Yeah, I can't agree. She looked too obviously hurt by his diatribe.

Are we going to find that Dorian is a repurposed sex bot?

So far the future has been overflowing with evil, intelligent white men with pale hair and aged 37-47—the 'black turtleneck' set, if you will.

"Hey, Captain! You…uh…look very nice today."

I would agree, except she did blink both metaphorically and literally. She was obviously uncomfortable, and after (apparently) getting cut to the bone by his hurtful insight she gets back at him with a weak, "you son of a bitch".

That whole interplay between the two of them seemed like the writers realizing that they haven't given Lili Taylor anything to do yet. So they tried to give her a bete noir who could really push her buttons, but instead they just ended up making her look silly and ineffectual.

Ah yes, but you're forgetting that she needs to follow psychic guild laws which are entirely composed of stupid bullshit.

He did look a little older, but just along the lines of some grizzled hair and fine facial lines. Nothing that would really jump out as the psychic apparently witnessed a murder in a surprisingly crowded parking garage.

That's … a really good point. He would definitely still end up in the can, but it was definitively proven that there are at least a half dozen guys running around who look exactly like him minus ten years.

That's true, I've heard homicide investigators say that they don't really care about motive in murder cases.

I think a closer metaphor in this particular universe would be if a bunch of androids you owned tried to bust you out of prison.

As well you should.

Ha! You're reinforcing my point, friend, not to mention coming across as a ridiculous jackass. You'll do well around here.

It was okay. I still think if Cruise had been willing to produce and take a risk on an unknown who was a better match for the character it might have been significantly more interesting.

Sure there is. The late, lamented Paul Walker was always completely absurd in his fight scenes in the Fast & Furious movies.

You're clearly an intelligent person, but if you'll forgive me I think your point up there was poorly expressed.

Well, I guess it's better to be foolhardy than cowardly. But at least in the old comics and cartoons Lois got discovered, captured & otherwise menaced with such absurd regularity that she really only had herself to blame.

Huh. I thought The Avengers was very, very good. Far better than it had any right to be, really, given the goofiness of that particular superhero teamup.

There's movie realism. It's not like the events are ripped from the headlines, yeah, but it also doesn't have an opening sequence on a hyper-advanced planet of good-looking-but-doomed aliens.

That's an interesting point, but the fact is that Michael Corleone's appearance in one book is basically trivia. Even if the book is a hit, far, far fewer would have ever read the book before seeing the movie. Plus, even though Pacino is definitely smaller than Michael is supposed to be, Michael's size isn't really…