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I hated the Nimoy cameo, it was the cheapest sort of fan-service, and also felt a bit out of place…so he just has old Spock on speed-dial?

It's post-conversion, and having seen it both ways…you're missing nothing by seeing it in 2D, except the eventual 3D headache.

Damn AA, I think you and I were on the same wavelength….it's a fun movie, but it just feels like a pointless retread in its second half. There's a nice focus on the Kirk-Spock relationship that I appreciate, but the villain is painfully underwritten and its like the screenwriters expected us to fill in the blanks from

It's funny to think how much better Mad Men got after Noxon left…

The first half was awful almost uniformly, but only the Crimson Horror hasn't landed with me this half.

I had some problems with a few of their promotional pieces, but they introduced me to some good books that I wouldn't have likely found on my own.

Yeah, I'm dreading Deodato taking over New Avengers for an arc, that book is perfect the way it is. Yeah, this was a very Fraction-like script wasn't it?

@barry_convex:disqus Eh, didn't bother me much…I still think the removed face thing is stupid, but that's Snyder having to work with what he was given.

I agree the final part of Court of the Owls was a let-down, but I rather liked the end of Death of the Family, also his Black Mirror storyline is a modern Batman classic, so he's 2 out of 3 with me.

Black Adam? That was solid.

At least Before Watchmen had Minutemen and Silk Spectre; I still think with Tomasi the emperor really has no clothes.

Upstream Color, watched it OnDemand and was sadly not a fan. I found the first 30 minutes or so intriguing, but the moment Carruth shows up on camera, his terrible acting kills any possible chemistry the characters could have had. By the time the movie becomes a tone poem in its third act, I just stopped caring,

and ten times less coherency.

I need to get this, I really like Ales Kot's Change in its Richard Kelly-like weirdness. This is one of the smarter moves DC has made this year.

As a child, I think my parents rented Monster Squad for me far too many times to count, why I never actually owned a copy until the DVD came out is a mystery for another time. I also always loved both Superman IV and Masters of the Universe, yeah they're terrible but…the key in MOTU basically plays Tears for Fears,

I'm sure Stories We Tell will be a fascinating little film, but on the other hand, that trailer sucks. It comes across as a massive flexing of ego for Polley. I'll catch it on Netflix probably.

Oh, the one thing I really did like…if Killian is indeed behind The Ten Rings all along, that means the source of his revenge on Tony Stark was actually the causation of why Iron Man existed in the first place.

To be fair, anytime Tony was in the suit I was bored out of my mind…not sure if that's damning on Shane Black or not, but the Tony outside of the suit stuff was way better.

What would be hard to understand about this film if you didn't see Iron Man 2 first? That Rhodey got the War Machine armor? I mean…that's explainable in one line. To me, if it can be called a trilogy, Avengers makes more sense as the middle film than the superfluous Iron Man 2.

Saw Iron Man 3 Thursday night, so technically it wasn't a part of my weekend..but otherwise, Saturday was Free Comic Book Day and I picked up a copy of Loeb and Sale's Challengers of the Unknown, which looks to be quite good.