David Wong at Pointless Waste of Time rants smartly about The 10 Best Sci-Fi Films That Never Existed. Now, bad SF -- which this is really a reaction to -- is hardly a plague that has specifically afflicted Generation X, but David makes a particularly generational argument when it comes to the badness (and hence the missing goodness) of one of the entries on his list. I won’t tell you what film is it -- go read his piece; it’s quite insightful -- but here’s the start of his thesis:
Ask yourself: how did the same people who gathered in naked, stoned crowds for this... [image of Jimi Hendrix rocking hard] ...grow up to make this show a hit: [image of ‘Everybody Loves Raymond’ DVD set]
Minor quibble: he forgot to mention The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai: Against the World Crime League. Which they promised us at the end of Across the Eighth Dimension. I’ve never really gotten over that betrayal.
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