The real question is whether this film is simply "bad", or whether it transcends that and becomes "Showgirls-bad"...

You beat me to it:

It's an absolute landmark film aesthetically, on the same tier as 2001: A Space Odyssey, Alien, The Searchers, The Matrix, etc (coming from someone who's overall "meh" on anime), and the story/characters are a lot better than most people give them credit for being.

We could bring peace to the world, just imagine...

"Coffee is much better when it's decaf"

The world without the lactose-intolerant cultures ever existing would be much the same as it is today, only with more green space.

As a proud member of the Adult Lactose-Digesting Master Race™, go fuck yourself!

The prospect of backdoors, cyberwarfare, and the very real possibility that someone could pull a Stuxnet on these systems should scare the hell out of the Navy's planners.

Ah yes, the "Battlestar Galactica" method...

I'm disappointed that nobody decided to REALLY stir the pot and track the socioeconomic results of growing up in a religious vs nonreligious family.

This in-thread reply got a little long so I'll leave it here for posterity and to pad the grays (woohoo for being able to express opinions on a level playing field!)

I'm not going to side with the whole gamergate bunch and the other less than savory aspects of /b, but honestly, how is 4chan really any different than most of the Jezebel commentariat?

It stopped being Melville's line after Montalban

Yeah, keep the standards to offer some point air defence capacity but link them to a destroyer for targeting. Bolt on a RAM turret for small craft and point defense.

But a Perry with an RCS-reduced superstructure, enlarged hangar, 8 or 12 VLS tubes, and multimission module support would have made far, far too much sense.

Glad to see the little old Rourke bridge in the game against all of these other structurally-deficient titans. While it may be small, what it lacks in size, it certainly makes up for in sheer pucker-factor.

Also a Bostonian, and color me 1000% burned out on the whole "pretentious nerd beer" scene.

What I'm saying here, Bret, is that you probably don't want to drive this thing every single day, lest you wind up with your head permanently imprinted on the front bumper of a Nissan Armada. Keep the Volvo for commuting. Use the 356 for the weekends.

Now, normally I believe that replicas are God's punishment to automotive enthusiasts for pillaging the world of fossil fuels. I really believe this. At some point, I believe that God looked down on us and found that we were wasting all this gasoline, driving race cars and V12-powered exotics, and he said to himself:…

The ever-present IKEA dog really completes the scene.