"Winter Soldier felt like a cold war era spy movie that happened to involve a super hero."

So a review after a few days:
The first half was very good. Ben Affleck was very good. The Batman fight scene at the end was awesome, the best Batman fight scene ever. Many good ideas. And very beautiful to look at.
What was not good ?
Wonderwoman - not Gal Gadot, she was great, but the character just had no reasons to…

I really can't agree. There was a good movie somewhere inside this mess and the first half was awesome.
Now I must admit that I do not like the superheroes genre, and I do not read comics and the only good superhero movies in my eyes are the Nolan Batmans because they are not superhero movies.
That's the reason I…

With all the mess that this movie is, it is still better than most Marvel movies that are fun but childish and that you forget 5 mn after they are finished. One thing for sure - I will not forget batman v superman soon.

There is no moral tension, this is just silly. Abd incoherent - Batman is a psychopath, of course he would kill his enemies.

The terrorist action at the beginning is brought up again and a lot it's one of the main plot elements- did supernan killed all these people or not?

The Batman and Superman do not kill rule is the stupidest rule of them all. "Not killing" does not make you a good guy and is *not* ethical. Sometimes, not killing is immoral. Sometimes the moral and good thing to do is killing if the alternative is letting other people die.

I saw it. It was the weirdest superhero movie I ever saw. But it was still better than Avengers and most Marvel movies.

Burton's Batman did kill a lot of people.

They moved because of the Navigators who use the spice to fold time and space. No machines.

I watched this movie when I was a kid. Did not understand anything and went to buy the books, that I loved (less the sequels in particular the last ones by Franck Herbert, I did not read anything from his son).
That being said the movie is great. A great failure but also a great movie at the same time. At least Lynch…

I am surprised at the hate against Honest Trailers. They are very good, very funny, make good points but mostly this is just for fun. How you can hate that is beyond me.

10 murders per 100,000 is the rate of the USA in the 80s, now it's half that. And it's Europe it's around 1 per 100,000. So even not even entering the question of which hemisphere you were speaking about (Norther or Western) - it is not the safest place.

On the other hand the stereotype is not entirely disconnected from reality.

You present it as if Herod himself was a foreigner. He was a Jew - of Idumean ancestry but still a Jew and saw himself as a Jew (he rebuilt the Temple as one of the most magnificent monument of the Antique world).

All of what you say is true - if you take the Gospels account as more or less veridic. But we have no reason to do so. The real Jesus, if he even existed - that's probable but not even sure -, probably lived a very different life from what we do know.

No he did not. He just wrote the pilote with Lindelof. They did have some early ideas about the whole mythology but it is impossible to say if these have anything to do with what was actually put to the screen 6 years later.
By the way I love Lost's end.

JJ Abrams was the show-runner, only 2 years each, of 2 TV series (Felicity and Alias), he co-wrote and directed Lost pilote (and directed the season 3 premiere, and nothing else). He directed MI3, Star Trek 1 and 2, Super8 and SWTFA.
And that's all.
All the rest - he was just a producer. Like here.
He did not write nor…

This was true for 19th century and early 20th century archeology but in the last decades this has been exactly the opposite with a lot of anti-biblical wishful thinking and ideology. Regarding Israeli archeologists there are now basically two schools (very schematically) - the Finkelstein-led Tel Aviv school that…

Finkelstein has a non-mainstream but respected opinion. The problem is that in the last decade or so, archeology has been more on the side of his opponents (the ones taking the Hebrew Bible as a serious source).