I do not believe it will ruin a movie, but that’s certainly not the way to bet. Slumdog was hardly a major production hyped to be a huge blockbuster and critical success. Its success was a major surprise. And if you instead look at the success of, say, Chow Yun Fat outside of Crouching Tiger, in the USA, you might see…

Ah, so, what you’re saying is that China needs to Americanize its casting more, so that it isn’t so xenophobic when it makes movies aimed to appeal to its home audience that feature almost entirely Chinese casts and themes?

Bollywood needs to stop casting almost entirely Indian actors and hire more Anglos, Chinese,…

You are disqualified by claiming Alien is anything but an overrated, hackneyed piece of tripe that only has one original element, the chest-burster, which could not be done prior to that. Literally EVERY SINGLE SIGNIFICANT scene and plot element in that movie came from a cheesy grade-b 50s SF movie, including the…

>>> Blade Runner. One of the first of the dystopian near futures,

Really? Do I really need to reel off (pun intended) a list of 20 significant dystopian near futures that predate it? It’s one of the more polished and accomplished ones, but, cheesy as it is, even “Soylent Green” qualifies as a dystopian near future.

He…

...or it could be that his list is really lame because HE is really lame.

NAWWWWW.....

LOL, you’re just **NOW** figuring this out? I saw it after 2-3 eps. It’s not for nothing they picked Rory for the Rip Hunter role.

The biggest issue was that it started out trying to be SF instead of Science Fantasy, like Who... “Worry about making changes to the time stream...!!” then immediately do all kinds of…

Where are the wireless mechanicals!?!? :-D

Where are the wireless mechanicals!?!? :-D

}}} You have a strong sense of nostalgia. If you’re old enough to remember the IBM Model M keyboard

HA! The NORTHGATE KEYBOARD, NOOB!!! ;-)

They already had one black person?

Sometimes your sarcasm is so perfect people fail to realize it is sarcasm.

}}} When shit like this happens you get a clear view as to how many few women are making decisions on television...as in almost none.

Easier -- we don’t have to worry about screwing up the environment...

Not true at all, Bookfisher. Turbines kill hundreds of thousands of birds and **bats** every year, and they aren’t in widespread usage yet. And they are pretty indiscriminate. They kill fledgling endangered species, too. Don’t have a bald eagle nest near one. 

The only power system that hasn’t killed anyone off its own…

Actually, it’s a byproduct of natural recycling of biomass. The chemical breakdown process will still happen, it just won’t happen as fast without the microorganisms to help it along.

Wind only beats the alternatives when it’s supplemented by a reliable power source... at which point it doesn’t have a purpose, and doesn’t beat anything.

The worst part about wind is that people need power when they need power -- and that’s when the wind dies down.

“This flood of dam puns”, you mean....

He could certainly have done things quietly, surreptitiously, to change the order of things. The problem is a massive flaw in the conceptualization of the hero, because I would no more expect any superman to stand by and watch the holocaust happen than I would slavery. The two events are equally horrific for the most…

He plays a great ASSHOLE. Think about it.

Including ones you have to cheer for.

And Strange is certainly one of those kind of guys.

Hey, as long as Dr. Strange doesn’t visit the Antarctic and have to talk about the penguins, it’ll be cool.

Dude, come on. You KNOW he’s gonna write the music and songs, play all the instruments, and sing all the voices.

To paraphrase Fame, “That’s not a movie, that’s masturbation...”