I remember being startled when the hero's young sister(?) falls into the clutches of the degenerate drug dealer kingpin halfway through, then at the end of the movie it turns out that she's … fine. Like, he was a rude asshole and at one point he pours champagne on her head but as far as we can tell neither he nor his…

Were his rank and function ever explicitly stated? I mostly remember (and remember enjoying) the repeated question, "Who's this guy?" Followed by the inaudible answer and people simply accepting him into their ranks.

The whole string of events is wildly implausible, sure. Hell, that's practically a signature of the Bond series. And they present it as superlative skill when it's essentially dumb luck. But it's presented so stylishly and moves so quickly that the viewer probably won't notice until after he or she has left the…

My girlfriend loves the Dead or Alive movie. S'weird.

To be fair, that's sort of the underlying theme of the series. They don't have names in the normal sense—"Jason Bourne" was the name he was assigned and presumably the same goes for all the other guys.

Legacy was perfectly competent if entirely unnecessary. Strip the Bourne name off it, call it The Epsilon Initiative or some other Tom Clancy-derived moniker and it's a perfectly enjoyable and forgettable action spy thriller.

The Patriot would be somewhat more tolerable if it wasn't choking on its own sense of self-righteousness.

I found Pitt pretty good for about two-thirds of Meet Joe Black, actually.

Bernthal's take is interesting. They changed Frank Castle's background to be military rather than police, and it shows—Bernthal is completely plausible as a jarhead who's in his element in combat and slightly at sea everywhere else.

Uh, I dunno. She was clearly very pretty but she was also very young and obviously scared to death-then-traumatized.

It remains somewhat startling to see him as a young man in Dr. No. Connery's been old for as long as I've been alive.

That was such a weird, poor choice in Bourne 5. We're supposed to give a shit WHY Webb joined Treadstone? Or even—horror of horrors—his father was involved in the project somehow?

It actually does have a supporting part for Patton Oswalt but he's reprising the role of Zod's Kryptonian defense attorney Leg-el.

Yeah, that seems to be where everything is these days. Even the Sherlock Holmes franchise is more concerned with fistfights, car chases and madcap disguises than solving a crime, and what little detection we get is depicted as more closely resembling a mutant power than observation and inference. Oh well.

I'm sure you're aware of this, but Clock King was surprisingly effective and compelling in the animated series (and as part of Task Force X in Justice League.)

Black Mask, too. Or a conflict between the two.

For someone who consistently and spontaneously gets called the World's Greatest Detective a bunch, it's remarkably rare we see him do much detecting.

Hell, Superman should have a body like someone who's been in a coma for five years. His muscles have barely ever had to exert any real effort at all.

Fun idea though they'd have to tone down the Godfather "homages" if they don't want to be tied up in litigation well into the next century.

Clayface would probably be a little too out-there and CGI for a Batman detective movie, I think. They made him absurdly versatile and powerful in the comics and cartoons.