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Scientists Achieve Mental Body-Swapping
SpaceAdmiral notes the news that scientists have succeeded in convincing experiment subjects that a mannequin's body is their own, and even feeling at home in the body of someone of the opposite sex. The effect could prove useful in virtual reality applications and in robot technology. Here's the paper on PLoS ONE.
No, it's hyper complicated to cover for the fact that it's completely ridiculous. See NGE, any anime involving a futuristic military force, pretty much all of Star Trek, etc.
The general trend is for sloppy / poorly planned sci-fi to get worse as it progresses as the writers have to change the rules of the universe, account for inconsistencies, and generally one-up previous episodes/movies. I'm willing to accept the twisted physics and lore in the SG-1 series, but at least keep it consistent.
Ju-On is crap (yes, I've seen the originals).
I'll never see Japanese horror in the same way that people who grew up in that culture did. I understand the take on ghosts and scary little girls with hair covering their face.
But yeah, that's just not scary. Western horror films aren't any better (and haven't been for decades), especially since they've just been copying foreign films lately, and doing a bad job of it.
Hellboy is horrible, as is SAW.
I hated SAW. But you can at least give it credit for doing what it tried to do. While dumb and mindless, it's good for what it is. The sequels are pureed diarrhea in every sense, much like anything dealing with * Movie, American Pie */American *, etc.
I like GitS as an action movie, but I cringe whenever it tries to get existential.
Why choose such a negative-laced word?
Because everything is homophobia now. Didn't you get the memo?
Did you vote against gay marriage? Homophobia.
Do you hope your children are not gay? Homophobia.
Are you Catholic? Big homophobe.
Those are my principles. If you don't like them I have others. -Groucho Marx