Then writers need to try harder. Seriously, romance does happen in real life and it doesn’t take 2 mins.

I do like him - thought he brought a bit of cocky charm to the XMen, but in rom coms he’s a bit vanilla. (Don’t class Enchanted as rom com)

Also, biggest bugbear about rom coms is that no one ever just sits down and explains themselves. They storm off, or hold it in because it’s the right thing to do, or because they’re a man and they don’t talk about feeling.

And recently in The Sinner - maybe not charismatic but definitely interesting.

Exactly. Though I always felt sorry for him in that movie - imagine being dumped for a random guy she’s never met who, in all honestly, isn’t that different from him.

The issue with a lot of rom coms is that as they’re aimed at women, the money goes on getting big female leads (hence Hathaway, Hudson, etc). But then skimps on the male leads. Which mean the men in these films are often pretty bland characters and this makes you questions the women’s motives. Bridget Jones, When…

Agree. Don’t think McAvoy has the gravitas. Big Bill is meant to be a natural leader. Fassebender might have been an option.

“medium-rare-plus” sounds like the most pretentious order ever. Just order it medium rare and eat what you get. Every restaurant is different, as is every dinner and piece of meat. These states are just guides - you should allow a bit of leeway in your life.

Why don’t these giant monster ever just head to, you know, Albany? Or some mid-sized town. Just knock over the single, office building then lie down for a nap.

Kind of lacks tension when you know that the shark is going to be killed when The Stath punches it in the face.

2 questions. 1) Could I skip season 1 and still know what’s going on. 2) Isn’t this just Quantum Leap with Superheroes (cross fingers in hope that the answer is yes).

Is she?

Though I would say the Jay and Silent Bob movie, as much as I loved it, feels a bit dated re-watching it now as there as just so many references to specifically 90s things (Shannon Elizabeth).

Fair enough.

How can you do an article on pop culture references, talk about the 90s and not mention the output of Kevin Smith? His movies are like a quick trip through how to use and then over-use pop culture references.

Or having just watched Godless, could see Michael Docherty kicking some ass

I’m going to put out Sarah Polley. Or maybe Rosamund Pike.

If you can give humanity to someone who melts feet with their own vomit than you deserve an Oscar.

He is pretty much the, ‘see I told you so’ guy. But if he’d been played by someone less charismatic than Goldblum I reckon he’d be a forgotten character.

It’s something that could have been done by someone else as a minor character- Sam Jackson springs to mind. The computer guy hired to control the park security knowing that everything has a failsafe,back door, that there’s no such thing as a perfect system etc.