ah, the old reverse racism-ploy. What I actually said was that taken as a whole Nolan's films have a boringly heterogenous set of protagonists. I'm less likely to enjoy a film if the main character is unoriginal. Nice try though.

I don't think Cameron has ever shied away from his pulp influences. But it's a quite good comparison.

I know the whole premise of the movie is rather far fetched, isn't it? I think it's the way Nolan always tries to make things realistic and contemporary that throws the absurdities in such high relief. Take the way they're getting into trouble on the surface of these planets. The smart thing to do would be to send…

Aw cute, how nice for Nolan to be mentioned along with those directors and that writer. Come back to me when Nolan has made something as good as Dr Strangelove, Punch drunk Love, or the Trouble with Harry.

I'll admit that I basically don't read superhero comics. So perhaps I'm just stuck on the premise. My favourite Batman film is still Batman Returns. It's grotesque and funny, but still takes its concept seriously, as opposed to the Schumacher monstrosities.

He makes silly movies that pretend they're serious. That's what my issue is with them. Batman is an inherently ridiculous concept, Inception was utter fantasy, yet Nolan keeps everything so mundane. He seems afraid of admitting he's making comic book and science fiction. I find it adolescent because he doesn't seem to…

Okay, I agree that wasn't the most accurate description. Although I'd argue that Cobb in Inception seemed plenty affluent, judging by his suits, house and lifestyle. I think what doesn't appeal to me is the Randian aspect to a lot of these men, the whole 'one man will do what no others have been able to do…

Sure, and Nolan also made the best Batman movies. I don't know why, but his films almost always rub me the wrong way. Possibly it's the rather defeatist attitude of the premise here, that can be summed up as 'this earth is broken, we need another one'. Or perhaps it's the way that our supposed saviors can't tell the…

have you seen a Gilliam film before?

Terminator: yes! The first Alien had an excellent score though. I wish McCreary had done Avatar though.

While I'm perfectly okay with most of it, I think the Bladerunner soundtrack has dated horribly. That might perhaps be the appeal for some, but I can't help but think a different composer could have done a better job balancing the noir aspects with the futuristic setting. David Shire or Jerry Goldsmith come to mind,…

I'm sorry but the rising costs of living and stagnating wages haven't come about in a (political) vacuum. Have you considered that these are simply the costs for decades of over consumption? That wages are stagnant because of neo liberal policies that have been almost entirely unchallenged in the western world? It…

Yes, and in America you can get locked up for walking around while being black. This isn't about the outrages of the system, it's simply the way people feel about their country. Plenty of Russians realise that there are definite benefits to not living in the Soviet state anymore. But for the majority the Soviet union…

Michael Gambon of course, barring his turn as Dumbledore, he's at his best playing generally quite unpleasant people.

The issue is not the purges or the gulags, but the malaise of the eighties and the subsequent wilderness years of the nineties. If you want to understand why Putin still has popular support you have only to go back to that period. During the eighties everybody knew that socialism had failed, and that the government…

Well considering the mess that was Russia in the nineties and the awfulness of the eighties, I'm not surprised by Russians still sticking up for Putin. It's depressing for sure, but with the state of the media in the country it's only natural that people don't have a realistic view of the situation.

I think it's important to note here that almost all of these statements are warnings are phrased as imperatives. So it's not: 'please help to make our country alcohol free', but 'you must help to make the country alcohol free!'

I'll believe it when I see it. Straczynski has been talking about various ways B5 could come back for years. He has a certain hustling streak about him that makes these projects seem much more concrete than they generally are. A necessary quality for anyone with his job, but it doesn't make these announcements…

Well yes, he is supposed to be in the Hobbit movies, along with Brian Cox, but Peter Jackson seems to have no clue what he's doing anymore.

Nope, you're not alone. The first one had a little charm, amid the hours of stuff, but the second one was just 3 hours of disappointment. Apart from the fact that it suffered terribly from being the middle part of a story that doesn't need to be a trilogy, it was badly designed and just not really convincing. I don't…