Loved both the American Psycho book and film - though the business card moment works much better in the film. In the book the descriptions are so in depth and coming from Bateman’s mind that you start to feel the cards are different. But the film has the punchline the book doesn’t when the card is placed on the table…

Columbus is a bit of a Lucas - had involvement in a lot of good stuff early on but when he was given control couldn’t handle it. Now he seems like he’s just a job director brought in as a steady hand with big franchises.

Scared the sh*t out of me when I was young. But loved it. Though surely Columbus partly got the Potter gig because of his involvement in this, not that he stole ideas from it after he was hired on Potter.

Makes sense as we’ve had plenty of stuff about the heroes. And as Thanos is not what you’d call a household name outside of the Marvel Universe it’s not like it’s going to be one of those origin stories where you ruin a character’s mystery as they did with Hannibal Lectur etc. Still, if we do get - as people have…

Really?

Agree. Yet he’s never mentioned as an all time great director. Think it’s because he didn’t write all of these and much of their appeal comes down to their scripts, and he did such varied work so was never a Scorcese or Allen who focussed on specific themes.

A lot of sites are pretty much claiming a death is guaranteed. Though it could be a hawkeye, scarlett witch etc - low level ones without their own movie.

Think they’ll have a death at end of first one - something to drive the second part. And give that ‘Is he, isn’t he’ cliffhanger between the two.

Ok. Looks great....but, do we need another shot of a big circular thing crashing through something as it plummets from the sky?

Thor, Vision and maybe Iron Man.

It’s like you can see all their neurosis building up and gathering and knowing that sex isn’t going to make them disappear but just open the flood gates.

I’ll simply add The Princess Bride. Love When Harry Met Sally and it’s a close call but for me, Princess Bride is Reiner’s best.

“Crystal is careful to layer Harry’s cynicism with charm rather than harshness. Similarly, Meg Ryan keeps Sally’s “high maintenance” behavior from feeling either too twee or too irritating” - this! Think of all the quirky female characters since then where their quirk is their character, doesn’t inform it. And the…

Thought it was to do with the Shimmer changing her DNA. She looked at her blood and found traces of it in there. It’s obviously just grown.

And Harry as Asriel?

This season feels like it’s ramping up to an end of season ‘it was all a dream’ reveal. One of them will be in a coma due to the black hood and this is their fever dream.

For TV version, I’m going to say James Purefoy as Asriel. Always liked idea of Catherine Zeta Jones in her prime as Mrs Coulter but these days maybe Rosamund Pike?

Agree. Why rush it. I wonder if the new trilogy planned has impacted this. Gives them somewhere to go if it’s a hit and if it’s not, then at least they covered the whole story.

I’d be interested. Though apparently it’s going to be Lin Manuel in new TV version.

Apparently Philip Pullman’s choice was Samuel L Jackson.