That’s thing people seem to miss: all the great comics they love had editorial input, occasionally against the wishes of the creator.

For all its issues, he also portrayed the Lord Greystroke of my childhood dreams in Legend of Tarzan. Adventure pulp chops like that seem like they could play into something as heady as a Jones film pretty brilliantly - I’m so excited.

That’s thing people seem to miss: all the great comics they love had editorial input, occasionally against the wishes of the creator.

No mention of the great irony in all this? Jean Grey died because Jim Shooter rightly had a problem the deaths of billions of people by Dark Phoenix. It would not be the storyline it became, nor she the character she became without....say it....editorial interference.

People loved Claremont’s X-Men because he loved them, something he demonstrated by handling them with respect, care, and purpose.

I say good sir, in this house we measure distances base to base. The whip antenna attached to yon horse buggy does not a valid point of measurement make, kindly remove the offending piece of I fear we will have to come to fisticuffs.

Be... sure.... to... drink... your... Ovaltine!

I agree with you, and I also thought Guy Pearce totally nailed Evil Tony Stark. I love how both of those opponents were realized. Stane, though, just didn’t have enough time on screen to shine before he was killed off.

Basically, there’s the people who really wanted an old school Mandarin, and freaked that they didn’t get it - and everyone else. The film was massively successful, and gets good viewer scores in any sphere outside the angry fanboy circles.

Yeah, I dig IM3 quite a bit, and “Trevor Slattery” is still the most interesting thing anyone has ever done with the Mandarin character.

Wait, the Hive Mind hates Iron Man 3 now? I thought we were suppose to hate Iron Man 2. I do have such trouble keeping up on these things.

I do. It’s my favorite Marvel movie after Thor Ragnarok.

I enjoyed the One-Shot with Hammer and Trevor/“The Mandarin” together in prison. It almost had an Out of Sight vibe. It’s too bad Marvel stopped doing those, presumably because nobody buys DVDs anymore, I’d imagine.

Special destinies cause trouble. The last two people in Star Wars to really talk about the importance of a special destiny were Darth Vader and The Emperor, trying to convince Luke. Ben Solo/Kylo Ren seems like someone who believed his lineage gave him some kind of special destiny.

Rey choose her life, just like Finn.…

I like that. It’s not that she jumped through the ship, she had to jump into it, and it was a million-to-one shot. If you tried to throw an asteroid at the Death Star you’d be pretty much guaranteed to under- or over-shoot and waste both a hyperdrive and the element of suprise.

I think I’ll stick to my headcanon - it was never done before because it wouldn’t have worked before. It was only possible due to the First Order’s usage of experimental hyperspace tracking. As the tracker (syncs/ exists in the same space/ *technobable*) with Holdo’s ship’s hyperdrive, it makes it possible for the…

Sarcastically, I’m in charge.

I threw that shit before I even came into the room.

Aw man, if my mama was alive today she’d be rollin’ in her grave.

To even suggest that it was a game for both men and women was incredibly progressive compared to his contemporaries.