One reason is that an abstract, scientific approach to problems and issues often leads to conclusions that are at odds with religious and cultural beliefs...

I'll see your Olivias and your Jennifers and raise you one Kate Beckinsale.

The real problem with the entertainment industry is that it has always understood the concrete mechanics of business better than the elusive spirit of artful creation. "We may not know how to make great art, but we know how to make a buck!" This has been true of any area of the arts that has ever been turned into a…

I think a lot depends on what powers you have. Some would be difficult to translate into massive wealth, others would be trivial.

It looks like another one of those movies which takes contemporary fight choreography (and gratuitous slow-motion cinematography) and implants it into an historical action piece. For me, the incongruity isn't "fun" it is just stupid. Perhaps if the whole thing was played like a goofy comedy (ala Army of Darkness) it…

She notes that stories like Jurassic Park, Frankenstein, and The Island of Doctor Moreau can leave the public timid about the idea of "tampering" with nature, even as they have little understanding about what actually goes on in current genetic research.

Absolutely fraggin' right!

I think that location may be a factor as well. Different cities have different sorts of single populations, and by that I mean what singles are looking for can often be very different from place to place.

So basically this is tv's answer to found footage movies, where the conceit is that we're watching the raw footage for a reality tv show. Pass. So much pass.

We may be agreeing in part. But I like to think that even non-serious, fun, adventurous sci-fi can avoid things that make you go, "Well that was dumb after all," if/when you think about it later.

I think the more interesting question is who actually cares about any particular movie's financial success? Almost nobody owns stock in a studio or has invested personally in a film. The financial return of a film is of virtually no relevance to the average movie-goer. So why does this statistic hold any fascination…

Science fiction that asks, nay requires you to shut off your brain and keep it shut off even after reading/watching, is dumb science fiction, maybe not even worthy of the name. Science fiction by its nature draws thinkers, and thinkers like to examine and hypothesize beyond the limits of the original material. When…

Well, (Ultimate) Hawkeye is gifted with superpowered eyesight and, one presumes, an unusually efficient brain to process visual stimuli in ways we can only dream of. He can probably switch eye dominance at will. :)

Neil's final actions make sense if you assume he saw a future of himself in which being imprisoned led to a life of agony somehow, and his suicide-by-federal-agent was his way of giving himself a "merciful" ending instead.

I don't really care if this happens. It'll just be another movie to ignore, that's all.

I long ago ceased expecting anything good to come out of Lucas or the Star Wars franchise. I just stick to watching the first two movies and pretend they were never altered or prequeled or turned into pandering fodder for pop culture and merchandising/advertising. It really isn't that hard (for me) to just ignore…

I've loved this show since about two thirds of the way into the first season (it was merely a guilty pleasure up to that point). But it still bugs me that vampires cry (normal tears) in this show, to say nothing of all the other regular metabolic processes we see constantly.

l337 haX0r. That's just embarrassing.

X-Muppets is my favorite.