PhilipFry commented on Nite Owl's Study Is A Museum Of The Minutemen

"Anyone else notice that, in the closeup of a copy of "Under The Hood," on the bookshelf next to it is Philip Wylie's "Gladiator"?"

PhilipFry commented on The Coming War Between Religion And Super-Science

"There's a lot of, well, just plain wrong in this particular paragraph: "For every Richard Dawkins, there are tons of scientists and science-zealots who will sort of mumble that studying the wonders of the universe has given them a new appreciation for the possibility that there could be some superior intelligence out there" Tons?"

PhilipFry commented on Let's Tow the Wilkins Ice Shelf to California

"@Git Em SteveDave: Er, how do you figure that California, whose southernmost point is probably more than 10,000km from any part of Antarctica, is close than Africa, whose southernmost point is perhaps 5,000km from the Antarctic coast?"

PhilipFry commented on Meta-Monster Attack with Boobies and Doobies in "The Being" [NSFW]

"@Zantor: "Plus, where was the window speaker?" By the 80s a lot of drive-ins had replaced window speakers with the audio track being broadcast on a low-power AM or FM radio signal."

PhilipFry commented on What Copyright Ruling Really Means For Superman

"Irrelevant personal coincidence: The house I own and live in now first belonged to Jerry Siegel's ex-wife Bella, and their son Michael lived there until his death a few years ago."

PhilipFry commented on Best Space Battle Smack Talk

"@erejota: At least there was a little bit of Lando/Ackbar intramural trash talk! Lando Calrissian: Yes, I said *closer*!"

PhilipFry commented on Meteor Man: Biggest Waste Of Talent Ever

"Oh, the stupid, it burns! People too dumb to shoot someone in his unprotected head."

PhilipFry commented on Eddie Murphy Is The World's Lamest Spaceship

"Holy cow, does this look terrible."

PhilipFry commented on Bad Movie Physics: A Report Card

""Planets should have diverse climates, instead of one unified climate across a "desert planet" or "forest planet."" Given an atmosphere and a lot of other assumptions, sure."

PhilipFry commented on Worst Postapocalyptic Game Of Death Ever

"Interchangeable??"

PhilipFry commented on Will A Computer-Generated Anakin Be Less Robotic?

"I know I'll catch a load of poo for defending Lucas, but he's only "a hack when it comes to directing actors" and "can't direct actors," etc., if the performance he wanted on screen *is something other than the one he got.* I think he got exactly the result he did want, which means he *can* direct actors, he just doesn't do so in a way that most directors would consider desirable."

PhilipFry commented on Teleportation, Paladins, and Underground Lairs -- What Could Go Wrong?

"I saw this at a preview screening last night."

PhilipFry commented on Indiana Jones Now Available In Non-Eyestrain Version

"Given the context of the shots seen so far, I don't think Indy is fighting our government, I think he's fighting Soviet soldiers *dressed* as our soldiers."