Earth = abandoned alien meth lab?

"Jay: All you motherfuckers are gonna pay. You are the ones who are the ball-lickers! We're gonna fuck your mothers while you watch and cry like little, whiny bitches. Once we get to Hollywood and find those Miramax fucks who is makin' the movie... we're gonna make them eat our shit, then shit out our shit, and then…

How about Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back...

Star Crash: The Adventures of Stella Star

Out in the void, something just hatched...

It was Yamato...

Well, it is tough to argue against the original USS Enterprise. She is far faster than any other starship (except the TARDIS), it has much more powerful defenses, it is heavily armed, it has impressive range/length of deployment characteristics, a vast array of scientific equipment, a crafty yet courageous captain,…

I nominate Kodai and Yuki from Space Battleship Yamato (aka Wildstar and Nova from Star Blazers)...

I am not even going to try to pretend this is on-topic, but if you want something truly magical, check out Jonathan Winters' Winters' Tales:

"The car crash is the most dramatic event in most people’s lives, apart from their own deaths, and in many cases the two will coincide. Are we just victims in a totally meaningless tragedy, or does it in fact take place with our unconscious, and even conscious, connivance? … Are these deaths arranged by the colliding…

I always liked the final episode of the original Battlestar Galactica, "Hand of God."

I agree, except I like the movie. For me, the TV series flows natural into Serenity, and the whole thing builds almost like a novel. More episodes would have been welcome, but as you say, the single season does foreground the fact that the episode-to-episode quality level is almost unmatched. More seasons = more…

Idiocracy

This way to the lost tomb of Nyarlathotep...

My choice would probably be A Voyage to Arcturus, by David Lindsay. It is a haunting meditation on morality, perception, and the nature of reality that seems to be a pure expression of the author's most personal sense of self. You can read it for free over at Project Gutenberg, but if possible find a print edition…

This was my Heinlein choice, too. Time Enough for Love is a sprawling treatise on how, and why, to live. It is about memory and desire, and the nature of experience. The political themes of Starship Troopers seem narrow and almost trivial by comparison.

I believe Richard Pryor did a bit on this topic. I can't seem to find it, though.

Watership Down may not be the best fantasy film ever, but it certainly deserves a mention.

As a native Okie, I enjoyed the aside, but to be fair, Oklahoma has it's share of ancient sites that strike those Lovecraftian power chords. For instance, check out Spiro Mounds and the Heavener Runestone.

Melancholia and Another Earth, which were both released in 2011, share many common elements. Both feature rogue planets haunting our skies, and both use those celestial visitors as symbols that inform the personal lives of the characters in each story. Melancholia is elegant and lyrical, whereas Another Earth, with…