I hated that movie, it was utterly trite.

Is The World's End dark enough to count as dark fantasy? Because I thought the end said something really meaningful about addiction and human weakness. I remember sitting stunned in the theater at the end.

Pan's Labyrinth. Heart-breaking and beautiful, yet hopeful.

You know what would make this useful? Having it as text so that it's searchable.

Not a movie but... Moonlighting. It started with such hope, ended so dismally, and broke the 4th wall on a regular basis, culminating in the final scene where they bitched about the cancellation of the show while the crew dismantled the set.

There's always this one:

This article needed to be about 50% Fight Club.

I was just about to post this. Great minds think alike I suppose.

I think Back to the Future had a perfect trilogy. Not a bad one in the bunch.

he couldn't see how bad it was.

I've gotta bring this up. "American Novel"? He's British. It was published in the UK and the US at the same time with different publishers. What makes it American? Forgive me if this is more of a genre thing.

There was a time in the 90s when on a Friday evening you could watch "The X-Files", "Strange Luck" and "American Gothic" back to back.

I've seen every Trek property repeatedly. Kirk was all those things you say (although I disagree to the level you make him sound like a scientist, because that was never his character's role) but he was also a renegade who was always willing to throw all the rules and logic and reason out the window and go with his…

Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark.

Not sure it counts for what you're looking for, but Calvin and Hobbes will always be the tops.

Simon Pegg, Karl Urban and Anton Yelchin are pretty but talentless? Even the pretty Chris Pine and Zachary Quinto are very good actors. Casting is one thing that hasn't been at fault with these films.

Eerie Indiana episode 18 "Reality Takes a Holiday" from wikipedia "Marshall finds a television script in the mail and suddenly finds himself behind the scenes of Eerie, Indiana where his friends and family are the actors and actresses on the show and everyone refers to him as Omri Katz."

A show where a man's thoughts were from clips from older b/w tv shows that related to his feelings.