when is it gonna end.

Thats a good point. I hadn't thought about it that way. I'm wondering what the effect would have been if they had used a trim, muscular dude in the suit instead? Like that picture we had earlier in the thread which swapped out Metal Gear Solid V's 'Quiet' with 'Solid Snake'. I think in that case, it was necessary to…

Epic. I'll keep holding my breath until the reviews start pouring in. I tried to audition for a role when they came around Manchester with their open auditions. Needless to say, I'm not one of the ones seated in that photo. Max von Sydow! That's awesome!

That was a thoughtful reply. Thanks for that. I think you're definitely correct, and it's a real shame. But there's something especially weird (well, inappropriate) about furiously rubbing a teen's bust line to build up 'love points' (see Eisenbeis's most recent article for more info).

Stop being so mean to me. I've got feelings too, you know.

Stegosaurus! One of the more underrated dinosaurs. Maybe I'd watch a movie about her (or him).

I'm told that's called 'voluptuous'. Looks fat to me...

"Mother, what's a looong neck?"

"Aww, but he's so cute!"

Maybe the filmmakers are just aiming for an homage to what came before? I don't know...I stopped watching monster movies after the sequel to Jurassic Park when the dinosaur ends up in San Diego. What the actual fuck? How is Godzilla going to distinguish itself from Pacific Rim or bloody Transformers 14?…

More cushion for the pushin'!

Okay. That's fine. I misunderstood - I thought these games typically represented people as supple, fresh-faced teen archetypes even when they were suggesting that the man or woman was a professional in their early 20s. I suppose there's many out there that depict people of all shapes, sizes, races and ages. Is that…

Quote: "Nothing is really 'hands off' in the world of escapist entertainment."

No. You should be embarrassed. Have you played a dating sim in which the potential love interest is a man or woman in their forties who has gone through a divorce and has three teenage children? In how many of the dating sims are the potential 'conquests' older than 18? Are schoolgirl uniforms the requisite attire to…

Oh Christ - the New 52 (says a collector). I had to stop buying them after they introduced issues 23.1, 23.2, etc. That was such an insult to the poor sap paying for them (i.e. me). I felt like they were laughing at the poor disabled child who was getting waterlogged in the pool while no one bothered to retrieve him.…

Now can we please get rid of Jango Fett and his stupid son Boba from the prequel trilogy while we're at it? Like the stormtroopers, it was much better to imagine a faceless dude in a helmet. Then we were sold on the bullshit that all current stormtroopers in the New Hope+ era were still fucking clones. Honestly, Lucas…

I think the problem could swing the opposite way as well. In their effort to be 'dark', we'll get the kind of shit that just has heroes moping around in a hood with downturned faces. They'll talk in low tones and all seem as if they recently starred in the latest instalment of Assassin's Creed. Still worse will be the…

The reason John Carter successfully tanked was because people didn't care enough to see it. The reason Episode VII will be a success is because some people will go thinking it's going to be great, others will go to see if it's as bad as they feared, and still others will go to have their fears confirmed. Net win for…

Star Wars was Star Wars when I would ask my dad to rent me Return of the Jedi for the 40th time on VHS. The old box art pre-1995 re-release. Those were the days. When I saw Episode 1, I gave up on Star Wars in my head and upon viewing Episodes 2 and 3, I gave up on it in my heart. Now there's only a shell with which…

Many people have an affinity for 'Shadows of the Empire'. As I read it when I was in my teens, I was pretty much just waiting for a sex scene between Leia and Dash and/or Xizor. In any case, that story is out with the Expanded Universe dump. Though to what end does this matter? It's all fiction anyway. Why not treat…