Truly the highest honor available to an actress is to look like someone that Whovian might hit on at the club.

I'm sure you're an expert on the characters and the talent levels of people involved, then.

Why should she even need to acknowledge that in 2014? Aside from the fact that there are plenty of people in Hollywood who got their start due to insider influence and don't get interviewers asking them that question, she's made a critically acclaimed film, had a bunch of pretty fine bit parts in tv shows and movies,…

Yeah considering the long list of fucking awful nepotism-started careers, I think Lena Dunham's doing just fine.

Yeah, I've literally only ever seen him as an unreasonably ripped 40 year old. Makes sense now.

Though he might have a point if he's saying that the Bond series' vaguely colonial notion that a white British guy could just work his way into the inner circle of any terrorist or crime lord in the world wouldn't translate well if the main character was black, given that a lot of "exotic places" are still really…

I don't think any sane person would have a doubt about Idris Elba as Batman

Absolutely. I'm glad that people like Downey, Ruffalo, Stewart and McKellan can get cast in these things even if they're not age appropriate to the comic book characters. Now if only there were a female comic character who wasn't a nubile late 20s/early 30s goddess.

Brenton Thwaites took the piss-poor script of The Giver and produced a C+ performance, so I'm totally behind that.

I've never seen such perfect casting be so horribly executed.

Yup. Even if the characters in X2 were totally different than the comic book versions (which I suspect would be an overstatement, but I don't know), the ones who got major parts were just flat out good characters. I don't give a shit if they matched up with the source material or not.

And Professor X, and Stryker, and Rogue, etc.

It was kind of Megatron-and-Starscream-esque, right? I only remember Mister Sinister from the old cartoon, where he seemed to point a lot and was probably just a traced-over Tombstone from the Spider-man cartoon.

I hope we get to see Liev Schreiber's Sabretooth again. He was literally the only good thing to come out of Origins: Wolverine.

They do just fine. There's enough scenes of shirtless Hugh Jackman to rival all the female titillation.

That a bag of worms you really want to open?

In the quartet of "big, bald bad guys who go hard in the paint" (Darkseid, Thanos, Mongul, and Apocalypse) he's easily my favorite, just because he's got a more complex motivation than "is in space and evil".

The TARDIS can arbitrarily go/not go places depending on what the writer thinks will make for a cooler scene.

Yeah, this was not good. The weakest supporting characterization possible. Another monster with a gimmicky "Don't do a basic thing!" weakness. A soundtrack so oppressive it made the "victory theme every 5 minutes" period of Smith's run seem tame in comparison. A bank that's supposedly the hardest place to break into…

The Teller was just a blatant rip-off of the Minotaur from "The God Complex".