The Hunger Games are like the endless, idiotic wars we engage in and were reported the same way. Collins got the idea while flipping back and forth between coverage of the 2005 invasion of Iraq—remember embedded reporters?—and various reality TV shows.

I was actually impressed that the movies embraced the books' approach and made Katniss a propaganda puppet for fully half the story. Making "Hunger Games Prequels" because you think people really engaged with the immoral, bloodthirsty propaganda spectacle staged by the totalitarian dystopia in your story is like…

I mean, they're not my jam, but a lot of people do love Rom-Coms. The more general point that cinema release has as much to do with prestige and marketing as with a calculated appraisal of the merit of the format is true, but I think that movement is well underway. Netflix, HBO and others have embraced their role as…

It depends on the movie. There are some movies that are meant as communal viewing experiences. The really good tent-pole movies are all like that, though it's not limited to them. I love the experience of going to a giant, bustling theater late at night, settling in as the house lights go down, feeling the energy…

One of many reasons I refuse to watch any show, including The Walking Dead, in any format that includes commercials.

I was really hoping a few seasons ago—back when they were still in the prison—that the show was intentionally developing Carl as a child-soldier-permanent-PTSD kind of character. Kind of the direction they've gone with Carol, but more believable because (barring Judith) he is the closest thing the world has to a…

I'm pretty sure that's an intentional joke/reference at the expense of the first movie. Check out Dr. Ellie Sattler: http://www.imdb.com/media/r….

Yeah, I was up in the air about whether to go with Howard or Paul. They're both current world-class players without a ring. I'd say comics writers are more like point guards, because they control the flow of the book/game. Artists—or, in a traditional set up, pencillers, inkers, colorists and letterers—are…

Ah, I see the point now.

I've got to say, if your main objection is the impossibility of keeping up with stories splintered across lots of books, X-Men is perhaps the worst series for you. Partly a victim of its own success and partly a result of bad management/editorial decisions.

I was an avid reader when I was younger, and I can sympathize with your view. I think part of why I gravitated to Marvel was that issue numbers were so much lower than DC. Action Comics was on like issue 500 or something, and Spider Man was, I don't remember, 150 or 200? I loved one-shots and was an early adopter…

Strongly disagree. Much of the fun in comics comes from the messiness of the shared sandbox. Having the sprawling, byzantine universes that Marvel and DC have developed allows for incredibly dense story-telling. It can be exhausting and daunting, but rebooting it to make it easier to write would be a step in the…

So the numerous awards and nominations, including at least one specifically for the quaalude car scene, do not contradict your assertion that "it isn't a particularly respected movie"? You, personally, found the third act overlong, which is plainly a minority opinion. Wolf does not have a third act problem—you have…

"it isn't a particularly respected movie" [citation needed] http://www.imdb.com/title/t…

Nonsense. Hollywood will never cast majority black movies. Not even for money.

With a face like that I'd be for facism too. Pretty people uber alles!

Or, much like Henry Rollins, could it be described as all neck?

I think it's more effective to leave the truly A-list heroes on the big screen and let the B-listers talk about them like the superhero celebrities they are. Granted, Flash is a bit too much of an A-lister for this theory to describe how they're actually splitting things up, but I still think it works dramatically.

It's actually a myth that fascists made the trains run on time. I'm pretty sure German trains did run on time, but that was a function of Germans being Germans, not fascism. Mussolini, meanwhile, was fairly unsuccessful at improving Italian rail reliability.

Don't act like DiCaprio doesn't deserve an Oscar. I don't have any interest in doing it right now, but I'm willing to bet that if we sorted through his roles and the winning Best Actor/Supporting Actor Oscars for the relevant years, we'd see he got robbed more than once.