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Classic Marvel stories where characters like The Ancient One and The Mandarin first appeared were undeniably influenced by Asian stereotypes, good and bad. I commend Marvel Studios for not wanting to perpetuate such things in the modern day with their films, especially with China being such a big part of their

Oh I totally did. Hell I assumed he scanned and absorbed the motorcycle somehow. Dunno how that works but that's what I thought as a kid because that fucker with an internal combustion engine was the scariest thing I could think of.

This game occupies a weird place for me: I love playing it, but it's been a long slog to beat it because I have to be in a certain frame of mind to play it. The whole point of this game truly is impressions and putting the pieces together yourself rather than being handheld. And I refuse to dig up any walkthroughs

Or why Spock had to do it at all. Modifying a torpedo sounds like Scotty's wheelhouse.

It's the little things in movies sometimes.

CHIEF: Anyone hurt??
OFFICER: Uh he clipped Jenkins' ear.
CHIEF: Eh he's a prick anyway.
JENKINS: WHAT?
CHIEF: Nothing Jenkins.

Even if it doesn't make sense from a logic stand-point, I actually find that scarier. Staring at that metal monstrosity and wondering where it kept its brain just made it freakier. Sometimes that goes a long way, nitpicking fanboys.

True story: when she auditioned for Aliens she showed up in poor clothes and tousled hair because she thought it was a drama about illegal immigrants, not a sci-fi action flick. Somehow I get the feeling James Cameron saved notes for later when coming up with Janelle.

SPOCK: Doctor, would you like to assist me in performing surgery on a torpedo?
McCOY: Fascinating!

"I'd give real money if he shut up."

Just the sad way he says "He hadn't even been born yet. I think mom still misses him, sometimes." He finally got confirmation his mom wasn't crazy, and the ramifications hit him hard.

Roger Ebert pointed this out, but my favorite quality of Ripley's is the way she gets to the bottom line. Whether that's heroic is arguable, but in that situation it's definitely admirable.

To me the scariest scene is where he's friendly to another cop for a SECOND (totally natural), then zoom in…

An apocalyptic LA that looks surprisingly like downtown Detroit today.

In "Terminator Salvation" the Apocalypse looks surprisingly like a dozen other much better movies mashed together.

(whispers) Put your leg down.

A slim, average dude like Robert Patrick being a ruthless killing machine is why I feel the true sequel to the "Teminator" films isn't "Rise of the Machines" or "Genisys", but Michael Mann's "Collateral". Tom Cruise takes on the part of an unassuming man with ill-defined features and it turns out he's one of the most

I heard an even more twisted rumor: he wanted Lance Henriksen as The Terminator. I get the feeling he would've been more in Robert Patrick's wheelhouse: unremarkable, but capable of being intense when the scene called for it.

Eh, depends on the song. "Digital Love" you could easily do acoustic.

This could be considered the year of the cash-grab, whether sequel or remake. Bridget Jones, Greek Wedding, Ben-Hur, Magnificent Seven (which wasn't bad, just pointless). You could push an envelope more if you put it in front of a glacier. Those kinds of movies I find more depressing than anything.