Ooof. It doesn't really bring anything new to the table, doesn't excel at anything, and it's competent enough not to fail memorably either. The JRPG genre spinning its wheels.
It wafted by me without leaving much of an impression at all, except for the music which is wonderful. One-piano tunes throughout; kept…

Some movies have a failure condition. I'm pretty sure turning up to watch Life is one of them, for example.

I'd disagree with the lack of evolution part of your argument. There's games where all you do is walk around and get story thrown at you, but honestly I can't think of that many.

"The man in black, here known as Walter Paddick, is kidnapping telepathic adolescents from Earth and harnessing their brainpower to attack the Dark Tower"

Really don't mind the moniker - I like the genre, and I've tagged them on Steam as Perambulator Simulators. I've even applied it to No Man's Sky, since that's how I tend to play that game.

Hey there! I've mostly read Vertigo stuff, so -
- Loved Preacher. I kind of like it better than the comic.
- Was disappointed in Watchmen because it was a superficial, fanboyish take on the comic. All shiny surfaces and self satisfaction at how deep it was being. The fact that it even got to the table deserves a lot of…

Also for an anarchists-cookbook style explanation on how to use an ear of corn as a weapon!

Oh, man, I could never get anyone in any of our groups to give it a shot. So jealous!

Yeah, the guy's so good-natured and enthused about RPGs that he's pretty much universally beloved in the community. At least as far as I've seen whenever the topic comes up.

I… holy hell, Taladas! Besides the Minotaur empire (complete with an NPC called Bovinus), there was a desert made of powdered glass with sandstorms that sheared flesh from bone. That was the epitome of cool to teen nerd me.

This… actually sounds great. Trollhunter was a lot more fun than I expected (while still being very flawed.)

Ooof, it doesn't even look good? Thought it would have at least some visual flair, based on the trailer. I've avoided the DC movies so far, but I thought they were at least a counterpoint to the Marvel "Just put the camera wherever, if it ends up looking ok we'll crap it up during editing" visual style. At least until…

My favorite one was Alive. On a flight going out from Argentina.
"We're not saying we're going to crash over the Andes. But if we do, here are some pointers…"

In the commentary track for Blade 2, Del Toro is pretty dismissive of Goyer, to the point of being it pretty jarring - the guy's normally very enthusiastic about everything to do with his projects.

Late, but….
I agree with @avclub-7d26c14b4a096a0afc48154974c4b7d6:disqus. And beyond that, as the father of a 9-year old, it resonated with me because he's learning that sometimes your son actually knows what's best for him.
I feel that Nichols' movies nail family relationships, though usually they're of the fucked-up…

I went to see a talk/interview given by Werner Herzog once. They showed footage from Cave of Forgotten Dreams featuring some albino alligators which, Herzog says in the documentary narration, are mutants that live just downstream from a huge nuclear power plant.
The talk moderator was shocked. "I can't believe it, how…

Specter had its ups and downs, but the highs were spectacularly high.

"It’s enough to make the discerning wish that Ice Age would pull a Minions and make these sidekick pratfalls the main attraction."

I think they can do that earlier, especially if they're bored, but there's something to what you're saying; I can only remember two kid's movies my son flat-out disliked - the newer Spiderman 2 (which he was actually angry at, because he watched it just for Rhino in the power suit in the trailers), and Secret life of…

My son (8) dragged me to the cinema to see it, and he adored it. I think you're right in that it won't capture kids' imagination the same way the original did, but that's more a function of the way the original reveled in inspired supernatural jackassery - in this one, the fun is mostly in the characters; The ghosts…