Crichton: "Labor could take days."
Aeryn: "I've killed men for less."

I'm still holding out for Asa Butterfield. A lot of people whinge at the idea, but I like him. He's young-looking enough that he would work, and as he ages, it won't look like someone in his thirties still playing a high schooler.

Yeah, it's a really odd plan they have.

In one sentence, you captured the essence of Spider-Man in a way that five whole films never managed to.

To be fair, the Russo Brothers - who made hands-down one of the best superhero movies ever - were only known for You, Me, and Dupree and various sitcoms before they made The Winter Soldier. Perhaps it's best to reserve judgment.

"My name is Peter Parker, and I've been Spider-Man since sometime last week."

People like that are the reason they keep bringing characters back from the dead in comic books & superhero movies.

HULK KNOW SHE-HULK IS COUSIN, RIGHT?

Aside from most of the Bible, probably not.

I'm suddenly picturing Kevin Feige as Lemongrab, and it works.

To be fair, AoU has problems. Man of Steel was terrible in its entirety.

Originally, in the cave scene, Thor was supposed to be possessed by this water spirit that can see the future or whatever. Dr. Selvig was there to ask the spirit questions, which it would answer by speaking through Thor. Because the scene got cut to ribbons, he served no purpose in the film, but they couldn't cut him…

The Aether can basically reverse the laws of physics. Gravity stops being a thing, space collides in on itself, light becomes darkness. Stuff like that.

Someone should write an accurate article about it.

He even says that test audiences are what killed the cave scene. Because it didn't involve a robot suit punching a green monster, the middle school dropouts they get for these things said they didn't like it. Marvel wanted it out completely, or they'd nix the farmhouse stuff. Eventually, Whedon managed to get to keep…

The Avengers wasn't a Joss Whedon movie?

What's made a big difference is that the 3D screenings have earned only about a quarter of what they did during the first film's opening weekend. If anything, it's a sign that 3D has already reached its tipping point, and that's even better.

The editing is eyebrow-raising, to put it as lightly as I can. There are scenes - or small snippets of scenes - that probably could have been cut to add an extra minute or two to Thor's subplot in order for it to, you know, make sense to people who aren't paying super close attention to it.

Yeah, that whole bit was obviously cut short to reduce running time. It's unfortunate, too, because there are other areas of the film that were left in that could have been trimmed to allow more room for Thor's vision quest. Oh, well. Hopefully it'll feel like less of a rush job in the extended cut.

I kind of hate myself for recognizing the inaccuracies in this.