If America was being invaded by The Monarch and his Fluttering Horde, I would see that movie twelve times. In IMAX.

@avclub-625cbb43db2928b8396df846aed9456a:disqus: Wrong franchise. We need to get one of our spies into their battle lab, so we can build chrono commandos.

@avclub-625cbb43db2928b8396df846aed9456a:disqus: Wrong franchise. We need to get one of our spies into their battle lab, so we can build chrono commandos.

Even then, Red Dawn's premise was ridiculously contrived. Most of the time in these stories, when your focus is really more on the resistance that the invasion, the smart thing to do is to start in media res and trust the audience to buy into the premise.

Even then, Red Dawn's premise was ridiculously contrived. Most of the time in these stories, when your focus is really more on the resistance that the invasion, the smart thing to do is to start in media res and trust the audience to buy into the premise.

I did. It taught me the valuable lesson that bad games cannot be enjoyed ironically.

I did. It taught me the valuable lesson that bad games cannot be enjoyed ironically.

There was also Operational Plan Three, which was something whipped up by the General Staff at the beginning of the century, the gist of which was a plan for the Kreigsmarine to steam out, occupy NYC and a few other bits, and compel Washington to come to terms.

There was also Operational Plan Three, which was something whipped up by the General Staff at the beginning of the century, the gist of which was a plan for the Kreigsmarine to steam out, occupy NYC and a few other bits, and compel Washington to come to terms.

And now I want someone to make a film adaptation of HG Wells' slightly forgotten 1907 classic The War in The Air.

And now I want someone to make a film adaptation of HG Wells' slightly forgotten 1907 classic The War in The Air.

Please Wipe Thoroughly?

Please Wipe Thoroughly?

(San Francisco skyline blotted out by armada of giant zeppelins)

(San Francisco skyline blotted out by armada of giant zeppelins)

Belarus' security agency is stilled called the KGB, and there's one in South Ossetia that seems to have existed since the early 1990s.

Belarus' security agency is stilled called the KGB, and there's one in South Ossetia that seems to have existed since the early 1990s.

Oh yeah, that reminds me: the entirety of Bay's Transformers trilogy as rendered in a minute-long Garry's Mod video.

Oh yeah, that reminds me: the entirety of Bay's Transformers trilogy as rendered in a minute-long Garry's Mod video.

Wait, are you saying that wasn't Willem Dafoe's actual penis?