"after languishing in production for a while" … I take it Chavez forgot to add a "hell" in there? This movie has not started production. Proofreading, anyone? ;)

"Two red cities at war, each manipulated by the whites"

Ditto for The Lone Ranger. I'm convinced that Depp's bird-shit face makeup plus dead bird hat, while certainly inventive, cost the movie at least $30m in dissuaded ticket sales, and no one will ever convince me otherwise. :P

"Hey, kids! Do you like knights in shining armor, and friendship? Wanna see a fun adventure about heroes of valor, with fair princesses and witty villains? Well, f*** you, our Arthur was raised in a brothel, talks like a gangster, and lives in a gray, drab world! Ha, ha ha! We tricked both you and your disaffected,…

My bad; fair enough. :)

Than maybe, and I'm just spitballing here, it shouldn't have used Saving Private Ryan's color palette. It certainly looked grim and gritty as any cheapo DTV swords and armor movie from the previews.

^ What "medium budget"? John Carter cost $250m for production alone; King Arthur: Legend of the Sword $175m.

Fun was exactly what it lacked most, IMO. It had the convoluted worldbuilding, the solid cast (someone had been watching Rome), and the expensive effects (albeit mostly wasted on an drearily realistic-looking Mars when the pulp fantasy setting practically begs for red/orange/yellow jungles). But instead of Fun, it…

Has a witness/info source bit character ever been excited to talk to the cops on these series? I imagine a depressingly large percentage of real people in such situations would be beside themselves with excitement.

I saw the movie right after reading three Burroughs books (the Caspak Trilogy), and was thus totally ready to love and trumpet it, but it turned out to be profoundly mediocre, with a Confederate hero (yay?), a muddled story, and an arboreal performance by Kitsch. You apologists for the movie can keep blaming the ad…

Jake, you're a big-time Hollywood actor; you can afford them.

What about a Batman TV show without Batman?

Gideon Malick's line "I never thought my last rodeo would be with SHIELD" takes on a new significance. Farewell, sir.

Which Navy are you talking about? I'm a US Navy veteran, and NCOs are absolutely not called "sir", not even at RTC (Boot Camp).

I mostly agree with dirtside, but I'd say start with T.R.A.C.K.S - it's not a fantastic ep, but it's a damn solid one, with lots of cool train imagery, and the whole Kree blood mini-arc which follows has big ramifications later on. Plus, that way you get the first Lady Sif ep, which is a lot of fun.

"Also, I love the idea that a newspaper would publish an article by one of its staffers on the meaning of life."

The Postmodern Jukebox version is on point, per usual.

Eff Chris Brown, but I do enjoy Pitbull's "International Love".

I don't think the issue was the original ending was too dark, it was that, after a whole movie of one shrieking action sequence after another, to end with a bigger, louder shrieking action climax would have left audiences exhausted and grumpy, leading to bad word of mouth and reviews. So they went back and filmed a…

Very much so. It's got Battleship-level stink all over it.