And of course, all the indignant howls of offense and protest crawl out of the digital ether as expected.

Taikonaut? I had to go look that up (what an unnecessary waste of my time too). Turns out it means exactly the same thing as the word astronaut. The parable of the Tower of Babel comes to mind...

If we have an accepted age of the universe, then any galaxy whose light took as long as the universe has been in existance to reach us is, by definition, the oldest, maybe even the "first". A galaxy's light can't have travelled 20 billion light years (to reach us) if the universe is only 13.75 billion years old. It…

Fine. Shelve it. The world really doesn't need any more zombie crap. Can we move on now as a culture please?

Actually it is Evangelion, but with copyright avoiding name changes.

Just goes to show that production offices are composed almost entirely of women everywhere, not just in Hollywood. And that you aren't allowed to be a script supervisor if you have a Y chromosome.

Avengers succeeded in part because Marvel laid the groundwork years before with five individual films that introduced audiences to the core characters and a semi-connected overarching plotline. Warners could skip all that on the basis that Batman, Superman, and Wonder Woman are already known entities, but I still…

Aliens is definitely the most fun, and probably the best crafted of them all. But Alien is simply a cinematic masterpiece. The two films are so different, that I find it impossible to like one more than the other. I like them equally, but for very different reasons.

Let's face it, any old sepia photo from the late Victorian era is automatically creeptastic, ventriloquist dummies or not. The gruesome doll faces only add to the skin-crawling, Ripper-tinged vibe any image from that era automatically carries with it. Take out the dummies and I bet you will still shudder involuntarily.

I still don't understand what is so obscene about sex (and the bodily parts involved)—and by extension, all the lovely words (including slang) that refer to it. Never did, never will.

If I'm not mistaken, this is the movie that evolved from the Evangelion project from several years back. Basically, Kaiju = Angels and Jaegers = Evangelions. Though to be honest, I don't really like the names "Kaiju" or "Jaeger". They feel like names you use as temporary placeholders, or merely because you couldn't…

He may not qualify as "epic", but Sylar from Heroes was only supposed to be a shadowy boogie-man villain for a couple of episodes and then be dispensed with. But as with all things that are good only in very small doses, the producers couldn't resist overdosing, and decided to pander to the fan fascination with this…

I really don't much of anything. This world just feels way too big to make all-encompassing knowledge a plausible human achievement. Believing otherwise would just feel pretentious to me.

Love his version of Batgirl and Joker. Top notch!

1) So Alaric and Riley get their own series (Cult). I think I'm in!

I know what you mean. I think one of the things that often makes CGI-heavy movies like this feel unreal is the CG camera work. Too often the camera moves in ways that no physical camera realistically could, and I think our brains know this.

If Joss were to kill off a member of the team, I think he would go with Hawkeye. For one thing, he's a character without his own franchise, so he's expendable as a marketing product. Secondly, it would add to Black Widow's character development to have the man she "loves" die, most probably in her arms (knowing Joss).…

I'm not convinced that comic-book action can be portrayed "realistically". Too much of what goes on defies physics in a way that puts animators and fx artists in a real bind. If they match what you see in the comics, it will look fake. But if they make everything conform to the laws of physics, you can't have the…

I think Thor is meant to be Marvel's cinematic cross between Hal Jordan and Supergirl (or, rather, Wonder Woman). It allows them to get all magical/mystical/mythical and "cosmic" at the same time, without introducing a new hero.

Not that it changes her point or yours much, but at the list does shrink a bit if you change it to "that tiny club of directors who had a single film make over a billion dollars in first-run box office sales".