J. J. Abrams? Isn`t that the guy who killed Star Trek? Well, I don`t expect a good movie from him, only some neat explosions, but no story.
But wait... he also made Fringe, which was a good series. So he`s good at tv serieses (did I write that right?) but not at movies.

You don't need the -es on the end of series. It can be both singular and plural in context.

(Please don't Angry Mob me, the chap did ask)

If you don't care then why did you put up the effort to find and link all those threads?

For fun (fanboys beware):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O7fRaChMLtE


Abrams like many Spielberg/Lucas imitators is just that - an imitator - without a voice of his own and will therefore never be the guy to give you a unique work that a generation of people remember and pass on to their children and grandchildren. Abrams' sensibility is somewhere between sycophant and yes man.

While I don't like Abrams' style or his obnoxious reliance on hollow mystery to drum up hype for his movies, I think most of the blame for how those Star Trek movies turned out can be put on the two writers, Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci. They were also responsible for the screenplays of the first two "Transformers" films and "The Amazing Spider-Man 2", among other lackluster fare.

Well, at least on that we can agree. But really all the Abrams hate is waaay out of line. MI3 was a good action movie, both his Treks were good (although flawed, yes) an Super 8 was really, really good. He's no grand master, no Michael Mann in his days of glory, but for what he does, he does it well.

At least in the Independence Day they get to defeat the aliens, although in lame way.
It's still way less stupid than WotW's "they planned this invasion for centuries, lying dormant and waiting for the right moment only to discount earth atmosphere and get defeated by it."
Advanced alien race my ass.

From the wiki you linked:
"refers to a supposed legal right in medieval Europe, and elsewhere, allowing feudal lords to have sexual relations with subordinate women on their wedding night. There is no direct evidence of the right being exercised in medieval Europe, though there are numerous references to it."

The page itself says there is not even direct evidence for it, but it is supposed to happen (and I guess it did). But what is more important, it is thing from medieval times. Not something that was going on "just hundred years ago".

The book you mentioned I can unfortunately hardly read as my German is quite poor. I checked it, though, on archive.org, but page 355 seems to be about something absolutely different. (German cities and Archbishop Frederick von Bremen).
Also the book came out in mid-19th century so it could hardly talk about something that supposedly happened in the early 20th century.

Well, it's still better than the alines from Signs, who invade a planet mostly made of water despite it being deadly to them, and who, quite literally, are totally defeated by locked doors.

I usually find them both equally stupid. :-)
But you are right, the WotW aliens could at least get through doors.
But don't blame them too much for water. They maybe never came into contact with it on their own planet and big blue mass is usual colour of their healing forests so they expected this world to be paradise only to find out the truth bit too late. :-)

Im actually quite curious what people expect from JJ Abram type movies? (i actually quite liked the Star Trek ones - im a believer if a movie has a half decent plot, its watchable - unless CGI used is really bad , im happy)

Im actually starting to people think people are too critical and expect too much from movies in general especially the ones in the action/scifi/fantasy genre .

I think that everything depend on the viewer and what he expect of the movie

Sorry, I mean "few hundred years ago" - alias, just few generations ago. Only English Wikipedia claims it to have "no direct evidence".

Also, if we take opposite, in 1952 British government offered Alan Turning either the lifetime jail or chemical castration because he willingly engaged in homosexual activity.

"Item, sentenciam arbitram, e declaram que les dits senyors non pugan prendre per didas per sos fills, o altres qualsevols creaturas les mullers dels dits pagesos, de reinenga, ab paga ni sens paga, menys de lur voluntat; ni tampoc pugan la primera nit que lo pages prend muller dormir ab ella, o en senyal de
senyoria, la nit de las bodas, apres que la muller sera colgada en lo lit, pasar sobre aquell, sobre la dita muller; ni pugan los dits senyors de la filla o till de pages, ab paga, ni sens paga servirse dells sens sa voluntat."

http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.$b20878;view=1up;seq=47

From catalonian to english (google):
"Item, the arbitration ruling, they declare that these gentlemen not to nurse tries to take pugan children, wives or other creatures know about any of these peasants of reinenga ab pay or without pay, less than lur will; nor pugan the first night that the pages take their wives sleep ab it, or signal lordship, the night of the wedding, after the wife will be buried in the bar, spend about that, about this wife; pugan fingers or lords or daughter of till pages, ab pay or no pay will be served healthy without them."

edit:
This is re-referenced from "Fredrick Engels(yep, THAT Engels), The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State", which is mostly a good historical research book if you ignore everything except historic citations/facts.

Here, search for "Sugenheim" to get complete quotation in English as translated by him and the later editors/correctors.

Well the thing is the whole dieseased earth athmosphere that killed the aliens is exactly what happened in the books.

Yep, the apocalypse is almost upon us. Oh wait, wrong thread!