All that 'viral' marketing (trailers of trailers, TED promo, websites), rich story background, great cast and director, great cinematography. Meh end result with 'scientists' doing not so scientific things.

Tralfamdorians are bad ass multi-dimensional beings.

I know we're probably talking genre here, but..

Starship Troopers

I can't believe you left out Cassidy!

Name: Equilibrium

Among its other flaws, the one that I truly cannot wrap my head around is why a bunch of beings who are, for all intents and purposes, immortal choose to repeat high school over and over and over and over and over.

Since someone already posted True Detective and Sherlock. Looking at these comments, I watch much less than TV than most io9 readers; I haven't even heard of most of these shows! Anyway, Deadwood is almost 10 years old, and though there is newer great stuff like Breaking Bad, Deadwood is the only series that I've…

I was enjoying it enough to keep watching through the first season. But when that final scene hit I fell hard in love.

It wasn't until near the end of 2012 that I watched the first season, but I loved it right from "A Study in Pink". It wasn't what I expected, and I was skeptical about adapting Sherlock in a 21st century setting, but it was beyond amazing.

I don't know what else the Russians could have expected when they built the hotels out of straw and sticks.

elysium - so much potential

Sucker Punch looked OMG awesome. Alas, it OMG wasn't.

Prometheus, we all know why.

The trailers promised an intense and disturbing story with the atmosphere and look of Alien, but the film was ultimately incredibly dumb (I've not been in a biology class since I was 13, and I obviously have an infinitely better grasp of how evolution works than any of the writers on this film), and while they used…