Okay, enough RAR-RAR-RAR-ing. Onto the stupid stuff I'm doing that nobody cares about either ( Read more... )

I posted the other day on Tor.com about the Oscars hating on genre films. This year, I've seen a surprising number of the films nominated already, mostly due to the fact that a) there are more films nominated and b) the extra films nominated were almost assuredly nominated solely as a ploy to get normal people to watch the damn Oscars. So out of ( Read more... )

The last time I remember being genuinely scared at a movie was the remake of Dawn of the Dead. I am Legend was pretty tense at parts, but I appreciated the crushing loneliness of the main character more than the occasional jump-and-go-boo frights. Since then, I've been scared by a few video games here and there (damn you, BioShock!) but not movies ( Read more... )

Now with spoilers!

So, indeed, I ended up going to see Star Trek again with my mother on Mother's Day. Although she definitely was game to see it again (she'd already seen it! I love her), we were really making an excuse to take my dad. He was very adorably put out that my mother and my sister had gone without him. So we trundled off to the IMAX ( Read more... )

It's not that The NeverEnding Story was a perfect movie. Far from it. It's not that nostalgia should prevent anyone from remaking a movie that was good and making it great ( Read more... )

Heroes hasn't been as egregiously bad this "volume" as last. Granted, that's like saying the rotten food they're serving is better than the shit they fed us yesterday, but I thought I'd get that out there.

Because I have another bone to pick with them. I've already gotten myself good and frothed up over sexism once today, but this isn't something ( Read more... )