All things being equal, I'd rather watch a random Zack Snyder or Paul W.S. Anderson movie instead of a random Ridley Scott movie.
Spoilers What are your unpopular Sci-Fi & Fantasy Opinions?
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Oops, I guess I must have hid a wrong number on my calculator when I was adding them up.Super pedantic but it's actually 254 episodes-- 144 for Buffy and 110 for Angel.
This one actually is a fair point. At least in most of this kind of stuff, like Dresden Files, all of those kind of things are off in other worlds.
I think you could get away with a bit easier in the era of the Fantastic Beasts movies, but once you get to the modern day with satellites and cell phones, it's a lot harder to buy that these creatures wouldn't have been discovered by Muggles.
And what even qualifies it as a Fantastic Beast instead of just a regular animal? Some of them, like the niffler and those stick insects just seemed like variants on real animals but not really with any sort of magical powers. Sure, they perhaps seemed a bit more intelligent & better trained than normal animals IRL but I figured that's just because movie animals often tend to be like that.
The niffler had powers, didn't it?
Agreed. It's also aged better than TNG. The formula was starting to get stale at that point but at least Voyager didn't get bogged down in angst & bad guest star melodrama all the time. (Looking at you, "New Ground," "Hero Worship," "The Loss," et al.) Voyager mostly had its eye on being a sci-fi adventure show first & foremost.
^I don't think that's an unpopular opinion. It's just that no one cares enough about these sub-genre distinctions to do anything about it. The lines between genres are often very blurry. And while it's fun to categorize things, it doesn't really mean anything. Heck, one of my local video store chains recently merged the action, drama, & sci-fi sections into one big alphabetized mush. Comedy, horror, westerns, & musicals still have their own separate sections. But since so many dramas have violence, murder, & gunplay and so many modern action movies have implausible SF/F elements, there's just no point in parsing them out.
You have a video store?
Not a rental store. It's for buying & selling new & used movies, TV shows, CDs, vinyl, books, video games, & various geeky knick-knacks. There's actually a couple chains that do that here in Arizona-- Bookmans and Zia (which also has a couple locations in Nevada). Zia is the one I was referring to.
* Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson's Expanded Dune material is fine, especially the Legends of Dune Trilogy
I tend to agree.
I think it's pouch was infinitely big inside. I'm pretty sure I remember a scene where Newt turns it upside down and shakes it, and tons and tons of stuff keep falling out.
I think the premise of Fantastic Beasts (as a schoolbook) is that many of these creatures look enough like their mundane equivalents that muggles can't tell the difference on sight, and will usually dismiss the magical properties as tricks of the light or something. The niffler, for instance, looks like a platypus without the beavertail. A muggle could see that, wonder what a platypus is doing outside of Australia, and never consider the idea that it might be something else, even without the beavertail.
I'm starting to agree with you on this, even though they take such huge breaks between seasons. I like the current Doctor and cast but New (?!) Who used to have so much creativity and weirdness in so many of their episodes...it just seems to be getting a little stale now.
Dune is the most overrated piece of literature of the 20th century.
The old film is terrible and the new one doesn't look much better.
The old film is terrible and the new one doesn't look much better.