That's an excellent point, and I imagine it would help in terms of not getting pesticides and such into the ground and water. Though I wonder if it's not a lot more energy expensive?
Sidenote, I think it might be good to say agriculture instead of farming? It makes it easier to understand your point.

Colour me a little surprised by the lack of anything on eating more of an animal than just the few attractive bits of meat you find at every grocery store. Cows and pigs are big animals and we can eat just about every part of them, go to a grocery store that doesn't cater to your average westerner and you can see that…

I think the big change would be to turn Soong into a child prodigy. But agewise it would work, considering TNG's pilot featured dr McCoy looking not that much older than Soongh when he was on the show.

The problem with this Khan story was that he ultimately wasn't the real villain of the film. Weller's admiral was and they dispatched him pretty quickly, afterwards Khan just felt like any random bad guy. In fact his whole identity as Khan was mostly incidental to the plot, whereas the previous two stories about him…

Oh absolutely. Again, that's why he needs someone else's input.

He should hang out with Terry Gilliam sometime, he can teach Blomkamp what real studio interference is and how to get around it.

Oh agreed, and Avatar, as formulaic and trite as it is in many ways, does at least have structure.
Blomkamp certainly seems to regard Cameron's carreer highly, but there seems to be an arrogance to him. As if other people's scripts aren't up to the level of what he wants to do.
All speculation of course, but the fact…

Perhaps Neil Blomkamp shouldn't be completely in charge of his own projects then. I've read a couple of times that he doesn't want to do films he hasn't initiated himself, because he doesn't want to compromise on his own ideas. But, perhaps after Elysium, it might be time to admit that his own ideas don't extend far…

Well, considering their budget was just over 200.000 pounds it's not entirely surprising. Their mail armour was just knitted wool dyed grey.Camelot was a cardboard cut out stuck on a hillside. The film actually looks surprisingly good considering how little money they had.

This old chestnut?

This old chestnut?

All these issues are political issues, to simply say that there are technical solutions to these problems is to ignore human nature.
I never understand how people can think that some new technology is going to radically transform the world. Massive implementation of GM-crops, AI, nanotechnology, it's just this decade's…

I think he means that we've been able to insulate ourselves from natural selection. We may certainly be more diverse genitically than before however.

We're about to enter the transhuman phase? And that's supposed to make this planet better?
Large parts of the globe are still stuck somewhere in the middle of the twentieth century, I think it's going to be a while before we're all happily plugging our minds into some solarpowered AI-web. Before that there's a couple…

I suppose I did mean cartels instead of gangs, but it's not unheard of, even if it's generally more used by terrorists. But it'd be surprising if this film didn't have terrorist villains, considering that's generally a shortcut to some sheen of relevance these days (or at least it was for a while).

Yes, I know the car bomb isn't as sadistically brutal as the shooting in the original film, but give it points for realism at least. Car bombs are a favourite of gangs and terrorists around the world. For me, at least, it works. Frankly the whole thing looks perfectly alright so far. The cast looks good, the design is…

Can't wait for this, it looks very promising and it'll be nice to have Gilliam paint a broad portrait of our times the way he did with Brazil.
Also, that's Brienne shilling for financial euphoria, isn't it?

Yes, for shame. Matthew McConaughey should have had an all corn diet for months! And then just astronaut food for the space scenes (it's a logical assumption that this film will be mostly set in space, I hope).

They all look pretty well fed to me.

I wonder if this also explains why Enterprise feels so tired in some ways. Berman and Braga wanted to do something new, got told they couldn't and the result was awkward rehashes of stuff we knew already. They should have brought in Manny Cotto much sooner. The show needed new blood.