Jesse James was amazing, but but 3:10 to Yuma shares nothing in common with it aside from the Western genre. 3:10 is a very solid action movie, not the kind of meditative character study that Jesse James is.

Ben Foster was also great in The Mechanic - memorably off-kilter. That was a very solid little action movie and well worth checking out.

Knight and Day was horrible. It's my go-to example of how bad CGI stunts can completely castrate any sense of danger in an action movie. Tom Cruise is also horribly Tom-Cruisey in it, and Cameron Diaz apparently exists to shriek.

No, but he is HBO's bitch, and decidedly fewer people will want to read book adaptions of TV plotlines that they've already seen because GRRM got lapped by the show.

@avclub-0ae7484a9f3bbd2a21df420050c032ae:disqus : The entire point of Tyrion's ADWD content was just to plausibly (which is arguable, but whatever) get Tyrion from King's Landing to Meereen. I imagine the actual character development and plot movement will come later when he winds up on Daenarys's team.

There's a time and a place for a lasso and thigh-high boots. This isn't it.

Probably because Marvel has made DC look like a bunch of fumbling idiots at turning comic properties into multiple lines of super-profitable movies. DC's only notch in the win column is owed exclusively to Christopher Nolan.

I am baffled at how Zach Snyder has become king of the aggressively mediocre film adaptation.

Yeah, but Jake Gyllenhaal got Prince of Persia'd in the interim. I have to think that would take some of the studio enthusiasm for him down a notch.

I like how the factory delivery system of Hepatitis V pretty much looked like apple juice in a moonshine jug.

I think the series of essays about Comic-Con started out years ago about how fans interact with pop culture. Comic-Con allows for a very focused exploration of that theme because it's short, intense, and populated by people who tend to be pretty extreme fans. I agree that, over the last few years, the theme of the…

Me too. My wife's family is in San Diego - it would take nothing to coordinate a visit that overlaps with Comic-Con - but my nerdery is not strong enough to compensate for how much I would hate the experience for some of the reasons that  @avclub-a0c1c8c6aaa047092b541ff1279117ed:disqus listed.

The key issue for me will be whether or not Piper actually learns something from the events of the last episode. Weeds stalled ultimately because Nancy never developed as a person and was just a plague on everyone in her orbit - I know that was kind of the central thesis of the show, but it's not a sustainable model…

That's consistent with Todd's point in the review about how every character has really loathsome moments - that was a fucking idiotic thing for Larry to do. Obviously, there's going to be fallout for Chapman for venting her secrets on the radio when everyone is listening.

…but probably also indicative of why she apparently is never visited by her husband. I hope we get more flashbacks on Red next season.

@jlk7e:disqus My read on the situation was that Claudette wasn't convicted of the murder - she very thoroughly cleaned the crime scene, and someone employing slave labor for cleaning services probably doesn't keep records. She was arrested and convicted probably as an accessory for running the house where the girls…

Healy's slow turn against Chapman was handled exceptionally over the season, and I think you've captured his perspective and reaction to her very well. I think it's part of a broader theme in the show where the characters who initially appeared overtly threatening (e.g., Crazy Eyes, Red) turn out not to be so, whereas…

I like to imagine that it's made from pool noodles and duct tape.

Not to mention absolutely unfeasible for a person to sit on all day.

What this script needs is someone who's more comfortable with racial slurs!