Inappropes.

Slo mo dove…

This is the point, isn't it? Prometheus is not "bad", as in laughable or unwatchable, it's just very, very flawed. Which is somehow more frustrating, because bits of it were great and worked like gangbusters.

But for me it fit the tone. Cartoon logic applies, and all that. Prometheus was played as straight as straight can be, so all the dodgy character work/motivation was really amplified.

It was the dodgy plotting and nonsensical character reactions that did it, I think. "This would look cool" seemed to repeatedly win out over honouring character motivations.

Another exoskeleton tank, you say?

Disagree. The article seems to be convolving frothy fan overhype (->"a recipe for disappointment", sure enough) with Actually, This Is A Mediocre Film (->crap plotting, franchise maintenance, out of control fan service, rehashing old plots, etc).

I started out on Mieville's The City and the City, and loved it (and as recommended on this very site. Doesn't really sit quite right as either SF or fantasy, but really excellent.

Cool. I didn't know that. Now let's just see if they can do it without screwing it up…

Now thinking about it, Anne McCaffrey's Pern books might work well. You get to pitch it off GoT if you're trying to get it made - and, c'mon, how hard can it be to sell dragon riders?

"Careful, man, there's a beverage here!"

First thought on seeing the title here: "But what about Tropic Thunder!?

::Slowly turns back::

Good place to bring up the AVC's own article on the sweet sweet country funk: http://www.avclub.com/artic…

YOU TAKE THAT BACK

¯\_(ツ)¯\_ …Shurely.

See Amid The Winter Snow +1

As always, Randall Munroe also noticed. And blames the Boomers.

There's a weird folk/rock/historical band in the UK called the Carnival Band, who have two whole albums of 15th-19th century traditional carols on a mixture of period appropriate(-ish) and modern instruments. They're fantastic.

Depressing Christmas songs are the *best* Christmas songs. Somehow they capture the actual feeling of Christmas way better.