Oh bah. I’m 44. My attention span is fine. I’m fine with slow movies. But 2 hours and 40 minutes requires serious pre-existing interest on my part. Editing and some sense of narrative efficiency are themselves important parts of the film making process.

Excuse? It’s just an answer to the question. Avatar was a vastly higher profile movie.

Automatic weapons are in fact heavily regulated and their use in mass shootings or any other crime is quite rare.

You seem to be assigning a lot of weight to the term “semi-automatic”. It just means the gun fires a (one) bullet when you pull the trigger, which is sort of a basic functional expectation for a modern firearm. It’s not a machine gun.

Serenity had a fraction of the budget and was seen by a fraction of the people as Avatar?

Especially given no other Trek show has gone by a “ST:(single initial) format for the name.

Some studies have shown the placebo effect works fine even when patients explicitly know they’re taking a placebo.

Space Giants! That “Chi-CHI!” noise they made when they transformed is one of my favorite nostalgic sci-fi sound effects ever.

Villains less powerful than the Power Rangers have been standing up to the Justice League for decades.

SI has announced who will replace Peter King if he retires:

People like the Transformers movies. People have abysmal critical taste. I like the Orville, but it’s got a lot of issues that a professional critic would be derelict in not pointing out in a review (and downmarking accordingly)

Well it damned well should. It’s got 2017 effects technology, all the innovations of modern TV structure and writing to draw from, and it can cherry pick 30 years of Trek for plots and philosophical ideas.

I want more tonal consistency. I actually like the Orville, but I can’t deal with dick and fart jokes and a man being beaten to death and another person being fairly graphically beaten and tortured in the same episode.

Within the context of 1. Its own genre, 2 The history of the treatment of its title character, and 3. The treatment of women directors in terms of high budget tentpole type movies, yes, it is a great feminist gauntlet thrown down at the film industry.

There’s at least 5 Power Rangers series better than In Space.

“Kit Harrington for Nightwing?”

Resident Evil 1 deserves a slot on this list. That’s a solid zombie/monster action movie.

The Zangief/Honda “Godzilla” fight is pretty great, IMO.

I liked World of Warcraft quite a bit in any scene that was basically “Orc everyman tries to do what’s right/good for his family”. All that stuff was great. The overall plot and any of the scenes involving humans were less interesting to me.

Enh. In terms of creating the look and feel of the game the first Mortal Kombat was very good for the time (aside from not having what would have been R to X rated violence because of the fatalities). And the fight choreography for the three main fights was pretty good.