I think she means the Platonic "essence" of the UFO- its quality of saucer-ness- how it conforms to the ideal form of a pop-culture UFO. Unless you were being facetious, then ignore :)

Yeah, I don't want a Buckaroo Banzai remake. If anything I want MORE Banzai movies, regardless that Peter Weller may or may not the title role. The 8th Dimension gave so many clues to other stories, at least do the favor of making those stories.

Don't you EVER touch this movie.

I see what you did there.

I really should check up on Beldar and Prymaat one of these days.

I'm not sure you can strictly call these outcomes "totally unexpected" if some people are expecting them enough to write about them.

Beautiful.

Mmm... Gotta love alien-shaped Crab Rangoon.

More likely Netflix will show a "knockoff-alike" called Worldwide Zombie War filmed in a Tuscon junkyard (Compare: Battleship vs. Netflix's American Warships).

Walnuts, closets full of walnuts.

Wasn't there a Dick Van Dyke Show episode where aliens gradually replaced the cast and one of the symptoms was that their thumbs disappeared? They also had eyes in the back of their heads, if I remember properly...

So is the sun pregnant now?

In related news, Gizmodo calls Sponsored Stories "Obnoxious" without even a hint of irony.

I'm here to watch the cat.

So when is Gizmodo doing the same?

All I'm thinking is "I hear the lego crying under all that strain to move".

Still, pretty darn cool.

a kindergartener probably discovered it first.

Does Terry Gilliam count? An early career making cartoons, leading into Monty Python's infamous cartoons, then a handful of high-concept Sci-Fi/Fantasy films?