Recent content by MarkB

And how do we answer that question? Pretty much any concept can be a good movie. One of the best movies of the year is called K-Pop Demon Hunters. So sure, it could be a good movie. Or a terrible movie. Or anything in between.

Haven't heard it yet, looking forward to doing so.

Do you deserve Thanksgiving?

Indistinguishable means indistinguishable. You can suspect it all you like, but no amount of non-invasive examination will show it to be anything other than a statue

That seems a little after-the-horse-has-bolted.

The one that always seems weird to me as a Brit is Bonfire Night. On the one hand we're making a family event out of symbolically executing a person via immolation, with the kids being traditionally the ones to prepare the sacrifice. And on the other we're celebrating the failed detonation of...

That's too limited a view. I'd like to think that the day of my birth had devastating historical consequences too.

"They spelled my name wrong."

Not all that many, because it's one of those details that rarely finds its way into a description unless it's significant. Yeah, having some gargoyles posing in postures of terrified surprise would be a good bit of misdirection on their part, if a little meta. EDIT: And now I'm wondering about...

That does highlight one of the usual issues with gargoyles, though - usually nobody's fooled by them. One mention of statues in a location description and the players are just waiting for them to come to life (or turn out to be medusa victims). It rather ruins the "ambush" part of their ambush...

I mostly remember being icked out by the body-swap kludge they used in order to still have their back-on-Earth segments in their lost-in-space series. It was pretty eww in concept from the start, and then they played into the eww, having characters pursuing sexual relationships in other peoples'...

The "friendly to both fans and new viewers" thing is going to be an interesting balance. By the time it stopped airing there had been a lot of technical advances and international agreements to the point where it hardly seemed feasible for everything not to go fully public and those technologies...

From Terminator 2, after John notices the police have arrived. "How many?" "Uh, all of them, I think."

On the other hand, if the game in question was invented for the movie or show and doesn't exist outside of it, can it really be said to be based on a game? You wouldn't say a movie was based on a novel if that novel only existed within the fiction of the movie.

Netflix.