Rory reacting to Amy's death is going to be really really sad.

So, Spring Heel Jack was a product of the 19th century version of Aperture Science?

Old school racism doesn't bother me. It's embedded in the culture. Pretty much everything about Lovecraft boils down to racism- it's entirely built out of the fear of the other, the alien, the different. I always think back to the "Mountains of Madness", which doesn't really include any true monsters- just alien…

Your comment gives me an incredible urge to fall on my knees beside a DDR mat, turn my face to the camera directly above me and shout out "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!" in the most melodramatic fashion I can muster.

Illustrated here: the true tragedy of drug abuse.

There was a knock at the door.

I disagree. A realistic portrayal of space-travel could be utterly riveting. Let's look at, say, Master and Commander, a (relatively) realistic portrayal of sea travel. That movie was one of the best Star Trek films ever made.

Actually, I believe that after marketing its budget is closer to $251M than $350M. Probably more like $250,000,000.25, if we're just going by the ad campaign I saw.

I'd argue that the real complaint is not the plethora of strong female characters but the plethora of "strong" female characters- characters that are traditionally male characters put into drag- characters that wouldn't generally be considered strong males, as much as they would be considered just males. Suddenly,…

A strong character is a character that is shown making difficult choices relative to their own personal motivations, while more or less holding their shit together. The typical action movie hero is not a strong character- he has a clear goal and simply wades into the melee until he gets the goal. Scarlett O'Hara, on…

I expected it to have a lot of wankery, wherein there are entire scenes that are just people emoting at each other without any conflict to them, but everything had an undercurrent of tension, even the therapist scenes. There's a lot of potential, and I hope they can keep this up.

It doesn't. White Apes are a recurring threat in the novels, but in A Princess of Mars they're an environmental hazard. There are some gladiatorial things that happen in later books, but still nothing like that. Also, White Apes were a hazard and threat to the Tharks. They certainly didn't keep them around for sport-…

The good: the preview at the end looked awesome. I mean, really, really spectacular. That's how they should have been marketing it from the start.

I read A Princess of Mars for the first time in my early 30s in the 21st century- and I enjoyed it quite a bit. But I have a real soft spot for pulps.

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That's only because those mathematical proofs don't purport to describe a physical system. Where mathematics and the material world intersect, you need experimental proofs.

You and me both, you and me both.

Go in cold. The movie was designed around that.

No. And I have a degree in philosophy (and computer science- guess which one I get the most benefit from)

There's nothing suspicious about it: we evolved here! Of course it looks like the universe is well suited to our kind of life. If it weren't, we wouldn't be here. The universe isn't suited to us- we're suited to it.