Libertopian trolls emerge to defend capitalism in 7, 6, 5....

You'll note that I linked prominently to Brad DeLong's criticism. I'm actually more interested in criticisms from economists than I am in the latest news cycle from the Financial Times.

look at that greenscreen spill

Man, the fact that Edgar Wright's vision for Ant-Man was probably different than the Marvel (TM) vision was literally the only single thing that was interesting about it.

how about zombies are a metaphor for everyone over 50 who walk around with their outdated values (OMG! QUEERS!!), obsolete prejudices (ARREST POTHEADS!) and their wildly and provably false superstitions (earth is 5k years old, pastor says so) ruining the world for the generation that should be running things? Our…

Creationsim relies on biblical "facts".

Yes, rapid burial can only happen in a global flood. No local flood, mudslide, rockslide, earthquake, quicksand, cave-in, or any other lesser disaster could possibly do it.

Why Pacific Rim failed while Godzilla succeeded? Easy - marketing. Pacific Rim's marketing was, by and large, pretty shit. Compare that to that creepy 2001 score under the HALO jump from the teaser? Fucking brilliant. Uniformly Godzilla's marketing was unified and had a strong idea of what it was trying to sell.…

You're obviously not a betting man.

Sigh. Yet another person who takes a screen name seriously. I think about changing it, but then I realize that's lowering the water rather than insisting you people raise the bridge.

Except they do take someone out of the freezers and sedate them so they can freeze Kirk. So, yeah, why didn't they try his blood?

Or how about the teleporters on the Enterprise being the only teleporters on Earth. They make some excuse they can't just teleport Khan back to his cell because they're damaged. Ok, so call someone who has undamaged teleporters and feed them the coordinates.

Yep, started out rulers of the earth, ended up blood slaves to the Federation. Oh how the mighty have fallen.

Listen, the whole blood thing is a problem - but within the logic of the film - frozen is dead. You can't just thaw the blood and expect it to be functional in the same way that they can't just unthaw the people. Wait - that doesn't work cause they freeze Kirk. Aw fuck, this movie DOES suck.

As with every other misguided defender of this film...

McCoy took a guy out of a crypod before they caught Khan so that Kirk's corpse would stay fresh until he could perfect the undeath serum.

If I were Dr. McCoy, I'd have to consider that (a) we only know FOR SURE that Khan's blood has healing powers, and (b) once you thaw out another one, you now have two problems to deal with.

I'd say my mind was blown, but then I'd have to post that under most of these and that'd only demonstrate my lack of critical thinking skills.

...crap, I did that anyway. Oh well.

I guess you could argue that they didn't want to risk awakening another super soldier. But uh... yeah, even that falls a little short.

Star Trek Into Darkness is definitely up there. It serves up a whole Maw of gaping plot holes.