I like the Analog Magazine definition - if you remove the futuristic science or tech from it and the story evaporates, it's probably science fiction.

"Belloq's staff is too long."

In general I love Peter F. Hamilton's work, but I gasped in disbelief at the ending of the Night's Dawn Trilogy.

This is why old-timey stories all depict the rich fleeing the cities every summer - because they could - by all accounts, before AC cities were utterly dreadful in the summer.

Well, at least this universe can't end with a Big Rip, which has gotta be the most depressing theory in physics.

IMO we would have been better off if "First Class" had been a straight-up reboot. I liked "X-Men" and even "X2" somewhat (I wasn't crazy about the way Prof X spent fully half the movie in a delusional haze) but these movies have not aged well.

Does the movie have any gay, lesbian, bi, or transgender characters?

"Bath"? Let's just start with "Where are the water fixtures" and move from there to "Where does the water go?"

True nowhere: the only spot that shows as nowhere on both maps.

Oh wait, I'm sorry, you said "great" movies.

"Knowing." I particularly liked how the protagonist goes through all the trouble of figuring out what the mysterious page full of numbers actually means, only to be told that since he "doesn't hear the voice" he won't actually be saved. He decoded the signal, that doesn't count? So what was the point of all the…

Don't tug on Superman's cape. Important safety tip. Got it.

I'm not sure if this is a 'shop disaster or an attempt to create a human/CGI hybrid.

Star Wars.

I agree. Only maybe 10 minutes of this movie felt like they were taking place inside actual dreams. And also, if Dom is "the best there is" at what he does, then dream spying is a field full of people that really suck, because he is terrible. His personal baggage messes things up every single time.

A lot of these blobs are in the middle of nowhere. The Adirondacks are a hotbed of hateful tweets?

I wouldn't say I wish that some of these ideas would have been done instead of the ESB we have, but a lot of these ideas are neat in their own right and ESB would have been just as epic if they had been done instead.

Would it be helpful to point out at this point that this is exactly the argument that Larry Summers made at Harvard and for which he was excoriated?

I was gonna post this one!

Honestly, why should we believe anything nutrition scientists have to say at this point? I mean really. There's been no consistency whatsoever to the advice we've gotten the decades. We've gone from hearing advice, to advice that contradicts the first advice, and now we're back in some cases to the original advice…