I’d think a more fair comparison would be adjusted for inflation and factor in average income, which has not kept pace. That might give modern films a better shot, since people with less money spend less on entertainment.

It was both an excellent fake-out, and also a lesson to the viewer. If you were rooting for the megahappy ending in that moment, you were also rooting for the character that killed a woman in cold blood to escape justice for that murder.

Yeah, I’m definitely in the minority that actually liked the BSG finale when it aired. The “Because: God” moments never really bothered me, because I was too enraptured with all the great (and heartbreaking) character moments they captured so well in the finale. Of course it’s Tyrol’s rage over Cally’s death that…

They’re staunch traditionalists at B.D Mando’s Mandalorian Grill.

Yeah, it certainly hasn’t aged well. It’s paced decently enough thanks to being 1984, but it’s definitely not a pillar of cinematic achievement like 2001. One of those movies that’s just good enough to be watchable, but doesn’t really have much depth because it makes everything so explicit.

How is “Darth Vader is Luke’s father” anything but “veering off into a different direction in the middle of a trilogy”?

2010 is an interesting film that actually presents its high-concepts out front, directly to the audience. I think Clarke might have preferred that, as a novelist. It’s definitely not the same kind of movie as 2001, not even close.

That’s pretty much my take on it. A perfect recreation of something is by nature indistinguishable from the original. If what you’re talking about is a person, they would have as much claim to that identity as the “original”; neither one is more or less “real” than the other. Crazy results like that are the nature of…

He could have been. The problem was there was another Peter Parker. Eventually he pulled a Thomas Riker and tried to make a new identity for himself.

Identity is a deeply philosophical topic. Like many such topics, comics have touched on it often, but only rarely explored it well. There simply isn’t a straightforward…

It’s pretty much exactly the Star Trek transporter dilemma. The only way to answer this question (Who is the real Steve Rogers?) is to dig deep into questions of what makes a person who they are, which is a philosophical rabbit hole like few others.

The literalist approach is that the “real” Steve Rogers is the one…

Hence, Executive power.

Show me where the C.I.A. is mentioned in the Constitution of the United States.

I’m trying to figure out how Gypsy Avenger ranked higher than Diablo Intercept.

That or a weirdly throwback William Gibson novel.

I’ll accept, but only if they also get Taika Waititi.

Malcom also hooked up with Trish, who he’d been crushing on, only for it to be because she was falling back into addiction and nearly taking him with her.

The First Order was also paying attention to them. There’s a strong implication in the scene with Hux and his underling that the Supremacy could have averted the attack if it had simply shot the Raddus out of the sky. The attack worked because Hux was overconfident and had dimissed the cruiser to keep shooting at the…

If he did, I didn’t hear about it, but that means little; I only know about his complaints about the Thor movies because of how many Marvel interviews he’s given, which I’ve actually read. It’s also possible he would feel more free to criticize the Marvel movies for various reasons; he had a much bigger role in…

Ehhh... given how many other horror stories there are about the BBC’s incestuous politics, I’d be more inclined to believe that it was him angering a bigwig and them getting even. If he was a nightmare to work with, they wouldn’t have wanted him back for the 50th.

Idris Elba had to keep coming back; he was contracted for the additional movies. He’d probably have had to pay them to get out, and I’d guess a not insubstantial sum.