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..just two and a bit hours of fighting.

Soooo, just infinite war then...?   

And maybe there's a leeeetle bit of drama in the bit[spoiler] where the arrogant over-king, convinced of his own destiny, bargains with the universe by sacrificing his beloved daughter to achieve his oh-so righteous aims[/spoiler]? Euripides seemed to think so.

Bah. Classics.

I really wonder if I saw the same film. No plot, no drama, no tension - just two and a bit hours of fighting.

The plot hasn't advanced to any extent. Thanos gets the stones and uses them. The end.

Can't wait for Anderson to end. It's the first strip in 2000ad, ever, that I have been unable to follow.

It's not me, it's you, Cass.

[Alien: Covenant]

Gave up on Alien: Covenant, shortly after a crew decide to land on an alien planet without doing any kind of atmospheric testing or wearing helmets. I allowed the bit where they decide to split up for no good reason, but the prodding of alien flora for no good reason was stupid.

Compare and contrast with Alien, where they wear full suits and think about quarantine and stuff.

Did IQs drop sharply while Ripley was away?

[THE ISLAND]

THE ISLAND
I thought I'd catch up with this slice of Bayhem from 2005 and somehow still managed to be surprised at how terrible it is. I don't want to tread on Prof Bear's ground but it climaxes with what looks like a British Airways ad having just established that Ewen McGregor's character (with a mental age of thirty) porked Scarlett Johansen who has a mental age of 15 and then carries a small pistol up her chuff for half a day while buying ice cream for kids and playing on a swing. And I haven't even got to the heavy handed slavery and gas chamber imagery yet.

And I have no ducking idea how Ewen McGregor got his memories.

The Island? More like The Shitland.

I'm pretty sure that the company that made this optioned Michael Marshall Smith's superlative Spares, then let the option lapse and made this - which had a number of odd plot changes to make sure it was in no way at all anything like Spares. Apart from the cloning. And the basic plot of man goes on run with clone.

Load of pish in which there was a lot of noise but nothing happened.

That Chevvy Chase wasn't Paul Simon

Am I the only sub still missing this?

I basically saw Leia's floating through space as another use of telekinesis, i.e. if one can move an object with one's mind couldn't one move oneself, being an object in space too?*

Oo, 'ark at one!

A possible precursor to this may be when Luke allowed himself to drop on Bespin in Empire...
He didn't appear to fly, but he fell an awful long distance before plunging down that chute. Although it's not clear, I figured he used the force to at least slow down a bit.

And in the prequels and cartoons, I think we see Jedi jumping higher than is possible, suggesting a TK lift. (I guess it's possible the force can actually make you physically stronger too, so I could be wrong there.)

As for Luke's projection, I think I'd have had an issue with the if it was the first time we see this in the film, but it's set up earlier with other characters. There's the obvious communication between Ren and Rey, but we also see Yoda become tangible too, smacking Luke with his staff. And didn't he lose the surrounding corona in that scene, as well? If a force ghost can do this, I'd imagine the spirit of a living Jedi could do it too

*Objects in Space. One of the most interesting episodes of Firefly. Not related to this at all, of course.

Yup. Buy all that.

But at what point was it revealed to the viewer that she was an actual Jedi? Or did she spontaneously train herself? (Like, um, Rey).

FFS, guys, not only does Rampage star the Rock but it's based on an arcade game. What did you expect?

It was an 80s arcade game.Which Warner Bros have made free to play on t'internet, right here:


http://game.rampagethemovie.com/arcade/

I think that may give more minutes of fun than the movie.

On the flip side, I've given up on Homeland, again.

Made it through seven or eight episodes of season one but, by Christ, nothing bloody happens. How this is still going is a mystery to me. Even if it improves ten-fold, it'd be coming from such a low bar that I can't be arsed with the time investment.

Also been enjoying Altered Carbon immensely.

Not got mine yet, but the movie-Dredd Dark Judge stuff is a real treat for me.

I think the Dark Judges have been used really well in the last few years, and that's fine by me.

I'm a big enough boy to appreciate that you have a different view. It's wrong, of course, but I'm not going to go on and on about it.

And Leia floating was just shite.

To you it feels insulting, Dr X.  To me, it's a breath of fresh air in a formerly locked room.  Your 'half-baked ideas' are either (depending on the idea you mean!) my 'refusal to be constrained by what is expected', or a well-developed theme. 

Snoke as a character has (I believe) more lines that the Emperor did in the OT, refers to his motivations, events in the past and plans for the future, and other characters say more about him than they did in the OT: he also takes a far more active role in the plot, instead of merely setting events in motion.  His death only seems premature because you expected to learn more about him, as we eventually did about Palpatine.  Any maybe we still will, post-mortem, as we did (in a sense) about Palpatine.  Or maybe we won't, and you can fill in the blanks yourself, as we once did about the Emperor.

Gotta agree to disagree. I think it's insulting because it's unsatisfying in a narrative sense. There was nothing to show Snope's motivations, nothing to show his agenda. And then he was dead. A lot of weight was put on him and he simply became a thing of smoke. I've no problem with my expectations being usurped, but this feels like it wasn't thought through.

Actually. I find my reaction difficult to articulate. It's more a visceral sense of wrongness, of incompleteness. I feel cheated out of a story.