@lightninglouie: I've read the book too and, honestly, there's precious little about that synopsis that makes me want to see the film.

@Smeagol92055: Having just rewatched Hot Fuzz, I have to say that that may have been an accident.

@Derf: There was a plot? Plus, seriously, the books been out there for, oohh... 284 years. It's a little past time to worry about being spoiled.

@Akitsu: I'm now watching it on youtube - cheers for reminding me someone was bound to have uploaded it!

Of course, these days you'd need a second pumpkin to do justice to the arse on the new technicolour models.

@Akitsu: Damn, it's been at least 20 years since I last saw that film...

1702 and 3 survivors. In fairness, the two dead seemed to actually like getting infected and I've never played the Oregon trail before.

I still feel bad for the time a mate stayed at mine and we'd got drunk watching The Shining. I wrote "Red Rum" on the bathroom mirror and he had a mild freak-out.

At least one other person's mentioned it, but Crusade was dire.

@Mike White: I'm with you - ok, there weren't zombies and blindness, but it was pretty obvious where they drew inspiration for the entire structure of the film.

@a.seivewright: Hey don't let Tim Berners-Lee work be in vain - that's OUR internets.

@MoonCat82: Unfinished. Lame is what happens if someone rushes it - it says on the text for some of them that they aren't all complete yet.

@Annalee Newitz: It also sounds like he's taken his idea of "baroquing" ships and applied it to people.

@Kenro199x: Hey, you don't reply directly to a comment I make, I'll do the same for you.

@Kenro199x: I'll take it as a typo where you say "I'm referring to what you said", as otherwise it implies you didn't even bother to look at who replied to you.

@Kenro199x: I almost understood your point of view (even if I don't share it) until you said "I have my own set of eyes and ears that help me make up my own mind."

Would have been nice to see how the US version of The Vanishing compared to the original. My god, but the guy in the first was mundanely terrifying.

Probably worth including the couple of Culture stories in State of the Art. A Gift From the Culture isn't his best work, but the titular story highlights the "humanity" of the people in the Culture, despite their apparent (relatively speaking) omnipotence and the Minds' struggle to keep them up there as an Involved…

@MrGOH: Look to Windward wasn't my favourite Culture novel, but on second reading, I appreciated it a lot more. It's a less bombastic novel than some of the other books, but is still very effective and affecting.

I kinda liked the librarians in Unlondon, myself, but this sounds intriguing.