Recent content by Brennan

I haven't seen either movie, so I might well be wrong, but... Can the concept of a "directors cut" even apply to movies built by studio committee? I mean, there's movies where you've got a director with a certain idea in mind that he/she was forced to compromise for the studio, and then...

The actual Ogdru Jahad is let out. Its crystal prison is shattered, a portal opens over the earth, and it starts reaching down through the clouds towards buildings. Then Hellboy does his thing, and the tentacles recede back into the sky and the portal closes. It's not really clear exactly...

I thought moral relativism was profound when I was a teenager. I've had more time to think about it since. All you actually need is just one single common premise, no matter how simple, for what defines any moral system as a "moral system" in the broadest sense (i.e. you can agree X is a "moral...

One comparison I'd make is between the Hellboy comics and the Hellboy movie: In both versions, the story revolves around an evil sorcerer trying free an elder god-type thing, which once free will end the world. In the movie he succeeds, but Hellboy stuffs the elder god back in it's...

It doesn't really do anything for me as a style in it's own right. To be honest, lazy hipster nostalgia bait is exactly what it looks like and little more. I totally get where you're getting at with the comparison to things like impressionism. I feel similarly about older 3D stuff like the...

I got Kumonga: http://villains.wikia.com/wiki/Kumonga Ehhhhhhhh, boring. Surprisingly creepy looking for a big fake spider, but boring. If I got to pick my own it would be Desty Nova or Mr. Freeze [http://villains.wikia.com/wiki/Mr._Freeze_%28comics%29]. Disappointingly, Desty Nova does...

I don't really buy that. I've read synopsis of the later books, and I don't really see any such pattern forming. Like I say, I thnk it's a case of fans projecting their expectations/desires onto the work and seeing what they want to see. But even if it were true, the series hitching up it's...

There's a fair bit of play in the definition, depending on who you ask, but the basics are: 1)Procedurally or randomly generated maps/levels. 2)Permadeath within a "campaign" (i.e. no respawning, only one save that overwrites with each new save, and in some cases can only be reloaded once...

Game of Thrones: I stopped watching after... season 4, I think. The show had only been holding on by a thread with me. It's well done... but it's not a story. When I say it's not a story, I mean it doesn't have anything resembling an arc or theme. Oh, some fans say it does, but they're...

I never played the multiplayer, but as I remember it (loved the game back in the day, played through it many times), the sniper rifle in KZ1 did have a reticule. In fact it was kinda distinctive in that it didn't work like a normal one: when you scoped in, moving the right stick would move the...

Others have already chimed in with different definitions, but my own perception has always been that a "tryhard" is someone who's more focused on being perceived as a badass than actually trying to play better, and actually playing worse as a result. A tryhard is someone who tries to pretend...

No one's ever been resuscitated from brain death. Unfortunately that's physically impossible without some kind of Star Trek-like tech anyway, since when the brain dies, it doesn't just go inert, but actually actively fries itself on the cellular level (asphyxia causes seizure-like overexcitation...

Because one process is a slow "grandfather's axe" process which allows consciousness to continue functioning smoothly while it it occurs, and the other is an all-in-one process that necessarily interrupts and restarts consciousness*. That's the thing people are objecting to: the total...

Jeff Goldblum leaps to mind. Kinda surprised I'm the first to mention him, given how distinctive his consistency is.

In regards to Star Trek transporter killing you: if you actually watch the shows/movies, they clearly don't. There's numerous examples of people carrying on an activity while being transported. Not merely starting on one end and picking up where they left off on the other: actually moving and/or...