Alien is the perfect movie, The Duellists is the very good movie. Blade Runner is a long way back in third place.

You haven't missed anything.

To be fair, Hollywood made a film about Stalingrad. It was about a love triangle with Jude Law, Joseph Fiennes and Rachel Weisz. Possibly some people got shot in it, I don't remember.

So basically, background Klingons are black, important Klingons are white. (Worf excepted.) That's not really much better, arguably worse.

I don't think I even heard of half of those, which doesn't say great things for this list. Or for my movie-awareness. Probably both.

A Talking Pie?!

Does Ryan Gosling have the most punchable face in Hollywood? I know I'd find it hard to resist. Just look at his smirk in the picture above. He knows what he did.

What killed the Warcraft movie was making a film that looked overfamiliar and filled with bad CGI. And making it a few years after most people (in the west at least) had got bored with WoW.

The AV Club

Can you please point me to where the UK Parliament voted to bomb in support of Al Qaeda? I'm British and I think you've been seriously misinformed. Parliament did vote to intervene in Syria, but in order to bomb Isis, who are against the regime. So in theory, we're on the same 'side' as Assad and the Russians. (In…

That's OK, that's plenty rigorous enough. :)

No, I don't think Russia is going to attack the US. But they also don't have to. What Putin wants is a weak and unstable west that's unable to stop him asserting control over his neighbours, and right now he's getting it.

What's so bad about anti-Russia rhetoric, really? Putin is pretty much the United States' public enemy no.1. You can be sure he still sees himself that way, even if the president-elect doesn't, and he's not going to start playing nice and stop destabilising other countries and meddling in elections just because Trump…

I tend to think that, assuming 9/11 had still happened under a Gore Presidency, Republicans in Congress would have pushed strongly for war in Iraq in any case. Even if Gore held out against them, he'd have been damned as weak on national security and would have lost in 2004, and then everything unfolds just four years…

Honest, non-trolly question: what was 'pretty flawed' about the science in it? I remember a lot of criticism at the time, but I thought that was mostly political. As I recall, the main area where Gore stretched the science was in suggesting global warming directly causes stronger and more frequent hurricanes, when the…

That article's from five years ago. The Arctic ice cap hasn't all melted yet - the predictions were a bit hasty on that front - but it has continued to shrink since then, and is apparently at its smallest on record.
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No one who uses the suffix '-gate', for words other than 'Water-', should be listened to.

At this point, the suffix '-gate' pretty much guarantees you're dealing with a racist/misogynist/generally assholish troll trying to manufacture a conspiracy where none exists in order to justify sending death threats to people.

It was Sacha Baron Cohen's exaggerated French accent that annoyed me more. Dude, we know the movie is set in France. You don't have to sell us that your character is a Frenchman. Especially when (as you say) nobody else was doing French accents.

Terry Pratchett still wrote vaguely Jewish dwarves, although (like Tolkien) he insisted the associations were unintentional.