Perhaps I chose the wrong word. I certainly felt like the movie expected an audience reaction it didn't remotely earn, in my case, and I stand by the other points in my criticism.

Once upon a time, I played this free online Marvel game (now sadly defunct) where you could defeat Dormammu and win prizes for it. The first Avengers movie had come out recently enough that shawarma was one of the possible rewards that could drop (not a highly prized one.) The phrase "Shawarma from Dormammu" was…

The way the movie forgot about her for long stretches there, I like to think that she herself sort of came to the same conclusion and every so often would just wander offset, only returning when their lawyers called her agent. That's my favorite explanation for why the movie seems to forget she's in certain scenes.

I'm surprised to hear that. I took it as a given that they were going for the same sort of ooh-ahh crowd reaction they went for with "My real name is KHAN" in STID, that baked-in sort of winking "look at this thing you recognize" shtick that doesn't make a lick of sense in-universe. I couldn't have rolled my eyes…

That movie went way, way sharper and deeper than I expected.

I loved it too, but it even seemed slightly redundant in the movie itself. "Yes, this was awesome when it happened two years ago, too."

Glad I wasn't the only one. It was the cheapest possible move: wipes away the unstoppable army with a handwave, plays for unearned sentiment the way STID did, renders whole swaths of the plot irrelevant. STB was almost certainly the last Star Trek movie I see in theaters for a while, and that scene was a big part of…

Replying as a second upvote. Time has not been kind at all to those movies. Porky's, do you really think the brothel owner trying to keep the underage kids away from his prostitutes is the *bad guy*? Jeez!

I'd love that. What he said! Let's do that instead of…well, whatever we're doing at the moment with the Joker.

100% this, yes. http://www.smbc-comics.com/… was great, although for the targeted-virus folks there's always Stuxnet as a case study: months of top-level research, copy the file, sit and watch and wait.

"More prominently, 2001’s Uplink seemed fueled by ’90s hacking movies, a characterization it did little to avoid by including in-joke nods to Hackers, WarGames, and Swordfish."

I thought his turn in Dollhouse was especially effective for how it played with his typically-goofy persona, in particular. When that knife came out, sheesh…

I don't think so, in his case. He's not really growling or snarling; he sounds like a motormouthed mutterer. And I'm not trying to dog on him too much here (I like his work on the show) but his accent really does waver sometimes—for playing a quintessentially New York character, he'll get these long California…

Well, yeah. I thought that was pretty obvious.

I had to try out some acting myself to realize how amazingly good Atherton was (is? don't know) at his job.

I really wanted her to marry Benedict Cumberbatch just for the names.

I take it more as a deliberate choice to mask any inflections in that might ring false to a listening ear. Charlie Cox does this in Daredevil all the time: I have no idea how he normally sounds, but I'm sure it's not a perpetual mutter at the bottom of his vocal register.

Well I mean hopefully we'll have a break in deaths here for a bit, give us all some breathing room don'tcha know.

That's interesting, because I read lines in this interview like "What I realized it was about, was alcoholism" (referring to The Shining) and I think to myself, "This is not the brightest bulb to have made a career for himself in Hollywood." (Which is fine, of course—the guy does good work.) But maybe he's playing…

By very strange coincidence, I had a similar moment about that movie, too. "Wait a minute, in what universe is the guy who wants to monitor and regulate the four lunatics with unregulated nuclear reactors the bad guy?"