Okay, let's move off the hot button specific of Looper to the other movies on the list. There are movies there which I personally didn't like, yet would completely understand if the "life changing" tag was applied to them. 2001, (the aforementioned) Blade Runner, and the Fly, to name but three. Each I didn't like, but…

By your logic, surely any movie which makes the viewer think a bit should qualify for the list. That Prometheus fan who considered and thought about that terrible movie the same way you considered this terrible movie would indicate that the movies were equvilent and similarly worthy of making onto such an influential…

Regarding 3)... what would you say about Robopocalypse or World War Z?

My personal distaste for Looper aside, exactly how would this change your life? Your description of what it does does not describe it in anyway. Indeed, it's sounds like a third hand description, and chinese whispers have taken full effect. I'd have to add it to the long list of things people saw in this movie…

My brother from another mother, people have had the wool pulled over their eyes about looper. They can't see it for what it is; a empty 2 hour magic trick.

Hypocritical, egotistical, condescending... my my. That is quite a trifecta you have there! Oh, but you are right about one thing. This sort of interests me... as much as reading the funny pages. You know, something to laugh at.

You keep replying back to me. Hypocracy, condescension, and now the need to have the last word. You, sir, a quite a catch!

I liked Farscape, but I think their cliffhangers fall into a special case; a middle ground. Every year, so I've read, they didn't know they were getting a new season, so they threw everything at the wall (just like "hook" finale episodes I'm disparaging). They did, however, make the most of it when the new season (or…

Maybe you need to read it again, particular the part about explaining what it is the article discussed and, you know, writing in general. If you care to look, it would be paragraphs 1, 2 and 5, though you do come across as holding yourself to be unjustifiably superior. Like a fanfic creator who considers their work on…

Hope maybe the wrong word. But, there is a definite expectation of good storytelling. Deus Ex, for example, is absolutely not a given, but the fact you believe it is, is troubling. It means you accept shoddy storytelling as default and are happy to tar good storytelling with the same brush.

S:A&B wasn't the greatest, in my eyes. But, as for the finale, if memory serves, it did many of the things I was talking about. Despite the fact that everyone had some skin in the fight (ambassador bomb, one dead Wild card, two MIA), there was a sense that, at least, one of the characters (West) had a shift in…

Yes, but no, but yes... the objection I'm raising is that in almost all cases, the shows in question amped up the tension artificially (the cliffhanger episode specifically). While the way we know it was an artificial escalation is from the evidence of the following episode, that does not preclude that the cliffhanger…

It may be wishful thinking or it may be an evolution of the term. The fundamental objection which is the basis of the definition is that major events should result in major consequences. In a series, you only have a handful of these, and to squander such a major opportunity just to return to a status quo is wasteful…

There does appear to be a special kind of filter on your television set, to be sure.

Actually, Buffy may not do this either.

Unfortunately, very few of these episodes do anything but offer false suspense. A good cliffhanger... no, for something to be even called a Cliffhanger, the episode must lead to a change in some major sense. The direction of the show must shift, the plot must be advanced in a major way, characters die (permanently),…

Regarding fresh water, consider what happened to all the nuclear power plants and the subsequent fallout if the electronic safeguards can activate. But, like I said, the science behind this is questionable.

Yes, and they looked out on a machine which may or may not be the a) cause, b) solution, c) unrelated tech. Shows like this live in ambiguity.

Nah, it's more that either its' history-lite writers or dumb characters, but Time tends to move forward and even before today (secession on the lips of many a tea-party racist), America is held together by tap and bailing twine. All Americans love America, to be sure, but when you ask them what they love, that's when…