The 1987 attempt was a typical Hollywood mess. I’d be happy if they just didn’t find ways to screw it up even worse.

Well, yes, she did get medieval on a few people. This IS a medieval setting, after all. No one expects her to have the civility or basic respect for all life of a modern developed-world person. Really, if you’re looking for role models, you shouldn’t be looking at works like ASOIAF. We just read and watch to indulge…

Wow. I would not have figured it. True, you can’t really tell how tall an actress is in a finished work due to how shots are set up to make their male costars at least equal, but I’ll be rechecking GOTG and the relevant Doctor Who seasons.

I remember Jumanji as a refreshingly good adventure. The premise was novel, the kids were smart and relatively functional, the whole thing worked better than I would have expected.

Unfortunately, most of the stuff that will dominate our discussion of how a hotly anticipated movie failed involves stuff you had to have seen the movie to understand. What did your sense of fridge logic tell you? What plot holes did you notice? Does the logic of the world still hold together? Reviews limited to…

With all the pop-culture and video game references aimed STRAIGHT AT ME, it seems I am obligated to see this. But I am concerned that the story may be, as some commenters point out, not with our current zeitgeist. Traditionally a film like this would aim to fix the dystopian world the protagonist arises from. In this…

This will be the main issue blocking widespread adoption. The generation that sees this technology first introduced will never trust it that much. A few generations along, some nasty hacking will make people too wary. The demand that people always be secure in their own heads will be too great an obstacle to overcome.

Arguably they will DESERVE rights when they can show they are as human, as capable as pulling our heartstrings, as other humans.

I can only laugh. Explaining how this universe works is impossible; it violates basic realities of human psychology to have to do purges EVERY YEAR.

Is it Stucker or Strucker? Because Strucker also has connotations of ties to the Avengers end of the Marvel Universe. Descendants of the von Stucker line might not be mutants, per se... or they might be induced mutants, legacies of some tampering going back as much as, say, 70 years...

I wasn’t disappointed by the absence of xenomorphs. I was disappointed by the ancephalic humanoids.

Not going to try to get into this one. The books started promisingly but devolved into drivel and the final twist was too shopworn.

This is why I prefer roles like this to go to unknowns or lesser stars. The character has its own uniqueness, which can’t be squared with certain celebrities.

One advantage: There is enough material in the books to keep the show going for at least 20 years.

Was that Luke saying is was time for the Jedi to end? Sounded more to me like Kylo Ren.

The question that bugs me is: What’s the pressure like inside these icy moons?

It hadn’t occurred to me to think about this. The HP franchise is not big in my schedule these days.

This movie confirmed it: I no longer feel so irritated by old beloved properties being mangled by people who don’t really get them, as long as they look pretty enough.

Considering the high level of AI all over the place, I’m wondering what sort of work most people do. I don’t think we’ve seen many ordinary jobs that can’t be done by droids.

Of course, the climax has to be the Kessel run. We get to see how black holes look in Star Wars. Will they keep the Interstellar look, or go for something different?