Recent content by UncleAsriel

I like what I saw of episode 1 - nice review of Cosmological basics, peppered with De Grasse's cool, classy demeanour. However, I thought the bits on Monk Bruno were overly simplistic and took up more of the narrative than necessary. The monk wasn't just challenging the church's theoretical...

I saw this a few days, ago, and while I can't say it was bad, I was disappointed. What made District 9 work so well was the worldbuilding being detail, the characterization compelling, and the world changing dramatically over the course of the film while remaining morally complex. The finale...

While there are individual game soundtracks which stand out, I find Yahtzee's criticism of Triple-A titles is a legitimate one. Like many projects of that kind of budget, the need for financers to have creative control over the creators means a lot of stuff is going to conform to a checklist...

I couldn't agree more. I never got far into Doom 3, but the flashlight mechanic - while a plot hole, in terms of how it works in the story - was scary as hell, and worked well for keeping tension high (just like how Jim Sterling talked about the jump scare in previous weeks). Still, Doom 3 was...

I identify as this I'm a humanist, and the focus on treating folks with respect regardless of their genitalia' shape strikes me as a rational way to approach the world. It also helps that I'm a John Stuart Mill fanboy, and find his theses on gender-equity (as well as diversity in general) to...

I was curious to see if Bob'd be any comparison to other fairy-tale-with-a-dark-twist movies like the Sigourney Weaver TV Movie or The Company of Wolves whose selling points are less the complexity of the lead heroine and more of the trials surrounding her: a woman's allegorical coming-of-age...

I recommend Charlie Brooker's Screenwipe. It's not been released outside of Britain, and it's culturally attuned to British television, but it remains one of the most entertainingly insightful things about the making of TV I have ever seen. I strongly recommend it. You'll learn quite a lot...

Digimon? Pokemon? Puh-LEEZ! We all know what the best anime ever made REALLY was... In all seriousness, though: you'd need to limit a number of variables. Target age demographics, release dates, whether they were licensed or localized for given audiences, etc. Simply saying Kids...

Baccano! is worth-watching. You seem to have a preference for violent/acton shows and this one fits the bill. Think of it as pulp fiction, set in the 1930s, where one of the side stories involved alchemists. Cowboy Bebop. Bounty Hunters in space, set to jazz. Excellent writing, excellent...

Law Abiding Citizen was a let down, but it sure was crazy fun!

The Village The Golden Compass, as mentioned above

Ensure massive public education initiatives to help encourage people to not be ignorant and fixed in narrow mindsets? Actively try to understand people in your personal life who are different than you, rather than brushing them off as idiots? Acknowledge that intelligence is not the same...

Maybe I'm just using a warped definition of the word, but I thought erotica was distinct from porn in that erotica actually developed the characters in question and explored what sex was between loving couples. Porn , as I understod it, was simply designed to excite the consumer sexually without...

Moviebob, I have yet to see this film, so I can make no judgement on it yet. However, this article [http://io9.com/5451262/why-does-science-fiction-invent-new-religions] has some interesting ideas on the nature of religion and sci-fi which sound modestly interesting. I was under the...

Make more Spehss Mahreens to help defend the imperiium better. Make imperial comissars have mandatory people skills training and encourage them to give hugs to encourage demoralized troops in addition to laser to the face (positive punishment and positive reward). Make psykers get counselling to...