There's a scene in this film that lifts directly from a certain Hitchcock film. You may even know which even if you haven't seen it, it's a famous scene.

It was definitely better to me than last year's Civil War, which amounted to a big nothing, a glorified Act One to, presumably, Act Two and Act Three of the upcoming Avengers movies (it's the bit in the Avengers movies where the heroes fight, only that's the whole movie.)

Drax considered it a way of letting her down gently. That his ideas of social norms are completely ridiculous (but presumably common for his species) is a recurring thing in the film.

The way the film concludes the Nebula/Gamora arc, with Nebula wanting to kill Thanos, feels like it could be setting up the Avengers film.

You won't find this 'England' on any map. Whenever people point to it they just say it's at where the UK is.

He did some bloody weird films, like Albino.

Perhaps not! But Silver being wrong twice in the election of 2016 suggests we should at least take him with a bit of grain of salt.

He wagered Trump wouldn't win the nomination. And then insisted he only had an outside chance of the presidency. Those were his bets. His analysis and number crunching is hardly augury.

As I said, Silver said that Trump couldn't win the nomination when a lot of the media thought it was serious, and then maintained that Trump was unlikely to win the Presidency. Being less wrong about one thing, and more wrong about the other thing, but wrong both times, is not a great standard.

Nate Silver's the guy in a casino who's convinced he has a system and is then cleaned out.

http://fivethirtyeight.com/…

It can be two things! (At least some of his public appearances were streamed.)

I suspect crossover will be minimal even if that isn't true - like, currently the MCU doesn't think anything of giving the Guardians of the Galaxy a character more associated, apparently, with Thor (that Ego planet.) I think it's unlikely characters from Spider-Man's world like Venom will pop up in a movie without…

Probably not, but it likely won't stop them from trying. And Marvel nerds seem more excited at the fact getting the rights back would also snag them Doctor Doom, for use as a post-Thanos major league bad guy.

And he doesn't even need to do that - they can just CGI the suit to fit him.

I mean being visibly winded going down stairs.

He also doesn't really need to do anything like his own stunts, or even stunts as a concept, as it's always this CGI Iron Man suit, which avoids the problems of the Later Roger Moore James Bond films.

I assumed they cast such a relatively young actor as Spider-Man because they intend to keep him around for forever (or at least a decade-to-fifteen years) as the centrepiece of their forever ongoing franchise.

Yes, the resemblance is the one key area I mentioned, they are not otherwise similar.

And it's not exactly consequence free - some people, ah, don't make it out, and it can get pretty messy for everyone that gets shot.