I only noticed it in like 1 shot, I wouldn't make a big deal out of it considering how many insane practical stunts they pulled off for this. Seeing that behind the scenes and realizing they actually had those guys fighting it out on a moving train with minimal wires is kind of insane.

It's good for about 35 minutes, similar to World is Not Enough, but ya, it's shit

Not coincidentally, the moment the main bond girl is introduced in both those films is the exact moment it becomes terrible

Probably one of the best ones that comes to mind is Ellie in Contact, not an action heroine, just a really smart competent scientist dedicated to the scientific method. But ya, that's extroardinarily rare (actually come to think of it, Jodie Foster has played a lot of really strong roles like this, see something like Panic Room).

In the action hero mold, another one I like to throw out there I've always been fond of is Long Kiss Goodnight. Geena Davis is smart, competent, basically gets to do her version of a James Bond or Jason Bourne movie. Sam Jackson consistently gets his ass kicked and has to get rescued by her. Still might be my favorite Shane Black script.

I agree to an extent that Joss writes all his female characters the same way, although I'd say that's not in a vacuum. Hollywood in general has really shifted towards having mid-20s protagonists who are action heroes. There's sadly no longer really much room for a Clint Eastwood or a Charles Bronson, so naturally the female versions are going to be in their 20s and ass-kicking heroines.

Ya, DIF is awesome, really happy to have this community of nice, thoughtful, fun people. You all rock

Hollywood Saloon - The podcast is now defunct, but their archive is an absolute treasure trove for film fans.
Suffice it to say, I would say it's the best produced film podcast on the internet, and the closest you'll get to NPR quality programming (I'm talking careful editing, intercut music score, audio clips, director's commentary/interview segments). Check out something like their Art of Editing show, their Fury Road car chase show, or their Bond series.

Me three

Liking Robocop 3 is the most egregious thing on that list, personally

I laugh at Universal's misfortune. They have this thing which has gone a solid 50 mil overbudget at this point probably, 47 ronin which had the same thing happen and apparently went to hell, and that Gi Joe sequel they postponed a year after terrible test-screening results.

And to think that they passed on Del Toro's At the Mountains of Madness. Ya that wasn't a guaranteed hit, but at least they'd have had a good movie to talk about, and with Tom Cruise starring, I bet you it would've been a bigger hit than most of these will end up being.

You only need to look at Stuxnet, and how it set the Iranian nuclear program back by a year, to realize the cyber-warfare age is well upon us. The amount of coordination and planning that attack took on the part of the US and Israel, is pretty crazy

Me and my programmer friends were losing it in the theater we were laughing so hard at the hacking scenes.

"Hacking" involves lots of network traces running in dark terminals. What it does not involve is weird rotating globes of characters (which aren't even HEX! I thought, ok, they're exaggerating, so they have the hex randomly scrolling for no reason, then I notice it has the whole alphabet and embedded plain-text...sigh).

Also Q is one of the dumbest tech experts. What kind of idiot takes a compromised machine and plugs it directly into his top-secret government network (using 2 ethernet cables for some reason). Honeypots and VMs exist for a reason.

And then they keep dropping in actual security terminology that has no relevance to whatever the hell is supposed to be happening on screen. "Security through obscurity" was our personal favorite, and caused us to collectively lose it.

I still like the movie a lot, but you'd think in 2012 our hacking scenes would be a step beyond the "Unix" sequence in Jurassic Park.

Visuals look better than Apollo 18, and it's got Sharlto Copley for what it's worth. I can't imagine he'd sign on for something as stupid as rock monsters.

The concept of Apollo 18 was not what made it terrible, it was the execution. And Europa is waaaay cooler than the moon for what that's worth.

Have no idea what this is, but it could be an awesome piece of sci-fi:

Could this turn out to be what we wanted Sunshine to be?
Those Europa shots look soooo pretty