Optimist!

I hear it's way more valuable than the Tony Stark action figure.

I find this interesting because Basterds was the first Tarantino movie where I found myself saying "some of these scenes need a trim".

It is not ;) True story.

I liked the Rey character (with some reservations). However I actually thought Kylo was really mishandled. I didn't buy for a second that he was "conflicted". Primarily because repeatedly stating that you are when your actions show no sign of conflict seems unconvincing. Plus the temper tantrum's and petulant whining…

I had this problem once. My friend, who was a stereotypical nerd looking guy, politely asked them to stop talking and they scoffed at him before continuing their running commentary. I turned around and told them to shut the fuck up. Being much larger than my friend, they took my, decidedly less polite, request more to…

Playing Birth of the Empires on my tablet a lot of late. Taking a break from my x-box 360 since I found myself getting bored of all the games in my library. Plus the fact that there's a sad lack of 4X turn based strategy games on x-box and I like 4X turn based strategy games.

I know. I guess it was his pomposity and his dismissal of someone who worked on his movie as being merely a "computer geek" who doesn't do cinema that brought out my inner Hulk.

No, I don't know that. And unless you're him, neither do you. What you know is reading it that way makes it what you want to hear.

Explain to me where I'm being obtuse. You are the one making arguments that weren't made. Not me. He didn't say digital effects don't look as good, nor did I. He literally said they aren't cinema. He said they aren't real.

Nice rebuttal. That you don't differentiate between tangible and real is your choice.

Your second point is fine. But when's the last time you had your pay deposited at the facade of a bank? Or went shopping at the facade of a store?

I'll bite on the article clearly designed to start a debate on digital vs. practical effects and their "realness".

Fair enough. To take the idea of Ironman being Tony Stark in armor vs. Clark Kent being a carefully crafted persona designed to throw people off the scent; I guess I'd put Peter Parker/Spiderman closer to Stark/Ironman than Kent/Superman. But that's just my opinion.

Never really explored it with them. But I consider Peter Parker and Spiderman the same. Like Tony Stark/Iron man or Clark Kent/Superman. Honestly, under the mask, I doubt they care much one way or another.

" They weren't "enemy combatants" and couldn't be detained under the law of war because AQ/Taliban aren't a nation-state who signed to the various conventions."

You're point about Spiderman's non-resonance with younger people may be true but, anacdotally, my students (between 8 and 14 usually) love Spiderman. He's easily the most popular superhero amongst them.

But removing the "like" makes it easier to shit on. Who wants to critique what people write when they can critique what they want the person to have written?

To clarify, I didn't mean in rapid succession, which is what the Defiant could do (unless I'm misremembering my DS9). I meant 10 photon torpedoes fired together, and hit at the same time. Also, I think it's only fair that the Enterprise gets quantum torpedoes as well… since I'd imagine they'd have had them, if the…

Romulan cloaking device is cheating. The Enterprise had a cloaking device for one episode so they should get to use it too.