Frank Miller and David Mazzucchelli’s groundbreaking graphic novel has influenced the mainstream movie adapatations of Batman and in 2011, the original appeared as an animated film.

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Wanted: Somebody to go back in time with me. This is not a joke. P.O. Box 91 Ocean View, CA 99393. You’ll get paid after we get back. Must bring your own weapons. Safety not guaranteed. I have only done this once before.

In 1997, this ad actually appeared among Backwoods Homes‘s classifieds. It went viral online, appeared on Jay Leno, turned up as a t, and eventually inspired this indie hit, released in 2012.

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Life of Pi, based on Yann Martel’s award-winning novel, which many people considered unfilmable, made it to the theatres late in 2012. Ang Lee’s adaptation may not, as its hero claims, make you believe in God, but I know it made me forgive the director for Hulk and reconsider the viability of 3-D. Life of Pi has garnered multiple Oscar nominations, the closest we have to a fantasy/SF film this year with such accolades.

It concerns a boy who gets shipwrecked with a Bengal tiger named Richard Parker.

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