I steal all my best ideas from Claude Levi-Strauss.

Maybe they're isotopes.

Allow me to point out the continuities running between this video and that of the first single released from this album, "Hold It Against Me." In that video, Britney was the meteor that struck the earth, and the video portrays her schism and self-destruction, leading finally to a subsequent rebirth into a kind of…

Back in the 80s, teenagers didn't have to imagine a far-flung unrealistic fantasy scenario about vampires and wizards to feel and dress like the walking dead. We could just watch the evening news, listen to Depeche Mode, the Smiths, and the Cure, and project forward about three to five years into the future. That…

Love is the Fifth Element.

I think Meredith has it right with the Mad Max reference. This video is 80s all over again, except with a cosmological instead of a mutually-assured-destruction vibe. (Evidence: leather, big hair, mohawk, city that might be in Australia.)

Maybe he's just left handed.

I like the father/mother mind/body dimension; that never occurred to me. In a lot of ways, Deckard looks more and more like one of the least interesting characters in the film.

Interesting overview. My own feeling about this list is that it encompasses work produced at a time when steam power and air ships were still current to the times. Thus, imagining a "futuristic technology" from that historical standpoint and attributing it to dwarves (who are traditionally represented as masters of…

Thanks, your reading of the relationship between Sebastian and Roy adds much more dimensionality to my view of Sebastian as a bridging character between Tyrell and the replicants.

It's true, they were always kind of quiet and kept to themselves....

Thanks, that makes sense.

I enjoyed reading through this list and agree with all of the points raised. I also thought it was interesting that, in the world of Blade Runner, the Earth has lost many of its native species, and so the majority of human beings have left Earth to colonize other planets. At the same time, the replicants, who are…

I don't know, it's a pretty interesting word. Kurtzman and Orci are probably referring to the use of armed drones, and the video footage of that really does look like a video game. There's also the phenomenon of 20-hour bombing missions flying out of Michigan, dropping payload in the Middle East, and returning,…

I don't remember where I saw this originally, but it's a re-creation of the zero-G training sequences from the book, using Halo Forge.

I stand with the others who say that "desensitization" is the wrong word here, but that it was used in this interview precisely because the idea that "video games desensitize people/children to violence/war" is a common theme today. Ender is involved in training exercises intended to teach and elicit leadership…

I enjoyed this movie. I think it succeeded in being emotionally evocative, in a way that was somewhat similar to Moon — although Moon was much more angsty and tragic. Source Code is kind of like a light sci-fi Unstoppable-plus-Groundhog Day hybrid.

That was the one detail I was hoping to see covered in this post. I didn't really understand the transaction with the blood sample. Someone who was involved in the pregnancy acceleration procedure handed the real blood sample off to the Observer, who then calls his friends and says, "It's happening." Then another…