Abrams' Star Trek was a box office success but a cinematic embarrassment. I am convinced that any self-proclaimed "old school fan" of the original series that actually liked J.J.'s steaming pile of a film carries within their heart a secret contempt for Shatner, Nimoy, and the entire Roddenberry creative team. There…

Absolutely love this stuff. I want to live in that world, not this crummy one I'm stuck in.

I don't see much compelling evidence that #6 is a myth at all. Even for shows that make that "token effort", every instance of plausible science is buried in an avalanche of moron science just to serve the needs of the plot. Eureka is as guilty of this as any other show I've ever seen.

If it is a good movie, ultimately, nobody will care about the costume change. Look at how up in arms fandom was over the initial photos that were leaked of Ledger's Joker make-up. After the movie came out, everyone wanted to look like that for Halloween and at cosplay events. A good performance in a good movie has the…

I actually like the Sundays version of "Wild Horses" better than the Stones version. There, I said it. And I ain't takin' it back.

Well, I thought it was pretty neat until Tron Guy showed up. The weak attempt at humor may have been intentionally lame, but for me it really detracted from an otherwise fun bit of animation.

The most obvious way to avoid overdosing is to limit your own consumption. Just because superhero movies are made, doesn't mean you have to go see them and "overdose" on them, right?

Well, what other engineering works would be as high profile and unique? Which ones have (or would) grab the cultural spotlight as profoundly as a space elevator? Such a thing makes for a very large, very attractive target. And if the resources used to build it are primarily American (this is NASA we're talking about…

Inception was good. But my favorite film of 2010 was Kick Ass. That at least doubles the list of great movies from last year. :)

Well, given that I would happily watch Kate Beckinsale read a phonebook, I am completely on board with this. I'll line up to pay for any opportunity to see her in a new movie wearing that outfit (which she has said on numerous occasions is profoundly uncomfortable) and kicking ass.

As much as I love and admire B5, I don't believe there is much merit in doing more B5 merely for the sake of doing more B5. Particularly if the budget is going to be small; all you will end up with is more "Lost Tales". In order to do B5 right, with its epic scale, you'd need an episode budget far in excess of what…

Sounds like a rather easy target for terrorists.

I pretty much agree with everything you point out.

In the D.C. universe, they are different cities within the same continuity (Gotham can be viewed as a proxy for NYC while Metropolis can be viewed as a proxy for Chicago). In fact, Superman has visited Gotham and Batman has visited Metropolis. I can find no logical or dramatic problems with this arrangement.

A pretty butterfly.

Well, to my mind, Warner Brothers has the same problem to solve that the comic book writers did fifty years ago. And it is the same problem Marvel is solving in their Avengers movie right now. Clearly, putting Superman and Batman together into a common narrative isn't insurmountable. We have decades of (comic book)…

Sure, what you (and Liss) describe there is the rationale behind historical "magic" during the less enlightened periods of our real-world cultures. But the article is primarily trying to explain why the Harry Potters of contemporary fantasy fiction have become an elite class of wizards who obtain their power through…

I was thinking the exact same thing.

A) Well, the limited practical destruction (as seen in those on-set photos) could be a sign of CG destruction to come, or it could be a sign of the limited scope of destruction we're going to see period, the result of a production budget that has been whittled away and shrunk by studio execs from the moment Whedon was…

Warner Brothers is incapable of executing superhero crossovers in film. The internal politics over "merging" two lucrative properties (their only lucrative properties) is utterly paralyzing to them.