*ahem* Torchwood: Children Of Earth *coff* And if Fox must bring this back, time to beat the bushes for next-gen Andrew Davies at least.

Ehehehe. Had one of the best Snarky Cops ever in Ruben Blades, too. Willis: "Someone put a rattlesnake in my mailbox!" Blades: (loud, prolonged laughter.) "What kind of corny shit is that?"

M. Night benefited from the same thing that led to Nolan being so wildly overhyped: Hollywood and audiences were desperate for directors who can consistently turn out good middlebrow hits, not just good franchise entries. One could argue it is a lot harder for a bunch of Victor Flemings (or Spielbergs) to work…

Hell, I'd hire you for your nerve alone. :)

Hee."We're not gonna be one of those assholes on the news who watches a crime happen and not do something! We're not assholes!"

Now a Cronenberg version would have been something ot see.

The great irony about M. Night is that as often as he was compared to Hitchcock and Spielberg, he overlooked one of their crucial artistic strategies—do other folks' scripts.

And even if you take this as half-camp, the casting is still inexcusable.

Pah. Val Lewton would have pulled this premise off perfectly.

He was wonderful in LLD, hands down. First time I ever saw him. Great production, too.

Kill Switch. Still one of the best XF episodes ever. *mic drop*

And Sherlock's nastiness to his clients has become a problem in terms of the narrative. If he (er, Gatiss and Moffat) doesn't care about the cases and he doesn't care about the clients, that really kills rooting interest, no? Ever since he treated poor Henry Baskerville like crap for no reason in HOUNDS OF…

As well, it made no sense why the British government wanted to protect him. He didn't look like the type to share secrets with them, and even if he did, isn't he more danger than he's worth? What would keep him from turning on them at the worst possible moment? Mycroft's bosses should have been glad Holmes saved them…

Gah. Like anyone asked for a Victorian Inception.

Sir Useless seduced and ruined The Bride years before. She changed her name, married Rigoletti, only to find out he was a scumbag as well. She hooked up with other abused women; took her revenge and established the AB as a figure of dread by killing off Rigoletti; then she and the women disposed of Sir Useless, the…

Thank you. I was wondering why there have been so so many bad movies with amazing casts in the past ten years or so.

Seriously, the only folks made happy by these awful movies are the programming directors over on SyFy.

Damn straight. Dunno why that one is pretty much forgotten—just the intelligent script alone puts it miles ahead of the overstuffed deals we've been getting. I would rather have seen a big-screen version of it than Branagh's FRANKENSTEIN.

What—he's not marketable yet? He's got a successful franchise, good Oscar-bait movies, and a major hit with WANTED. What is he missing?

Dude's a Hollywood spawn. Lack of self-awareness is a feature, not a bug, no?