show’s problems.

You know they don’t, although you can get some on the side and add it yourself.

The Burbs gets watched once or twice a year chez moi. (We’re doing s0me renovation and The Money Pit hits a little close to home, but we’ve probably got ‘em both on various media including VHS... I wonder any of our fleet of VCRs have a drive belt that isn’t dried out. But I digress)

Apparently Mr Hanks also underrates the Burbs.

That’s up there with Sneakers as the most criminally underrated movies of all time.

Yeah, it could’ve been a pretty rich tableau to work on, but JJ just used it as an excuse to not have to worry about continuity. The Khan thing was ridiculous, unnecessary, and so, so poorly done.

There’s one across the major thoroughfare near my work, and they always seem to have a huge line at the drive-thru, but I will give them credit: most of the time it’s a well-oiled machine. Even if you have to wait a little while, they’re clearly running their asses off the whole time.

That, and JJVerse Enterprise is more of an Imperial Star Destroyer than an exploration vessel.

I remember at first CBS All Access said they were trying to avoid overexposing the Trek franchise, but now they’re like “Fuck everything, we’re doing five Trek shows.”

They never did anything fun with the Kelvin timeline conceit. In their second bite of the apple they just remade Khan, and then that third movie is not really impacted in any significant way by the changes to the timeline.

The amount of things that “won’t make it to launch” sure makes it sound like the launch is more of an extended beta. The campaign won’t even make it to launch. Like, I get that they’re targeting holidays, but at this point, it’s practically just a paper launch.

Crucially, the energy weapon no longer EMPs—or stuns—vehicles when they’re struck with a fully charged shot.

They did not say they were fixing it. In fact they wrote off the EMP comment as player rage. I recommend reading the post carefully... there’s actually very little they are committing to changing and they wrote most player feedback off as “we know better” (which, to be fair, in some cases they absolutely do, but in…

Speaking of big team battles, iconic Halo announcer Jeff Steitzer will voice announcements for the mode. He won’t be in those matches for the December launch, but 343 says it looks “forward to bringing his voice back in all its glory as soon as we can.”

Crucially, the energy weapon no longer EMPs—or stuns—vehicles when they’re struck with a fully charged shot.

Cylon Number One.

I remember when he popped up for the first time on Battlestar Galactica. I’d already fallen in love with the show, but seeing him on-screen for the first time I went “oh, here we go...” Cavill was utterly extraordinary, especially his rant to Ellen Tigh post-Ellen’s regeneration. I’ll say this about BSG - they…

Worth noting that Battlestar Galactica: The Plan where they go back through the series from the perspective of the Cylons (and retro-fix a lot of plot holes in a fun way) was really his movie.