You know what? There are ideas that never have been used.

I have a problem that the "chosen one" is a teenage girl. Why can't we follow the point-of-view of a teenage girl, and have the chosen one be an old man in his 80s or something?

This plotline reads "I am going to have my Young Adult-cake AND EAT IT TOO! GIVE ME ALL THE CLICHÉS! ALL OF THEM!".

Yeah, but that's not an excuse to put out a plot synopsis that reads like a checklist for YA-fiction.

I agree that there's pretty much no original idea, but that everything's a cliché? Sorry, I don't buy that. There's still wonderful movie pitches and loglines of books that make me go "HEY, never heard that before!". Granted, they're rare, but still.

I count seven terrible clichés;

I wrote a long (spoiler-free) review of Upstream Color when I saw it last week at the Berlin Film Festival. It can be read here.

This. My mind went there instantly.

*slow clap*

The TED-talk is great. What he calls "mystery box" is really just "unanswered question", which then becomes "set-up" and "pay-off". He just has his own name for it; a name that inspires and intrigues him much more so than set-up and pay-off, even if it also works a bit differently.

Well played, good sir. *tips hat*

Eric Roth also wrote the fantastic and criminally underrated The Good Shepherd.

I agree that the heaven-hell stuff worked well - and I wouldn't give up evil Mary-Eunice for anything - but imagine a whole season set around that stuff. It would've been amazing.

No, no, I see what you mean and it's pretty spot on.

I am so fucking on for this. Can't wait till next friday, when it premieres here.

It was a fantastic ending to an uneven season; from mutants to aliens to possessions, nazis, Murder Santa and other serial killers. With the season finale they excellently repeated what this show did last year; make twelve episodes where we throw out tons of plots and things, then pull everything down to the…

Shut up.

I'm totally not going to take credit for this joke, but guys....

What? I liked it. It was a nice send up of 80's films like Gremlins and The Goonies, plus Close Encounters of the Third Kind and E.T. (and yeah, I know those were made in the 70's and the 90's), all films I love.

Could be good, could be bad. He sure has the fun sci-fi-action-blockbuster down though; Star Trek (2009) was great and so was Super 8.