( There be spoilers here. )

Oh, Stephen Sommers, WHY?

Thanks for stomping all over my childhood.  If any more favorite series from the time come your way, for the love of all my childhood dreams, please JUST SAY NO.  You made Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen look like high art.  You made Ripcord ridiculous, you RUINED the Snake Eyes and Stormshadow dynamic.

Oh, and although ( Read more... )

Well, I've tweeted about it, but it just wouldn't be complete if I didn't come here and say something about Star Trek.

I should preface this with the warning that I've had 2 glasses of a wine and a raspberry, um, martini?  Mixed drink, anyway.  I'm feeling very happy and fangirly and warm and fuzzy.  Just FYI.

DUDE.

NO spoilers below.

Best Trek ever ( Read more... )

So, we went and saw 300 last night. Shockingly, I didn't hate it, though several times Mark and I had to remind ourselves (or I had to remind him, as he required this more than I did) that this was not really a movie about the battle at Thermpylae Pass, it was a fantasy loosely based on the battle at Thermopylae Pass. Keeping that in mind, we ( Read more... )