@Henry_Jekyll: staring off into space in the desert for two hours and ending with a lame boss battle, does not create a "thematically grand, mythological portrait". It creates crap.

@sephycloneno15: Oh my god, he'd be the greatest Ventriloquist! Someone get this suggestion to Nolan!

@Zenuflecked: I suppose we wouldn't be on this site if that wasn't true!

@Zenuflecked: Yeah, those are definitely exceptions, but I think you could make a caveat that direct mockery is a specific nuance of intentional badness that is usually good. The parody affect. Something extremely difficult to achieve because it needs to be pitch-perfect, in a way that combines recognition with…

@Zenuflecked: but "intentionally bad" always ends up being just "bad", because it's only good when it's "unintentionally bad". So if someone who is bad to begin with is going for "intentionally bad" and fails, then they've actually made something "unintentionally bad pretending to be intentionally bad", which is…

@cosmetic_music: lol

Even though I'm a big fan of Futurama, I can't believe Farnsworth won against Dr. Strangelove. The guy actually destroyed the world! How many mad scientists can say that??

@Jesse Astle: Wen't: A contraction of "We not"

@murderface_: But then you don't get amazing things like that girl in the novel "Syrup" named "@"

@cadrina: Hey! Worked for Texas Chainsaw Massacre. And that sequel was made by the original director too!

@Palmerlime: A triumph of the small screen. It spoke to a generation.

@Darth Meow 504: It always amuses me that, when someone is wrong, they always reply most avidly to the weakest responses, ignoring the strongest.

@Atillo: unless maybe the better analogy is one that compares humans and AI to horses and carriages. Or perhaps, more aptly, lions and tigers.

@omgwtflolbbqbye: Much like meteors, we're only identified that way after we make our impact.

What's missing are the stories where Strong AI operate on equal footing with humans. It's always either bigotry or tyranny. AI treated as slaves or AI turning us into slaves. We're missing the middle ground option.

@Azures: Indeed. On the other hand, we'd probably have trouble enough relating to carbon-based aliens. Imagine trying to talk to aliens who's very mechanics of thought is incomprehensible to us. They'd be cool to see, sure, but disappointing in absolutely every other way.

So...what is it, exactly, that you would point to and say "this is 1/137.03599908"?

Because maybe the conditions needed to create lightning are emergent rather than reductive, and the details don't matter?

@Pessimippopotamus: McAvoy is not impressed. There will be no atonement, Patrick.

@Yvonmukluk: if you believe the rumors, the Wachowskis were given the Matrix story by the studio in the first place. So the only good thing they did wasn't even their's.