I've seen this one, it's where a naked guy romps around on stage in a bunch of paint and then we feel obligated to hide the fact we've been had from the rest of our mid-19th-century town, right?

I think it benefits a lot from a lower profile in its quest to litigate and harass criticism out of existence. It was high-profile for a while a few years back, then sort of a throw-away joke for nerds for about a decade and a half after that, which allowed it to take over several more communities in the U.S.

What was it like growing up in a Scientology household?

I hope that white guy becomes king of the country of Africa and its population of great apes!

You have a few decades of comics to read, then. The whole "I'm the one really saving the world" angle wasn't played up until after Watchmen.

He's pretty much like Luthor's always been presented, a jerk who thinks he's really funny, and I liked the whole "daddy said get some land" angle. It did a good job of providing the balance & conflict in that movie: Superman is an aw-shucks guy who represents child-like wonder, while Lex Luthor's big plan is to own…

In this trailer, too, it looks like Fassbender is about to throw up as his crotch awkwardly lurches toward the camera.

The Wolverine was a nice, solid, early-Frank-Miller-feeling martial-arts flick.

You know, that's a solid point. There's a real wonder to these characters' abilities that only Singer and his crew seem to feel since Raimi left the building (and I'm not even a huge fan of those Spider-Man movies). "Iron Man" did the right thing by dodging it, but it didn't work as well for "Thor" or the rest.

On the other hand, that video-game-style scene in the last fight in Avengers doesn't age well to my eyes.

Most of the complaints I read about these trailers are that they seem boring and derivative. I would like to believe they don't reflect Singer's movie, since his previous films in the series have been focused more on the changes and conflicts in people's hearts.

Everything I've seen of Psylocke gives me the exact opposite feeling. That was one character whose look could seriously benefit from an update along the lines of the other X-Men movies, and yet we get the bright purple one-piece.

Hackman's Luthor is by far the best part of the whole movie. Without that character and that casting choice, I'm fairly sure the movie would have flopped and would still be remembered as deathly boring.

To be fair, there just plain weren't a lot of superhero movies at the time and a lot of that technology had to be invented for the movie. Singer does like a lot of people swinging around in harnesses, though, which is a rough spot.

But what do those have to do with either topic?

It's the something we deserve, not the something something something

I don't think he's a believer as an adult, though. Just an interesting tidbit. Scientology has such a rep as a horde of ultra-square drones thanks to its own reinvention of itself that it's easy to miss its initial appeal to a bunch of TM-oriented, arty hippies.

Henry Wadsworth AXYDLBAAXR

I think you can only call things in your brane, unless you're incredibly small, like, smaller than an atom.

I don't really see it. Lobo was a villain. He's only associated with Wolverine because after that period, he was a Wolverine gag.