Search results

billd91 already mentioned it, but anyone interested in realistic war movies should see Stalingrad. It kicks Enemy at the Gates to the curb, frankly (Rachel Weisz aside, of course ;) ).

Never read the comic, but the telemovie was a real snoozer. You're better off rewatching just about any episode of Buffy.

[cast of Threshold] + [pace of Surface] + [writing and general "vibe" of Invasion] = a great show (a.k.a. Battlestar Galactica)

Yeah, this show never got its act together, for me. It had a hackneyed premise that might or might not have gone somewhere interesting. The individual eps were a fun enough way to waste an hour - if I happened to be in front of the tv set when it was on, I watched it happily enough - but it...

A couple of people have mentioned the Law & Order shows, but I actually think the two spinoffs are doing some interesting things this season. Special Victims Unit explores the detectives much more than the other shows do. Last night's episode was all about how Stabler is losing it, and...

I have to go with Tarzan. Even if Conan is the stronger of the two, which is itself debatable, Tarzan is accustomed to fighting things that are bigger and stronger than he is. The man can grapple a tiger, for heaven's sake...

I actually kind of like Surface so far, but I'm reserving judgement. Lots of television shows that I've really enjoyed have started out really slow (go back and watch some early eps of Star Trek: The Next Generation or Buffy the Vampire Slayer, for instance). The Night Stalker never had me, so...

I think it says a lot about how f'ed up the Pegasus crew are (or at least many of those we've met). Think about it this way: If your oven actually reacted to being tortured in a convincingly human-like way, would that make you more or less inclined to torture it?

That's kinda spooky...

just finished Iron Council, by China Mieville just started The Polish Officer, by Alan Furst and Looking for Jake, by China Mieville

The phrase "jumping the shark" sprang to my mind a lot while watching this episode. I've read that Garner won't be returning after this season, and her replacement will be the blonde woman who cracked Marshall's encryption code. Sorry, but I think this show is done.

Yes, the Boomers we've seen have clearly been intended to act human in every way, more so than some of the other models. Do we even know that she has superhuman strength?

I agree. Aside from the predictable, hackneyed plot, the wooden characters, and the painful dialogue, the show committed the ultimate sin: It was boring. On the positive side of the ledger... Gabrielle Union is cute, and that house with the glass walls is really neat-looking.

Oh, and Knights of the Old Republic is another of my "All-Time Favorite Games." I played the Xbox version, not the PC version, but that probably doesn't matter much (except that my television is much larger than my computer display).

Myself, I'm all about the setting and the story. The dime-a-dozen sword & sorcery games out there bore me to tears, but Fallout was one of the best games I've ever played. With that in mind, I'll recommend 2 more of the best games I've ever played (although I'm stretching the definition of "RPG"...

I was going to suggest, "use light infantry in a terrain-dense environment, like a forest", but irdeggman basically beat me to it. Move fast, use anything that provides concealment (darkness, smoke, terrain, whatever). Any sort of harrassing or distracting actions are useful, if you can time...

I constantly refer to Omar Epps, Lisa Edelstein, and Sela Ward by the actors' names, even when I'm talking about the characters.

Dr. House: Like I always say, there's no "I" in team. There's a "me" though, if you jumble it up. This is a long one, but it's a great sample of the show's writing and wit (I copied it from IMBd, they have a bunch of these): Dr. House: [to the crowd in the walk-in clinic's waiting area]...

BSG is some pretty heavy drama. Main characters shoot each other. Heroes shove bad guys out of airlocks. Heroes order the summary imprisonment of other heroes. Cute, spunky fighter pilots get shredded by gunfire, burn alive in their cockpits, and suffer drug-fueled emotional breakdowns. Firefly...

/em shakes Blue_Kryptonite's hand and buys him a tankard. Seriously, it's bad enough when active players "camp" on names of characters they never play. Especially in City of Heroes, where names ideally carry a meaning and are related to the character's design. A guildmate of mine recently...