The Red Queen slice and dice scene is the best scene ever from any movie based on a video game, not that the bar is set particularly high. I don't remember a damn thing about any of the Resident Evil movies except that one scene, and I'm pretty sure I've seen all of them.

I mainly remember being pleasantly surprised that the "vs." aspect of it didn't disappoint. It's quite an epic battle as I recall, with the wily Freddy and the lumbering behemoth Jason making for interesting adversaries. On the other hand, it sounds like the Sadako vs. Kayako showdown is anything but epic.

Thanks. Good to know.

I love how the article above applies all three terms more or less randomly, and so I'm highly suspicious of this "fallen into the public domain" claim. Surely the copyright to Manos hasn't expired yet based on time limits, so regardless of what the court of public opinion says, somebody must still hold the copyright,…

If you were alive in the mid-90s, then you surely know about Virtual Insanity too.

the film is ultimately about Freddie reconciling this need for a savior with his disbelief in said savior

Doesn't the final trench run in the movie and the game start with the fighters right above the surface, with no visual connection to any of the obvious landmarks that are visible when the whole Death Star is in view?

Excellent point. And now that you've reminded me about it, that cinematic quality is one of the main reasons that I found the original Silent Hill to be so stunning. The first sequence where you walk down the alley in the mist and the camera flips over, as if to convey that you're immersed in a horror movie … that…

The first person perspective makes me more excited about this than anything else. I've always had a problem with third person games in 3D, and I don't know exactly why. It breaks the immersive quality of the experience to some extent, but mostly it just feels inherently awkward. I wish that wasn't the case, because…

I don't know if I would call myself asexual, but I seem to view sex very much like you do: it's approximately as interesting to me as any other bodily function. I guess I also view sex like politics: almost everyone seems to be way more interested in it than I am, so I just kind of tolerate depictions of it or…

Ignorant of this review, I would have bet good money that Christopher Smith could pull it off, seeing as how he has an unmarred track record of spinning low budgets and flimsy concepts into gold. Detour sounds dire though.

I'm the most ardent defender of an artist's right to get paid that I know of, but $40, really? If it was $400,000 it would make more sense to me in a way, but $40 feels like some kind of comment on the nature and value of art that I don't quite understand.

And yet there's a Canadian traveling horse-themed show that's so popular, it comes to my neck of Southern California several times a year. It's kind of like Cirque du Soleil but with horses prancing around.

I know this is ludicrously old, but I just finished FC3 and was intrigued enough about what people thought to look it up here on the AV Club, yet the FC4 article is the only one I could find with any discussion of FC3. *spoilers follow*

To be honest, I don't really even know what people mean by "nu metal," and I was definitely around at the time. (Are Limp Bizkit and Deftones really supposed to be the same in some fundamental way?) Anyway, like I alluded to, I'm old, so I'm quite surprised at how much I'm digging these kids. They have an ugly…

And you didn't even use the one I would have gone with:

All I wanted was a Pepsi!

Well, electronic music came back, so I guess nu metal was inevitable. I must have missed the grunge revival though, or did that never happen?

I thought the issue was about the use of the term "spirituality" instead of more specific terms. For example, if one is a follower of Buddhism or major components of it (like Vipassana meditation), then why not just say that? I guess it's easier to say "I'm spiritual but not religious" than to try to explain what…

It can probably mean any of those. I think maybe the common thread is that people use the term to emphasize that they believe in some form of the supernatural or immaterial, while rejecting traditional religions. I suppose it's possible that they have a highly-developed, idiosyncratic set of beliefs, but in general,…