Very nicely done. I was impressed by how the trailer held back on showing some of the more obvious "epic" sequences, like the Hoth battle and asteroid chase, in favor of the "Skywalker" story arc. Also I was struck by how the sheer grandeur and beauty of the spaceship sequences were brought to the foreground by a…

It is indeed unfortunate that Skyfire 77 attempted to give some helpful information on this comment thread, with accompanying diagrams. Fortunately you're here to save the day by calling people "Sherlock" and "asshole."

14/15. Rather liked the comment about the other protocol droid in the corridor with C3PO and R2D2. Imagining a whole alternate trilogy detailing its subsequent escapades.

This was always the aspect of schizophrenia that seemed most alarming to me. (Speaking as a non-schizophrenic person here.) Not the hallucinations, not the voices in one's head, but the loss of critical distance from what's happening, being unable able to say, "Oh yeah, voices in my head, this is probably not…

I have a vision of it trying to drill without being firmly fixed to the comet and making itself spin in place like a whirligig.

The flip side of this abject stupidity is that the kind of semantic hairsplitting they're performing here (juvenile and incompetent as it is) is reserved only for their enemies. Applying rhetorical standards to themselves isn't even an issue for them; they already know *they* have permission to say any dumb old thing,…

Great article.

Did you read my post? I agreed with you that feelings are chemical and electrical changes in the brain. But they are not the chemical and electrical forces themselves. They're not some kind of universe-embracing thing, which Interstellar implies they are.

The earlier writer you were responding to said: "It's not…

But I don't want to see more movies like Interstellar made. Wrapping up a supposed science fiction story with woo is bad science fiction and bad storytelling in general.

"Love can be measured in the brain as brain activity. That's physical. I hate to break this to you, but we are physical creatures whose reactions can be measured with science, even our feelings. That's an actual physical measurement. So, yes, a physical force."

You're conflating two meanings of the word "force." In…

Surprised this didn't show up earlier.

George Lucas himself calls Star Wars fantasy. He has been very explicit about this in all of his public statements, starting with the very first film. He says directly that it is not science fiction.

That's a falsehood, not an existence claim.

I agree with this article almost completely, but I think that what separates 2001 from Contact and Interstellar is that it doesn't make any direct claims about what it's representing at the conclusion. From the moment Dave Bowman arrives in the mysterious "room" until the end, we don't know if we're seeing something…

Surely you can troll better than that.

You mean you actually came here the article was going to un-ironically teach you how to create a cult?
Oh dear.
Also, I can't make head or tail of how the concept of "Nanny statists" even fits in with the subject matter.
Perhaps it's time for you to get back on those meds.

I always enjoy the clockwork intricacy of Moffat's plotting and "theming." He's a real master at that, and I certainly enjoyed this aspect of the episode.
The weakness of the episode, I felt, lay more in the direction. Doctor Who has always been over the top, but this time around the over-the-top-ness felt sort of…

I quite liked it. I think people were expecting something extremely broad and over-the-top, but the humor is more dry and droll, sort of the way "Troll Hunter" was very funny without actually having any "gags" in it. Kind of a deadpan approach to a nutty premise.

Not crazy about it, b/c it lacks the movie serial quality of the other titles. "Menace," "Attack," "Revenge," "Hope," "Strikes Back," "Return" — these are all movie serial terms. "Awakens" is a shade too highfalutin', too abstract.

I do understand that the Hobbit movies are adaptations of both The Hobbit and the LOTR Appendices — but even when you combine them, you still don't find a whole lot of things that are in the Hobbit movies — like Jackson's endless "101 ways to skewer an Orc" sequences, for starters.