<![CDATA[io9 Comments]]> <![CDATA[io9 Comments]]> <![CDATA[]]> @BadUncle: ...... and here it is! [www.ufoseries.com]
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SJ_Edwards

]]> <![CDATA[]]> @SacGamer: If you like it, play it on a console. PC is about the optimal experience, from upgrading hardware to how we do multiplayer - and P2P is not optimal.

Don't even start about matchmaking. I've got no griefs against matchmaking, it can work when you use it to find dedicated servers (ala BF2, L4D) or even as a separate entity (like many RTSes). But you can get fucked if you think P2P is better than dedicated servers. Right fucked.

McWarrior

]]> <![CDATA[]]> @Wookie1972: That's Gabrielle Drake, small screen starlet of many a sixties and seventies show (and sister of the 60s musician Nick Drake).

SJ_Edwards

]]> <![CDATA[]]> @yrag: I didn't delete your post this site is policed by commenters and editors. I responded to you, multiple times. I wasn't speaking to you particularly even though I do remember your rant and honestly, it got borderline offensive and was very condescending. If your post was deleted, it was someone else who thought it was a bit petty. And come on, it was a bit much. You weren't talking about the show you were directly attacking me. Sorry if people here have very little tolerance for that and I do as well. I won't delete this, but come on read the post. Don't be mad because I don't like certain aspects of the show. It's a review not a shower of praise. We review things here. And I think it's pretty clear that I'm not alone with my criticisms. But you would know that if you read the comments.

Meredith Woerner

]]> <![CDATA[]]> @aubreyAubrey: I'll add to that sentiment. I'd love to read a more analytical stance on gaming.

Alexis

]]> <![CDATA[]]> @KassiaHaoe: While I too dislike that headline template, your suggestion does nothing to fix the problem.

dandank

]]> <![CDATA[]]> @Wookie1972: Robert Redford? I always felt Robert Redford would've been better as The Comedian.

However, Paul Newman would have been AMAZING for Ozymandias.

nworobes

]]> <![CDATA[]]> @NerD: Blattella: If we could get a time machine, I'd like to nominate mid 30s Paul Newman as "Totally Perfect Ozymandias".

nworobes

]]> <![CDATA[]]> @HeartBurnKid: Agent of R.O.A.C.H.: I guess Matthew Goode was a good fit for the film version of Veidt, since they seemed to completely rewrite his character.

But the book version of Veidt makes him out to be an all-American sort of guy, who is great at everything. I liked that the book showed him being a world class gymnast, making it obvious that he's still in peak physical condition.
Without little details like that, Veidt's scenes in the film seem incongruous. Most of the time he looks like a delicate fop, a member of the nobility, with no physical strength to speak of. Then you see him displaying incredible physical prowess in the masturbatory fight scene with The Comedian, plus he Hulks out at the end and starts throwing people across rooms.

And while it's a minor gripe, I still don't think Goode had the right appearance for the role. Veidt had that all-American captain of the football team look, so that it was all the more jarring when you learn that he "betrayed" the entire world.
He doesn't need to have the bulky muscle like The Comedian, but he needs to have a certain athletic build to him. Goode seems a little too slim.
Someone who looks like a young Paul Newman would've been good for the role.

Apparently they weren't afraid of using relative nobodies for the roles (I've certainly never heard of most of the leading actors in the film), so I don't see why they somehow failed to find someone more fit for the role than Goode.

nworobes

]]> <![CDATA[Evil Wonder Woman Rocks The Bangs In New Justice League Trailer]]> So did the PSAs tacked onto the Super Friends cartoons in the alternate universe encourage kids to smoke, chew erasers, and swim on a full stomach?

Bill-Lee

]]> <![CDATA[If SF Publishing Implodes Once Again, Will You Follow Your Favorite Authors To Porn?]]> I think the mere thought of Neil Gaiman porn has had a profound effect on my personality and soul. I'm not sure if I am now a man for the better.

Davio

]]> <![CDATA[]]> @OW-Holmes:Bringer of Fear: Someone needs a bit of a slapping for that piece of writing...

Davio

]]> <![CDATA[New Avatar Promo: "Every Living Thing Wants To Kill You"]]>

Nice to see an older military person portrayed and with a major role for once...Gives me hope!

janlafata001

]]> <![CDATA[New Avatar Promo: "Every Living Thing Wants To Kill You"]]>

I like the older Colonel in Avatar. Nice to see an older military person portrayed more, for one...Gives me hope!

janlafata001

]]> <![CDATA[]]> @Annalee Newitz: Good point! Goes to show I shouldn't be doing these things. ;)

Coen

]]> <![CDATA[]]> @Makidian: She sure was!! Where can I get a woman like that?

nygenxer

]]> <![CDATA[How To Reattach A Severed Robot Head]]> I saw Omega Doom [en.wikipedia.org] in 1996 when it came out.

I've seen it again since.

It's not good.

It's got Shannon Whirry in it.

It's got Anna Katerina in it .....

..... who next year, credited as Anna Katarina, played the ex-wife of Michael Douglas's character, in David Fincher's gorgeous movie 'The Game'.

Omega Doom was based, like Akira Kurosawa's 'Yoyimbo', Sergio Leone's 'A Fistful of Dollars' and the Coen brother's wonderful, wonderful 'Miller's Crossing', on Dashiell Hammett's 1929 detective novel 'Red Harvest', which featured his eternal protagonist, the nameless 'The Continental Op', who was, in turn, based on Hammett's own work, as a (disillusioned) Pinkerton, strikebreaking for brutal mine bosses in 1916 Butte, Montana.

The story of a 1916 labourer, fleeing the consequences of killing his brutal boss, is the basis for Terrence Malick's, photogenic elegy to 'The Golden Hour', 1978's 'Days of Heaven', which was narrated by its ethereal ingenue star Linda Manz .....

..... who returned, once, after a twelve year absence from the screen and history, to play the unrecognizable, butch, tattooed roommate of Michael Douglas's co-star in 'The Game', only to then disappear once more, this time apparently forever.

For some reason I know all this.

Somebody take my head.

Please.

SJ_Edwards

]]> <![CDATA[]]> @insightman: It's a movie beyond classic.

nygenxer

]]> <![CDATA[]]> @Jeriba: "Othello" with an alien replacing the Moor. "Romeo and Juliet" with two warring alien species - or perhaps one a robot/replicant. "Hamlet" could be done with any interstellar kingdom a la "Dune" filling in the background for Denmark, as could "Julius Caesar", "Henry V", "Richard III", "King Lear", "Anthony and Cleopatra."

To be honest, I think the time is ripe for a retelling of Dante's Inferno.

nygenxer

]]> <![CDATA[]]> @Discodave: R.O.A.C.H. M.O.T.E.L.: I suppose one could do "Othello" by replacing the Moor with an alien.

nygenxer

]]> <![CDATA[]]> @cletar: It's been listed as "availability unknown" since at least a year ago.

nygenxer

]]> <![CDATA[]]> @CParis: Two words: EVA GREEN.

nygenxer

]]> <![CDATA[Evil Wonder Woman Rocks The Bangs In New Justice League Trailer]]> Why does the Evil superman just look like a douche bag rather than Bizzaro Superman?

Zecomm

]]> <![CDATA[]]> @Hammer_of_Justice: My take on this is that they may not have the budget anymore to produce a scifi show and this is why we're getting what we're getting.

It's not a master plan to make smarter sci-fi, it's literally a people drama with slight scifi branding on it. My guess is that they have no money for effects, alien, sets, etc.

frederic

]]> <![CDATA[]]> @Elorin: There was a kitty (who gives us the title b/c every time it rained or snowed, he'd ask to check at a different door), but he was regular-sized, and didn't hiss and frighten crowds of people.

Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H.

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