Fundamentally a story about social privilege and exclusion, the difference between the 1% and the 0.001%. But it's easy to miss that amid the many layers of occult and visual symbolism. A fascinating film.

And then there was his impassioned defense of Tom Bombadil against the disparagement offered by Neil Gaiman.

The scalping scene in Nurse Betty. This was billed as this somewhat goofy movie about a woman who thinks she's a character in a soap opera. Not a triggery gorefest about a traumatized woman who saw her husband tortured and murdered.

And where does this one fall on the scale?

It sounds like rather a large logical leap from "specific vitamin supplements do not confer certain specific health benefits" to "vitamin supplements confer no health benefits", no?

The Independence Day aliens: crossing the galaxy in huge motherships that have great shields and powerful weapons but no computer virus protection whatsoever.

Supernatural:

Cheradenine Zakalwe from the Culture novels. I still don't know if he was seeking redemption or whether he merely wanted to forget.

Obviously the inspiration for Zero 7's "Crosses" video.

How much damage will it do to objects around the warp wake, and for how far?

I think they knew he was alive and shot him anyway, for their own survival. The zombies are not carrying around backpacks full of food.

"If Superman is justified in killing one foe, then he’s justified in killing all of them."

Jurassic Bark.

Slurs and insults are not "jokes". If people laugh at them it is from malice, not amusement; that laughter comes at a person's expense.

I wonder if that scene in "Empire Strikes Back" where Luke opens Vader's mask to see his own face was intended to be foreshadowing to the "Luke becomes Vader" ending...

Hmm, the application interface could work like this:
* some users put themselves up for random dial, because they're down for whatever happens wherever they wind up
* other users choose from folks who put themselves on random dial

The one movie I have ever walked out of was Nurse Betty, in large part because of the entirely out-of-place horrific scene where Betty's husband is tortured and scalped.

A crowd of people clapping their hands do the same thing, sort of.

What about Gateway?

Burke and any of the other characters from Andrew Vachss' long-running series of books.