… Says someone who's obviously never seen Ken Branagh in Warm Springs.

"All too often, it toes the line that separates legitimately stupid
movies from ones that merely presume that the viewer is stupid." - Ah, so it's a companion piece to The Imitation Game?

Yes, it does - TNT's The Mists of Avalon (see my other comment above).

Yep: TNT's 3-hour The Mists of Avalon, which gives the various tales and legends actual thematic coherence by framing the era as a conquest of the native pagan British spirits by the monarchy's foreign Christianity. Also, it focuses on the women of the saga, to the point where the Knights of the Round Table have…

Fair enough; I haven't seen The Help or Tree of Life; I was more asking than editorializing.

Do those roles really show much range, or does she play one sort of intensity really well, coupled with a unique face?

Haley Atwell's agent would like a word with you:
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Oscar Isaac, winning an Oscar for playing Frank Capra directing Capa Oscar while wearing an Oscars cap?

I get the joke, but still, she's too old.

Dye her hair/give her a wig, and Hayley Atwell looks a hundred times closer to Bergman than Chastain:

Not sure why the life history of a proposed double-biopic would be considered a tangent. Okay, so the headline and concrete news concerns Chastain, but as the text notes, she's still only half the movie, and the working title (which I guarantee will be changed to something less male-centric) obviously reflects his POV.

Well, except for the part where her whole upper-crust WASP family spent a whole dinner overtly demeaning Hughes to his face, which actual people of that sort would never do - not that they'd have been saints, but they'd have viewed such blatant aggression and rudeness as the depths of bad form, and would have kept…

Of course they could have stopped it. You or I could, if we could time travel back to even a day or two beforehand, with a few calls. The question is whether it's reasonable to say that they should have stopped it. And while that's a very difficult question, what's fairly indisputable is that, despite being personally…

Whaddya think this is, some kind of pop culture site, written by people who know about pop culture?

Billy Campbell over peak Banderas? Are you a member of Campbell's immediate family?!

Obviously, it started that ride when SM2 came out. Now that both movies have existed for over a decade, the matter of which came first isn't nearly as important as it once was.

Sorry, but that's bullshit. Raimi was as interested in his own style and personal flourishes as he was telling solid, well-structured stories with compelling characters. Bryan Singer's first X-Men, released two years before SM1, is far more in line with the Dark Knight/MCU era that started in '08. Meanwhile, though…

YES! It's crazy how overlooked it's been in pop culture memory, when it's absolutely on par with the best the genre has produced this millenni - excuse me, Willennium.

I really don't think SM1 is nearly as good as it's cracked up to be; it just rides the coattails of SM2. If SM2 had been as mediocre as 3, would people really be championing the first so much? Ebert gave it a two-star review, finding it weightless and cheesy, which it absolutely is, not to mention full of massive plot…

"Why is there no Jewish fantasy?" - You mean, apart from the Old Testament?