The only problem I have with Guy Ritchie period pieces is the flashy editing and that everything always looks brown or grey. Stuff that works in contemporary movies tends to take me out of it in period dramas for some reason. That, and he gives everything the Lock Stock treatment, turning cerebral detective story and…

Clive Owen is a fine actor, but he he looks out of place in anything that goes beck further than the Victorian era. He's great in The Knick and more contemporary fare, but put him in a suit of armor and give him a sword and I have trouble buying it. That might be Hunnam's problem as well.

Hell, some of us only have to say hi to Dad to see the results.

I know, right? That was literally a nothing part. Of course, Patrick Wilson showed up for a blink-and-you'll-miss-him part in Prometheus.

It does seem weird to cast Billy Crudup, a somewhat esteemed actor, in a dipshit role that usually goes to no-names and/or unproven up-and-comers. Was he just so excited to be working with Sir Ridley on a genuine ALIEN movie that he said, "I will take any part you've got"?

Strike Back was fun in a dumb jock sort of way, but it was a lot better than it's Skinemax pedigree would lead you to believe.

Funny, my conscience is extremely clean and clear about this and I have been hating him and what he has wrought for years.

Somebody should check on McConaughey. The Frailty cast is thinning out.

Yeah, thanks to The Soup and Community, I am a McHale fan, but I could never bring myself to follow him over to CBS, the land of generic, by the numbers comedy and procedurals. How that channel ever landed The Good Wife is beyond me.

YEah, they are both great. It's like picking a favorite child. You can't because each is special in its own way.

It's too bad Fassbender wasn't on the scene yet. Imagine how much better that movie would have been with him in the lead instead of Bloom.

In 1979, I was a first grader and I saw a Xenomorph action figure in a toy store. That thing was scary to me even though it was a piece of plastic, yet it also had a fascinating allure to it. It was a part of pop culture for years before my parents finally let me see it when I was 12, and the creature still scared the…

I, for one, am glad this thing got at least a B+ out of the AV Club reviewers. While I was disappointed in Prometheus and, for that matter, felt ambivalent about Alien 3 & 4, I always get excited for a new one because sci-fi and horror are favorites of mine and Alien and Aliens were pretty formative viewing…

I always thought they were better than that show with its dumb laugh track and stupid LCD "humor."

It had a good cast and I found it entertaining, but I thought this was going to have a more Out of Sight meets Ocean's 11 vibe, but it's just an OTT nighttime soap that relies too much on twists and cliffhangers each week. Also, everyone is so smug and confident that there's little doubt about whether they will make…

I 'd shell out for that on pay per view!

I did not know that. I have been giving him credit for what his subordinates have been doing all these years.

That movie should have been bad-ass like Sicario, but no. Why do you cast someone like Fassbender and then give him nothing to do but react impotently? The script basically felt like McCarthy-does-Tarantino bullshit, and good supporting actors came on to spout portentous, pretentious gibberish before getting killed…

The Martian restored my faith in him a bit. I was underwhelmed by Prometheus, but it did not piss me off as much as The Counselor did. That movie was a waste of Fassbender and Bardem and Cameron Diaz was not a convincing evil genius femme fatale. WTF were Scott and McCarthy thinking?

Yes, smart people do stupid shit in movies all the time, but usually in high stress situations when people aren't thinking clearly anyway. That's what I chalked the Theron running scene up to, and I am no apologist for Prometheus. The scientist trying to pet the angry space snake? Eh, you got me there.