Even the worst episodes were impeccably directed, at least during the best years of the show, which really raised the bar for what you could do on a weekly series. Offhand, I can't think of a single episode in which good writing was let down by poor direction, although the converse seemed to happen every other week.

The Walk
I haven't seen "The Walk" in a long time, but it's still one of my least favorite episodes of the series. The issue, I think, was a combination of incompetence and sadism: there are a lot of forgettable X-Files episodes, but few that seemed to take such pleasure in pain and disfigurement, all to little…

I'm also occasionally afraid that the rearview mirror on a passing bus is going to smack me right in the face. I blame The International for this.

@Johnny Deep: I wish I'd left the last thirty pages to my imagination, too, because the way "House of Leaves" actually ends is fairly underwhelming. Of course, no possible resolution could have done justice to the book's vague intimations of something monstrous just around the corner. The first half definitely gave me…

Ever since I saw Synecdoche, New York, I've been secretly afraid that my bathroom faucet will explode and hit me in the forehead.

Your pattern indicates two-dimensional thinking.

I just described the plot of "Gramma" to my wife over breakfast, and she visibly freaked out. (It's my revenge for the time she wanted to discuss the ending of "The Vanishing"—see below—just as I was about to fall asleep for the night.)

YouTube has an excellent compilation of mirror scares from the movies. It's great, but I wouldn't recommend watching it alone at night:

I have a better solution. You keep me on the payroll as an outside consultant and in exchange for my salary, my job will be never to tell people these things that I know. I don't even have to come into the office, I can do this job from home.

The episode doesn't make much of an effort to be consistent about the extent or nature of Bruckman's powers. Mulder concludes that his only ability is to see how people are going to die, but his insights into the killer's personality—not to mention his near-miss lottery ticket—imply that he has other forms of…

Un seductor irresistible
When I was in Spain last year, I saw a lot of posters for this movie, except that it was called "American Playboy." According to IMDb, other foreign titles include:

We commend the body of our great Pharaoh Hamenthotep to the abode of the damned! (pause) The damned good-looking! (pause) Pharaoh commanded me to tell that joke at his funeral.

Honestly, now that we have Mel Gibson as a counterexample, it's hard to remember what the hell Tom Cruise did that seemed so crazy/unforgivable at the time. Those were clearly more innocent days.

Oh boy—is this "Everyone Gets a Stalker" day?

A lot of the MOTW episodes are essentially built around vampires who prey on substances other than blood: livers, cancer tissue, body fat, pituitary glands…

I also love the line "A blonde, or a brunette. Maybe a redhead!" Which basically covers the entire universe of possibilities.

@Balls4682: No, I haven't seen it, but I feel fairly safe in echoing the opinion of 92% of all the critics in the world.

The Last Airbender
Unfortunately, it's probably too soon to write off The Last Airbender. A 57.5% drop is fairly steep, especially considering that the movie opened on a Wednesday, but it's hardly a franchise killer. It doesn't even make the list of the 350 worst second-weekend drops on Box Office Mojo:

You're half right. It's called "The Secret Miracle," and it's true that time stops just as the protagonist is about to be executed by firing squad, but he doesn't go anywhere: he stays exactly where he is for one year, fully conscious while the rest of the world is frozen, so that he can finish composing a play in his…

My favorite part of "The Sting" is the false ending with Fry being cloned from fragments of his DNA, which is just plausible enough—and close enough to the end of the episode—to fool the viewer nicely. As David X. Cohen points out in the commentary track, if Futurama were a "slightly worse" show, that ending would…