100% of this opinion is a bad opinion.

That’s crazy talk. Multi-monster mash-ups were the bread-and-butter of Toho’s 1960s output, and it’s telling that Dougherty has chosen the same mix featured in “Ghidrah, the Three-Headed Monster” (to use its American release title).

Still want to see “Resolution.” I thoroughly enjoyed “The Endless.” (And honestly, if we’re allowing a hovering alien spacecraft in our list of non-special effects sci-fi, “The Endless” could probably squeak its way in.)

Not sure if it qualifies as special effects, but there is a helicopter crash in “Miracle Mile.” Still, another good call.

OMG, that’s great! I can just imagine sitting down for a French noir film and instead getting Cesar Romero in a submarine full of bat people and one angry griffin. (And I would take the latter any day of every week; I freaking love “Latitude Zero.”)

I do recall that “Colossus” has at least one matte shot of the vast computer complex, but overall I believe you’re right.

And you may be right about “WarGames” as well. A bunch of animation for the computer screens, but I’m struggling to think of a single miniature or matte painting.

Which just goes to show, you can do…

Thanks! I was worried no one would catch the shrimp dimension reference!

Fair point about the breach devices. If it were me, I’d prefer not to rely on a keyfob.

Still unsure what is the downside of being a meta for Cisco. I suppose that accidentally vibing something or someone might be headache-inducing, but on the whole his powers appear to be a net positive.

The “Cisco hates being a meta” runner annoys me. He’s behaving as if the superpowers are the problem rather than his association with Team Flash. His life was weird and scary before he became Vibe, and—as any non-powered member of the group can attest—will continue to be so even if he takes the “cure.” The only way…

Are we really still acting as if the Starbuck thing is an inscrutable puzzle? She died, and was subsequently resurrected by “God.” Whether she was akin to the Baltar and Six “angels” or something else entirely doesn’t matter.

As sci-fi fans, we always want definitive answers that can be bound up in a trade paperback…

This certainly makes a better impression than the first trailer, which leaned heavily on the wacky.

I’m certainly looking forward to seeing Baba Yaga’s poultry hut, and the other monsters generally look good.

That said, the shot of the big demon breaking up through the pavement takes me right out of the trailer...no…

IM3 is my favorite of the trilogy by a country mile. Never got the intense love for the first one. It was well-made, and RDJ’s performance was a delight, but otherwise it was bog-standard origin story + fight with bigger, eviller version of the hero.

Loved the Mandarin bait-and-switch. Sure, I would’ve liked to see a…

My take on Vision-lifting-Thor’s-Hammer is that it’s a way of shortcutting the otherwise inevitable “can we trust this guy?” scenes. It works as a gag, and it works to move the plot along. Mjolnir vouches for him, and that’s good enough.

For my money, “Annihilation” surely qualifies as cosmic horror.

And that fucking bear...gah.

Some people certainly do consider “Quatermass and the Pit” to be cosmic horror.

“The Void” was a good time, very much in the spirit of the ‘80s Lovecraft adaptation “From Beyond.”

I will second “The Endless” as an excellent example of cosmic horror, with its revelation of something unknowable, powerful and malign pulling the strings.

Went to a preview screening last night, and thoroughly enjoyed it. I had dismissed the original for being “Groundhog Day + Scream,” but watched it on DVD a few weeks ago and was won over both by the humor and by Jessica Rothe’s performance. I agree with everyone wondering why she isn’t yet a huge star.

The “Back to the…

I will go out on a limb and say that “Sharknado” (the first one, and portions of the second) may be the actual exception of the intentionally
“so bad, it’s good” film. They smashed together two of the chief genres of the SyFy “originals” (freak weather and sea monsters) and ran with it as far and as fast as they…

I swear to Phil Hartman that I live in Opposite Land. If there’s an episode that I find solid (if unremarkable) with a fair number of jokes that land, it’s 100% certain to be trashed by AV Club. (D+? Really?) Whereas the Liev Schrieber episode, which I found painful, received a (relatively high for this reviewer) B-.