TDK has very little fun in it. I think that's kind of why I like it. I'm just really in awe with how dark the movie is and how Nolan brings us to that slowly but sure. I thought it was possible (for example) that both boats of tourists would blow up. If that scene had occurred earlier in the movie it wouldn't have had so much tension as it did when it occurred.

The new movie will likely have even LESS fun, but I like that. Batman has always been one of my favorite superheroes and I like him because he is dark.

Thing is, Hunger Games ain't exactly happy happy joy joy. I think HG is worse.

Fun is not why I show up for Batman, ever. Nor Hunger Games. Their appeal is very different from fun.

Avengers--I expect that to be fun. I don't mind getting stabbed a couple times, but I'm sure there'll be fun.

I'm just reassured by the fact that Black Widow is neither crazy nor a slender harmless-looking waif, thus unlikely to take over the movie.

She's a slightly hippy harmless-looking waif, and I really wish he'd cast deliberately against type, or even slightly for it.

Spoilers on a well-trafficked sci fi blog: expired window for The Others, yay or nay?

Like, if I say "Don't tell me how [movie x] ends!" I think it's just polite to skip the whole resurrection part of the New Testament in response to me, but if a movie came out 10+years ago, I don't think expecting people to warn you before they discuss the end of it is reasonable on a movie discussion site.

Disagree?

and I really wish he'd cast deliberately against type, or even slightly for it.

She was already cast before he came on the project, though, right? Wasn't Iron Man 2 shooting before he got The Avengers?

Yeah, probably. I doubt he got much leeway in casting period, to be honest.

I just wish for more casting of even vaguely reasonable women. I swear the shot in IM2 where she loosed her hair appeared very "Okay, gotta hide my face now!" She was no use for any vaguely convincing transitions.

Almost anyone's going to pale in comparison now that I've seen Hayley Atwell as a Marvel action heroine. If she struck a single false note in Captain America I must have blinked and missed it.

I think Gina Carano could have made a great turn as a woman who kills with her thighs. Her triangle was a high point of Haywire. And it's not like it's a thespian turn, with the size of Black Widow's role. She'd have been serviceable at the acting and brilliant at the action. Which I think is better than what we got, in total.

I liked Chronicle. I'd never seen a found footage movie before, so I don't know how they normally handle the conceit. This was done pretty well, I think. Over 90% of the footage made sense with the parameters they'd set up.

It's been a while since I watched Akira, but I don't think you can have a passing familiarity with it and not get a Tetsuo vibe, really. It's very there.

I think it did a good job of painting teenaged boys as a vicious nasty but somehow not inherently flawed lot. A fair amount of nastiness there in general.

Fun, and I only had to look away to preserve my head a few times (although most of the audio felt too loud).

Seems like the perfect movie to have something after the end credits, but there's nothing there, FYI.