You mean you'd read a review written by a RUSSKI?! /s

Ironic you would pick that year: that’s the release year of the sequel to 2001: A Space Odyssey, 2010. In it, a worsening Cold War on Earth results in orders from the films’ US and Soviet governments to the astronauts and cosmonauts flying near Jupiter to stop working together... which they follow for like a day…

It’s not just confusing, I find it contemptuous, both in its respect for the ISS’ mission and the people who work on it, and in that I have contempt for it. Heck, back in the ACTUAL Cold War, the film of Arthur C. Clarke’s 2010 showed basically what would really happen: the American and Russian scientists AND officers…

Well, the character of Judas posits Jesus as a deluded martyr, but then, in a state of delusion caused by guilt, Judas ironically martyrs himself. It rather cagily (and I’d argue smartly) leaves Jesus’ divinity or lack thereof as a mystery, or at least incidental to the story.

A few points to add to the discussion.

Protestors of The Last Temptation of Christ of course weren’t just peaceful. They blew up a theater in Paris, injuring and burning about twenty people. That said, that was Europe, not the US, which I’ll come back to.

South Park’s Cartoon Wars two-parter notably had to replace a…

Eh. The Creator, despite the intelligence of some of its ideas, is also merely serviceable and feels kind of paint by numbers despite the amount of money spent on it. Faint praise, but there’s a lot of sci-fi out there where their work makes me want to have a beer and chat with the creators, but not actually further…

“So, he’s overly fixated on the time period shortly after Rebels ended, but that’s not where the Star Wars timeline is anymore.”

It’s not too odd. Star Trek, by comparison, had Final Frontier and Undiscovered Country come out on top of the second and fourth seasons of TNG. So it’s not strange to have a sci-fi series…

Not that Lucas is some supergenius planner for leaving year long gaps in the OT, but it did create space for additional storytelling. He was just aping episodic short filmmaking from the 40s and cheekily skipping episodes for the fun of it. But just because it was incidental to his goals doesn’t mean it didn’t do a…

Keegan Michael-Key is truly the Michael Caine of our time. Caine’s quote about Jaws 4 seems to typify Key’s work ethos as well: “I have never seen the film, but by all accounts it was terrible. However I have seen the house that it built, and it is terrific.”

I so wanted to like Season 3, but it really was Clone Wars Season Kajillion. The mythology needs to serve the story, not the other way around, but like his executive producer before him, Filoni is getting high off his own fumes. Bo Katan and the Mandolorian people aren’t being treated as characters that create…

Not to mention the part people tend to forget when discussing the effect of negative opinions on Twitter: that there are also thousands of people carrying water for Majors online right now, so his experience might be in fact the opposite of what you’d expect. The horror of the internet echo chamber is that he can…

Yeah, I think this is ABC riding the line between gross/exploitative and legit “hey, free journalism from someone who won’t shutup to save themselves” with a guy who thinks this is image rehab, not actual image rehab. See Gayle King interviewing R. Kelly after his team asked her for the interview for a very similar…

But then they put him here, and the judge is going to do sentencing, not the jury, and certainly not the general public. If the judge has any sense whatsoever, they’re going to see this interview and have a worse opinion of the defendant, not a better one.

It is a bad idea to put the defendant on the stand. This…

I think a new TNG movie would work if they actually dared not focus on Picard, because the TNG films all fell into repetitive boring action-fests that focused on Picard’s character to the detriment of all others, and the story. Patrick Stewart might be a great actor, but I think he’s been surrounded by yes-people at…

Ah, good ol’ ytmnd .com. Now that takes me back.

Almost like those sorts of movies are not written by teens, but by the Gerrys of our world. Most depictions of teens and what teens do is written condescendingly by increasingly out-of-touch olds.

Not that I’m arguing that it should be otherwise, mind you, it’s usually hilarious. But if you think 90s movie teens…

“And why should Shepard expect this outcome to be true? The warning that this will happen comes directly from the AI controlling the Reapers, aka the party that will be destroyed if you pick this outcome. This could just be a lie they tell Shepard in the hopes it will convince them to pick another option.”

It’s worth noting that the text of the game, especially with the Refusal ending, outright states that the Reapers are right: without the existence of the Reapers and their cycle, or the new possibilities presented by the Crucible, the natural evolutionary progression of sentient life and civilizations in the Mass…

Well, that, and their main one was an alternate history where the Confederacy and slavery still existed, being made by two white guys in the US in 2017. That it took til *2020* (a year after the finale) for it to actually be officially shitcanned is beyond me, but then, I’ve never tried cocaine.

Indeed. It’s nice to know how well the guy tipped one time, but the man’s persona in public for at least the last decade has been “Guy Who Thinks We Are Utterly Blessed To Hear About ALL The Things That Bug Him”. Maybe we are, but that presumption regardless typifies the Great North American Asshole in the wild.