Recent content by castlewise

I suppose the movie's success could be some sort of statistical anomaly. Everybody likes a certain percentage of films they see. Maybe the dice fell so that this one is a hit, and there isn't any sort of underlying reason or pattern.

Yeah, the stay ending is sweet. I was hoping they would do that one.

The best thing I can say about the third one is that it made me care about the Azog and Kili-Taurel subplots.

I really feel the first four but the fifth is a little undeserved. The Korra/Asami relationship is a nice 5 minutes at the end of the last season, but they never really did much more than that with queer representation.

You're right in this is basically the Trolley Car problem with a different hat on. And you are right that Utilitarianism says that you violate the rights of the one to save the many and pretty much every other system says no. Funny thing is that while most people would say they aren't...

Lord of the Rings is are good examples because I've seen a lot the behind the scenes stuff. LoTR it was very specific about what it used its CGI for because the CGI wasn't that good. That's why you saw the "bigatures" and scale tricks and other stuff which allowed them to use real props. The...

Folks are quick to point out that the prequals were CGI heavy, but CGI was terrible then. On the other hand, how much of Guardians of the Galaxy was CGI? All of it? So I'm not sure there is much point to "toning down" the CGI in these new star wars movies.

That initial narration was only 2 min long? It felt like hours.

I would separate out the two problems of encouraging combat rounds to go more quickly and the realism of discussing tactics during a three second round. If you want fights to be more realistic, and if your players are on board and think the hotseat rule is fun, then this seems like a fine thing...

She wasn't happy (http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-23366660) but her book did instantly rise to the top of the amazon sales list so it wasn't all bad. I haven't read either of the books in the series, but looking online both are currently reviewed fairly well both by customers and by...

That's not really fair. She has a reasonably successful series of mystery novels which she writes under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith. In fact they were well reviewed before someone at a law firm leaked that Robert Galbraith was her pseudonym. Its not like Harry Potter is Game of Thrones or...

MovieBob is a major contributor at a successful (?) gaming site. Z list is pretty accurate. For comparison http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/escapistmagazine.com and http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/cnn.com

So is she the good guy or the bad guy?

So I dont think the raptors are friendly. In my mind they are all running from something. The fact that the raptors aren't taking the time to eat you, and are instead just running away, is suppose to establish the threat of whatever is chasing them. I would say the preceding shot of the...

Tell us how you really feel ;) Also, I'm sad Felicia Day's character from supernatural didn't make the list.