I had a similar experience with The Moon is a Harsh Mistress. The narrator's syntax was extremely distracting at first, but after a few chapters I didn't really notice it anymore.

I'm curious what would have happened if the alternate track had had six people instead of one. Or if there had been three tracks to choose from: 5 people, 1 person, and maybe like 12 people or something.

Hm. I'm reminded of "Soldier Boys" from Forever Peace (and, I assume, The Forever War although I haven't read that one and only read Forever Peace by happenstance).

It's what plants crave!

"The sad truth is that high elves and sanitized fantasy were simply boring. VERY boring."

Amen. I don't like realism in my escapism. I can watch the news for that.

He might still have a point, if you just look at it cynically enough. Hardware makers will always need to sell you something new, so they will keep trying to reinvent the wheel in a slightly bigger (but incompatible) format so that you have to upgrade.

Maybe he's not human. OR at least, maybe he's not on Earth and is living among an alien culture that still has large businesses?

Entertainment means different things to different people. Personally, I find Bay's interminable action scenes dull—there's not enough "non-action" between the action scenes to make them "pop" by comparison. It's sort of like watching a fireworks display in which everything is going off all the time... for 20 minutes…

At a guess: less mass = less inertia = greater travel in the moving parts? Seems to me like you would have to shift a truly absurd amount of mass through landslides to have a noticeable effect, though.

Not really, it just means that (s)he gets that people have been bitching about it incessantly for a long time now.

Really? I guess I was scarred by the marketing for 5th element. I saw it when it came out, and had been marketed entirely as an awesome sci-fi epic and "star wars for the 90's". Instead I got a campy action-comedy with the most annoying sidekick in the universe... and I've never really been able to accept it. I…

I think people are too demanding when it comes to effects. They can get the job done even if they're not perfect. These definitely fall into the "good enough" category, IMO.

Methinks you did not watch the trailer. If you had, I don't think you'd be calling this a "generic dead teenager slasher flick". ;-)

"You know, I suppose there's a way this won't be completely terrible...but no, I'm not really seeing it."

It's future-Khan, come back to advise present-Khan so that he won't fail this time!

Whaaaa? I don't see any special degree of joy and glee in this article. Are we reading the same thing?

Whoops, should read "more or less magical results", not "less magical results"!

Ah. So I'm guessing you have a deep hatred for H.G. Wells' "the time machine" too, then? after all, steam-era technology couldn't possibly have produced a working time machine.

Well, that's America for you: nipples are evil. Unless they're on men, then they're not even worth noticing.