Oh, hah! I bitched about that somewhere below. Yes, they changed the name of the movie for The Dark is Rising to "The Seeker" with "The Dark is Rising" as a subtitle.

Honestly? This.

I'm on board with the Pixar suggestion. I don't think that even any of the human chars in Bone ought to be done "realistically", since Smith had charmingly unrealistic designs even for them. Pixar could do it, and neatly avoid the uncanny-valley problem. Just look at "Brave".

I am a long-time F&GM fan, and thus, am already on board with the idea of a movie. But your casting suggestions there now have me staring off into space with a thoughtful and hungry expression.

It'll be 5 years next year since that stinker came out. I say it's time for a reboot, only, you know, actually make a film of The Dark is Rising. The movie they made bore so little resemblance to Cooper's book that you could totally do a FAITHFUL version now, and honestly, who would complain? They even changed the…

LotS wasn't a movie, though, it was a tv series — and a darned good one. I'm sad it didn't continue, but glad that we got what we got. I'm also not sure I see it as fitting in with the other YA titles. The Sword of Truth series is not, to the best of my knowledge, YA.

I am completely with you on this. I don't understand any of the "oh IM2 and TIH and Thor are just commercials for the Avengers movie" complaints at all. I think the fact that they're all slowly but surely being tied together is exciting. And I think what Marvel Studios is trying to do is really intriguing — like…

*eyebrow-raise*

I think the owl Yo-Yo pings a lot of people, too. (I'm not saying I subscribe to the whole "omg the similarities are overwhelming" thing. Just that in any list of similarities between the two, the owl deserves inclusion.)

In re. "Fact 1": Marvel has departed from the idea that Nick Fury was a member of the Howling Commandos during WWII for a number of years now. Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes, the recent cartoon series, has Nick's father Jack Fury as the Sgt. who was part of the HCs. Since A:EMH also makes Nick Fury look a bit…

I'm going to assume that Chris Hemsworth's truly godlike physique as Thor completely short-circuited your higher brain functions, and that's why his is the only actor's name not identified in the article. ;-)

I don't follow Twitter either, but I do follow forums where people were posting about the Twitter reaction. Best of both worlds, really: get someone ELSE to follow it and just tell you what you need to know. ;-)

Well, both are distributed by Paramount, so no way was Paramount going to put two movies it earns money from up against each other.

Yes, I feel that way. I think they always thought of Thor as the bigger gamble. Had it sucked, the May release date gave it time to fade in the audience's memory, hopefully to be replaced with much more positive feelings leaving Cap.

Word was that it was screened for some audiences a couple weeks ago, and the Twitter buzz was very positive. "Better than Iron Man, etc. etc." We can be forgiven for taking that with a grain of salt. I saw someone post that some online critic was going to see it this afternoon, and that was in the morning. …

No, you might be right! I need to rewatch them too. :)

You're joking, right? The thing isn't built at all like a cougar.

Well, the ferns at least are consistent with New Zealand, which is where the moa used to be found.

Even cut off, the intent of what you were trying to say wasn't hard to figure out. ;-) I had already gathered that you really didn't like Thor. I don't agree with you, but that's neither here nor there to the argument.

Uncanny!