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Well, Lucas could always decide to switch the numbering of Star Wars movies from integer to floating point. ;)

V'Ger. First off, unlike many other large vessels V'Ger is entirely self sufficient and sentient. Thus it can run and maintain itself - no need for the hassles of a huge crew. Certainly it's powerful enough to protect me from any harm, and the vast store of knowledge would make it the perfect...

Tron 2.0 was a game developed my Monolith. Pretty good one too, and it perfectly captured the look and feel of the movie. Even had Bruce Boxleitner as a cameo playing Alan Bradley - or the voice thereof.

Well, I don't get any TV, and cable isn't available here at all. Still, I'll admit that as my DVD collection grew and I got into TV shows on DVD, not to mention rental by mail, my desire to purchase a satellite system declined.

I have never walked out on a movie, though I've failed to watch one or two on video. I suppose that part of the reason comes from the heightened care one has picking movies when it takes 2 hours driving and $20 gas in order to see one. If I'm going to drive into Castlegar in order to watch a...

Ah, Magneto. I'd Argue the prison didn't change him much at all. The Magneto that issued the order to kill all human life was the same Magneto that tried to turn the world leaders into mutants. Neither action was one born of hate or intolerance but was simply the act of pure reason unhindered by...

Perhaps I'm missing something, but how hard can it possibly be to simply obscure or otherwise edit out the watermark using some decent editing software? Considering how technically proficient some of the pirating groups have shown themselves to be I can't imagine that would be hard. As for...

Good question; I had to think about that a bit. First off without air there can be no shockwaves. A chemical explosive works basically by rapidly expanding. Pressure against the air produces the shockwave. Without the air all the energy would instead be in the shrapnel. Also, without air...

Basically since sound is a wave propagated through a medium, and space has no medium at all, there can be no transmission of sound through space. Now sound being generated by a ship could certainly be heard on that ship as the sound propagates through the metal, air, and other materials of the...

I'll admit I'm really looking forward to this new Mary Poppins release. The old Gold Edition really isn't very exciting, and the clip holding the DVD in my copy is even damaged. It's about time a good version of it comes out.

What about The Shawshank Redemption? Are you saying it wasn't a good movie? After all, it did even worse in the theater than Fight Club did. Box office numbers are hardly a measure of quality.

Oddly it took forever for the movie to become available at my Wal-Mart - a couple months after it came out. But now they have plenty of copies. So I have no idea. Obviously going with Amazon.ca or Futureshop would be an option. Futureshop even has free shipping while with Amazon you have to...

You seem to have entirely missed my point. All those things make films look and sound better. It makes them seem more real. But that's beside the point because films don't offer reality. Look, in order to create a literal depiction of a trip to Alaska you would have to recreate everything...

I don't believe the issue has anything to do with the definition of art itself. Imitating one medium in another medium isn't more or less artistic. But it does beg the question of why choose one medium over another in the first place. As you noted live action photography is not the actual...

Heh. And yet is seems appropriate considering everything. It's not like this is just any fantasy series being made into a movie.

You can't rob someone of something they don't possess. Interestingly enough while I was perusing my collection of Boot magazines I ran across a game called Into the Fire. Best I can tell it never came out, or at least I can't find any proof that it did, but the idea of the game was to create...

In the end I think the act of replicating the likeness of dead actors will prove to be a gimmick. After all, is not the 'Fred Astaire dancing with a Hoover' bit really nothing more than a cheap gimmick. You couldn't copy the likeness of a living actor, and people will be fully aware that the...

And they choose the path they took, and by doing so lived lives far superior to the vast bulk of humanity achieving fame that at one time belonged only to those who did something significant or had real power. Blame the weird desire to capture the image, or the rise of the heroic elements in our...

Thinking about it I wonder... What's the inherint difference between putting a modern actor into an old scene, like in Forest Gump, and putting an old actor into a new scene? Once you insert Gump into a piece of footage with John F. Kennady, it changes that bit of footage into a whole new scene...

I suspect that this kind of thing is inevitable given the nature of stars. A star sells an image - that's what makes them a star. It's a false image and even the public knows this on some level, but it is still that very image that sells. Once you've gone there, sold that image, there are...

No, surely the black hole as a conduit to some other place, or even some other universe, must remain. Otherwise why use the black hole at all? In The Black Hole the black hole literally is that undiscover'd country from whose bourne, no traveller returns. In other words the black hole is death...

That sounds close to animism. Now I will have to read the book. I do have a copy; I've just not gotten around to it. Still, the book is just the book. I wonder though if the loss of the dead hunter scene wasn't actually a loss to the film. Without it the humans never really seem part of the...

Well, the deer in Bambi are anthromorphic which complicates things just a little. Since they have human traits blended into their character, as well as human intelligence, they wouldn't necessarily follow the dictates of deer instinct. Not to mention people relate to them more like they do to...

Sometimes I think that the Japanese have it right. That animation is the natural format to translate comics into motion. After all, is not animation practically a comic in motion? Many of the comic elements which seem cartoony or simply too over the top in live action work just fine in...

While complaining about people debating minutiae or aesthetics is a worthy use of space. ;) I'm just teasing though. Thinking about the Peter-MJ relationship I realized that MJ has interesting picks in men. It seems as though she just goes from one 'cool' guy to another, from a jock to a...

The irony about debating whether nuclear radiation or genetic mutation (though I thought the little visual that went with it suggested some kind of genetic manipulation - gene therapy - like a virus might do) was the means of transferring the powers Peter gains is that spiders don't even have...

I have. The believability, or lack thereof, of the web shooters matters not one bit to me. I wasn't saying that I though the organics weren't credible, or that I didn't like them. Just that they aren't any more credible than the mechanicals. That they are more believable is a weak argument...

While I'd agree, it would make sense for Spiderman to weigh more than the actor who potrays him. Extra bone and muscle density to account for the strength as well as the weight of the web fluid.

For the record the organic web shooters are not, in any fashion, more believable, possible, probable, credible, or likely than the mechanical shooters. Of all the abilities Spiderman possess, the ability to create and dispense a seemingly endless supply of protein (web fluid) is the least...