….So when it makes 2 Billion or so at the box office it will because 20,000 nerds saw it 10,000 times?
(And not because, you know, a series can have huge mainstream popularity while also having a near religious following in a fringe audience.)

Except the violence is too heightened- the heroes in Watchmen are meant to be ordinary people, yet Synder stages the action scenes like they have super strength and are highly trained in various martial arts, with the use of slow-motion highlightng the fakeness of it all.
If he wanted to show a sense of 'what happens…

Well part of the problem with Watchman (the film), I feel- is that Zack Snyder didn't really seem to understand the themes in the graphic novel, which ends up making it feel very hollow. He'd lift scenes nearly directly from the comic, but his slight visual changes, the acting choices, or shifts in the dialogue would…

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But the choice not to show him saving any people makes it all impersonal, and feel like the final act is more about watching the city being destroyed than it is about Superman saving people.
(Which is a fine line most of these super-hero movies walk, because audiences like watching big explosions and action set-pieces,…

In which case it would have been good if the film took some time to emphasise the fact that he was trying to protect humans- (one of the few things Amazing Spiderman 2 did right, funnily enough. And it's also something I liked about the Avengers 1 finale, with Cap's speech about isolating the fight as much as…

It'd have been interesting to see the film with Robert Downey Jr in the role of Duckie (as I've heard he was the original choice)- as he would have definetly given the role a different energy to Cryer (and could have made Duckie feel more believable as a romantic choice.)

Apparently Mick Jagger tried his hand at screenwriting sometime in the 90's, and hired Craig Ferguson to write with him (the relationship quickly detiorated when they couldn't agree on the direction of the script…at least that's how Craig Ferguson tells the story.)

I actually heard that reason he wrote Spin the Bottle was because Alexis Denisof and Charisma Carpenter talked about missing playing the earlier versions of the characters (which made him start thinking about how he might be able to write a story that would allow them to play those versions of the characters, while…

To me the blowing up the suits kinda gets retconned alittle to be more of a symbolic gesture to Pepper about scaling back the distractions, and trying to find a different approach too kepping the world safe.
(So rather than an army of suits, he now has a couple of suits and a small group of drones…and has been…

From memory the song on the bagpipes at Fry's funeral was 'Walking on Sunshine' (A nice call back.)

Not exactly- they had a fairly established crew under Vic Armstrong through the Pierce Brosnan films, but under Daniel Craig the director has appeared to have more say.
(For Quantum of Solace Marc Forster specifically brough in Dan Bradley, who worked on the Bourne Series, in an attempt to go for a Bourne-esque style.)

New-Line actually tried to make the argument that they didn't make any money off LOTR (from memory) in order to avoid paying Peter Jackson and the Tolkien Estate their percentages of the box-office grosses.
(Which lead to some high-profile lawsuits that delayed the Hobbit for quite some time….and ironically the amount…

….I thought it was one of the highlights, as it actually felt like it was a real creature, unlike most of the other dino's in the film.
(And there is something oddly symbolic about this scene- basically the only anamatronic dinosaur, slaughtered by a very CGI looking beast.)

This was pretty much the only scene with a practical Dino- the CGI in the trailer is pretty representative of the film.
If you're just going for the effects- you will be disapointed…but it has an old-school adventure film feel to it, that does make it worth the watch.

I think the more mixed reaction to Dark Knight Rises has created abit of backlash against the film (along with the Nolan becoming such a name after Dark Knight that the recurring troupes at work in his films become more apparent on re-watches.)
Personally I always thought Batman Begins was the superior Batman movie,…

One thing worth noting with the Golden Compass is that when it under-performed in the US, New-Line sold off the international distrubtion rights in a bid to try and make back some money…except it then ended up doing much better internationally than anyone expected, but New Line didn't see any of the money.
Then New…

He actually made Wild At Heart during the first season of Twin Peaks, and had limited involvement during the second half of the first season because of this- (Basically from the fourth episode of the season onwards, Frost was the primary show-runner and Lynch had very little involvement until they started working on…

…Another problem with the script is that Marc Forster actively decided to cut down on dialogue sequences, as he wanted it action heavy and under two hours, which makes the film even more like it wasn't working with a complete script.

'You know what's great about you English? Octopussy! I must've seen that movie…twice!'