Bond usually dropped the line after he killed the guy ("shocking!"). But to their credit, they use his stone-cold Smith & Wesson line from Dr. No.

My wife hated the show, so we stopped watching about episode 4. I had heard rumors about a "surprise ending," and when it turned out the show involved twins, it didn't take much heavy lifting to figure out what that twist was. Seriously, twins/shapeshifters/doppelgangers have become the laziest trope in fiction. …

As a kid, the one thing I always loved about these shows was the inventive ways the pilots got into their crafts. You can see it in a lot of the intros above. They usually sat in a seat and were then transported to the cockpit. This was especially true of Thunderbirds. I particularly liked Thunderbird 1's pivoting…

Runner!

The best part? They got the original cut of the Han Solo/Greedo scene. Great job indeed, internet.

"It’s even funnier that the character happens to be played by a Swedish chemical engineer." Yeah, but Lundgren was also a champion kick boxer. When Henry Rollins was asked whether he thought he could have really taken Lundgren in their fight from Johnny Mnemonic, his reply was basically, "Uh…no."

"Do you know Miranda?"

Batmite and Mr Myxlhoweverthehellyouspellit are one and the same. True story. When Superman gets him to say his name backwards, he doesn't return to his own dimension. He goes and fucks with Batman. In Paul Reuben's voice.

And of course Altered States. Balaban was all over 80s sci-fi.

I also just remembered that at the end of the novel, the Starchild detonates the H bombs orbiting Earth, because the monolith's experiment was complete. Kubrick didn't want to repeat the ending of Strangelove, so he finished with the Starchild just observing. Which is good because it became one of the most iconic…

I did not know that. But now I am curious whether Goldsmith used the same instrument on the Planet of the Apes score. There are several scenes where it sounds like someone dragging a pick across the innards of a piano.

In the book The Making of 2001, they stated that Kubrick originally wanted the mission to go to Saturn, but they couldn't pull off the rings. Since making Saturn essentially consisted of making a convincing Jupiter, and then adding rings, they used Jupiter instead.

It's important to remember that 2001 the novel was written after 2001 the screenplay (which was based on Clarke's very short story The Sentinel). Clarke's explanations for things in the novel weren't (necessarily) Kubrick's explanations for things in the movie. One of Kubrick's great themes is that technology…

But the opening scene with the Klingon ship getting vaporized - along with Jerry Goldsmith's badass Klingon theme - is one of the most memorable in the whole series.

Well put. As a sequel to 2001, this is hot garbage (and a lot of the nonsense can be laid squarely at the feet of Arthur C. Clarke, who felt the need to write an unnecessary sequel in the first place). As a stand-alone space exploration film, it's pretty good. And you get Helen Mirren in a perm, which is nice.

Rosa and Adrian's relationship reminded me of April and Andy on Parks and Rec - kind of came out of nowhere, but once they committed to it, it was great. The fact that B99 zigs when you think it's going to zag is one of the best things it derives from its Parks and Rec DNA.

Deep Rising. That is all.

I love backdoor pilots! You'll be binge watching an old show when suddenly the normal plot will grind to a complete halt while they introduce characters you've never seen before and never will again. My favorite was an episode of Adam 12 (which itself kind of sprung from a backdoor pilot in Dragnet) where Frank…

These trailers give me hope that this film won't limit itself to just one Batman. If he travels through eras like the Lego Movie traveled through different play sets, I'll start a petition to get it nominated for best picture.

Hard to remember, but does Lee's Dracula actually speak in that one? Hard to believe, but after Horror of Dracula, Lee rarely speaks in any of the Dracula films.