And now comes Warcraft: the Beginning, with a highly-rated young director, Moon and Source Code's Duncan Jones, who clearly cares enough about the outlandish fantasy world imagined in the game to risk his career on trying to convince non-believers.
It clearly wasn't such an outlandish idea to Cisco Systems Chief Executive John Chambers John Chambers.
Whilst eye-mounted augmentations may, in time, gain favour just as the wristwatch did, more familiar gadgets will clearly have the edge over more outlandish alternatives.
Jake makes for a bit of bland protagonist, but he's nicely balanced out by his outlandish teammates, each so clearly defined by Linklater's subtly incisive screenplay.
Another contemporary chanteuse who could hardly fail to be on Goldfrapp's radar is Lady Gaga, a woman who clearly shares Alison Goldfrapp's liking for outlandish stage-wear.
Clearly Mancini has not tried anything as outlandish as that in his time with City and, for all the criticism he has been getting, he has not actually played anybody out of position.
On the Democratic side, the rhetoric may not be as outlandish and the overarching strategy not so clearly fractured, but the numbers aren't particularly great.
The authors were not scientists, and clearly the results reported in that book, many of them outlandish, could not be reproduced.
Blog-worthy ads tend to fall into three categories: outlandish yet grounded by an internal logic and clearly true; probably fake, but funny; so absurd only a naif would believe them.
The fear of a race war is clearly delusional, but it draws strength from the half-truths and outlandish comments that reverberate in the partisan media's echo chamber.
Such a high profile company shining a disinfecting spotlight on the value of personal data makes those companies with less clearly worded privacy commitments seem a whole lot more murky — even if they're not actually doing anything too outlandish with the data they gather.
