“Don’t drive angry.”

This isn’t as good a movie as the first, but I dig how it really engages with the time travel concept in the way that its predecessor (and successor) don’t. Doc Brown’s explanation of branching timelines is still one of the most concise and easily digestible bits of exposition on the subject ever, even though it…

This was not a good movie, IMO. It’s practically besotted with its own intelligence... despite not actually being anywhere as clever or original as it thinks it is. There are only so many ways you can tell a closed-loop time travel story, and it’s one of the least interesting ways to approach time travel from a…

This movie was way better than it had any right to be.

Bogus Journey is a better movie than Excellent Adventure, and I’ll fight anyone who claims otherwise. William Sadler as the Grim Reaper is worth the price of admission alone. But the time travel aspect is pretty much an afterthought, so I guess I can’t complain too hard about the placement here.

I’m going to have to disagree with you, here. It is not just bad, it’s epically, monumentally bad. “Cinematic abortion” is the term that comes to mind. And it’s a stupid, as well, committing the cardinal sin of stupid time travel movies and resorting to the idea of an intelligent external force to solve the problem of…

It’s not. If you’re not allergic to the very idea of time travel, and don’t demand that a movie explicitly draw a line under every major plot point, it’s actually shockingly well put together, IMO.

This was the only thing I had a genuine problem with. I find 90% of complaints about time travel movies to be ridiculous, the product of people who either can’t or won’t think critically (and yet probably complain when movies try to explain things). For all that Genisys’s plot was complex, I thought it was remarkably…

There’s nothing inherently parodoxical about interacting with yourself via time travel. That particular issue was invented for a Jean-Claude Van Damme movie, and the physics of it don’t even make much sense. It’s the ship of These us problem: even if there was some inability for the same piece of matter to interact…

I actually really liked it. I dug the time travel plot, and that elevated it over Salvation in my mind: I enjoyed Salvation, but, to me, the Terminator movies are about time travel. The backgrounding of the time travel element in the last movie made it feel like an imposter to the franchise in my mind (even if it was…

I was fairly impressed. He didn’t quite look like Arnie circa 1984, but he didn’t give off that uncanny valley vibe to me at all.

The Jim Henson Company doesn’t hold the rights to any of the Muppet characters, though. The classic Muppet Show crew belong to Disney, and the Sesame Street characters are owned by the Sesame Workshop. The only famous characters still retained by the original company are the Fraggles.

The sad thing is, Jim Henson Studios legally has nothing to do with the Muppets. The Muppets trademark, and all characters associated with it, are the property of The Muppets Studios, LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of the Walt Disney Company. The properties that the Jim Henson Studios still owns (including the…

Dogs will do that, too. Supposedly, they’re trying to teach you how to hunt. I’m guessing that the more fear you show, the more they think you just need to be shown how to you’re supposed to react around potential prey.

Skyrim’s gay marriage was really weird, IMO. Actually, strike that: Skyrim marriages were just really weird in general. My problem is that they were just so lazy. None of your possible spouses have much of any personality as far as relationships go. At the absolute most, you might have to complete an unrelated quest…

I feel the opposite way. Rise of Cobra was flawed, but decently fun, while Retaliation was a generic, unremarkable, and considerably more stupid action movie that managed to criminally waste both the Rock and Bruce Willis.

This is the circle of life for web browsers. Netscape took the crown because it was seen as more functional and more “lightweight” than Mosaic. Internet Explorer grabbed the crown from Netscape when version 4 started adding in an email client, WYSIWYG editor, and bloating everything up. Phoenix/Firebird/Firefox was…

I like the new crafting system, but I’m less thrilled about the apparent lack of item degradation/repair. It didn’t bother me when Bethesda removed it from Skyrim, but somehow it feels more important to the survival/scavenging vibe of the Fallout games. Also, it’s one of the features that I don’t expect modders to be…

It looks like power armor helmets have a HUD display. Is that what you were talking about?

Ooh, I really like the idea of linking perception to VATS speed. On the face of it, I’m not a fan of making VATS slow motion instead of full stop, but that idea might make it worthwhile.