My girlfriend's a bit of a hacker, and she and her online buddies love the film Hackers despite all its laughably bad tech inaccuracies because it portrays hackers as the coolest mofos on the planet.

I'm more worried at what he'll do to the Forever War.

PeeWee didn't become PeeWee until he read the boy's brain, though. I rather liked the ship's "AI that claims it's emotionless but actually possess a dry wit" personality before that moment.

I can imagine SHIELD having a lot of console jockeys and techs who are good at their jobs, but not deadly and cool under fire.

I appreciated that though. There's a lot of genre stories, YA or otherwise, that do the "rebellion against the evil empire" plot. We've had several generations of writers grow up with Star Wars at this point. But very few ever illustrate what the personal and social cost of revolution actually is, or really explore…

I've read that one! A Heinlein Trio including The Puppet Masters, Double Star, and The Door Into Summer.

Maybe not "light and airy", but they are a bit silly.

Wrath of Khan is usually considered the best one, and there are only two action scenes in the whole movie. And both are far more about wits and personalities than flashy dogfighting.

To paraphrase the Tick: "You can't blow up the Earth! That's where I keep my stuff!"

At least one hard sf author thinks there's still a scientific basis to it: http://www.amazon.ca/Triggers-Robert-J-Sawyer/dp/0670065765/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1354024057&sr=8-1

District 9 and Attack the Block were probably my two favourite alien encounter/invasion stories of the last 5 years, and neither was American. Iron Sky, Dead Snow, and Trollhunter were all enjoyable genre films, and all came from the Nordic countries. And the Spanish [REC] series and the New French Extreme movement…

Exactly. There was plenty of post-apocalyptic fiction written in other countries (and for all I know there still is) in the decades following WWII—when many of those countries had actually been devastated by war and took decades to rebuild from. But it was rarely translated to screen because of the expense. Japanese…

I thought of that film too.

Well that sucks. Thank you ladies, for all your work.

Just remember, like Charlie Jane told us, this is partly Buffy's fault: http://io9.com/5299054/its-buffys-fault-that-vampires-are-weak-now

And frankly, I handwave any woodenness in that particular performance as PTSD from being locked up in a tower for years. Snow White doesn't really emote until that little detour through the wondrous faerie glade.

I concur.

The producers of the film tried to claim that the Wachowskis had received Moore's blessing for their interpretation, which Moore vocally denied. Moore was extremely livid that Warner tried to use him to market a film he had no interest in without his permission, and IIRC, this began his standing demand any mention of…

What's a fake jock? Or a fake cheerleader?

All these outfits from Thunderball and no love for Fiona Volpe? At least the motorcycle leathers!