Matrix Reloaded would have been a perfectly acceptable bridging section if they'd done anything cool, anything at all, with the third movie.   Unfortunately the stuff that dragged down Reloaded was extended to feature length in Revolutions.

It's fine for Wonka to be weird and creepy because he's basically an insane wizard.   But it's no fun if he's weird and creepy because he's a developmentally stunted loner.   I really don't care about Wonka's relationship with his father.

Not sure.   As far as I remember none of the acting was quite that bad, although Rupert Grint's Thunderpants is possibly a contravention of the international laws of war.

It's tough learning your job onscreen.   It's like a super-lucrative version of children being taken on as apprentices, only with millions of people watching.   Daniel Radcliffe said that on one of his movies someone told him that his neck muscles tighten up when he's stressed, and he thought 'christ! why did no-one…

A high school reunion is actually the obvious premise for this (it's so obvious I had no idea that was what they were going to do).   I really hope it works out and this will be a great double bill with Grosse Point Blank one day.

I liked Watchmen for changing the ending.   Honest to god it's the single silliest bit of the book, and Snyder keeps the basic idea of unifying humanity by giving them an (imagined) enemy to fight, and dovetails it more neatly with Manhattan's story.

According to Breaking Bad commentaries, they've featured plenty of things with no financial consideration just because it's stuff the character would obviously use, and people assume it's deliberate placement.

Just nobody let the Hat babysit for a while.

Treadmills killed Douglass Adams.   No to treadmills.

At this point I'm expecting the TV series to be the definitive version of the story (like, say, The Godfather film is the definitive version).

That's a good point.   It's like modern screenwriters constantly trying to work out why their characters can't solve [some emergency] with their cellphones.

I could actually buy this as the premise to a Ricky Gervaise comedy.   'All crime is legal' is on about the same level as 'no one knows how to lie' as an absurdist jumping-off point.   Just as long as it didn't turn into a weird romcom half way through.

I feel like sunshine is crucial to putting this on screen.   Apart from anything else it's impossible to simulate bright sunlight on stage, so everything being sun drenched immediately makes it feel less stage-y.

With Abrams moved on, how long until they do a Trek movie about going back in time to save Vulkan?

I make it just less than 4 children per couple, assuming reproduction at 25 for everyone.

The question is, when will Google release the Three Seashells?

Everyone talks like if only the Starks were a bit less decent and a bit more murderous, they'd be alright.   I don't buy it.   Does anyone really think that when (if) the series finishes all the ruthless psychopaths and master manipulators are going to be sitting pretty?

Dumbledore has that bit where he says, "You seem to be labouring under the misapprehension… that I intend to 'come quietly'", or words to that effect.   Would be damn terrifying if delivered by Christopher Lee.

Apparently.   This is so unexpected to me, I had no idea about PSH's personal addiction issues.   It's like when Joachin Phoenix became a rapper, but for real.

Yeah, he was totally screwed on this one.   Publicly state that the 3d is a crappy commercial studio decision that he would not have made?   You'll never work in this town again!   Play along even though everyone can see the result is terrible?   You'll never work in this town again!