damnit

You can't kill death. (Also as someone upthread pointed out, she basically has to be in Infinity War now. WHICH IS AWESOME.)

Also, with apologies to @archstanton543:disqus :

I didn't _know_ that I wanted a movie that was 50% Cate Blanchett as a comic book supervillain and 50% "Gladiator" by way of "Planet Hulk", but…apparently I do?

That's interesting and kinda sad that they just weren't able to budget for the attack on Ganymede as shown in the books: pretty much all of the really unfortunate narrative choices this season made seem to be a direct result of that.

Yeah, that was the first honestly bad F/X moment in the entire series so far.

Holy hell. Well done: I didn't think it was possible that there was an 8-bit era video console I'd never heard of, but fuck if I'd ever heard of that one before. And it was originally based on CED disks! That's like what happens when an obscure game system has a nightmare about being even more obscure!

It's sad to think that probably in another 10 years, there won't be any functioning Vectrex units anywhere on earth, and no way to replace their monitors. :(

Ah, the flamewars of my misspent youth…

For real — if I hadn't been in the process of moving to California as they were making the film I'd've been in it. As it is you just see a bunch of emails from me.

I thought the Rez vibrator controller was for the PS2, not the Dreamcast? Or did you have a very different relationship with the Dreamcast fishing rod controller than I did?

Okay, I was really not expecting an article on the Fairchild Channel F of all things to end up at the doorstep of the Toynbee Tiles, but I am completely delighted that it happened.

Belatedly (I like going back to these articles much later and seeing the comments I missed the first time) if you haven't you should definitely watch "Under Pressure", which is the making-of documentary about "The Abyss." Cameron is undeniably a great filmmaker, but he's also completely fucking insane and in several…

Nothing will ever top the slide whistle overdub of the most amazing car flip stunt ever in "The Man with the Golden Gun"

I swear that's how the Mormon church keeps going. Their theology is aggressively ridiculous even by obviously-a-cult-to-get-the-leader-laid standards, and their social stances range from the dubious to the flat-out insane (no COFFEE?! gtfo…) but their missionaries are to a one cute as a goddamn button. Why yes,…

Think of Christian apologetic films as a very specific type of genre, kinda like horror is these days. For the most part, nobody expects an Eli Roth film (or, god help us, a Saw film) to be in any way good, but they've got a rabid audience and keep getting made regardless. And, occasionally, almost by accident,…

This is a brilliant idea. Who do we need to bribe/assassinate/seduce/deliver-cocaine to make it happen?

Also a quietly brilliant bit of physical acting by Rickman. Holly hit Gruber in his one obvious weak point — his vanity — and he throws himself at her as he's delivering his comeback.

Substantially worse than average. :(

Oof, yeah. Really not a good movie for pre-teens.