No, I couldn't sleep through Immortals. It would have been like sleeping through a train derailment.

I still think it was a pointless film, but I managed to keep myself entertained through Battle: Los Angeles by imagining what the alien grunts were saying about their brass. "Where the hell is our air support? They didn't tell us these monkeys had heavier-than-air flight capability! Why the hell are we invading this…

Don't think too hard about the plotholes. Like most alien invasions in film, the Chitauri had absolutely no strategy or plan other than "blow up buildings full of civilians". Yes, I know Loki was going for shock and awe, but it's not a smart way to conquer anything.

I'm with you. Gwen Stacy and Uncle Ben are the only people in the Marvel Universe who stay dead. I'll bet money he's back in Iron Man 3.

"In reality, there's very few people in the world who would be a fair match for the U.S. Navy at this point in a sea battle."

Is it horrifying that I consider the "Iron Sky" scenario more plausible? Other humans exiled from Earth at some point who now want to claim the Earth for themselves?

"Immortals" killed my parents, sold my sister into slavery and burned my village to the ground. One day, vengeance will be mine!

The Magneto/Xavier dynamic was fantastic. Fassbender and McAvoy were the heart and soul of the film. Mystique's arc, being drawn from Charles to Erik, was also pretty interesting. And the Bond fan in me liked the Hellfire Club reimagined as SPECTRE, cheesy though it was. But the rest of the characters fell pretty…

Love Adam Warrock; he used to be the co-host of the War Rocket Ajax comics podcast; now the official podcast of comicsalliance.com.

"Avengers Assemble!" isn't a call to action, it's a call to get ready for action. And it only works if they actually see themselves as a team. They couldn't have until the climax. Up to Loki's escape the only one who really knew the name "Avengers" was Stark—and Black Widow and probably Hawkeye, but I don't know they…

Traditional, music opera was—until the verismo of the late 19th century—about epic, larger than life melodramas. Gods and demons and legendary heroes and complex romantic entanglements and doomed love affairs with exotic foreign beauties. So when you throw up that kind of a story using the whole universe as your…

Agreed. They should throw Hulk!Ruffalo into Iron Man 3 as a proof of concept and if he wins over more fans, greenlighting his own movie should be a no-brainer.

Yes. It airs a combination of "made in Canada" series (its original mandate), syndicated US cable series, British series (e.g. Prime Suspect and Cracker), and first run syndicated genre series (e.g., Seven Days, Highlander: the Series—generally US-funded series shot in Toronto or Vancouver).

Adlai Stevenson organized the Bay of Pigs invasion in an attempt to stop the Soviets and their Rigelian puppet masters from putting missiles in Cuba. WE'RE THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS, PEOPLE!

JCM wasn't a bad movie, but it wasn't particularly great. Which is a crying shame, because it had all the elements it needed to be a great movie, but the assembly of those elements was a complete mess. I'm kind of tired of this J.J. Abrams school of storytelling, where you shoehorn twists and mystery and conspiracies…

Second that recommendation. Even though it's over a decade old, it's still highly relevant—maybe even more topical today than when it was written.

As far as 60s Hollywood was concerned, Montalban was a person of colour. Look at his film and TV jobs before and during original Trek: Latin lovers, South Asians and East Asians. There weren't a lot of POCs period in Hollywood at the time, so casting directors seemed to think all non-white people were the same. That…

Thank you, Charlie Jane. You summarized all my issues with this far more eloquently than I could. I just can't see this working on any level.

Why so serious?

I'd rather they not try to rehash the best parts of the original franchise without establishing they can stand on their own. Which they haven't. The first film had great casting and acting, but failed on most other counts.