Chalk-it-up to a year that has THREE Fridays-the-13th in it (Feb, Mar, and... JULY!)

I'm sorry. I tried watching this show a few times (even a couple of the episodes on this list) and I just didn't "get it". It wasn't that funny or emotional or impressive; to me anyways, it is what it is: a "Simpson's" spin-off (and I outgrew that show about five years ago as well). So I'll just lump "Futurama"…

I was thinking the same thing. That was a quircky, horror-comedy in the vein of "Big Trouble in Little China" that got disappeared. I can't even find it anymore.

Sigh. Looks like the McCaffrey estate still hasn't found anyone they deem worthy of bringing Dragonriders of Pern to the big screen yet (or have they?).

With a line from Tim Burton's "Batman" movie to make the joker all the more—punful! ;-)

Tonight you will feast on Bond flesh!

Please don't reboot "The Mummy" yet.

Elfman's best score for Burton was the first Batman movie. Most of the rest just sounds like retro-Mancini-Vegas show tunes orchestrations, probably because that was the tone of those films. Elfman's done greater work, but mostly for other (non-Burton) films.

I bet this dog wished he was dead... j/k

A lot of Danny Elfman's scores sound too much like homages to the Henry Mancini/60's Vegas show tune style for my taste. On the other hand, he can also work up a stirring score when he wants to, so I'll give him that. My favorites of his are his arrangements for the first Batman movie, "Dick Tracy", and "Sleepy…

"'Beetle Juice'?

I've seen several PG-13 films that were given a "pass" on (usually not more than) one f-bomb if it was relevant to the storyline. In this case it was dished-off by a character in-character and the epithet was not directed at any person in particular and more for comic shock-value. Yeah, it caught me by surprise when…

Ah, Danny Elfman—who else can make any movie score sound like "The Simpsons" hopped-up on THX pills?

Emphasis on "vetting process".

Flash! Driiiiive!

Doesn't "Planet of the Apes" count? It has a spaceship in it (at least at-first) so it's sci-fi enough, and Ape City is about as retro as you can get! Also, it has the most awsome reveal at the end of any sci-fi. PERIOD!

I'd give an honorable mention to 1965's "Planet of the Vampires" which had an amazingly contemporary look to it and a very suspicious similarity in places to Ridley Scott's first "Alien" film. Despite the kitch-americanized title (the original title was in Italian and more like "Terror in Space"). This movie was…

YES! It was a great "near-miss" classic on so many levels. From the retro-gothic look of the space ships to the AWESOME John Barry score and even the kitsch-y "space-drain" look of of the titular singularity itself was all part of the film's charm. The critics panned it (rightly so) for the stormtrooper robots that…

Wouldn't that kind of ship need to carry more nukes on-board for deceleration purposes, and even more for the return trip (putting their deployment outside of the SAC/NORAD chain-of-command loop)?

Does this mean she now has joint custody of the oort cloud?