That makes sense and as I stated below I'd consider some of your work to be space opera and some of it not to be. If I recall correctly, io9 ran into the same problem of terminology awhile back when they had an article about the "highlights" of space opera. The resulting discussion was largely about what counted as…

Hey, I said the Navy wasn't overly fond of them. The main reason the Marine Corps likes them is because their cannons are still more accurate than long-range missiles or air-delivered bombs. But the Navy rightly is concerned about the fact that you need an entire fleet to protect them.

I'm sorry, but an interstellar drive is a weapon all by itself. Anything capable of propelling a ship at relativistic or super-relativistic speeds is dealing with incredible forces. That's not even going into the amount of energy you'd need to power it (which itself has weaponized applications regardless of whether…

Indeed. That's all I wanted. A good ol' fashioned naval war movie.

IIRC battleships do have useful purpose... but it's not for the Navy. It's the Marine Corps that loves 'em, what with their highly accurate, high-powered cannons for supporting fire during a beach landing.

It's funny in retrospect because fans ended up loving Twisp and Catsby, leading to their recurring appearance.

I'm not saying they're right, I'm just saying that there's a point behind their madness.

I think it's the standard A) "it's popular so it sucks" and B) "oh my god Avengers is so awesome how can you say anything is better than it" working in tandem.

Ah, I thought you might have meant that.

To be fair, while the Wii sold more units it did far worse in the long-term business of selling software or keeping players invested. A lot of people who bought the Wii never invested beyond a few games, whereas both Xbox and PS3 players were on average more heavily invested in their gaming habit.

I can get not wanting to include it because it's not a superhero film (which is how I would have assembled this list) but because it was a graphic novel and not a comic book? Isn't that kind of an arbitrary difference? A lot graphic novels are just republished comic arcs anyway.

The Majestic? He didn't direct that. That was Frank Darabont.

They started with just the game because Hasbro has for some reason decided they want to be the new Marvel. They looked at Transformers and decided they could catch fire twice (or three times, actually, counting G.I. Joe).

From what I've heard the movie takes itself too seriously for that line to be in there.

"So I think part of it wa just the idea of making a big summer movie, and part of it is just [asking], 'Who could these guys credibly fight?'"

I don't think Raimi's Spider-Man could have launched superhero films on its own. It definitely could have led to a second and third Spider-Man film but I doubt it would have become a gateway film without X-Men to precede it. Richard Donner's Superman didn't launch the genre by itself and neither did Tim Burton's Batman…

"Do you really think I'm really that stupid?"

I don't get it either. I loved that movie.

Mystery Men is an underrated classic. It's too bad it will forever remain obscure and unknown.

Having watched Ang Lee's Hulk recently I just don't understand why some people think that movie's a masterpiece. It has a few good ideas but the execution is just... way off.