Bakers Dozen

Exellent singer/songwriters with an objectively average-to-poor singing voice.

  1. Steven Wilson (Porcupine Tree)
  2. Cole Porter
  3. Bob Dylan
  4. Irving Berlin
  5. Neil Young
  6. Bert Bacharach
  7. Tom Waits
  8. Paul Williams
  9. Lou Reed
  10. Paul Simon
  11. Herb Alpert
  12. Arthur Freed
  13. Woody Guthrie

13 films where the special effects completely eclipsed the story.

  1. Avatar

13 films where the special effects completely eclipsed the story.

  1. Green Lantern

13 films where the special effects completely eclipsed the story.

  1. Avatar
  2. Green Lantern
  3. Star Trek: The Motion Picture

13 films where the special effects completely eclipsed the story.

  1. Avatar
  2. Green Lantern
  3. Star Trek: The Motion Picture
  4. Star Wars: The Phantom Menace

13 films where the special effects completely eclipsed the story.

  1. Avatar
  2. Green Lantern
  3. Star Trek: The Motion Picture
  4. Star Wars: The Phantom Menace
  5. Legend

13 films where the special effects completely eclipsed the story.

  1. Avatar
  2. Green Lantern
  3. Star Trek: The Motion Picture
  4. Star Wars: The Phantom Menace
  5. Legend
  6. Warcraft

13 films where the special effects completely eclipsed the story.

  1. Avatar
  2. Green Lantern
  3. Star Trek: The Motion Picture
  4. Star Wars: The Phantom Menace
  5. Legend
  6. Warcraft
  7. What Dreams May Come (beautifully shot movie, but I remember nothing about it save the visuals)

13 films where the special effects completely eclipsed the story.

  1. Avatar
  2. Green Lantern
  3. Star Trek: The Motion Picture
  4. Star Wars: The Phantom Menace
  5. Legend
  6. Warcraft
  7. What Dreams May Come (beautifully shot movie, but I remember nothing about it save the visuals)
  8. Speed Racer

13 films where the special effects completely eclipsed the story.

  1. Avatar
  2. Green Lantern
  3. Star Trek: The Motion Picture
  4. Star Wars: The Phantom Menace
  5. Legend
  6. Warcraft
  7. What Dreams May Come (beautifully shot movie, but I remember nothing about it save the visuals)
  8. Speed Racer
  9. Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull

It looked like they tried to compensate for the thin story with too many effects

13 films where the special effects completely eclipsed the story.

  1. Avatar
  2. Green Lantern
  3. Star Trek: The Motion Picture
  4. Star Wars: The Phantom Menace
  5. Legend
  6. Warcraft
  7. What Dreams May Come (beautifully shot movie, but I remember nothing about it save the visuals)
  8. Speed Racer
  9. Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
  10. Godzilla vs Mothra (1964)

Hey, no one said they had to be good special effects!

13 films where the special effects completely eclipsed the story.

  1. Avatar
  2. Green Lantern
  3. Star Trek: The Motion Picture
  4. Star Wars: The Phantom Menace
  5. Legend
  6. Warcraft
  7. What Dreams May Come
  8. Speed Racer
  9. Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
  10. Godzilla vs. Mothra (1964)
  11. Transformers

Any of them. Robots bash on robots for two hours; nothing changes. Rinse and repeat.

13 films where the special effects completely eclipsed the story.

  1. Avatar
  2. Green Lantern
  3. Star Trek: The Motion Picture
  4. Star Wars: The Phantom Menace
  5. Legend
  6. Warcraft
  7. What Dreams May Come
  8. Speed Racer
  9. Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
  10. Godzilla vs. Mothra (1964)
  11. Transformers
  12. Krull

13 films where the special effects completely eclipsed the story.

  1. Avatar
  2. Green Lantern
  3. Star Trek: The Motion Picture
  4. Star Wars: The Phantom Menace
  5. Legend
  6. Warcraft
  7. What Dreams May Come
  8. Speed Racer
  9. Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
  10. Godzilla vs. Mothra (1964)
  11. Transformers
  12. Krull
  13. Man Of Steel

Technology is finally at a point where we can really see what Superman can do and it’s all in service of this joyless slog.

Next: Gene Wilder’s memorable roles.

  1. Waco Kid, Blazing Saddles

Next: Gene Wilder’s memorable roles.

  1. Waco Kid, Blazing Saddles
  2. Dr. Frederick Frankenstein (“that’s Fronkensteen”), Young Frankenstein

Gene Wilder’s memorable roles.

  1. Waco Kid, Blazing Saddles
  2. Dr. Frederick Frankenstein (“that’s Fronkensteen”), Young Frankenstein
  3. Rabbi Avram, The Frisco Kid

Gene Wilder’s memorable roles.

  1. Waco Kid, Blazing Saddles
  2. Dr. Frederick Frankenstein (“that’s Fronkensteen”), Young Frankenstein
  3. Rabbi Avram, The Frisco Kid
  4. Leopold Bloom, The Producers

Gene Wilder’s memorable roles.

  1. Waco Kid, Blazing Saddles
  2. Dr. Frederick Frankenstein (“that’s Fronkensteen”), Young Frankenstein
  3. Rabbi Avram, The Frisco Kid
  4. Leopold Bloom, The Producers
  5. Willy Wonka, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory

Gene Wilder’s memorable roles.

  1. Waco Kid, Blazing Saddles
  2. Dr. Frederick Frankenstein (“that’s Fronkensteen”), Young Frankenstein
  3. Rabbi Avram, The Frisco Kid
  4. Leopold Bloom, The Producers
  5. Willy Wonka, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
  6. Sigerson Holmes, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes’ Smarter Brother

Gene Wilder’s memorable roles.

  1. Waco Kid, Blazing Saddles
  2. Dr. Frederick Frankenstein (“that’s Fronkensteen”), Young Frankenstein
  3. Rabbi Avram, The Frisco Kid
  4. Leopold Bloom, The Producers
  5. Willy Wonka, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
  6. Sigerson Holmes, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes’ Smarter Brother
  7. George, Silver Streak

Gene Wilder’s memorable roles.

  1. Waco Kid, Blazing Saddles
  2. Dr. Frederick Frankenstein (“that’s Fronkensteen”), Young Frankenstein
  3. Rabbi Avram, The Frisco Kid
  4. Leopold Bloom, The Producers
  5. Willy Wonka, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
  6. Sigerson Holmes, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes’ Smarter Brother
  7. George, Silver Streak
  8. Quackser Fortune, Quackser Fortune Has a Cousin in the Bronx