Nah, they're busy building power plants out of dust with their bare hands (and keeping all the wattage for themselves, of course)…

I applaud your courage.  I'm sure it's not easy to stand firm in being so obviously and flagrantly wrong.

One of the many reasons I f*cking love that movie.  I must have watched it 30 times, and I still get creeped out trying to figure who gets turned when.

If you're referencing the titan that bursts up through the walkway, no:  that was a practical effect.  And a pretty complicated one!  :-)

Leon Redbone?

In Carpenter's film, they kept the purpose of the station deliberately vague.  They were there to do "science" in that general-catchall-50's sort of way.  An excellent call, in my opinion, since it let them concentrate on the tension and horror with a minimum of setup babble.

DJ was totally ordained for this after his psycho-militia-sheriff role in "Machete".

Kid Fears
Prince of Darkness
Chicken Man

I respectfully request that "The Creeping Terror" be added to this list.  Between the glaringly overexposed stock, the crazy-quilt plot, the bizarrely tangential narration, and the OMG-you-have-*GOT*-to-be-shitting-me-Pyle monster, this one still gets belly laughs every single time.

Consider re-viewing "The Skydivers", too.  The night-jump party is nothing short of a stone acid trip, filtered through the acrid soil of Francis' *ahem* unique perspective.

Hey, original ideas are fantastic, but only if they're matched by the execution.  Alas, not every film can be "The Room"…

What drove me nuts about '300' was that all the bits he got wrong, it would have been just as easy to do right.  Keep the focus at the Gates, pay attention to the tactical aspects of the battle scenes, and amp up the brothers-in-arms fortitude.  And hell, if he needed to pad out the running time, I'd have been willing…

"He doesn't give any of his critiques the strength of true evaluation, thinking mere invocation of them is enough."

Yeah, who needs an action movie with sharp pacing, interesting characters and an engaging plot, when you can just pile on the CGI?