Imagine William Friedkin's Hostel.

Imagine Howard Hawks's Jaws.

Imagine Terrence Malick's As I Lay Dying.

Imagine Werner Herzog and Klaus Kinski's Moby Dick.


Goddamn it.

The Wonders in the Distance

The Wizard of Oz (1939)
dir. Victor Fleming

Jurassic Park (1993)
dir. Steven Spielberg

The Power of Nature

Mielwis's parting word was to the effect that Nature, profligate though she may be, generator of transcendent and complicated blunders, holds one single principle above all others, and that is continuity. "And she will bring that about," he said, "even when she must pass a miracle to do it."
Mielwis explaining the existence of a planet without gender in
Venus Plus X (1960)
written by Theodore Sturgeon


"If there is one thing the history of evolution has taught us it's that life will not be contained. Life breaks free, it expands to new territories and crashes through barriers, painfully, maybe even dangerously, but, uh... well, there it is." 
"You're implying that a group composed entirely of female animals will... breed?"
"No, I'm, I'm simply saying that life, uh... finds a way."
Dr. Ian Malcolm explaining how a race of females will breed in
Jurassic Park (1993)
written by Michael Crichton & David Koepp

Battlestar Galactica: Blood and Chrome is shaping up to be a pale shadow of its predecessor, but I'll be damned if this shot isn't one of the best cinematic portraits I've ever seen.

The Door

Colossus: The Forbin Project (1970)
dir. Joseph Sargent

Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (1983)
dir. Richard Marquand

Anyone else find it interesting in light of the past few years of real-life coastal disasters that World War Z evidentially frames its undead horde as a crashing wave?

The Pile of Bodies

Starship Troopers (1997)
dir. Paul Verhoeven

World War Z (2013) (trailer)
dir. Marc Forster