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McTiernan was probably the best action movie director Hollywood ever had. This guy knew how to do set-up and pacing. I always say the only good Michael Bay movie is the one where he basically copied McTiernan style - The Rock. I'm sad we cant use his talent anymore. I'm happy if he manages to make a comeback despite…

Let's also remember that McTiernan's looking for a comeback. He was one of my favorite directors, even his shitty movies are good (except Rollerball.)

Sure the vast majority of stars will remain gravitationally bound to whatever centers of mass might arise in this mindmeltingly huge cosmic collision, but many billions of stars shall be scattered to the vast dark of the intergalactic void. These will be solitary stars millions of light years from any nearby…

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I don't think there's one iota of a chance that Donovan isn't going to Brazil because "other guys...are a little bit ahead of him." That's ridiculous. You mean to tell me that Alejandro Bedoya, his potential replacement on the wing, is a better player than LD? I like Bedoya, thinks he brings a good energy, tracks back…

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Which reminds me of the bit in STID where the wounded Enterprise apparently free falls from the Moon to the Earth in about fifteen minutes, a trip that took the Apollo astronauts roughly three days. But the filmmakers have no sense of scale whatsoever: in the first one, Spock is apparently marooned to a different…

When time travel is depicted in many stories, there's often no account for why the machine is able to be spacially in the same spot when it reaches it's destination as when it departed, considering the Earth is constantly moving in an orbit around the sun.

There was also the issue in both Trek films where there's a bunch of fighting going on in our solar system, yet no other ships around to intervene.

Maybe not the biggest, but in Star Trek Into Darkness the 'we have to get Khan's blood' discussion when they literally have a room full of frozen super soldiers behind them, who we have no reason to believe do not share the same super-blood, is just beyond the pale.

Settle down, Brian.

Bam! there it is, exactly on the head. Pa Kent has never been a maybe character. He is supposed to be Clark's moral center. Then again, from the movie, we have no clue who Clark really is anyway, so there you go. `

Please make swing/pitch mechanic analysis a weekly story. This is one of the reasons deadspin is awesome. thank you, good sir.

Yup. You and I are in agreement, my friend. It could have all tied together quite neatly, really, if Snyder hadn't spent so much time on the next action set piece instead. Also, I like the phrase "robo-ghost jazz hands" and must now use it.

...it had some good base ideas but never bothered to explore them and put them all together into Clark's decision.

^^^This...no Pa Kent I've ever read or seen would have said, "Maybe"...it shows how far removed we are from the "old school" Pa Kent and this Pa Kent...sad really...

I used to do this all the time as a child too. It's called "not having a dad"

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