For those of you who aren't familiar with it, Open Water is a survival movie about a couple on a scuba-diving expedition who get left behind by their boat.

I was wondering that, but I'm guessing it's the "alternate history" reference in the last line.

I thought it had been reported that the whole Hobbit pub thing had been amicably settled? Zaentz eventually allowed the pub to keep using the name for a token annual license fee. That was months ago. (Although I also remember an April Fools post somewhere about how the settlement involved Warner Bros. or someone…

To be fair, I don't think that angling for a bigger payoff is why the Tolkien estate isn't interested in selling the rights to the rest of the material.

OUAT: well, in Fables, they decided that the various fairy tale and nursery rhyme Jacks were all the SAME Jack. I wonder if OUAT will be going that route?

Well, you're right that it's the simpler explanation.

No, Superman doesn't have wingtips. He does have the tips of his toes, though. Could be what they're going for. He's not actually a perfectly blunt object.

You've never been flying in a plane and seen the wingtip vortices form contrails? (It's pretty cool.) They do get formed by stuff besides the engine exhaust. It depends on the air the object is moving through.

Hang on — how is "Tauriel" a "cringey made up fake Tolkien sounding name"? It's based solidly enough on Tolkien's languages and naming conventions — "daughter of the forest", from the Sindarin elements "taure" and the suffix "-iel". It seems like about as good a name for a Woodelf as "green leaf" does.

A decent variation idea could be to start with the ones I listed above, but then part of the plot of the rest of the movie is meeting and eventually recruiting a new team member that is one of the less well known ones (like Martian Manhunter).

Well, yes. But TA basically used witty banter and rapport to help the audience get over some of its absurdity of premise, and it did so successfully. So it's not that we need a lot more serious treatments of superheroes because we have to be afraid to invite laughter, lest it become the kind of laughter that…

Not that it's quite the same thing, but wasn't the audience doing a lot of laughing-with while watching The Avengers? Critics and audience alike kept remarking that they were surprised how funny it was. Granted, as funny as it was, it wasn't a "comedy", but still. The public does appear more than ready to…

*fist pump* I laughed out loud.

My understanding is that the movies are going to include stuff about what Gandalf was doing when he split away from Bilbo's group. In the books he just goes away, and then comes back and is all, "yeah, had to go take care of a Necromancer who was set up in Dol Guldur", and it's like, wow Tolkien, that is a hell of a…

It's a John Steed reference, surely?

This is making me wonder how many people think of Diana Rigg as primarily "that lady who introduced PBS's Mystery". That was a pretty prominent gig for her in the 90s.

I'm going with "adorable". You say, "ball of organic horror", I say, "I so want to stick my hand in there and let them swarm all over me".

It doesn't seem difficult to guess that the "villains" in the Noah story would be the primary faces/representatives of the evil forces in the greater society who are the reason God chooses to wipe out all of humanity except for Noah's family. Isn't that the whole point? Humanity sucked, except for Noah & Co. The…

Speaking of delays due to financial trouble at the studio (and, speaking of Chris Hemsworth), you could mention Red Dawn in the same paragraph as Cabin in the Woods — supposed to be released in Nov. 2010, delayed by MGM bankruptcy, now coming out in Nov. 2012.

I do admire your optimism.