Ultron's caused a few superheroes down the years. There's Vision, and a 'grandson' robot. Then Vision and the Scarlet Witch had two spiritual children, Speed and Wiccan. This kinda complicates the rumor that Agent Coulson was going to be partially rebuilt as a Vision analog, but mayb...

But we also know that the first attack (on San Francisco) was eventually defeated by conventional forces. The point is slowing down the kaiju enough to minimize damage while the conventional forces go to work. A nuke. It was killed with a nuke. More "conventional" than a Yaeger, I...

A friend of mine just linked me this article about the proposed Trans-Pacific Partnership free trade agreement. Does anybody know anything about this? If even half of this is true, it looks pretty horrible. Stuff like corporations being able to sue governments for the loss of "future profits,&...

On another note I think the thing that most surprises me is the fact that nobody actually went down to the rift to find out how it works and why the bombs didn't shut it down. They've had years to suss this out, and nobody, public or private, sent a submersible down to do some basic recon? ...

I got the feeling Blade-head walking through the Wall (which was supposed to repel Category IV kaiju) was supposed to be about the same as Knife-head (Category III, right?) tearing apart Gipsy Danger; an unexpected apogee of that particular category foreshadowing the arrival of a hig...

Sailor Star Dust#654062 wrote:There's a funny little scene if you stick around for the credits. I make a point of waiting with movies just in case there's something after the fact.

Hannibal Chau lives, and goes off hunting for his missing shoe. That makes the movie even better.

Yep, and apparently the "Mothra-Cloverfield hybrid" doesn't even come pass Godzilla's shin, haha. The big guy is going to be 'effin HUGE in 2014. ...if I've got my sense of size right, wouldn't that put the Empire State building at Godzilla's lower chest? That'...

Posit: Either Jarvis becomes Ultron, or Ultron eats Jarvis to give Tony pathos/character arc.

Maru#654180 wrote:Any word on what the royal youngling will be named?

Astaroth.
The Onion has a lot of great front-page coverage of the event.

New Avengers movie subtitled "Age of Ultron."
No Hank Pym.
Won't be based on the recent mini-series.

Eh, it wouldn't be too hard to fanwank something. Raleigh figured Leatherback's skin would be too tough (leather vs. swords doesn't always work too well). Improvisational weapons are preferred to built-in systems that can be destroyed and not easily replaced. The city was too tig...

EVA Sessions: Someplace Vast and Dry
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/8289527/1/EVA-Sessions-Someplace-Vast-and-Dry
has been updated a bunch of times recently. Coming up, Adam Jensen versus a bunch of mercs.

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/07/broadcasters-lose-final-appeal-to-take-down-aereo/ The only rationale dissenting judges could conjure was that it would endanger the current business model. That dissent is one of the most shameful pieces of jurisprudence sense... well, Scalia's hate sp...

Yeah, but all kinds of fucks are super-nostalgic for Transformers. This was new IP, and the daikaiju & giant robot genres never really caught on here in a mainstream way so... yeah.

While I doubt it detracted much from the film's initial poor viewing figures, there were one or two bits of Mexican (at least, as Bumblebee Man from the Simpsons describes it) elements of humor that fell flat. I'm thinking specifically of the bit where Gypsy Danger punches into a bui...

So, proving once again that the average American movie-goer is scum that doesn't deserve nice things:
Grown Ups 2 took in 10mil more than Pacific Rim this weekend (and got 5% on Rottentomatos).

What character similarities, exactly?

The takeaway from this is twofold: (1) George Zimmerman is a killer. He killed that kid, and the whole thing happened because he was a weak, sad little man with a gun. He just isn't a murderer. The whole thing was totally his fault, and hopefully no one will ever forget it. (2) t...

Stupid children just need some time to work out a problem-solving methodology. Its good for them.

Eren deals with Steam sales:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=p ... oGxA48HQ1g
(anyone posted this yet?)