Reading this I thought "a bit of humourous hyperbole". Even with the horror of Die Hard 5 scalded into my brain, I looked him up and realised I'd been remembering a totally different actor. Whose name I can't remember.

Criminally underrated. Friday Night's a Great Night for Football!

Seriously? I assumed it was just another random action script cherrypicked for the DH 'Saga'. To think people wrote that piece of crap with John McClane in mind… jesus.

3 is a great film, and feels like the producers said "let's get McClane out and about, he's chasing the villain not vice versa". You follow the same character just in different scenario. Probably the plot was written first then McClane shoved in, but Willis' performance convinces you to make the jump.

So has your mother.

Isn't everything?

Oh no, I just said scifi as shorthand, 'genre nerd' is just too vague. He is into horror and fantasy - guess it just wasn't his cup of tea.

Fair enough, I read about it once and asked my Dad, a big scifi nerd and he rolled his eyes in mocking. It coloured my eventual viewing of it I suppose.

Sapphire and Steel doesn't just sound like Dr. Who, it was ITV's attempt to get in on the wierd sci-fi/fantasy oddness of Who. It fell on its arse for being too bizarre and pretty
boring. The surrealism is kind of funny in how much they lay it on
though. Lots of dramatic crash zooms onto well dressed men with eggs for…

He'd vote for you.

… I… okay I think you win this round.

I was pleasantly suprised by Ted. Patrick Stewart's opening monologue about Apache helicopoter gunships and (I thought) a pretty restrained use of Flash Gordon (by Seth's standards) were high points. Then the Airplane gag. Well not even a gag. Just bogging a fine film down with self-indulgence. Eh. I laughed more…

They were my generation's rock stars. What a sad state of affairs. If you ever hear anyone say "music was so much better in 2001" just hit them. Tell 'em I sent ya. And when they say "who?" kick em in the face.

Fair enough. Seems an odd feature not to automatically include. Though I'm sure many, many people have said so on the internet. And in much bigger font.

I haven't been a console gamer since about 2002 so this question might seem stupid: when MS say the Xbox One will now have backwards compatibility do they mean new versions of the console or do they have a magic cloud switch which means existing consoles will have the feature? As in, the Xbox One always could play 360…

In my experience, eloquent men are right every bit as often as imbeciles.

Yeah, I always loved the mystery of the Space Jockey, a gargantuan elephantine alien that was left to sit in the back of Alien lore, implying a whole aspect of the galaxy we don't know about. As Girard said, it makes the world of Alien seem so much bigger. But it turns out we're special snowflakes and all Alien lore…

I'm confused why this isn't the number one complaint both because its the first scene and given the nature of twitterstorms basically refutes evolution.

"They weren't professionals" - yes they were, scientists, engineers, archaeologists and space pilots. Was Idris Elba a cropduster before they picked him up? Did he win a raffle?

I'm not sure if you're joking. So its meant to be Laurel & Hardy in Space? He's invested insane amounts of money into the most ambitious project in human exploration and didn't bother to ask the best? I'm pretty sure they say they've hired a crack team. Getting high while trapped inside an alien tomb full of dead…