@Seamus McClernan: Ashes To Ashes was definitely the prototype of all of these.

Reminds me more of science fiction-themed early 80s New Wave synthpop.

Personally, I can't wait for the anime remake of Twilight! (Just kidding; there is none forthcoming, as far as I know.) Seriously though, what makes the Swedish Let The Right One In film a sacred property? It's based a recent novel that remixes some hoary tropes in an interesting way. And the Swedish film diverges…

The heck with this trend of backstories and retcons that nobody asked for. Patton Oswalt explains:

Anyone else miss the visual restraint of the classic Two-Face before the left half of his face became a mass of raw meat and exposed skull? When did that start, The Long Halloween? Certainly Dark Knight seared it into public memory.

@Lassus: Dark Knight Returns pales next to Ronin. Ronin is the ur-text of the gritty/dark era of comic books. Watchmen seems baroque and ponderous in comparison. (Moore's early Swamp Thing issues, also in '83, are his best work.)

The Dyson Toilet.

Twilight parodies have become its own mini-industry. Vampires Suck is #2 at the box office (see the Spill.com review), ABC Family's Huge, Simpsons, and Supernatural with or preparing Twilight-referencing episodes, Archie, and now obvious influence Buffy has circled back to reference Twilight.

Adventure Time is the best currently produced show on Cartoon Network/Adult Swim. With some competition from The Brave And The Bold and an unexpectedly good season of Boondocks.

@glucious: I forgot to mention that these things are almost always black, just like Giger's Alien designs. It's been over 30 years, folks; create something new.

Those alien ships from Skyline look like 100% 'biomechanical' cliche cheese ... blecch. Giger's Alien set and monster designs have been ripped off so many times that biomech ships, monsters, and suits with all of the spinal/rib-like detail just look like pure Hollywood or video game escapees.

@Benjamininja: I wonder if they shied away from the terrorism and suicide bombers because it was too topical and controversial, so they replaced real world threats with the goofy paladins. What chickens filmmakers are.

@shawn004: Agreed. I hadn't even read the books; I just thought that the first act's premise of escape and youthful wish fulfilment through teleportation was fresh and promised an exciting story. Instead, it got bogged down into this BS backstory mythos of the ridiculous paladins.

Caprica is a very good cyberpunk series even though it's mostly things we've seen before in the genre, except for the pre-cylon fanatical monotheism and the Arab/Italian/Latino-esque 'proud family-centric violent ethnics'. I liked Caprica a lot more than Battlestar Galactica, but I can see how people would be turned…

I'm a dude who hates rom coms - except for 13 Going On 30, which is like It's A Wonderful Life crossed with Big but better than either of them.

Looks like a heavy-handed allegory - like that scene in Legend with Princess Lily and the dancer in black - combined with The Fly and Ginger Snaps.

Anyone else see that Adventure Time segment 'Slumber Party Panic,' in which Jake and Lady Rainicorn were in the closest for Seven Minutes In Heaven and missed the whole candy zombies fight?

@Jack B. Quick (jbq): @Lil Lemoning: Even James Bond was Americanized in his first live action appearance (which was on television).

Two album covers that come to mind

At this point, are True Blood and Southern Vampire Mysteries almost two distinct franchises? I haven't read/watched either, but I get the impression that TB has really gone its own way in terms of sex and soapiness as well as over-the-top gore and political developments (ripping out the news anchor's spine a la Sil…