If you were going to get Fincher to do a superhero thing, I think Watchmen would be the best fit. I'd love to see his Batman though.

It's just the big budget blockbuster stuff that's all greenscreeny and samey and remakey. It only seems like every movie is like that because these movies are the most visible. But they're the minority, really. Most movies are smaller, based on original screenplays and the ratio of good:bad is about the same as it's…

I don't love it, but I kinda like it. What does that make me?

No. That's why they used the term "films based in the desert" instead of "desert films".

Hugh Jackman in The Prestige

Monsters was great! Gareth Edwards is fantastic! etc

If the exact same script was in live action would it be okay to take it seriously?

John Cleese says the peek-a-boo thing isn't a joke, but it kind of is. You set up certain expectations - that you're going to make your face appear on the left - and then defy those expectations by doing something else. It's not terribly sophisticated, but it meets the minimum requirements.

Hey, let's do a marathon of those two movies that are explicitly part of the same series and are in direct continuity with each other, we'll watch The Thing and then The Thing.

Another box ticked for Dredd. The villain wasn't building a doomsday device to destroy the whole city or turn everyone into lizards or some shit, she was just selling drugs. Made it seem more real and immediate, and added humor value to the Judges' extreme brutality.

Well, he's a being from another realm sent from the heavens by his father to help us out and through his benevolence show us the better parts of ourselves. He's in the form of a young man, was raised by humble earthly parents, holds an ordinary human profession, yet he's capable of godlike feats that could be called…

Davy Jones looked great. At first glance I actually thought it was Bill Nighy in costume wearing a real octopus mask, with some CGI augmentation for the tentacle movement. I was genuinely surprised to find out the whole character was digital, clothes and all. Looked way better than, say, CGI Billy Connolly in The…

It's the action choreography. It's an impressive blend of kung fu and gunplay that's never really been done before, it's shot and edited very clearly, and Keanu's doing most of the stunt work himself which makes his badassness more convincing. It's just very refreshing in contrast to most other action movies where…

Don't be afraid to have your title character be a ruthless jackbooted death machine (Dredd). Handle it right and this can be quite funny!

The tech is still nowhere near good enough. In today's games I blow up thirty cars and kill a hundred people, drive around the block, and suddenly all evidence of the carnage has been erased in order to free up memory. It would add a whole extra dimension of gameplay if there were fully realistic destruction physics…

Yeah, it's all about contemplating the possibilities of AI now, and not always being totally pessimistic about it. See also The Machine, Chappie, Tron Legacy, Robot & Frank.

1995 was the biggest year for them, but the decade had a few other notable techno-thrillers. Early on, there was a preoccupation with the idea of digitizing human personalities in pursuit of immortality (Freejack, The Lawnmower Man, Ghost in the Machine), and in '99 the idea of virtual reality becoming…

I saw The Net relatively recently too, hoping to point and laugh in a "that's not how computers work!" way, but it was disappointingly non-ridiculous. Probably the most dated thing about it is how it treats Bullock's character for being tech savvy. "Look, she uses a computer to book plane tickets and organize her…

Yo, check this out guys, it's insanely great, it's got a 28.8bps modem!

The difference there is the comics themselves changed Nick Fury to a black guy a while ago. Although that doesn't explain why people were puking with rage over the idea of Miles Morales appearing in a movie instead of Peter Parker.