I know Kermit's the leader, but he isn't nearly boring enough to be Cyclops.

You really want them to waste a significant chunk of the movie hunting for the place they needed to be? Yes, it might be more realistic, but how would that add to the movie in any way whatsoever?

Mr. Peabody still has a bit of that self-satisfied Dreamworks smirk going on. It's just been toned down a lot compared to most of their offerings.

I'm really surprised by the amount of vitriol I see aimed at this movie. I really get the feeling that people are taking out their frustrations with Lost on Prometheus. I say this because all the "Lindelof tricks" that people seem to be complaining about (the vague spirituality, the ambiguity) seemed like the right…

Agreed on Shaw's spirituality. Plus, the whole "ancient aliens" thing is at its core pseudo-religious concept, so a religious character is a natural fit for the story. I do think it could have been executed better, though. I have no problem with a scientist being religious, but a scientist should have better…

Ehh, I still have to disagree with you, particularly with regards to their leader. Inexperience is a pretty weak excuse for having no basic understanding of what it means to secure an area. But I suppose the fact that Cameron at least attempted to justify the stupid in Aliens makes it more forgivable than the idiocy…

I love Aliens, but the space marines were prety freaking dumb. Not quite as dumb as some of the cannon fodder in Prometheus, but they made a lot of stupid decisons that anyone familiar with real military strategy would find irritating.

A hundred years in the future, and women's reproductive rights are still getting the short end of the stick. :(

Well, John Lasseter and Hayao Miyazaki are friends, and the Pixar guy have cited Ghibli as an influence before, especially on Up.

Great children's books and death are practically synonymous.

io9 had a post a whle back about ten underused ways to end a sci-fi/fantasy story. The Sandman used almost all of them, and blended them together perfectly. Truly one of the great endings in all of literature.

Well, they already had Gandalf, and they're practically the same scene. Hell, the whole Death Star sequence is suspicously similar to the Mines of Moria, even to the point of including tentacled monster action.

I honestly think Hyde tops Rorschach for the title of Alan Moore's best anti-hero. The way he was able to tie Stevenson's original description of Hyde with his beastly depiction in modern pop culture, AND manage to give him an air of nobility, is pure genius.

Reading Fahrenheit 451 in middle school is a big reason why I am a science fiction fan today. His stories have haunted me for years after reading them. The firs thing I did when I got home was to re-read Kaleidoscope.

The first thing I did when I got home today was re-read Kaleidoscope. What an amazing, amazing man.

But would anyone really object if Marvel just got Idris Elba to play all of its heroes? I think he could pull it off...

I assume you're referencing the TV series about people going to Mars, and not the song from the musical Wicked?

Don't worry. Set things up so four people have an entire planet to themselves, and the murder will come.

I don't like it. None of these leave me with an adequate place to live if the Man Jack murders my family.

Yeah, it's a mess, but it's an interesting mess for sure.