The difference between Pacific Rim and Transformers is simple: while both have excuse plots just to give us giant robots punching monsters/each other, Pacific Rim's story is relatively straightforward: monsters arrive, we make robots, the monsters get better, we have one last major fight, sacrifices made. Compare to…

I think we're just arguing about aesthetics at this point. You prefer the cel-shaded CGI on TRON: Uprising, I think it's well below the stuff that the guys at David Production did (or had outsourced) for Jojo's Bizarre Adventure. You think TF:Prime's CGI is not good looking, I think it's a perfect rendering of…

I got Prime on 720p. You'd be amazed at some of the details you miss from watching it on lower resolutions. The paint scratches on Optimus alone is pretty awesome. True, the series took a lot of shortcuts — the very low count of unique animation models, for starters, and the relatively sparse population of Jasper, IN…

I'd disagree with you. There are several shows which do CGI well: either as out-and-out Pixar-y CGI, like the new Nickelodeon Ninja Turtles and Transformers Prime, or cel-shaded CGI.

Holy anorexia, Batman! Usagi has gotten really skinny in the new one. She looks positively unhealthy.

Dude, I've been a TF fan since the 80's, and the only stuff I missed out on are the Japanese-exclusive shows like Masterforce or Victory. I still didn't understand half the things happening.

The problem is, the movie's so hideously long and disjointed, with so many plots happening, it'll be totally understandable if you fall asleep during the many, many boring human scenes, only to wake up and see the action. Or for that matter, vice versa.

The "changed premise" was merely changing the excuse of why eight disparate people would even hang out together. Otherwise, the episodes from the fifth could've easily fit into any of the previous seasons with no difficulty. At the end of the day, it was still a bunch of guys hanging around a table, and occasionally…

Aren't the Salamanders black?

I'd make that first three, a handful from the fourth, and most of the fifth.

Last year's FIFA was good, but when I got the game again on Xbox One (I originally reviewed the last-gen version), I was a little disappointed. Aside from 3D crowds, it didn't seem very next-gen. Maybe a bunch of grass effects and fancy hair can change that.

LOL fair enough. Wasn't saying that everything's magic, no explanation needed. Konietzko et al have done a marvelous job of creating a sense of verisimilitude with their franchise, but at the end of the day, they're still writers, and writers can still miss a few things. Or totally ignore them for the sake of story.…

To be fair to Trank, Chronicle was one of the few found footage films that didn't make me want to hurl.

I think we're just talking over each other at this point.

So she's a bohemian princess now?

But I thought her dress was her hair? Does this mean she's wearing her old, cut-off hair as a dress?

Guess you're not a troper, eh? Click on Western Animation, and it'll open. Here, I'll copy-paste the entirety of the text, to save you the trouble:

So you're asking, in a world where fire-breathing people and dragons exist, why spinning rock-lava isn't creating convection? Where people fling fire at each other and only expect a light singeing of the hair?

Er, no. He used the waterbending concept of redirection of flow — a core waterbending philosophy — and applied it to lightning. We're not talking anything so ridiculous as turning fire into a a wall of water. After all, the lava is still rock, albeit in a different state. Either he managed to apply the concept of…

They can make it stomach cancer, or maybe testicular cancer instead, but that removes the element of the cancer being a manifestation of his human weakness, and more coincidental.