Yeah, but in all honesty I liked his allies better than Mister Furious.

@ El Sabor Asiatico: My thoughts exactly. Scripts aren't chiseled in stone, and they're not all filmed simultaneously—if something isn't working, later scripts can be revised, but having the storylines detailed out beforehand avoids the pitfall of the writing staff writing themselves into corners.

"The entire original movie was made for $11 million."

Gotta disagree to a large extent. I hear where you two are coming from, but for me Star Wars has always (since I saw Ep 4 in the theaters in 1977, at the age of 3) been about the depth of detail in every frame. That's what makes it all seem real, and similarly what makes LOTR seem real.

"We don't have powered armor just yet but we getting very close. "

@tetracycloid: "Something that size with that range of motion that can absorb the impact needed to sustain super-sonic flight is outside the realm of possibility I think. "

@Bobby: exactly my thought. Even without 3D, ticket prices are like 50% higher than they used to be, during at time when most people's income has either dropped, or remained stagnant for the past 5+ years and everything else (like groceries) has gotten more expensive too. It ain't the go-go Internet Bubble (or even…

I sometimes contemplate that sort of thing. When you think about the scale of density (from zero to neutron-star) and heat (from zero to supergiant inferno) in the universe... we humans are, in effect, creatures composed of cold smoke. We're *far* closer to zero on both those scales than we are to the upper bounds…

@zero: It's been a while, but my recollection is that the final 5 were onboard a sub-light starship, which is why it took them so many years to make the trip. That being the case, Zoe could have communicated with them at light speed long before they arrived.

I have problems with practical effects, because they never *move* right. I mean, sure, if your alien is a Star Trek type (i.e. a human with a wrinkly nose) then fine, but the xenomorph only works when it's relatively stationary; when you can see most of its body moving, it ceases to be alien and just registers as a…

"Did skynet simply not know..."

@gawer: see, I think that's old and tired. It's been done 3 times already, and in any case I don't go to sci-fi films in order to look at events unfolding in the familiar, modern-day world—I want to see something that I can't see by watching any contemporary Die Hard-style action flick (killer robot excluded,…

@Collex: I just can't agree, but of course this is purely a matter of personal taste. I can't think of a single Bay film that I didn't feel disappointed by. I actually really liked The Island at first, but basically the entire second half just bored me.

@commentotron: you apparently don't watch the same Netflix that I do. Or else you watch different material than I do!

@WinterRose: I still don't buy into the whole "it's all crap because we know how it ends" argument. We know how *Anakin Skywalker's saga* ends. We *don't* know how the stories of any new, original characters that might be created begin, continue, or ultimately end. Yes, we know the path of the larger "historical"…

@ Smashing: I remember reading a while back that it would center around members of a crime family or some such. Might be BS, of course. That was probably over a year ago.

@ Heartburnkid: My wife keeps saying that he should release it to public domain (not that there's any way that would ever happen, given the cash cow it is for so many people). Still, she wants to see other famous directors be able to do their own spin on it.

Well, Superfan did say "percentage of gross", not "percentage of profits". In that sense, even if the movie lost money it could still boost Diesel's final pay considerably. Still not great, as I'm sure it would be a miniscule fraction of a percentage point, but still a big jump up from scale.

@vexxar:

Yeah, but then there's the whole "sufficiently advanced technology looks like magic to hapless primitives" aspect of it.