Jennifer Hale's voice acting allows the game to feel like an Empire Strikes Back type of experience. When I hear Mark Meer's voice, I keep expecting pod racers. This is not about sexism, it's about voice work that takes you out of the game and truly detracts from the experience. My daughter called the game 'cheesy'…

Plus, there's no 'h' in 'wimey'. But then, that's SFX Magazine's error.

I think history will smile on Viva Pinata and Banjo Kazooie Nuts & Bolts much more than contemporary audiences. The games are hard to market due to a depth of gameplay pitched at adults juxtaposed with a glorious hand-stitched rainbow-colored aesthetic that is really the fruition of everything they had tried to…

Here's a helpful FAQ about the insanity defense in U.S. jurisprudence. [www.pbs.org]

The 'insanity defense' is really a last recourse, is not exclusive to the U.S., and is rarely successful.

Sounds kind of like Spy Kids 3 for adults...

Well, Golden Compass is kind of anti-Catholic... I'm always tempted to check out the filmed version, but I'm nervous because I have a really high opinion of Pullman's books. I think they're way better than the Narnia books, and if there's a canon or pantheon of YA fantasy, I think His Dark Materials belongs there.

Most of Snyder's movies have had a cult audience, but it's more like each movie has piggybacked on someone else's cult... except Sucker Punch, where he kind of threw general sci-fi imagery in a blender and had a decent opening, and of course there is no cult for owls... Snyder has a cult like McG has a cult. I kind of…

When I started reading this interview, I didn't expect to download The Varieties of Religious Experience and 4 books by Carl Jung to my Kindle, and a book by Mircea Eliade... I'm glad Gunn gave the detail about the origins of religious experience in brain chemistry. I think you have to be Philip K. Dick to tell…

I liked aspects of the Thomas Jane Punisher a lot, but I felt like it wasn't fully comfortable with the ramshackle goofy edge that mostly made it fun. Probably the studio wanted a more slick film, and it seemed (I've only seen it the one time) that the film had kind of an unsettled tone. I felt like there was a great…

Is Kobun still reviewing Indie games? How about throwing one of his reviews up on the front page as a 'Speak Up' from time to time?

My thoughts, exactly. This type of behavior hurts everyone... the only viable way for most people to find good indie games (and I own around 20) is filtering by review score.

I truly laughed out loud, snorted noticably at my workstation (snamw'd?), actually. My original post is fussily laid out, with parenthetical asides and making clear my position on the serial comma. I think shanrulez was the perfect palate cleanser.

I agree, Iron Man is a top shelf superhero movie. I was only saying that the character is not quite as popular or iconic as those other heroes.

I completely agree, but as I mentioned above, I don't really blame the director. Marvel took a way more active role, and even Favreau wasn't happy with the result. When he's been allowed to make films his way, they've been pretty awesome. It seems like once a movie studio/IP rightsholder tastes success after a good…

The thing that strikes me with Favreau as a director is that he rises to the challenge of achieving a tricky tone, when everything hinges on the tone of a film. Elf and Iron Man could easily have been busts, critically and/or commercially. How many sappy/manic holiday films have come down the pike only to land in the…

Have a seat right over there, Laronvas...

But... Will it blend?

If it had been 20 minutes long, it would've been a masterpiece of the music video form! But with all that unnecessary dialogue and exposition that no one paid much attention to either before or after the film was released, I don't think I could sit through it again.

As a child, I was terrified of The Wizard of Oz; the flying monkeys, the red smoke, and especially Margaret Hamilton, who was no less scary in black-and-white as the mean neighbor than in hideous green witch makeup. The worst part was, it was televised every year, and my family watched it religiously!