Frankly, none of the words in this article make much sense to me. I have no idea what this is and no desire to find out.

Yeah. I think you could counter the number of cultural icons that *everyone* is familiar with on the fingers of one hand. Like: Superman, Batman, Star Wars and Michael Jackson. Oh, and The Simpsons. Everything else is niche.

Holy shit, I had no idea this was possible! Thanks, I thought I’d lost my old account forever. I just successfully linked it with my new Kinja account, I think.
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Martin would like it to be known he is open to offers of work on any and all non-Westeros-related projects.

To be fair, I’ve yet to find a role that James Franco wasn’t miscast in.

Not forgetting Al Gore. Talk about going for the hard target there...

I’d imagine the strongest reaction the show would get from a modern audience is ‘huh, Robert Downey Jr was in something before Iron Man?’.

The only cultural impact the show had that I can think of was that episode of Futurama where the aliens became obsessed with a thinly-disguised ripoff, ‘Single Female Lawyer’. And that itself now looks like an early-2000s time capsule.

This is the first time I’ve heard of it!

I saw Headhunters after starting to watch Game of Thrones, and discovered that foreign movies dubbed into English don’t work so well when you actually know what the actor sounds like speaking English, and it’s nothing like his dub.
The plot was pretty good, though.

I’ve only just started watching it, but I’m enjoying it so far. It’s dumb and cheesy, but it isn’t pretending to be anything else, and not without charm. I can imagine getting tired of tongue-in-cheek ‘exploitation’, but for now the wacky performances and comedy gore are keeping me entertained.

Give it five years, and the networks' unending thirst for content should have taken care of the rest.

We're all missing Pratchett a great deal, thank you. :(

I just want it to last long enough that I can die having witnessed a total solar eclipse. Come on guys, we've almost made it!

Hint: the USA is not the 'nation' they feel patriotism for.

Wait - amateur masturbationists? You mean I can get paid for it?

'Fascism', as a modern political concept, can't fairly be used to describe any ancient civilisation. Certainly neither Sparta nor Persia was a democracy, but then what the Greeks thought of as 'democracy' also wouldn't look very democratic to us.
The Persian Empire was at least multinational and multiethnic while…

The funny thing is, by the time of the 2010 Oscars, Cameron was the underdog. And I still think Avatar was a better film than The Hurt Locker (and Titanic for that matter), but I guess in Hollywood you only get that glory once.

True, but I'm not sure it really belongs on a 'ten best films' list. It's enjoyable fun, but too bloated and cheesy and broad to make an effective satire.

This list loses points for including Titanic, but almost everything else is a worthy candidate. I was particularly pleased by the inclusion of the little gem that is Irma Vep.