OK, point taken.

Mainstream filmmaking was much more brave and adventurous a third of a century ago. Zod was a relatively minor character in the Superman mythos and unknown to the general public when Donner started shooting Superman 1-2. (Recall that they were regarded as a single project at first and Zod appears in the introductory…

I just hope that the Hit Girl comic comes out more frequently than once every three months or so like Kick-Ass.

I agree. Remember Dan Aykroyd's moustachioed Nixon? And Cesar Romero's Joker with the makeup over the facial hair?

If these glammy cosplayers prefigure visual kei and club kids, does this mean that the fashion of future youth subcultures will include stormtrooper helmets, fursuits, and obese Iron Man armor?

Routh earned back some of my patience due to his fun performance in Scott Pilgrim after the disaster of Superman Returns. (It may be the case that Routh is no more to blame for SR than Lloyd and Christensen were for the Star Wars prequels.) So I just might give this a chance if it gets favorable reviews.

Better than 12 Monkeys (which is still a good movie), that's for sure!

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Anyone else getting a Krod Mandoon vibe? Except with a stoner-slacker 'Kevin Smith via Judd Apatow pack' vibe. Either way, it feels a couple years too late.

I'm kind of glad that it's revealed that she was altered before birth because otherwise the premise (a staple of action movies) that anyone, no matter how small or slight, can be a supreme ass kicker with the right training opens the door to whether extremely implausible fighting prowess counts as science fiction. …

That's a good point. The series made it clear that there were individual, generational, and factional differences within the Taurons; that they were far from a monolith or one-dimensional. Same with Soldiers of the One as well as typical Capricans. Caprica used those familiar immigrant/marginalized minority traits…

I actually prefer TOS Klingons (but in general I like TNG more), who were more like a Ming the Merciless stereotype rather than space vikings (I think that's what they were going for rather than angry black men), refined, calculating and taunting - a Cold War era stand-in for Russia/China - rather than boasting,…

Oh, the natives definitely are a black stereotype.

I'm surprised that no one has mentioned the Taurons, who on Caprica are clearly a Italian/Arab/Latino pastiche - especially related to mafia, gangbanger, and guerrilla tropes related to these stereotypes. While the Taurons were shown as brave and had a strong moral code (such as it was), they were also depicted as…

Let's distinguish between a)intent, b) common interpretation, and c) specialized interpretation/repurposing. I very much doubt that the intent of King Kong is to represent a black man or black male sexuality. It certainly is not a common - by which I mean the general public - interpretation. Rather it's a…

Maybe they're generic space Semite stereotypes: Jews when it comes to money, Arabs when it comes to sexism and pugnaciousness. I think that the Bejorans were also Arab/Jews in terms of being depressed: Jews during the Holocaust, Palestinians under occupation. (Note: These aren't MY politics; I'm just pointing out…

Haven't seen it yet, along with Timecrimes and Primer.

So, without having seen Source Code I'm inferring that: Retroactive + Quantum Leap + Deja Vu = Source Code

If Deckard is a replicant - and presumably Roy Batty knew this - then Batty was simply just preserving the life of another member of his own 'tribe' in contrast to his utter disregard for human life. Just like how humans regarded replicants, as other commenters on the thread have mentioned.

We'll agree to disagree on the subwoofer ban, but maybe we can agree on boom cars? In fact, boom cars are intentionally designed to project sound outwards as well as provide sound for those in the car, so there isn't even the flimsiest justification for such equipment.