This has got to be a Bialystock and Bloom scam, right?

Ah yes, the movie that made sex and violence deeply, deeply boring.

Ok, but I don't see how that's responsive to the question of why the Ancient One's casting.

Given that they relocated the Ancient One's sanctum to Nepal, I think that excuse doesn't hold water, since they could have made the Ancient One Nepalese.

Wonderful news!

Yep. Ford is trying to create emergent sentience.

No mention of Maltese Falcon (1941) vs. Maltese Falcon (1931) and (1936)?

Agreed. I like a good anti-hero, but the lack of variation gets to you over time.

I would second this. The movie has a streamlined propulsion that is quite superb, whereas the book is incredibly draggy and is bogged down with a lot of plot tangents.

You left out the best part of this story: the official motto of the strike is "NO JUSTICE, NO PEEPS"

The movie isn't super-explicit about it, but it looks like the bank basically tricked a sick old woman into a reverse mortgage that was too low to do her any good, but just enough that they knew she couldn't pay them back, so that they could take her land.

Seems to me there's a very straightforward way to do a Black Widow solo movie: Natasha goes looking for the Red Room.

Yep. Here's the thing: when you do the FF period, all of the things you need to fix in the present just work. Reed being an arrogant no-it-all square who still gets away with it? It's the space race, and scientists are heroes. Sue feeling invisible? It's the pre-second wave feminism 1960s.

I'll say it straight up, Tom Hardy's the better actor.

^ This. Really felt like a case of Chekov's Subsidence that didn't go off.

Counter argument: Hiddleston is the femme fatale, Edith is the detective, the Doctor is Scatman Crothers in the Shining.

To be honest, the only flaw I found in the movie was what doesn't (or does) happen to the house itself in the final act. Felt like a missed opportunity. Otherwise, it's great.

Urg…flashback to Pearl Harbor (the Affleck movie).

Thompson's Teeth! The only teeth strong enough to eat other teeth!

I think it's a generational thing. Cyclops and Mr. Fantastic always struck me as the same kind of emotionally repressed asshole type-A people who came off as Leaders of Men in the 50s and early 60s, and who now are just unbearable.