The fact that io9's definition of sci-fi is so narrow now ks really sad.

It’s certainly a mind-boggling decision from the editorial team. They could at least link to the AVClub review or something. It wouldn't be as interesting, but it'd be something. 

In all due respect, this is an absolutely blinkered and myopic view of science-fiction as a genre. It’s also completly ignorant of the history of this website. io9 as covered biopics in the past when they were related to sci-fi and fantasy. Examples include The Imitation Game, Professor Marston and the Wonder Women,…

Are you being sarcastic? I genuinely can’t tell.

I think his point was that he read “millenial” as applying to both “adults and teenagers” instead of just adults.

I think we all understood it was by necessity going to be limited in its radical potential because of the nature of its production as a work of commercial art,

Movie!Batman is a lone wolf, but Batman’s comics always have him surrounded by sidekicks and protégés. He has an entire BatFamily to back him up.

Ok, but 7 of those movies are Iron Man and Avengers, i.e. movies with Iron Man as a focus. Also, if we coint solo and Avengers movie, then Chris Evans and Chris hemsworth are also pretty close to 10 appearances as well.

Was Robert Downey Junior in that many cameos though? Beyond Iron Msn and Avengers film, he appeared in Incredible Hulk, Spider-Man Homecoming, and Civil War and that’s pretty much it, no? Am I forgetting something? He’s namechecked in a lot of movies, but he didn’t show up much. Which kind of contains its own lesson -…

I think Cameron is right that feature film scripts are not really in any danger. Just like no one uses machine translation to translate novels.

“a note that the issue of how to integrate Batman into this movie was apparently a problem.”

I do agree. I count She-Ra as a different property, even though it started as a part of MotU. 

You’ll notice I never said that movies are making people kill sharks. No, sharks are killed, as you point out, for various economic reasons.

I feel like Masters of the Universe is past its expiration date. The original fans are now past 40+, and unlike other properties from that era that had frequent revivals and are genuinely multigenerational (Transformers and TMNT, for example), MotU isn’t. It recently got a small but loving nostalgic revival. Let that…

I'm pretty sure "ahead of its time" is the general current critical consensus on that movie, yeah. 

I hope the documentary touches upon the fact that all this media making people afraid of sharks has had a very bad effect on sharks themselves. We are slaughtering them by the hundreds and nobody cares cause they are sharks, and sharks are monsters.

Considering the number of times anglophones have butchered the spelling of my own name, I think I can get a pass on a few misspellings in an internet forum.

I think the effect thing is a more complicated and more natural process - as visual effects become more and more seamless, non seamless effects starts taking you out of the movie. This has happened before - I remember watching the original King Kong and thinking to myself “I wish I could get into it like the 1930s…

That’s interesting, thank you. So if you’re there for self-promotion that’s fine? I’m guessing it all depends on how and by whom you are paid for the gig. I don’t know how convention fees work, but I’m guessing being on a panel in Hall H is not paid the same way as having an autograph booth on con floor.

I'm at work and wrote the names from memory, but no, all of those I named are from the US as far as I know. Allow me to rephrase: Bishop from Aliens, the main character from Arrow, Sam from Lord of the Rings and the cast of Smallville.