This is why I will only watch it after I’ve recorded it. Even fast forwarding through the commercials I was still getting annoyed at all the breaks.

It did show him alive and I actually got a little pissed about that. It was only a second that they showed him. You couldn’t shove something else in their to keep the surprise? It’s not like we’re talking about one of the main characters from the book. We have no idea what will happen to him.

The Rocinante blinding the UN ship so they could sweep around it and shear off it’s engines was sweet move. Not quite “battlestar jumping into a planet’s atmosphere” great but it got a “hell, yeah” reply from me.

I still haven’t read the books, but I wouldn’t be surprised if, say, the bit where Dr. Meng doesn’t close a locker firmly and a bunch of tools get flung around the ship in the middle of a high pressure dogfight, was an invention of the show’s writers.

The review basically nails the first film. The first scene is hilarious. The rest of it has funny bits but the movie blows it’s wad early.

Don’t worry, Corden isn’t particularly popular in America either. The average American has no idea who he is or doesn’t care.

One of the things I like about the show is how it’s expanded (no pun intended) on the books without the new plot points feeling out of place or shoved in (like the mutiny on Tycho). When I first read the books I was kind of shocked how pulpy they are.

He’s going to regret that since they won’t be able to get a replacement till they head back to Tycho. I hope the busted coffee maker remains in the background of the mess for the rest of the season.

There’s only one villain from the books who is an outright sociopath, and even he has some shading. All the other bad guys are presented as having understandable motivations but questionable tactics.

No, it was referred to at least as far back as the first season as The Razorback. I remember it being mentioned early on by Jules-Pierre Mao in one of his messages to Julie. Not sure how much it’s been mentioned since then but it’s definitely established in the show.

This is a post-Happy Syfy. Nothing is off the table anymore.

This was one of my favorites when I was a kid. I had a surprisingly strong emotional reaction to seeing it being written about here. I looked up the release date and this came out about halfway through my father’s fight with brain cancer. That would mean it hit HBO around the time he died (or soon after). I’m…

Hold my beer...

Not sure of your age, but my guess is we’re close to the same as these are two of the reasons I took my kids to see it. That and it’s probably the only Speilberg film I will ever be able to take them to see at a theater unless Indy 5 gets made.

Took my 7 and 9-year-olds to see this thinking they’d get a kick out of the video game and Iron Giant references if nothing else, but the part they kept going on about was a scene that referenced a movie they had never seen before (but had heard of). It was pretty much all they talked about afterwards.

I noticed that. I assumed the cops were holding his arms.

Siskel and Ebert never had this issue. It’s called “professionalism.”

Adaptation would also have been a good one for Kevin.

The only thing I recall about the second one is the silver wet suit.

I watched Assassin’s Creed because one of kids was clamoring to see it. It wasn’t horrible but I’ve never seen a film more in love with CGI smoke/fog/dust/sand/ Half the scenes in the movie are obscured by something and it’s not always clear why.