I'd agree it's significantly better, but it feels like it was done in a similar gung-ho, genre-loving, hit-all-the-beats-so-on-the-nose-that-they-work spirit. Although, it's been awhile since I saw Reign of Fire, so my impressions of it may have shifted with time.

Either way, you were right.

Agreed! Underrated movie. Given the material it could have been slightly better, perhaps, but also could have been so much worse. 3 out of 5 stars.

Agreed about RT scores bot being particularly revealing. Metacritic scores are a bit more useful in my opinion, but oddly I still find myself going to RT more, perhaps because it has a better layout / friendlier feel. And I don't care about the composite scores as much as the opinions of individual reviewers whose…

"During an incursion, there are two options: Either both Earths die, or one Earth can be destroyed to end the incursion and save the other."

Eg. Demi Moore's character in "A Few Good Men."
Doesn't have a romance with Tom Cruise! Unthinkable! Doesn't have a lot of "I'm a woman struggling in a man's world" codifiers either! Although, I've heard the role was originally male, so there's that. Maybe it just shows that switching the gender of a role does not…

I've often wondered why Morena Baccarin is not a huge star. She is straight-up gorgeous and a decent actor. (I've not really seen evidence to indicate she's a great actor, but my impression is that one does not really need to be in order to be a huge star.)

This joke, like the perfect short story ending, was both surprising and inevitable. Bravo.

Exactly.

I believe there was a shot from under the ice on that ice table/pedestal thing the Walker White put Baby Holly on. If that was indeed the case (I was pretty tired last night), then that was a very Breaking Bad kind of move. If it was just the baby's POV shot, that seems less distinctive.

Only two scenes I really cared for out of the whole bunch last night: Jamie and Tyrion, and Margaery and Tommen. Most everything else felt like obligatory check-ins. Jon Snow is still boring. Dany is still doing the exact same thing she's been doing for weeks/months/seasons. Cersi's being Cersi. These characters…

Super late I know, but I had to give all the props to this wonderful encapsulation right here:

The Green Dragon from LOTR:FOTR (book and extended cut)!

The only part of the ACB episode I really enjoyed was their spot-on imitation of the gloomy, self-serious (and overrated, imo) Fincher aesthetic. I wanted to like the episode more than I actually liked it though.

Vocabulary!

Agreed! The "mask" bit was probably the funniest thing in this episode, in my opinion.

Thoughts:

Yeah, perhaps it was that condescension I was picking up on.

Truly a Dean Dangerous.

I miss sarcastic Cosgrove. His tap-dancing routine ending in "… that's my JOB!" might be my favorite individual moment in Mad Men, at least in the last few seasons.