Exactly. They understand that the purpose of movies is to mystify, depress, and indoctrinate.  And the purpose of these lists is virtue and intellect signalling.

Inside Llewyn Davis? Lost in Translation? What? Are they out of their minds? ILD is not even in the top 5 best Coen movies. It’s not even that good, really.

It makes sense that there would be a lot of love for pointless abstract films that “experts” can hold over everyone’s collective head and simply say, “You don’t get it.”

Wow, I totally forgot all about that show; I think I was only ever to catch it on TV when I was home from school sick. Teryx... who doesn't love a pink feathered pterosaur-bird thing babe?

Absol-utely.

Armor that shows off the male physique is a power fantasy, whereas armor that shows off the female form is more for titillation.

The real problem here is that Sci Fi and Fantasy series have been suffering from what I call "Shitty Ending Syndrome" for a few decades now. The finale for many sci fi shows, games, and movies is so spectacularly bad and destructive that there is literally no back to the series in a way that can move it forward. So,…

I'm a Frollo man. I don't admire him or anything, he's just such an unambiguous monster- in a realistically human way- that he makes me go "Holy shit." Say what you will about Disney, but they made a character about ten shades darker than he was in fucking Victor Hugo novel.

Don't be a hater—James Earl Jones has to go to the bathroom sometime.

They talk a lot about the moon, one example is the women's cyclical moon blood, with the obviously comparable cycle OUR women have too, so it's logical that their months (ie: the changing of the moon) are about the same as ours. Since their summer/winters can last for "years" It is a generally held assumption that…

" Pilots that were great that led to HORRIBLE TV series..."

@Annalee Newitz: Why thank you.