Umm, yeah. That's my point. This movie looks like it's making the same idiotic mischaracterization about evolution that The Happening made, and since they're both made by the same director, it's kind of funny to pretend that one is actually a sequel to the other.

We can only hope that some up-and-coming filmmaker takes the concept and turns it into something not completely awful.

Everything's consciously evolved to kill humans? So this is actually a distant sequel to The Happening?

Maybe it's like All-Star Superman, and he's developed a drug to let her temporarily share his superpowers?

Well they do both have an affinity for phone booths.

I'd still say there's still a feel of "the adventure continues" for the crew of Serenity, just sadly not for all of them. And it's not like Mal completely took down the Alliance or anything. He may have dealt them a major blow, but I'm sure they'd respond by going after Serenity harder than ever. And River may have…

Nahhh. I mean, I agree that Serenity has its problems, but most of those seem to stem from the awkwardness of making a movie that's supposed to work as both a stand-alone feature film and as a series finale to a show that still had a LOT of loose ends at the time of its cancellation. And for the most part, I think…

You beat me to it. In no way do I regret Futurama's return, since it's led to some great episodes that can stand shoulder-to-shoulder with the classics (The Late Phillip J. Fry, Prisoner of Benda) but for the most part, the show seems a lot more willing to go for the cheap, obvious jokes than it did before.

Agreed!

The more I see from Man of Steel, the more I think Snyder was a brilliant choice of director for this movie. Getting a guy whose specialty is big dumb "fuck yeah" action movies is the perfect counter-balance to Nolan's somber Batman-ish tone.

He's talking about the public imagination, dude. Yes, there have been some great comics and cartoons over the past few decades, but when most people think of Superman, they still think of Silver Age Supes, particularly Christopher Reeve.

Yep, this is certainly up there. For a second, it seemed like it was going to be a horror version of Solaris, then it just got duuuumb.

Well, duh. It's a well known fact that we Southerners don't believe in hiding our dirty laundry.

"And if you replace your Native Americans with zombies, then you're implying by association that the actual Native Americans were somewhat zombie-like, or that they fulfilled a similar role in our real-life story."

Haha, I'd love to see that, especially if they actually get David Benioff to be in the movie. He's actually proven himself to be a pretty damn good writer with his non-Wolverine work, and I'm sure he realizes what a steaming pile that movie was, so he might actually be up for it.

To be fair, realism was pretty much the same mantra Richard Donner touted when making the original Superman movie back in the 70's (though he technically used the word "verisimilitude.")

Meh, they'll figure out a way to ruin Carl. Heck, they've already started down that path with the idiotic "Was Carl wrong to shoot the enemy soldier who just tried to annihilate his family and who was acting incredibly shady?" question.

You know your subculture's hit the big time when large companies start trying to sell it back to you in a degrading and exploitative package.

I wouldn't consider Speed Racer vapid, at least not by the standard set by this list. Largely because it doesn't have pretensions of being some deep philosophical treatise, unlike many of the movies listed here. It's a faithful (sometimes to a fault) adaptation of a silly cartoon that manages to beef up the original…

I totally agree. The Fountain explores some beautiful themes. And as far as how well the overall story coheres, I find it better to view the film as three thematically-linked short films woven together than give myself a headache trying to figure out the logistics of how they fit together.