Why read it when we can just watch the syfy miniseries?

Absolutely.

I communicate primarily in landscape photography.

I greatly approve of keeping the focus on the heroes instead of letting the villains steal the show. The hero should be the focus of his/her own story. Too much focus on the villain gets you villain decay, and then it's a short step to the Star Wars prequels.

If in the unlikely event I ever run across someone who actually eats head cheese, I'll ask them.

You know what else I've noticed The People always find remarkably entertaining? Calling whole groups of other people stupid on the internet.

Huh. To achieve that level of lunacy without chemical aids is quite impressive, actually.

Interviewer didn't ask the most pertinent question—"Exactly how high are you right now?"

My heart weeps to hear it.

How do you know?

Thor 2 wasn't bad at all. Some bits were quite good—the jokes landed, the supporting cast minus Portman was great, and the scenes popping in and out of interdimensional portals were unique, fun, and exciting.

My expectations are only that it will be an enjoyable movie, and they'll probably be fulfilled. I enjoyed Hulk and Thor 2, and those were the weakest of the lot IMO. Whether Ant-Man ends up on that level or as good as Winter Soldier or GotG…I guess we'll find out.

Not to mention, Mars is a pretty cool place to be stuck. Take it from me. But did Watney once think, "holy shit, this is a gorgeous, fascinating alien landscape! I will ponder the wonder and beauty of this planet!" He did not. Philistine.

Thanks for your reply. I believe Wright is getting story credit, and also that the action sequences in production when he left are to be used in the finished movie, so perhaps the rewrites weren't as extensive as feared. I'm willing to wait and see.

Bill Murray in Ghostbusters had this attitude, and it worked great.

Where does this 'sense' you are getting come from? Do you have actual knowledge of the inner workings at Marvel, or the industry at large? Serious question.

I get what you're saying about the villains, but have to disagree with the rest. The cross-genre elements are what make the themes and character arcs totally different from each other. CA is about war and its consequences, IM is about the perils and attractions of industry and the people who control it, Thor is about…

Returns was indeed great! But there are other ways of being risky besides subversion—For instance, Black took a risk in Iron Man 3 with his villain, not that he got much credit for it. I could point out other examples, but I'd bore myself.

Perhaps. Although, I can never tell exactly what someone means when they say 'risk taking', or how they know it's personal or not.

Certainly. But that applies just as much to, say Johnston and Branagh as it does to Nolan and Burton.