@Settings: Not much worse than a lot of hominid reconstructions I've seen.

1. The neadertal-'denisovan' split is barely older than the African-non-African split in contemporary humans. Denisovans are pretty much neandertals, no matter what Stringer or whoever says about their teeth.

Is the publishing industry and Hollywood going to keep rehashing the 'transformed chosen one' storyline forever? For all of the talk of universal myths of the hero's journey and Joseph Campbell, most of these are rips on Star Wars. (Yawn.) Eragon, Kung Fu Panda, Legend of the Seeker, Harry Potter ... this is one…

Well, clearly the big thing now is young adult dystopias (part of the longer trend of young adult fiction crossing over to adult readers, and fantasy/sci-fi in general) - Hunger Games, Uglies, Maze Runner, Incarceron etc. But who knows how long that will last.

Is anything as knee-jerk as the bashing of Twilight by scifi-fantasy fans? And what a great illustration of that kind of lazily automatic thinking: the dimissal of the work of the principal TV writer of Dexter(!) - as more than one commenter on this thread has done - solely because of her involvement with Twilight. …

@squinko: He was awesome in Dirty Filthy Love.

Gamer has been mentioned several times but another movie about how video games have influenced our cultural reality is Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World. I haven't seen Tron: Legacy yet, but I doubt that it is half as entertaining.

"Maybe if somebody had actually thought about how to make a movie that's a metaphor for our relationship with technology, or with games today, you'd have gotten an interesting film."

This is a great example of why animal biomedical research is necessary. As well as stem cell research of all kinds (even though in this particular study it appears to be somatic rather than embryonic stem cells). Animal rights loons and pro-lifers alike are enemies of scientific progress and can shove it.

@DreamingMerc: I bet that this will make Jumper and The Covenant look like Hamlet and Pride & Prejudice.

@hopskipper: I'm waiting for the movie adaptation of Vertigo's I, Zombie.

@Toastie: I actually like Schneider in Dredd! But I know that this view is a very marginal outlier.

Stallone's Dredd was actually pretty true to the comics. It had Rico, an ABC Warrior, Cursed Earth, Angel Gang etc. A lot of the complaints were petty fanboy bitching was about Stallone's accent and his taking off the helmet.

@TheOversightCommittee: Towelie, touting his memoir A Million Little Fibers, is essentially a Frey stand-in.

Ever since that South Park episode I have trouble keeping Frey and Towelie apart.

@Toastie: Nice finds! Always nice to further my cinematic education.

The cubicle shot was way ahead of its time - think Dilbert, Office Space, Matrix, and Wanted. Technology as oppressive vs empowering, the evil corporation, the rebel hero programmer, computer generated virtual reality as real as the outside world: all cyberpunk. Tron, Brainstorm, and Wargames were an early cyberpunk…

@LoganAdams: No doubt!

Like The Punisher, Raven is one of those characters who was ahead of the times and so took a long time to gain wider popularity. Being dark, gothish, and a sorcerer made her a weirdo in the early 80s, cool by the late 90s, and mandatory by the late '00s.

Boy, is 'For The Win' ever going to seem dated as a book title. No, scratch that; it already sounds dated. It's like a novel from '00 with the title 'Wazzup?' or from '93 with the title 'Chaos Theory.'