To be fair about Iron Man, however, Favreau is a writer-director. He may not have had a finished script but he knows the mechanics of proper storytelling.

My answer: Focus Groups. Marketing loves simple answers and focus groups can give them (or at least appear to justify them). As long as Marketing has a say in the screen writing, they will stear it towards the simple, superficial and easily marketed.

The blend of practical and CG can give incredible results, but like you say, the script is the most important part of a film. It’s also one of the cheapest, so why so many films, some of which will have hundreds of millions of dollars spent on them, don’t ensure that the very first step is rock solid I will never…

I know why it doesn’t happen - because lack of continuity fries nerds’ brains. They literally cannot handle when everything can’t be wrapped up in a neat little package. That is what makes, for example, superhero comics such a hostile genre for newcomers, because they’re constantly trying to fit more and more crap…

I liked that Fury Road was basically a stand alone story that used pre-existing character and world. It was like a Hardy Boys novel or a James Bond movie... you don’t have to have to have a big understanding of what came before to appriciate it as its own film. I’m honestly surprised more people don’t make movies like…

Based on previous research, Binghamton University psychology researcher Brandon Gibb and his colleagues believe that children whose pupils dilate when they see a sad face are more prone to depression. That’s because pupil dilation is an empathy response.

I was watching The Last Crusade the other day and found myself saying, if they made that today, the entire sequence with the temple, the grail, and the splitting ground at the end would have been CG, but because it was all practical, it looked just as good as it did almost 30 years ago. CG is always trying to hit a…

Put it this way. Good cops, consciously nor not, try to be Superman. Bad cops think they’re Batman. “I wear this uniform so that people will be afraid of me.”

Spock and Uhura in new Trek is a problem.

Why does everyone obsess with death and destruction to end death and destruction? What would the world be like, if Stalin finished his education and ended up an Orthodox priest, and what if a certain hated Austrian actually made it into art school?

I was young enough to love Howard the Duck when it came out. And as bad as it may be, I'd rather watch it than The English Patient.

Let's take it all the way back:

In the comics, Tony Stark had the dumbest secret identity of any mainstream superhero. The story he gave the public was that Iron Man is his "bodyguard." And people bought it, despite the fact that Iron Man is never seen in the same place with the guy whose body he's supposed to guard, and that whenever there's…

After my initial shock and "they can't" reaction, I actually like the organic web shooters at least as much as the mechanical ones. In many ways it makes more sense. Kid gets spider powers including webs, vs. kid gets everything but that, so he's also a super genius and invents the most amazing chemical sustance since…

If only she were STILL the Black Canary.

Yeah, after all- out of sight, out of mind.

That's laudable of you! What steps are you taking to ameliorate the problem of their homelessness, so they don't have to?

Tell us, what does it look like when we stop "tolerating" bums? Because there's only two ways to stop someone being a bum. You either give them money, housing and a job - welfare - or you kill them.

How a community treats it's homeless and less fortunate speaks volumes about it.

I still hold firmly to the belief that Batman isn't a superhero. He's a pulp hero.
Now to get him to team up with the Shadow, the Phantom and Doc Savage.

Until then, I'll just keep watching Defenders of the Earth.