bookfoldbrewcineaste commented on Why Star Wars Corrupts The Youth Of America*

"A humorous rant that conveniently ignores about a dozen aspects of the films that don't fit its shaky premise--a premise that I'm not convinced even Graeme himself believes. @spiritualtramp: There's not really any kind of understanding to be had from SW other than the surface one."

bookfoldbrewcineaste commented on Neal Stephenson Explains What's Wrong with Mobile Phones

"@FunkyJ: Oh, I totally agree that it's the people and not the technology; it's just that the technology enables the clueless to an unfortunate extent."

bookfoldbrewcineaste commented on Neal Stephenson Explains What's Wrong with Mobile Phones

"I'm usually an early adopter of tech, but I still haven't ever had a cell phone."

bookfoldbrewcineaste commented on The Greatest Thing You Will See On The Internet All Day

"Either teach the birds to fight with light sabers, or at least have the one bird learn the music beyond the first two measures, then call me. No, wait."

bookfoldbrewcineaste commented on Anyone Who Thinks the LHC Will Destroy the World is a T***

"Many moons ago, Cheech and Chong had a mildly-funny, highly-un-PC routine called "T.W.A.T.--Tactical Women's Assault Team." It was about equivalent to that South Park episode where Oprah's vagina had a gun."

bookfoldbrewcineaste commented on Anyone Who Thinks the LHC Will Destroy the World is a T***

"I wanna say "twit," but that doesn't exactly require asterisks, does it?"

bookfoldbrewcineaste commented on Guillermo del Toro Brings Back the Days of Classic Universal Monsters

"@Illuminatus: I can no longer take anything you say seriously--Watchmen better than Slaughterhouse Five?"

bookfoldbrewcineaste commented on Babylon AD: Yet Another Scifi Flick About the Virgin Mary

"@Byronotron: I for one am most definitely not hating on Annalee, and if my post gave that impression then I didn't express myself well. Annalee does a great, thankless job running this site, and I enjoy her posts."

bookfoldbrewcineaste commented on Babylon AD: Yet Another Scifi Flick About the Virgin Mary

"Some quick thoughts about things that have been said about this post: Altough Annalee focuses a lot on the "Virgin Mary" figure and religious frummery that she finds out of place in a movie like this, most of her actual complaints seem to me to have more to do with gender issues than religious ones."

bookfoldbrewcineaste commented on Babylon AD: Yet Another Scifi Flick About the Virgin Mary

"@Byronotron: [i]Gattaca[/i] is still maybe the best scifi movie that's been made since [i]Blade Runner[/i]."

bookfoldbrewcineaste commented on Babylon AD: Yet Another Scifi Flick About the Virgin Mary

"@capnrob: Have you seen the South Park spoof of Heavy Metal, "Heavy Boobage?" It's a classic. To the Breastiary!"

bookfoldbrewcineaste commented on Babylon AD: Yet Another Scifi Flick About the Virgin Mary

"Annalee, this is a fun review, and pretty much exactly what I expected Babylon, AD to be like just from seeing the previews."

bookfoldbrewcineaste commented on Heartbreak On A Platter

"That was one of the best music videos I've ever seen."

bookfoldbrewcineaste commented on On the Set of Crank 2, Whose Script Is the "Most Offensive" Statham's Ever Read

"When I first saw Live Free or Die Hard I commented somewhere that it had replaced Crank as the least plausible movie ever."

bookfoldbrewcineaste commented on First Look At Astro Boy's Home World

"@Annalee Newitz: Looks like the world's largest fugu fish to me."

bookfoldbrewcineaste commented on Is SF Too Obsessed With Its History?

"@BettyPlotnick: Or to take your analogy a little further, it's like having a friend who's never seen a play."

bookfoldbrewcineaste commented on Meet Me at the Secret Waterfall Fort

"Well, that's certainly above-average scifi art, and I particularly like the balloon vehicles."

bookfoldbrewcineaste commented on Bigfoot Hunters Fess Up: Just A Joke Man

"@ManchuCandidate: If anyone's interested, I spoofed this fiasco here yesterday."