I'd mostly like to build this at night......mostly.

Doing the "io9 has posted a SuperList every day for years now" thing are we?

At this point they need to at least blank out what was written. The only thing worse than a semi-permenant missing rectangle at the site would be this constant bit of propoganda.

I would pay money to see Nick Frost in an orangutan suit.

Rewatch Planet of the Apes. Is it flawless? No....

I'm shocked by your list! You've got your reasons, and I appreciate that, but all of these people would be on my "Worst Dr. Strange" list! Maybe I didn't get Dr. Strange that well, but I never picked up a "laid-back arrogance" from him. To me (especially origin story Strange) he was in your face, superior and wants…

I can't believe how many people are taken by this explanation of events. Here's Raiders without Indy:

Memento is perfect.

Memento is an amazingly tight story.

The events of Battle Royale are not televised. BR is also essentially set in the present, their technology and culture almost identical to modern Japan. The dystopian element is largely unexplored (mostly confined to the opening text), while the Hunger Games spends a good half of its runtime establishing its strange…

Yes he had a steady job, but the Lord of the Rings wasn't written for him. It was written for his publishers. When The Hobbit became a huge hit, his publisher asked for more stories that "were about Hobbits." He sent them drafts of The Quenta Simarillion and they rejected them. Thus he began work on what was…

Moving from a mystical force to particles that can be measured with a meter is breaking the concept, and it was a thematic concept that underpinned everything from characterization to costume design. Leia remembered her mother. Kinda hard to do that if she dies giving birth to you.

Eh. I get your point but I strongly disagree with giving a free pass, or even a less harsh critique, to something just because they tried hard to make something good and really meant well.

Only if you don't factor in a little something I like to call "inflation."

It's so cute that people always bring up Ferngully in Avatar arguments like it was some amazingly original piece of art. How on earth has the AFI missed out on this paragon of film-making and original storytelling when compiling its best lists?

What bugs me is when people attack Avatar (or Jupiter Ascending) for using plot devices that have been used a million times before — then talk about how excited they are to go watch Terminator 5 or Jurassic World or Star Trek 13. I mean, if people really don't want to see the same ideas used over and over, they should…

I was guilty of this for years. Lord of the Rings cast such a long shadow over the epic fantasy genre, almost every book—or rather series—felt like a watered down clone of LotR or a decisive reaction against it. This still happens today—the so-called "grimdark" subgenre is often proud of its counter-Tolkien stance.…

I'm unaware when they were ever "popular" to meet the requirements as stated above. No one ever loved them "too much."

I'm not one of them, but there are people who resent Firefly because of how strongly the fans advocate the show. In fact, I would argue that a lot of the most unfair backlashes against works of science fiction and fantasy are actually backlashes against the fans rather than the work itself because science fiction and…

Real question, were humans really getting accurate temperature data from places like the North and South pole as well as even South American, Africa, Oceania and Asia in the late 19th century? Even in the early 20th century? without computers recording these temperatures and transmitting them was this even possible?…