I have a sneaking suspicion GRRM is never going to finish the series. Because all of his big moments will have been shown on television years (decades?) before he gets around to getting them in print. The story will be out there - why wait ten years to read something of which you know how it will turn out (as far as…

Implied Badass means: no need to choreograph, to practice, to take a relatively long time shooting just one scene. It also means lazy and disappointing. Just like this entire season.

Yes, I do have an axe to grind, because Civil War destroyed the Marvel Universe that I knew and loved from the late '70s. And for what???
But the movie - that I really like.

No, they keep the characters true to themselves and relatable. Which means that in this Civil War there is no correct side and no wrong side. Whereas in the comics, just about every major character had to be warped into unrecognizability just to satisfy Millar's plot decisions. CW would have worked far better as a…

D- would be generous for the clusterfuck that is IM 3.

Civil War the movie is much better than Civil War the comic, because here Stark isn't an asshole, or a dictator, or a straight-out supervillain. in fact, Cap is even more intractable than Iron Man here. And both sides actually accept that the other has some merit. In fact, the really good thing about the storytelling…

Cap's supposed to be a Roosevelt Democrat. Stark is… a one point one percenter. Usually he's a libertarian. But I guess his guilt got the better of his egocentered ideology.
Very good movie, great experience. For once I was so entertained I overlooked a few very dodgy plot holes/handwaves. I really wished I could have…

The cancer at the heart of the season isn't so much the serial killer story, boring and unnecessary and offensive though it is, but the time jump. The time jump killed all the momentum of season 3's finale, makes all of the main characters look like chumps, and doesn't even make sense - Job survives two years of…

Not necessarily. She could also be… Nekra!!!

Maybe if Chuck dies, this will be the event that tears Jimmy and Kim apart? Because then he killed his brother (by proxy, almost), and she sort of put him up to it - that's going to load both of them with a lot of guilt.
Anyway, I'm thinking that Jimmy will become Saul only after he loses Kim forever - whether she…

I don't know… I'm not a fan of the time jump. It just screams :'Everybody just sat on their hands for two years!' And the 'Who killed Rebecca'-plot isn't really the most captivating… (I think it's Burton, would be right up his alley) And there wasn't a classic fight scene in the episode… Not convinced yet and to be…

Totally agree with you, but Claremont hasn't been CLAREMONT for a couple of decades now, unfortunately…

Hm. Colossus' Death was what finally drove me away from the X-Men (my favorite character tossed away in such a stupid, pointless fashion). His resurrection brought me back for a little while. But the X-books have been majorly disappointing for ages, now.

Never mind, I was late to the party :-).

So: shooting someone in the woods, Danny Boy = Miller's Crossing. And we all know what went down in the woods in Miller's Crossing. Simone = Bernie Bernbaum?

Yes, this destroyed his career and hurt him really bad as a person. Imagine you're 9 years old, you're starring in what is going to be the coolest movie of the decade, and then you get nothing but vitriolic abuse from almost everyone who has seen the movie. That is soul-shattering.
But the worst line of the entire…

Even McDiarmid was crap. Theatrical grandstanding so more lively than the others, but still crap. And yes, that's totally the writer/director's fault, as he's usually a fine actor.

Deserve hatred they do. Oh yes. And how.
Even though the political backstory is potentially interesting, every single narrative aspect of these three movies is a disaster. The utter stupidity of the entire Jedi Council in the view of Palpatine's 'Look at me, I'm really EEEEEvil - no I'm not' way of hiding in plain…

I don't think Matt and Trey are against fake-PC. I think that they are intelligent, fairly strongl right-leaning libertarians who cannot stand the idea that someone is trying to tell them there are things they cannot do or say. As they aren't moral conservatives, they regularly support some progressive ideas or…

The Gardner Bonds are a very mixed bunch (some are good fun, some godawful) but most of them have excellent hooks for movies.They probably called 'Licence To Kill' 'Licence Revoked' originally to segue into the first Gardner novel, Licence Renewed.
That never happened, but together with the Raymond Benson cardboard…