Ha, it's true that there is no way to ignore trailers in an IMAX theater. It functions as its own best marketing tool.

That's exactly the kind of smart thinking that didn't result from seeing the trailer in the IMAX theater. Ordinarily, that would be my first criterion as well. Hopefully I'll come around.

It's probable that I was unduly influenced by seeing the MI4 preview trailer in the IMAX theater. It wasn't in 3D, but the sound system and screen size in the IMAX theater are convincingly impressive.

For a half hour after leaving the theater, I couldn't visually fixate on anything more than six inches away (i.e., most things).

I can attest to truth of this quote. I can't even imagine seeing this movie in 2D. It would have been virtually incomprehensible.

I'm thinking that they're being held back for a live action TV series spin off, in a sitcom format.

Davies always presents a pretty strong anti-religion theme in Torchwood. There is no afterlife, so death is pretty awful; but not dying is also pretty awful. I'm sure the term "Miracle Day" is intended to represent that, in the abstract, no one dying seems great, but actually it's the result of an alien plot to…

I had a surprisingly good time seeing Transformers 3 in 3D IMAX. If anything, it had more characterization and set-up than I wanted. (My theory is that there is only maybe one movie every nine months that is actually worth seeing in 3D IMAX, and in general, that movie is probably not worth seeing any other way.)

There's no way to indicate that a French movie is set in the future by referring only to a type of system of measurements. Unfortunately.

Thanks for the info. I thought they were making some kind of existential statement.

You can tell it's set in the future because they're using the metric system.

So ... during the Head Transform ... where is the head going and coming from? It just seems to fly appear from nowhere and fly off into the sky.

I'm going to go with a prehistoric Johnny Appleseed.

I still remember the rat eating scene. And I forgot that was Robert Englund.

An overactive superego.

Or, to have a better grasp on objects and tools in general. It will be interesting to see results from the follow up studies measuring the degree of the effect of pruning on grip.

The thing that the old V had going for it was that it presented a real mystery at first, before they revealed who the aliens were. I didn't even see the new V because there would be no suspense for me in that. (Of course, you would have to be of a certain age to even have watched the original V.)

Also, Larry Nivens and David Brin offered interesting variants of that idea.

I'm glad you asked me about it, because I think I misremembered it. I'm pretty sure the io9 article was this one, and it refers to ~70,000 years ago. So, somewhat further back than I realized.

Well, I'm actually basing that element of my argument on a previous io9 article, about how the total human population seems to have dwindled down to the 1000s shortly after the last Ice Age, based on genetic analysis. What I recall about it (very dimly) is that human beings may have been particularly vulnerable…