Charlie Jane Anders's discussions

Oh cool. Thanks for sharing! Read more

All I can say is, there was a lot less information about it available in 2011, when I spent an afternoon Googling obsessively. Everybody knew that drones were out there carrying out missions, but the notion that they were killing civilians was not yet a mainstream piece of info, as far as I could tell. Read more

Yeah I was wondering recently whatever happened to that design. It's so cool and probably a lot more efficient. Read more

Oh I didn't realize that. Huh, that's interesting. Read more

Genetically upgraded spies whose bodies have been altered to give them super abilities. Read more

There is a brush with death for Tony at the end of the Avengers. Hence, final. Read more

Nope, we definitely waited until we had seen all the year's genre films. Including the Hobbit. Read more

Oh fascinating... I love the Spenser novels but I always wondered how much all of those fiddly details were right — interesting to hear he botched something really basic! Read more

I'm still mad about Baby Will Smith. Read more

I seem to remember seeing something along those lines. It's nuts. Read more

Sadly we already got Doc Samson in the last Hulk movie. Giant waste of time. There's more of him in the deleted scenes: http://io9.com/5044535/whats-missing-from-edward-nortons-incredible-hulk Read more

Definitely liked it a lot. It was a major contender for the "best" list. Read more

I think MIB 2 really really lowered the bar... but I have a feeling it's actually a sturdier film than MIB 3. Read more

The point isn't when Bane makes the decision... it's that we realize at the end of the film that he doesn't believe anything he's been saying. Read more

I feel like the movie does answer the political questions it raises — Bane isn't actually a socialist, and he doesn't actually believe in revolution or overthrowing the wealthy. He is just trying to manipulate everyone, and one of his tools is political rhetoric. Everything Bane says is a lie, and his decision to blow… Read more

I can't go there. I thought John Carter was deeply flawed but also had a lot of greatness. If Stanton had allowed someone to go into the editing booth and cut out all of the excess, you could have had one of the year's best films. There's a great movie in John Carter, bogged down by junk. Read more

It really is. It's one of the year's best movies and also one of the year's worst. Read more

We definitely talked about Total Recall being on the "worst" list, but it got edged out by some of the other badness. Read more

I liked Griff, although he was basically a one-gimmick character. It was a good gimmick. The rest of it... not so much. Read more