This is the third in a (sporadically updating) series of articles, following “Jadzia’s Gender,” and “Leeta’s Love Life.” Miles and Keiko O’Brien are right up there near the top of my List of Favorite Sci-Fi Married Couples, and have been for ages. I think the actors who portray the two characters – Colm Meaney and Rosalind Chao, respectively – have a really believable on-screen chemistry, [...]
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I don’t really want to talk about whether or not Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest is a good movie. I’ll just leave it at this – I enjoyed it, in the way that one can enjoy a summer action film while still finding aspects of the setting, story, and execution deeply problematic. Some parts, of course, were much more enjoyable than others. Like, [...]
Disclaimer: this is my opinion, and it’s based on the first two movies and nothing else of the X-Men franchise. It’s a subplot that annoyed me, and I’m perfectly willing to acknowledge I may be reading too much into things. I’d love to see how other people read this, but once again, this is MY OPINION, so please do not take it as anything but [...]
After finishing the ten-episode stint of Aeon Flux’s animated cartoon, the biggest thing I noted was how the most loved part of Aeon’s personality was drowned out on the Hollywood screen. Her snark. Her arrogant, casual, sassy persona was suddenly soggy once the animation turned to real life cameras. The Hollywood production had Aeon shown as a semi martyr. The [...]
Warning: Spoilers abound. After watching X-Men: The Last Stand and Aeon Flux in the same weekend, I’ve come to an observation that has been touched on before with a couple of my friends, but it became very clear after seeing these films. That would be Hollywood’s obsession with badass chicks only getting to have a final showdown… with badass chicks. Let’s start with Storm in [...]
I finally got around to watching Underworld recently after a recommendation from Graculus at the forum, and now I’m finally getting around to making some notes about it. Whatever you think of this movie on the whole – and opinions do seem to span the range from “It’s quite underrated” to “I projectile vomited” – you could have gender-reversed all the roles in the movie, [...]
Can’t for the life of me find it, but I read an interview with Michelle Pfeiffer years ago in a magazine, and when the interviewer asked her how she felt about her Oscar nominations, she said she’d have preferred to get them for Batman Returns. The interviewer assumed she was joking at first – Oscars for comic book movies? That’s just silly talk. Ever since, [...]
