So, you’ve (predictably) got a few responses already that reference the backstory as described by the Animatrix shorts, and on the surface, I tend to agree. The Machines were not only acting in self defense once it finally came to war, but tried multiple times to come to some sort of understanding with Humanity about…

Cyclical tests of allowing humans to become self aware of their false lives, break free, form a prophecy, then get crushed. Yeah Machines are monsters in that.

UFO sightings started dropping precipitously just after most of the country started owning smartphones.

but AI sinks to invasive new levels in this trippy, freaky 1977 horror movie about a woman (Julie Christie) who is imprisoned, tormented, and then actually impregnated by Proteus IV

If you immediately know the candlelight is fire, then the meal was cooked a long time ago.

Next time (if there is one) someone brings up bigfoot, I’m going to deadpan “did you know, they never die, they merely ascend to a higher plane of existence?” Thanks!

It’s almost as if people who spend their entire lives trying to kill or capture a mythological creature are not prone to logic or reason

There was an issue with their visas so their cellphones and luggage were taken away and then they were handcuffed and put in jail cells. They hadn’t done anything illegal. They were cooperating fully with customs. And yet they were thrown in jail because, hey, that’s what we do now.

Here’s the thing about Bigfoot: we have fossil evidence of animals that lived tens of millions of years ago, but no evidence of an eight foot primate wondering around the pacific northwest. While we find new species of new animals all the time, they tend to be small and closely related to other known species. If…

“The bleeding-hearts—they don’t really don’t know about the animal itself,” Lansdale said.

I don’t believe in Bigfoot. But I do believe that people who do believe in it and want to kill it are deeply messed up in the soul.

It’s a fucking meta critic site, it fucking aggregates, don’t fucking bow down to fucking idiots who don’t understand how it works.

Well, making it from their perspective doesn’t necessarily mean ultimately siding with it. It carries an implicit tragic meaning, unless the story and direction fumble it completely.

(On the other hand, Star Wars Rebels made me sympathise with them, the way they were being killed left and right and we were supposed to…

True — BUT those stories really underlined how the Clones were cogs in a system (even if they cared for each other, etc.) Also, the Clones were born and bred for a war that had them fighting robots for an opportunistic, brutal, profit-minded separatist group on behalf of a compromised democratic government.…

Soooooooooooooooooooo you want to make a movie from the perspective of the Nazi allegory?

Also “I’m Commander Shepard and this is my favorite way to miss the point of Star Wars on the Citadel”

Hmmm, Phasma drops that stormtroopers aren’t allowed to take off their helmets. Does that mean that troopers pair off and sit patiently while their bunkmate cleans their helmet?

Dateline: New York. May 17, 2028. There were tears outside the Flatiron building today as employees of TOR publishing filed out, carrying boxes and desk plants. The new Chairman of the Board of Directors, Eleanor Ford, announced that after a slow accumulation of stock, her group now owned a controlling interest in TOR…

If your fight is with the libraries there is a good chance you’re sitting on the wrong side of history.

I read this whole post and it makes me so happy to be old (mid 40s) and not know who any of these people are, or care. Well written, though.