It didn't throw me, since by the times I was first reading the comics (early 1980s), Tony had long since ceased to rely on the armor chestplate to keep him alive. I think they revived the notion sometime after I stopped following the books (Tony got shot, maybe?), but it was never a regular, core part of the book's…

The point of IRON MAN 3 was that he gave up making suit after suit after suit of armor at 3am (as an unhealthy side effect of post-Chiaturi Invasion PTSD). He made a clean break with that obsessive behavior, not full retirement.

Except. . . the phone by Joan's bed being visibly off the hook is what alerts her that something's up. If Mamacita just takes the one or two phones most out of sight (in a basement or back room, let's say) off the hook, no calls come in and there's nothing amiss for Joan to notice.

I didn't quite get that. Assuming all the phones were on the same line, wouldn't leaving any ONE of them off the hook do the trick?

The book is terrific. "Hmmm. Just got word Hugh's been arrested in Los Angeles.Something about a blowjob."

Yeah. Or if STAR TREK had never been revived and Cruise did a version in 1994 where he was a bright young Starfleet officer and Jon Voight played a treacherous James T. Kirk.

Watching THE ROCK after WEST WING always throws me. Based on the film, Spencer's character is a bureaucratic slime MVP. After WEST WING? "Leo McGarry says we should lock Sean Connery up for thirty years? Sounds reasonable. . ."

While I understand some of the complaints about little tiny women punching onscreen as effectively as big muscle-y folks (I'm looking at you, Black Widow), it's totally irrelevant in the case of Buffy. She's got superhuman strength - bicep size just don't enter into it.

On the tour for that album, he had several dozen people collecting bucketfuls of money from the audience to be donated to local homeless charities. I was at two different tour stops, and it happened both times. He also asked people to give generously "instead of buying a t-shirt." I can't swear he donated personally…

This. Also suggesting that gap (although less critical): making Rorschach obviously short in stature from the jump, instead of letting it be a reveal when he's captured.

I thought they should race-swap it and cast Will Smith. Charming as hell, never plays bad guys. Tweak Veidt's philanthropy through an Oprah-esque lens, and. . .

He made a couple of films with similar roles around the same time and referred to his role as "the Exposition Eunuch." I was, and remain, much amused by that.

I was shocked how much ALIENS sounded like KHAN. . . and then more shocked to realize lots of KHAN was cribbed from BATTLE BEYOND THE STARS!

My public school-teaching girlfriend taught a Smurfetta. . . no joke.

I'm here from the future! Don't worry - by 2016, Ms. Bell's career will be in a (wait for it) GOOD PLACE.

AND it was *Welles'* idea to make Heston's character Mexican. In the source novel (and possibly pre-Welles drafts of the screenplay, I forget) it's an American cop with a Mexican wife.

I find her crazy oddly attractive in the clips I've seen of the film, but still won't watch it.

Nicholson's Joker isn't as warped as those you list, but I strongly disagree with people complaining "he's just playing himself." Nicholson was straight up playing the Englehart-Rogers "Laughing Fish" Joker, and doesn't get near enough credit for it.

Cosigned. I hate being that guy, but "Where's FREE ENTERPRISE?"

"Top 10 Body Parts or Van Pattens" never fails to crack me up:
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