And one of mine. Your description of its brilliant construction is spot-on.

The Reasonable Explanation
…has never been satisfying on The X-Files because the series continually confronted its viewers with the bizarre and uncanny such that the viewers couldn't but demand that the central mystery have a resolution just as bizarre as all the rest of them. Why should there be prehistoric death…

*Continues pretending The Simpsons was cancelled in 1998*

Actually, it's whoever the conservative punditocracy is arbitrarily miffed at this week.

Scorpio would have been a much more entertaining villain than the one they went with, who was basically Scorpio minus everything that made him so goddamn hilarious.

Yeah, I don't generally go for this kind of movie, but that actually looked watchable. I'm intrigued.

Joss Whedon's Avengers
Let's assume Whedon never made a single TV series. On the basis of Serenity alone, he would be qualified- maybe even overqualified- to direct a superhero movie. Given the group dynamic of the characters in Serenity, one would expect him to do a good job with a team movie, and as such Avengers…

Twelve hours of limbo! I haven't done that since my wedding night!

This Film Is Very Popular Among Eastern KY College Students.
That is all.

They wouldn't even need so many people if they'd stop shooting every scene again and again and again and again and again from different angles.

There's this old joke… A man and his wife are going to the movies. I dunno, they're probably going to see Cries and Whispers or something- something uplifting, a date movie. Leave the kids at home, and all that, because, you know, it's going to get… pretty hot and heavy… at that Bergman film. Anyway, the man and his…

How About We Just Keep Mad Men Going.
The rest of it, eh. Let it die.

Filming Involving
…Long, Emotionally Disarming Close-Ups, Sublimated Lesbian Eroticism, And Conversations Symbolically Representing The Debate Over The Existence of God, The Meaning Of Life, And The Purpose Of The Church Ahead. Don't Dream Of Spiders.

The House That Drips Blood On Alex?

It appears you're describing two filmmakers, Sorry, only one of whom hasn't worked with Marc Caro.

Filming Involving The Jitterbug, The Twist, The Watoosi, Beautiful Women In Too Much Make Up Crying Uncontrollably, And The Devil Ahead. Do Bring Some Coffee And Pie, Will You?

Filming Involving Reductive, Boorish Discussion Of Sex By Unattractive New Jersey Slackers, Jason Mewes's Penis, And Probably A Monkey Ahead. Do Not Look Directly At Ben Affleck.

Sam Mendes: Filming Involving A Small Army Of Underpaid Art Directors Fastidiously Arranging Leaves Ahead. Do Not Be Alarmed. Also, Don't Move.

Joe Swanburg: Filming Involving A Man With A Tiny Penis Staring Nervously At Greta Gerwig's Crotch Ahead. Be Neither Alarmed Nor Attentive.

David Cronenberg
Filming Involving Exploding Tumors, Deformed Fetuses, and the Humping of Both Ahead. Be Alarmed.