Looking for Best Picture winners? Don't watch Gigi because that is easily one of the worst and worthwhile viewing only for completionist sake and instead you have Lawrence of Arabia and The Bridge on the River Kwai which are two of the best Best Picture winners.

Find another country to get a bunch of its programming and allow them to film their shows cheaply in?

Stoker is a wonderful film and as good as his Korean work and Snowpiercer was also awesome. At the very least, 2 out of 3 ain't bad.

It's the lede here because of how prominent his association has been from the outset (including a similar name to a divisive show of his), how many of us (including myself) immediately dismissed the project because of this association which seemed to highlight all his worst instincts, and because he is easily the…

Aww shucks, I actually watch Jane the Virgin and not the X-Files. I am happy though we can now move on past the backlash to the show just because it kept getting top picks.

"OG" has long since come to refer to the original version or someone who got on board with something early on. I admit I use it jokingly more than I should.

I think you mean Captain Phantasm. (Because she's tall, was meant to be played by a man and wears shiny metal similar in appearance to the Sentinel spheres.)

They tried the move out of Fridays years ago and it didn't help at all. Honestly the Friday slot is it's only hope at this point considering it is a less viewed night for everyone and a continual source of failure for NBC.

They pulled the same ratings on their last Thursday airing.

You would think that but people are idiots so it probably is necessary.

I'm finally starting to get nervous for Grimm as it isn't nearly as consistent as it was in the past and it can't be pulling Undateable numbers if it wants to survive.

Watched the solid if fairly standard 50’s sci-fi film The Monolith Monsters, The Imitation Game and a trio of sequels. The Imitation Game may be pretty basic stuff, but it is far superior and far more compelling to some of its biopic completion from last year aside from Selma (the amateurish American Sniper and the…

Thanks Pedantic Man!

These are the movies I can do without

If you want to be truly pedantic, The Great Train Robbery (as mentioned above) beat that by 17 years in inventing action film and arguably has a greater influence on modern action cinema than Fairbanks' style which largely died out with Errol Flynn.

I guess you have to say when you mean by nowadays. My go to pick for best chase scene Ronin doesn't have one but that was almost 20 years ago now (is this what getting old feels like?). Also the now almost 10 year old Death Proof. I'm sure there's more as they were literally the first two car chases I thought of.
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You are absolutely right that while slapstick has mostly died outside of hacky comedies (for good reason), it has persevered in the action genre. You can directly trace the work of people like Harold Lloyd and Buster Keaton to actors like Jackie Chan (whose action is very slapstick heavy) and Johnny Depp (The Lone…

Any Clint Mansell score but especially the Kronos Quartet performing The Fountain score
Danny Elfman performing the Pee-Wee's Big Adventure score (or hell just a bunch of random ones)
And if we are allowed to pull in a bunch of people (including dead) I'd love to see the Scott Pilgrim, Pulp Fiction, and Watchmen…

This has always been the default approach for cancelling shows.

Barry Sonnenfeld work directing the Addams Family movies (especially Addams Family Values), Get Shorty, the first Men in Black, and the first 2 episodes of Pushing Daisies beg to differ.