I'll agree to that. Books were made more famous by the author being dead.

This guy

Seriously? Was there ever any other?

It changed quite a bit...but these guys were the standouts...

Yes! The Terminator films change their rules. The Terminator has a closed loop - if time travel to the past were possible, this is how it would work - and T2 allows one to make a new future knowing how one version played out - scientifically nonsensical, but with a powerful message about fighting in the face of…

Wow, is it just me or does Sulu look like he's seen some serious shit go down?!

I utterly despise course correction, the idea that the universe fights back against attempts to change it (see 11.23.63 or Charlie running away from fate Lost).

Insert your own joke about how the mutant bird was actually running away to join the X-birds

But then we would never have had the rise of Italian Batman. You are not fooling anyone with that mustache Bruce. We know it's you.

so uh... cancer. are you FUCKING KIDDING ME CANCER?!

There is. It's called a push.

Neville looks like Krist Novoselic in this picture. (apologies if Kinja does that thing where it misplaces the annotation. It's supposed to be on Neville's face).

That is such a depressingly long list of remakes....

Goddamnedright.

DON'T TOUCH TIME BANDITS, EVER

That David Fincher Heavy Metal remake that never happened.

I don't know it would have been preferable, but I did think it would be interesting to visit the alt-verse where we got:

The two biggest captains in Starfleet history... Instead of taking down the Borg or the Romulans, they spend their time together making breakfast, horseback riding, and chasing around a senile old Malcolm McDowell.

The H.R. Giger design Dune movie... sigh...

I wonder if that caterpillar had a parasite? There are many parasites that fundamentally change the fear response in prey species so they will get eaten an the parasite can gestate in the proper host it needs. Like the ones this poor little guy has.