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What Trowa said about the spoilers? I just wanna point out that I have my own shovel.
Anyway, I think "A Bug's Life" deserves more love than it gets, generally. I love that film.
But for me, "The Incredibles" is the one that broke through. I suspect it'll always be my favorite.
And make it a serious post-mortem of the film rather than a snark-fest.
If anybody could come up with a way to make that piece of crap interesting, it's you guys.
Also, be sure to mention the fact that they put Kristin Stewart in heavy brown contacts which refused to stay on-axis, so she constantly looked like she had at least one lazy eye.
So … um … Trey gauche.
Yeah.
If I remember right, they pretty much did one a season.
While we're at it, you're aware that it's a true story?
You mean Survive the Savage Sea, right?
"They're beauticians!?"
"Not yet."
Oh, I see what you mean. The black pillars are a constant size, but the content column in the middle is stretchy-shrinky.
On the other hand, I don't love reading really wide columns of text.
Clearly the only solution is pixels at dawn.
Nothing begs that question. Ever.
You do Brade Runner?
It's like if the first five seasons of TNG were about them starting intergalactic wars because of crappy diplomacy.
No. It's more like the premise of the show revolves around a bunch of complete amateurs who've never done anything like this before, so they're making some mistakes, but they're pulling through, and learning from it all.
Not for nothing, but whenever somebody sits on his couch and declares that some piece of fiction is frustrating because such-and-such character was not omniscient and that he — the viewer — with the full benefits of genre savviness, hindsight and the luxury of having, like, zero adrenaline at the time totally saw it coming from a mile away, I kinda wanna punch him a little bit. Because seriously, like you've never lost your keys.
If it makes you feel any better, part of the arc of the show's first, oh, four or five seasons is the team making stupid (in retrospect) mistakes, learning from them and not making them again.
Tonight I finally got around to watching the last three episodes of the season of "Universe."
Goddamn that was good.
Not for nothin, but I think it's one of the best roles Ralph Fiennes has ever played.
No matter how many times you ask me, I will not have sex with you while you're driving.
You're just going to have to pull over first.
Rowr.
Nah. The movie makes no moral assertions about David or any of the other robots. The thesis is set up in the prologue: If one builds a machine that — by any practical definition of the word — can love, does that not impose a moral responsibility on the machine's creator?
Just as Frankenstein was really about the doctor, not the monster — the subtitle was "the modern Prometheus," after all — "AI" isn't really about the little boy robot, but rather the person who creates him, and those with whom he interacts, and what their interactions say about them.
It should surprise no one that I assert "AI" belongs in the Frankenstein column.
Unless you're talking about the advanced robots from the end.
In which case the lesson is that artificial beings can have souls but only after millennia of evolution … just like regular beings, I guess.
Woah.
Okay, so if Kyle and I can split one plane ticket and I can sit on his lap on the way out there…
"Strange Days" deserves far more love than it receives. It's just delightful. It's got flaws for days, but what it gets right far outweighs its missteps. The cast is solid, the story based both in plot and characters, and a decade and a half later the setting manages to be both a dystopian sci-fi pastiche and a period piece, and it's just really great.
I own the DVD.
Aren't PINOCCHIO and FRANKENSTEIN themselves fundamentally the same story? Artificial creature seeks acceptance, validation, and its place in the world?
Somebody needs to tell a darker-and-edgier Pinocchio story with rage and rampages.
Oh wait. I think they did. I think they called it "Child's Play." Nvr mnd.
"The Fountain" is a masterpiece, a life-changing work of art.
"The Fall" is pretty okay too.
Wow. What other mysterious powers do you have?
The former New York Mets manager? Hadn't though of that. That adds a whole new dimension to the story, right there.
Last year I went on a Netflix binge and, hand to god, watched the whole damn series. Took me months, one DVD after another.
The thing about Stargate SG-1 is that even when it was at its absolute worst, it was still pretty good. I don't know if I could say it was ever great, in the "Best of Both Worlds" sense, but it was solid, consistently above-average sci-fi TV for a freakin' decade, and that deserves some respect. Plus the had the stones to do the aforementioned black hole episode that used relativistic time dilation as a key plot point. Respect.
Never got into the spin-off, though. I've really been enjoying Universe — no spoilers; I'm about three weeks behind — but I could never get next to Atlantis for whatever reason.
And Brian wins a prize.
"A Matter of Time."
Amusingly, this apparently comes up often enough that "stargate black hole episode" is a Google suggestion.
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