As much as some director's cuts are better than the theatrical versions,...

Jesu, I've been silly enough to get on the "who's a real zombie" merry-go-round until I wanted to throw up. More fool me, but can I make an observation? What makes the best of these films so potent is an idea — that one day we might well see the monster and it really is us. (Well, Mum. Dad, Grandma and the whole…

What about The Crazies?

And don't forget Americans are really really fucking stupid when they're not busy being egotistical bigoted creeps towards the handful of living Britons. There, that put Dubya in his place! Or something.

Because it's half an awesome film, and half a sales pitch for vacations in Bullshittistan? (Extra points off for wasting a damn good cast in, as Meredith pointed out, an idiotic plot turn that serves no rational purpose except to get people killed.)

Yeah, and some people would say Craig Ferguson isn't a real American because he wasn't born there and requires subtitles when he speaks. :)

If you want to pick that nit, neither is Zombieland (one really bad hamburger and the human race is fucked), Dead Alive (infected monkey bites suck), or Death Becomes Her (would you buy voodoo botox from Isabella Rossellini? Idiot.)

Les Revenants is so effective - and hellishly creepy - because it just ignores all the Romero redux rules. If you're the kind of person who gets epically fuck up about running zombies, you really should give this a swerve. :) Sure, they don't run but they don't rot or bite anyone either.

I don't disagree with McDowell, but to be fair I don't think ST:Generations director David Carson & writers Ronald D. Moore and Brannon Braga would either. Carson's said more than once he wasn't happy with Kirk's death scene either, but the studio made it perfectly clear he had one day on location to get it in the…

So you let him die in his starship doing his duty and make his death have a ripple effect that honors his life.

I know this is really stretching it, but Morpheus of The Emo... Endless is more hipstery than Wesley Dodds' vaguely fetish-noir gas mask. Though a contrary case can be made, depending on your kink. :)

I like a bit of manly Charlie's Angels style hair action as much as the next man, but it's got to be nigh on impossible for Hemsworth (and stunt doubles/stand-ins) NOT having his hair tied back off his face.

I think we can agree to disagree on that without permanent trauma to either party. :)

Man, I wanted to like this show so much.

Thanks, Charlie Jane. The vast frontier of my ignorance has contracted a few microns. Go, you! :)

Depending on who you believe: Patrick McGoohan didn't want the series to run as long as it did, producer Lew Grade wanted it to run longer and they came up with a compromise that didn't make anyone particularly happy, but was a large enough 'package' for Grade to secure an American sale.

Tron actually did pretty well at the box office in its first run — but it was widely regarded as a failure

Really? My understanding is that Oz wasn't a "flop" on its initial release (3 million in 1939 dollars wasn't exactly peanuts), but it in modern parlance it certainly underperformed for MGM considering it was the studio's most expensive production at the time. But please correct me if I've missed something.

OK. so I've got to shell out of the DVDs of a series that brought me out in hives then do what the writers couldn't be arsed doing - for free? To paraphrase Bartleby, the Scrivener: I would prefer not to.

You know what, if you don't see how anyone (least of all the woman concerned) could conceivably find this guy's behavior creepy and inappropriate in any way, shape or form I'm not going to change your mind.