I thought I'd watch a few minutes and be done, but the strange combination of salient criticism, bizarre asides, and the Buffalo Bill voice is goddamn mesmerizing.
I say Tom Waits as Beorn. He is gruffness personified.
I'm sorry, but the terrible retcon involving Xorn was making him Magneto in the first place. That shit made no sense in any way, and was consistent not only with Magneto's character, but with how Xorn had been set up by Morrison himself.
Sigh. He was just being irritating before leaving the series. #spiderman
Oh goody, an extra hour of overwrought Christ imagery. Awesome.
I couldn't help noticing that Singer didn't seem to understand Superman as a character--just a figure. #supermanreturnsthebryansingercut
1995?! Oh my sweet Lord. An out-of-it rock star trying rap? A sample of ESG's "UFO"? That beat during the... "rap"?
If you had said 1985, that would have made sense. Ouch. #spiderman
Yes, but who has dreamed THIS man?
[www.thisshaq.org] #pseudoscience
Now, I love The Tick dearly, but the moment you include that it kinda opens floodgates for a lot of other superhero shows that weren't on the list (Batman Beyond is allowable on its own though, due to the setting).
Speaking of 90's cartoons though... Gargoyles, anybody? I mean really now!
Man, just imagine how great it would be if one of the actors replacing Heath Ledger was Terry Jones (of Python) hamming it the hell up, or someone else who completely didn't fit the image of the character, all without the other characters or the film acting any different about it.
Ahhh, that would have been incredible.
Ehhh... Duncan MacLeod is a far more interesting character than Connor. Just sayin'.
(That might be too nerdy a thing to say even for io9.)
@Palmerlime: Oh! I was just going to write that!
I loved how in the trailer the villain can pull himself back together like the goddamn T-1000, but in the movie he's just a normal immortal (which is a strange two words to put together out of context).
Too bad it was terrible.
This reminds me of the Star Wars/Star Trek disputes: surface similarities make it look like these two things (er, people) are in absolutely direct competition, when really they're both pretty different, and fill largely unconnected nerdy voids within many of us. (Did that soud too sexual?)
All worth it for Jim Beam Me Up.
Well crap. I mean, good in that I'd rather they take the time to make them really good... but crap because I'm selfish and need instant (or sooner) gratification.
Here's hoping someone listened to all the negative reviews of Spider-Man 3...
Oh man, I used to go to Wondercon every year, once upon a time. I don't know if anything has made me regret moving across the country quite like the existence of this panel has.
Damn... to see an old sci-fi flick I just discovered in its original version or the MST3K version... the eternal conflict.
Has there EVER been a supersoldier drug that turned out well in scifi? What about Captain America.
The one time it was used right.
Before it was retconned that it had been tested on a bunch of guys beforehand.
Oh sweet god no. I'm usually fine with remakes, but one of the best things about the original is how LITTLE they tell us of the Krell. There's no way anything they create for this movie will be as good as what any of us imagined--that's the beauty of it.
I very seldom get angry about a remake "ruining" whatever, but this...
You had me at "extendable pocket" and lost me at "katana." Part of what makes Sulu's little crazy fencing moment back in the day so good is that they DIDN'T go the cliche route and make it intrinsically Asian in some way.
Man, I actually went to this last night, and it was pretty damn incredible. Strangely enough, when the movie wasn't being unintentionally funny (which it was most of the time) it was actually intentionally funny, like genuinely so. Great stuff.
Also, Lorena Velasquez was actually there, sitting right in front of us, and laughing louder than anyone else (as most people probably would watching a 50 year old recording of themselves in a leotard and bullet bra, carrying a ray gun). It did make me feel weird about ogling her onscreen, though.
Well, I know I wanna read some of the things on that list now.
But, just thought I'd point out The Adventures of Eovaii by Eliza Haywood. It's from the 18th century, technically a lot of satire, but it's set before Adam, and involves casual mention of space travel, and a whole populated world that existed before Adam and Eve. Interesting stuff.
