I can’t go with you on Splice, but Natali’s Cube ranks among my absolute favorite horror as well as scifi movies. I’m just not as impressed by his Hannibal episodes. In terms of that show’s directors, I’ve often said that the quality of a season is directly proportional to how many episodes David Slade directs, even…

Time travel may be imaginary, but good scifi can be consistent rather than incoherent. The original Terminator, La Jetee, 12 Monkeys & Timecrimes all depict a version of time-travel where everything fits together. Back to the Future & Looper feature an incoherent version, which the former gets away with because it’s a…

I’m with you, and don’t know why Greengrass gets treated as the exception even by people who normally dislike shaky cam.

Scott Buck was the writer of the dog episode, and it seems he won a Peabody for his writing on that show. Yes, the man who gave us lumberjack Dexter, Iron Fist and Marvel’s Inhumans.

I’ve only seen the original trilogy, but my impression is that Legacy is mostly just ignored (whereas Jason Bourne is disliked). I only hear it brought up now alongside the attempt to use Renner to replace Tom Cruise in the Mission: Impossible series.

The “simplistic assessment” of Silversun Pickups suggests that I should check out some of their stuff other than “Panic Switch”. I’ll take into account your warning to avoid anything from 2012 on.

The one good part of the Red Dragon storyline (really, the season as a whole) was when Will reconstructed the Leeds murders. Neil Marshall directed it, and it really felt like horror again, with death having a real weight. Like in the first season! But then the show shifted to treating death like a joke.

I just recently watched John From Cincinnati, and that was the one I was most surprised to see ranked that high. It strikes me as a failure on basically every level, ceasing even to be an interesting one as it goes on.

I think the last thing I saw him in (other than this) was Small Town Crime, which was decent but never likely to make much of a splash.

What about “The Bourne Legacy”?

I’ll agree with you on Looper. But part of that is because its using an incoherent version of time travel, which you can only get away with in comedies like Back to the Future. When there was all that hubbub about The Last Jedi, I still dinged it for some things but also deemed it Rian Johnson’s least bad movie.

The biggest problem with Warcraft is that it’s missing its third act. It definitely seems like they assumed there would be a sequel. Or maybe they ran out of money before they could finish.

The film adaptation of “I Am Legend”. I had really enjoyed Richard Matheson’s book, especially an ending I thought was one of the greatest things I’d ever read and completely reframed the story in a different way. I knew there had been multiple film adaptations before which used different titles because they changed…

Parker especially, who’s on hand to do little more than make goo-goo eyes at Olyphant and serve as a plot device in the overarching Bullock-versus-Hearst conflict

That reminds me, Vulture recently made a ranking of every HBO drama and (non-sketch) comedy series:

The Red Dragon steps no longer make any sense with the changes they made. Originally Will shows up at Dolarhyde’s workplace, and this prompts Dolarhyde to freak out and fake his own death (a subplot I don’t care for, and I’m glad Manhunter skipped). But in the show, the investigation never reaches him, so he sends…

Cleopatra lost money despite being the biggest hit of the year at the box office. That distinguishes it from movies that were massively profitable despite being super expensive.

That is something I would actually be willing to see, although after what she did in her last scene that would be tough to explain. Not that the show cared about that sort of thing by the third season.

His version of that story was way too focused on Hannibal rather than Dolarhyde. And Will’s investigation winds up being utterly pointless! Jack really seems like an idiot for bringing him back (as he didn’t capture Hannibal in the show’s canon, but instead tipped off Hannibal to prevent Jack from personally…

I think they were trying to make it into a Broadway musical.