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The game fiction was that the FTL drive being used was causing degradation issues at a much higher rater than normal. It is one of the reasons the ship gets into trouble in fact. Also weapon degradation applied per shot fired. Laser pistols, on overload, will one shot kill most of the weaker...

Ayato wasn't told about being Mulian because, to date, everyone who has the mu-phase has turned into a blue blooded enemy of humanity. Kunnugi literaly saw colleages he had served with change and engineer the confrontation with humanity that he felt so guilty about. It doesn't help that Bahbem...

Thems fightin' words buddy. :) Evangelion required not one but two extra movies be made because the ending of the series didn't make any sense. Given that the series creator was under going a stress related nervous breakdown it isn't too surprising this happened. They ran out of money to do...

Odd really because I quite enjoyed World War Z. I thought it was a different take on the whole Zombie apocalypse and had several moments of quite good tension in it. (Especially the opening of the cold storage door) It isn't a wonderful film but I'd rate it a solid 6 peeking towards a 7 out of 10.

Yes, the story is worth finishing. Gameplay doesn't really change much but it is worth finishing.

Yeah I know that this is his aim, so yay - he hit what he was targetting. Doesn't mean I like the target chosen. I really should learn with the guy and just know he is going to do another mystery box type affair where he really hasn't thought through the logic of the story being told at all...

And in this one nobody even moves in 2D really during the fights in ST:ID. The original looks much better in comparison to this one with some actual tactics being used. Yip and nearly tore the ship apart in the process as it fell down. At least that jumped into the atmosphere and didn't do a...

At least he got away from the brewery for the Warp Core itself. The outside had obvious waveguides and looks like part of the fusion research projects. I saw lawrence livermore labs credited too. As for the film it is better than the last one. However Kirk still displays almost no brains or...

The sentry guns had night vision optics. (Well the directors cut featured em anyway.) The brief for the mission was a routine check-in on a colony which might have encountered *one* alien lifeform - certainly the marines and the powers that be in the film didn't emphasize Ripley's concerns...

And now replying to Laa-Yosh.

I am replying to Mariner about oblivion here, spoilers abound!

I'd give Oblivion around a 7. It is a fun film, well executed but the plot is both very formulaic (thus predictable) and also doesn't make a lot of sense when you think about it. For instance :- Also while they did a good job tech wise, and I am being particularly niggly here, the...

Looper isn't really about time travel though. Personally I'd love to see more films like this out there - it was clever, inventive and fun to watch. Yes you can nitpick the timetravel, and I understand the director/writer of 'Primer' has done precisely that with Rian Johnson, but it is a pretty...

Because it got the tone and atmosphere right. Dredd, the film, explores the moral ambiguity of someone being judge, jury and executioner quite well with Anderson clearly having quite a few qualms about it. It also doesn't succumb to Hollywood foibles like taking Dredd's helmet off. (Which the...

Your loss because it is quite a fun film. That is explained in the film, people are scared of Dredd but they are more terrified of Ma-ma and what she will do. The initial setup of the movie was dropping two skinned bodies of people who were known to have crossed Ma-ma to make the point that...