That's a popular (and very good) run, but the original Heroes for Hire run is probably a lot more important.

I think a really substantial majority of them could be without it changing the character or the kinds of stories that get told about them - it's just that, like with Luke Cage, this is one of the rare counterexamples (it might be tricky with Daredevil too, I suppose, given how much Irish Catholicism is part of the…

I'm pretty sure they were written with that as a real genuine thing built into the stories/characters, though. I mean, we're talking about Power Man, a large black ex-con impervious to bullets, and Iron Fist, a rich white man alienated from the context he lives in (across his history, but especially in Heroes for…

And also there's a really important difference when it comes to race between "white" and "any other race at all seriously any one of them". It's not just a set of categories, each of which is determined in roughly the same way is relate to each other similarly. "White" has always been the one with the special…

They really couldn't though since the mystical city of K'un Lun only makes contact with Earth every ten years or so. You'd have to change the setup (and lose the possibility of the seven kingdoms of heaven storylines) to get that.

This is right - the fact that he lives in Harlem as a (often but not always in the comics rich) white person isn't really a coincidental thing in his story.

Making it his family's culture would already be a huge change to the character and what the show could do with it.

"Episode (??) Review: The Show May or May Not Be Called Daredevil We're Not Letting On."

The college professor analogy is dead on, though I'm not certain it has to go as far as past sexual conquests (that's not typically a part of the professor-student mentor thing). He could just as easily have a weakness for being looked up to (in that pretty distinctively strong way) the way younger people do in those…

I assume when he heard a gunshot he made sure to fire off a round just to make sure he'd be safe.

When I watched the Hobbit I spent almost all of the chase through the goblin kingdom mentally adding in little pop-up bubbles with things like "Press X to Jump!" on them. It's the single most "it's just someone else playing a video game" sequence I think I've ever seen in a movie, and I've seen the movie House of the…

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It'll probably still give you a splitting headache, though, so fair warning on that.

I'd really, really like to see an actual faithful reproduction of The Three Musketeers at some point (probably for television). They always abbreviate the book so that it's an adventure about the necklace and the queen and so on for the movies, because that's a useful line to follow. But the actual book is way more…

It really surprised me when I saw it in 3D - there were plenty of places where it had a bit of that pop-up book effect that converted ones can have but just as many ones where it was effective/realistic. And it really did feel impressively well matched to the way it was shot.

At this point decent digital projectors are sitting somewhere around to below large-ish-but-not-that-large televisions, and almost all of them work in 3D because of how easy a feature it is to add to them. (You'd need to buy the 3D shutter glasses, but in my experience a decent pair of them leaves the colors and…

It's both an utterly horrible movie and also probably the only movie I've seen that uses before the screen 3D effects as something other than an occasional hey-lookit-this effect.

I spent a good while looking at that phrase in total confusion. I have no idea what they meant by it.

I'm surprised this list didn't include Legend of The Guardians: The Horrors of the Uncanny Valley The Owls of Ga'hoole.

Even weirder thing about that: it was a practical effect. It's a traveling matte and they used CGI to fit it back in, but they actually did film it. (The guitar was straight up filmed and the steering wheel was stop motion.)