You can't see me, but I'm standing up and applauding.

There's also a movie about Bull called "Doomsday Gun", starring Frank Langella:

Another great part of Vader's intro is that, less than a minute after we first see him, he kills someone. Casually, effortlessly, and remorselessly. We know exactly who we're dealing with.

Perhaps just set it 20 minutes into the future. That way tech that's really futuristic can be passed off as merely cutting-edge, and there's still a chance to hook Batman into the Justice League movie DC's been trying to do.

Uh huh. Nice try, io9.

Ha! I had that Archie one! Satan pantsing Archie always made me feel a bit queasy as a kid.

A Max Headroom - TRON crossover? Yes please! We're long overdue for Max's return, especially now that he could easily be real CGI instead or Matt Frewer in prosthetics. And exist below the shoulders.

Pixar toyed with the "engine = brain" concept but dropped it as being too confusing and disconcerting. Instead of towing Bessie, Lightning would have had his engine transplanted into her, stuck with the body of a paving machine until he finished his public service.

The best explanation of the Cars-verse that I've heard came from a comment on this site (which I'm too lazy to source right now). It posited a grey goo apocalypse where nanomachines ate everything, then gained a kind of sentience, realized the wrongness of what they had done, and tried to rebuild the world they had…

Remember, Maria Hill pointed out Fury's deception of getting the trading cards and staining them with blood, to more effectively manipulate the team. To think he was lying about Coulson's death altogether isn't much of a stretch.

I have Parallels. Should I try Ubuntu on that first?

Outside of genre work, he wrote two excellent comic spy novels, Montezuma's Revenge and Queen Victoria's Revenge about an employee in the FBI gift shop who gets entangled in various international intrigues.

For years, I've wondered why no one has made a Stainless Steel Rat movie. They have everything: Humor, action, espionage, heists, romance, gadgets, social satire, even time travel. Plenty of great material exists in the novels, but you could also craft a great new story with that rich universe and characters.

Seconded. Let's harass Devid X. Cohen until it happens!

Intriguing. I'd like to know more about this, but I have the feeling that it's the kind of story where anything I learn would be a spoiler.

This can only mean one thing. In the future, there will be time-traveling sex tourism. "Do it in a medieval castle!"

I've been wanting a 7" iPad since iPad version 1 — and since I got an iPad 2 last year, I've been wanting it even more. The iPad is cool, fun, and useful…and too damn big. It's at its best when it's in a keyboard case, and at that point it's essentially an alt-laptop.

I think this is why ventriloquists always bugged me — part of the schtick is the pretense that the puppet is actually alive and separate from the performer, like it's a very bad magic act or something. Instead, the Muppet performers, all the way back to Jim Henson himself, simply ARE the character. They aren't trying…

"You can't eat a Dentik."

While I generally agree with part of the basic premise of this post — we say "yes" to too many things and end up overwhelmed and burned out — I think it's important not to forget that sometimes we don't know what's going to be worthwhile until we're involved in it. I'm afraid that following the above advice too…