Yeah, to be honest, the whole "hide his face" thing didn't feel adequately explained to me in the movie. It seemed in the movie like everybody knew that Captain America = Steve Rogers = Super Soldier Program Guy. So the mask wasn't really to hide identity.

I always forget about Twitter.

Co-signed to all of this. I am constantly in awe of the art — not just that it's well done, not just that it often features bodies that look more real than superhero-comic-y, but also because her sense of comic timing is fantastic. It's rare to come across an artist who can do "funny" and "real" and "aesthetically…

Agreed. So much love for Oglaf, but after the __SPOILER!__ storyline where the apprentice was killed, I was expecting... a follow-up? Of some kind? For the plot with the Evil Sorceress Mistress et. al. to continue? I haven't checked recently how long it's actually been since we have seen any of those characters...…

Great project. Reminds me of the Douglas Adams book "Last Chance to See", about travelling all over the word to get a glimpse of various extremely endangered species, about which he wrote movingly and as wittily as he always wrote.

It seems odd for this article to say that "scientists now believe" and so on, regarding a theory that's been around for at least a decade, and possibly as much as 25 years. I'd even understand the use of "recently", but "now" makes it sound like this is a theory that the scientific community only arrived at in the…

Except aren't they also tiny? So it'd be more like "octopus thumb-wrestling"... except for the "ha ha, you're dead!" part.

I do see what you're saying; as I said, I could see where PJ's apparent existing strengths lent themselves to parts of the LOTR adaptation, to start with. And PJ's previous works were stand-out, in their respective fields. It's just that, again, based on them, there was no good reason that I can see for a studio to…

This being Morning Spoilers, the grains of salt are a given, but I have heard (on forums) that the recent SUPER SECRET screenings were about 2.5 hours.

I don't actually know anything about Chris Weitz's work, so I'm not defending him specifically. But — given Peter Jackson's works to date, everyone kind of said the same thing about him and LOTR. What had he made that gave much indication that he could handle that?

SOLD.

I really think it's just a "different strokes" thing, and it's also a matter of how we relate to the figures we admire and mythologize.

I think you've hit on the reason. Lincoln is immediately, vividly recognizable. I would defy most people to put a name to a picture of any other 19th century president aside from Thomas Jefferson.

Seriously. I'm reading the definitive biography right now, and am thinking: there is a LOT of action-adventure to mine in that guy. Why does modern cinema ignore him?

I heartily co-sign a "Caves of Steel" movie. Especially if we can get someone like Chiwetel Ejiofor to play Olivaw. (I'm not sure who my dream-casting for Bailey would be at this point.)

The Dal Riata, which I think they tend to shorten to "the Dal". Yeah, I thought of it, too. Great atmosphere.

Hah; yeah, my first thought was, they're a little less charming when they're swarming INSIDE your house. But it sounds like my experience wasn't as bad as yours. We could only count them in the low dozens, and they stayed largely in the living room until they all finally went away. They never came back in such…

What is uncanny is that he can do a fairly perfect vocal impersonation of his dad as well. *shivers*

I never fail to campaign for them to get Sean Pertwee every time this is brought up. +1 million.

Although, I think you'd also have to compare "total tickets sold in 2011" to the total population in 2011 (potential tickets), and then do the same for the previous era, to really figure out to what extent "going out to the movies" has fallen off as a form of popular entertainment.