One of the reasons is the way animation is seen in Japan versus the way it is perceived in the U.S. In Japan animation is considered a medium for self-expression while in the U.S it's perceived as a genre: children's movies. The few attempts at animated feature films aimed at teens or adults haven't been that…

The short reminds me of the Martian Chronicles. I like how the story is told in the form of a creation myth. The ending is bittersweet.

As long as it's better than the Rankin-Bass animated TV movie I'll be happy.Don't get me wrong, I have found memories of the Rankin-Bass cartoon, I just want the Peter Jackson version to be better.

Fortunately Threepio seems to enjoy serving humans. More than a few times he seemed upset when he thought he failed to do what they asked.

That was so awesome that he agreed. I wish he was alive when my college did Macbeth.

This the same BS anti-marijuana crusaders have been pushing since at the early 80's. Right up there with one joint = 20 cigarettes.

I think that's the release date in Japan.

I rather liked the ending of "The Forever War" when it turns out the war began by mistake.

We would know more about the Maya if the short-sighted Spanish priests hadn't burned all the other codices.

Yes, but even being discriminated against doesn't make him a "person of color." Latino isn't a racial category, it's a cultural description. Cajuns have been discriminated against, too but nobody complained when Sean Penn, a man of Irish, Italian, Lithuanian and Russian descent played the Cajun convict in "Dead Man…

Minority doesn't automatically equal "person of color." Latinos are a minority in the U.S but then again so are Cajuns. Are Cajuns "people of color" simply because they make up less than half of the U.S population?

Star Trek never was about seeing the future. Star Trek only used the trappings of science fiction to comment on the present.

Of course the researchers who came up with this study and wrote the paper are themselves creative people.

Of course this is completely hypothetical but I can think of lots of reasons that a Zambian space agency would have tribal markings on their spacesuits. 1. Zambian astronauts would be recognizable without looking on their sleeves for tiny flags. 2. Zambian astronauts would be able to show pride in their heritage. 3.…

Actually the patterns are similar to those found on traditional tribal costumes but the straw spacesuits were a little...unsettling.

That Kraken would rot before you ate it all. Unless you're a calamari eating machine. In that case you'd better get crackin'.

JJ Abrams uses lens flares so often he's like a kid playing with the lens flare option on Adobe After Effects.

An odalisque is a female slave in the seraglios of the Ottoman Empire. I can't imagine Wolverine allowing himself to be enslaved as a chamber maid.

If I remember the article correctly she was drinking something like 2.5 gallons a day, smoking 30 cigarettes a day and eating lots of unhealthy food. If the Coke didn't kill her, the tobacco or cholesterol probably would have.

I think it means whenever she acts spineless around Joffrey.