Damn. That's some nice work.

Also the badass mafia bank teller from The Dark Knight. He's good in villainous roles, but the Shredder? I'm not seeing it.

That's a terrible bullshit excuse for not casting an Asian actor in an Asian role.

Now that I know the same guys made both Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs and 21 Jump Street, the world suddenly makes a lot more sense.

I feel fairly confident in predicting that this will be the best movie to feature the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles that comes out in 2014.

LaBeouf really is perfect for Yorick, though.

Wouldn't a Choose Your Own Adventure movie just be a video game?

Haha, the Revenge of the Sith comment was a joke. Chill, dude.

Yes, but unlike Revenge of the Sith, Akira and Chronicle also share the common trait of actually being good movies.

Very good point about the world-building being a key difference between the two movies. There are few movies that feel bigger than Akira. Of course, Chronicle had no choice but to operate on a smaller scale due to its limited budget, and I think it did a very good job of working within those confines.

The similarities are pretty striking: They both tell the story of a guy who gets psychic powers, is driven insane, and goes on a rampage of destruction.

Some would argue it' already been done... and it was awesome.

I almost want to see a remake of the original trilogy to correct all the dumb decisions in Return of the Jedi, but chances are, a remake would just make it even dumber, so it's probably not worth it.

Other than your claim that A Clockwork Orange is flawed, I wholeheartedly agree.

A History of Violence also managed to pack a lot of symbolism and characterizaton into its sex scenes.

Nah, mainstream comics suck because of the neverending soap opera format that requires constant reboots to the status quo. That and creator ownership issues scare writers away from creating fresh new characters.

"He's John DiMaggio on Futurama, John Dimaggio on Adventure Time, John DiMaggio on Batman: Brave and the Bold, and many others."

Both Iron Man sequels do a pretty terrible job of the whole "illusion of change" thing. They both repeat Tony's character arc from the first movie (self-absorbed jerkass learns to be less of a self-absorbed jerkass) and neither does it as well as the first. And you can bet that when Avengers 2 rolls around, he'll be…

I liked the depiction of fairies in Jo Walton's Among Others. They were neither good nor evil; just operating by a set of rules utterly alien to our own.

As if I didn't have enough reasons to love hedgehogs already...