The backbone of all of those mediums is entertainment. Even when they tackle “deeper” concepts, they’re doing so for the purpose of pleasure and fun. I’m arguing that we need more art that makes you feel bad.

My response to this complaint: the characters say this insipid bullshit, but the film does not show that. The film has a different problem: the conflict is resolved by hyperdimensional post-humans in what is pretty much a literal deus ex machina.

Here’s the thing about mass media: it is built to appeal to the masses. A movie like Star Trek can’t get made if it can’t get built in a way that makes it appeal to millions of people. And Pegg’s original post was not wrong: there’s something sad about that.

Part of the reason you use CGI is because you want to achieve something that’s impractical or impossible with realistic physics. There’s a limit to how improving the physics simulation of objects (which, I’d like to point out, we can already do fairly well) is going to improve CGI in films.

I would argue that Airheads isn’t an Adam Sandler film, as much as it is a film that has Sandler in it. Airheads was the tail end of his career as a supporting character while trying to parlay his SNL experience into movie roles. The “Adam Sandler movie”, as we know it, didn’t exist until he left SNL and released…

I’m thinking it was the school of actor re-use taught by Sergio Leone in Miller’s case.

Actually, you could do it on a TV show budget. Since the Green Lantern effects are powered by Hal’s imagination, you could embrace that as your style. Low quality CGI, hand animation, even physical props painted green could work, if you’re willing to embrace it as being a little goofy. If Cisco’s lampshading the…

Here’s a better question: assuming you can build a ship that can keep an ecosystem stable with minimal outside input for the time it takes to cross interstellar distances… remind me why you want a planet again?

Vector the output of the Sun to create thrust, and we can use the Solar System as our spacecraft!

Considering nobody was bleeding at the mouth, I don’t think you’re supposed to believe that they’ve been infected.

No way. At the end of last season, Fusco established himself as the biggest badass of the series.

Barring Scientology and Mormonism, most world religions could reasonably be called “ancient”.

I may be giving the writers too much credit, but Nyssa and Ollie’s arcs are mirrors of each other. Actually, same for Matseo. All three of these characters are going through a plot where they lose absolutely everything. Ollie hasn’t been faffing about, per se, he’s been failing to deal with his losses and compounding…

I said maybe. I’m an eternal optimist.

It’s almost like the system built for one particular game doesn’t scale well to the general game ecosystem.

Or, and this is crazy: try to get it right.

I didn’t even think about that. And it’s also interesting to see how their masculine father figures embodied very different aspects of masculine stereotypes- Murdock as the noble hero, sacrificing for his family, and Fisk as the abusive, “toxic” masculinity.

Linux. Hah. In my day, we used VMS and we LIKED IT.

I’m not certain, but I can say with great confidence that letting a murderous maniac appoint you as his successor whether you like it or not is a terrible idea.

The clones were created by the Dark Side. They don’t just wield the Force- their very essence is the Force. They’re like the Uruk-Hai, powered by evil magic, with a dash of the Mirror Universe.