I haven't been a Lost watcher in a long time, but I felt compelled to watch the ending and see how the writers would wrap up this ungainly mess, or not.

My interest in Lost peaked when they were exploring the various DHARMA initiative stations and the scattered backstory of the Hanso foundation settling the Island. I was intrigued by the idea of ( Read more... )

It's telling about what kind of a filmmaker George Lucas is that the most effective moment in the entire prequel trilogy, after about six hours of Lucas' leaden dialog, Hayden Christiansen's lumber-based acting and general inanity, is one single sound effect.

The charred remains of Anakin is trapped on a operating table, being fitted with ( Read more... )

A few centuries ago, people believed in sensibility, that if a person whose natural impulses and responses were not distorted by flawed society saw another person suffering, that person would be moved to help them as instinctively as moving one's hand away from a hot stove. You shouldn't need to teach or motivate people to do the right thing. If ( Read more... )