SG:U got good, in the last few episodes before it got cancelled. Most of the first season was plodding drek, with a crisis of the week that was solved by the magical spaceship (and in one case, created and solved by said spaceship!).

That show was camptastic. I’m sad that it didn’t last.

They’re trying. It’s been in pre-production for nearly a decade, and as of right now, they’ve got Dave Bautista for the Kurgan and they want Tom Hardy for Connor MacLeod, because if you’re rebooting a low-budget 80s property with a big budget, Tom Hardy is who you cast anymore.

I’m being extra mean because it commits a few specific sins that just kill a movie for me: it’s got scenes which are clearly filler and they’re not even interesting.

If we’re comparing, then Highlander is also the “high water mark” for the franchise. But that’s a surprisingly low bar.

Enh, it was the 80s. Odds are, if a female character was doing investigation, she was a plucky girl reporter. Now that you bring it up, yes, she was a cop, but that had very little to do with the plot other than to establish why she gave a shit. She could have been a reporter and very little would have changed-…

I was there. But even by 1986 standards, Highlander is a bad movie. The pacing is just terrible. There’s a lot of potentially interesting ideas in there, but we’re saddled with interminable scenes of the reporter character researching things (THRILL WHILE SHE READS!) and then having awkward expository dialogue with…

That’s about right, I suppose. If the movie were campier, it’d be better.

Highlander is an awkward movie. It’s too well produced for its own good, because honestly, it’s flirting with “so bad it’s good” territory- the first ten minutes are hilariously awful. The garage sword-fight is so awkward and pathetic I just adore it.

Actually, I don’t think it’s a failure of illusion. There’s a lot of CGI that, when taken in isolation, is perfectly convincing for what it is.

Okay, that sounds like a disorganized mess, but at least it’s an interesting mess. I’ve long taken the stance that you shouldn’t launch the Fantastic Four by pitting them against Doom- you need a story that’s got weird science and giant monsters. Start with the Mole Man.

My “except maybe Corman” just arises from the fact that Corman very much treated making film as a business- which is why he’s successful.

It’s not sad at all! This Doom acts with his goddamn hands. He spells out the deadline by drawing it in the air. He’s the cinematic equivalent of his comic-book counterpart, to the atom.

> I honestly didn’t raelly get the impresssion that people CARED abou tmaking the film

I’ve been waiting for this since I’ve heard about it! The Corman Fantastic Four has the distinction of being the best Fantastic Four movie. Sure, it was made for $1M and it looks like it. Sure, it’s cheesy, and dumb. And yes, the “climax” is CGI that makes Starfox on the SNES look photorealistic.

I have a 2012 MBP Retina and it is great. But I really want an upgrade- a good upgrade. I want a laptop with 32GB of RAM. I want a laptop with a beefy video card. Back in 2012, the MBP was actually competitive on price with similar laptops from other vendors (for Apple levels of “competitive on price”, which is to…

You should also stop needing an atmosphere. Or water. Honestly, if we engineered humans to survive in a vacuum, traveling through space would be easy. Trying to carry an entire ecosystem around with us is idiotic.

Tuvix is the real victim here.

“What’s a warrior without weapons?”

What fascinates me about the show is how much they were able to accomplish without a single original idea, and I don’t mean this to sound like it’s a bad thing- it’s not. Everything in this show was something that I’d seen before, but it was all put together in a way that was still extremely satisfying. I was still…