Byker Grove! My tenuous link to tv fame. (My wife was an extra on it)

And it's really good.

How does one quantify inpiration levels as a percentage?

66% were advised by their stridemothers.

I loved that his brother didn't give a shit about Hans and just used him as cover for a robbery.

It's the guy from Frozen. No, not that one ,the one where the guy gets eaten by wolves.
It should be a much better known film.

I was sometimes safety officer. Nowt worse than having to enforce stuff you know to be nonsense. Problem is as soon as you make HSE someone's sole job they have to keep coming up with new stuff to justify the position.
Which is how you now require 6 sheets of paper and 3 signatures to change a lightbulb on a ship. I…

Hey, come out from that rock you're hiding under and I'll drive this truck up your ass!

Sure, why not?

Fair enough. I wonder if it's safer to be rigid in adaptation. I'm struggling to think of many that failed that way. Even today's world of flops is an example of the too little path.

It was pretty good. Not great but definitely not Catwoman.

Carpe diem. Or carpe something anyway.

That's pretty much where Antman started.

It was more the implication of Marvel not being able to write a half decent movie in general.
I think you'd have to accept that maybe superheroes just aren't your thing.

Watchmen was disastrous? Really? That's quite an assertion.

It must be a burden being one of the special people who are too intelligent to enjoy popcorn films. I'm glad I'm too stupid to notice the apparently terrible flaws.

That Batman ended. The Ben Affleck Batman is a completely different thing. I can compartmentalise that. It's not a problem.

Yup. Marvel and Disney. Not Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Or (as has been mentioned) Iain Fleming or Hergé or I'm sure there's more examples.

It's amazing how often conveniently timed criminal enterprises happen in films. I'd jump at the opportunity to earn some money, no questions asked. Sadly, real criminals capable of organising big money stuff are inexplicably reluctant to entrust vague acquaintances to do it.

Oops. I only scrolled back as far as the runner up and misread it as the winner. You know, the one with Richard Dreyfuss….damn, forgotten it again.