It couldn't have been said any more clearly or eloquently, thank you. I'll only add that while Star Wars was one of the first 25 films named to the Library of Congress' National Film Registry, those "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant films" deemed worthy of preservation under the National Film…

In total agreement with you. Lucas might have been trying to make the Saga into Anakin's story long after the fact, but there's no way that was his original intention when the first film was playing theatres in 1977. Vader's relationship with the Grand Moff in that film suggests he's Tarkin's underling, or at least…

There have been some really bad ones in the past few years, but the worst was Theseus' from Immortals:

I shouldn't have to tell you Tyrion's speech was amazing.

My girlfriend's a bit of a hacker, and she and her online buddies love the film Hackers despite all its laughably bad tech inaccuracies because it portrays hackers as the coolest mofos on the planet.

I'm more worried at what he'll do to the Forever War.

PeeWee didn't become PeeWee until he read the boy's brain, though. I rather liked the ship's "AI that claims it's emotionless but actually possess a dry wit" personality before that moment.

I can imagine SHIELD having a lot of console jockeys and techs who are good at their jobs, but not deadly and cool under fire.

I appreciated that though. There's a lot of genre stories, YA or otherwise, that do the "rebellion against the evil empire" plot. We've had several generations of writers grow up with Star Wars at this point. But very few ever illustrate what the personal and social cost of revolution actually is, or really explore…

I've read that one! A Heinlein Trio including The Puppet Masters, Double Star, and The Door Into Summer.

Maybe not "light and airy", but they are a bit silly.

Wrath of Khan is usually considered the best one, and there are only two action scenes in the whole movie. And both are far more about wits and personalities than flashy dogfighting.

To paraphrase the Tick: "You can't blow up the Earth! That's where I keep my stuff!"

At least one hard sf author thinks there's still a scientific basis to it: http://www.amazon.ca/Triggers-Robert-J-Sawyer/dp/0670065765/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1354024057&sr=8-1

District 9 and Attack the Block were probably my two favourite alien encounter/invasion stories of the last 5 years, and neither was American. Iron Sky, Dead Snow, and Trollhunter were all enjoyable genre films, and all came from the Nordic countries. And the Spanish [REC] series and the New French Extreme movement…

Exactly. There was plenty of post-apocalyptic fiction written in other countries (and for all I know there still is) in the decades following WWII—when many of those countries had actually been devastated by war and took decades to rebuild from. But it was rarely translated to screen because of the expense. Japanese…

I thought of that film too.

Well that sucks. Thank you ladies, for all your work.

Just remember, like Charlie Jane told us, this is partly Buffy's fault: http://io9.com/5299054/its-buffys-fault-that-vampires-are-weak-now

And frankly, I handwave any woodenness in that particular performance as PTSD from being locked up in a tower for years. Snow White doesn't really emote until that little detour through the wondrous faerie glade.