Robert Downey, Jr. agrees with this assessment.

If it's anything like the first Thor, then the plot is completely incidental, and the real appeal is just getting to watch Chris Hemsworth and Tom Hiddleston be awesome as Thor and Loki.

Yeah, but refusing to acknowledge a major influence right after that person has just died? Required or not, that's just a POS move.

Innocence has some great concepts and some truly amazing WTF moments, but it lacks the focus of the first movie and often gets bogged down by its own psychobabble. Still, hilariously unwatchable is a bit much.

Bleh, Black Swan. I probably would've enjoyed that movie if I hadn't already seen Perfect Blue, which did it so much better.

Oh, that is so amazingly bad.

He would, at the very least, have a better Bat-voice than Christian Bale.

"I don’t know if I can do it. Those books are incredibly hard to write."

Well, you're half right. Paul Bettany was great in A Knight's Tale, but the movie itself was also pretty awesome.

The best kind of comic book-ish.

I think this kind of addresses what you're talking about:

Lack of historical perspective?

I could see a show like Community using this is an opportunity to riff on the whole "suspiciously similar substitute" trope by having Troy actually meet his replacement in one of the episodes where he is there.

I'm thinking they're going for a basic bait and switch here. Draw them in with the crazy sci-fi visuals, then wow them with the real wonders of the universe.

Raph wore a trench coat over the full puppet suit in the original movie, and it looked fine. These shells look huge and clumsy in every picture I've seen them in, with or without the coat.

I don't mind the trench coat goofiness, since that's been used in several incarnations o the turtles. But I get a feeling from this picture that the actual turtle designs are going to look horrible. His shell looks like it makes up half his body mass.

Ehh, I can't agree with that screw the casual viewers attitude. They may be mindless consumerist zombies who'll never truly appreciate what they're watching on any meaningful level, but they do help subsidize our nerdy interests. Without them, a show like SHIELD (or a movie like The Avengers) would have never been…

Virginia Heffernan's idiocy is symptomatic of the widespread scientific illiteracy within our society. We're so poorly educated, we don't even understand the concept that not all arguments hold the same weight, much less have the cognitive skills to discern which arguments are superior.

I thought season 2 started off kind of meh, but it looked like it was finally getting its groove and was going to build up into something big... and then the writer's strike happened.

Oh man, that kid was such a horrible actor. It's probably mean to single him out, since the whole show was riddled with horrible acting (I loved how Milo Ventimiglia's idea of serious intensity was to make his face go all sideways) but good lord, was he awful.