Wait, please tell me why that is a question. I have no idea what you people are talking about.

It's only a question because this is a time travel movie and shit like that can happen, and the movie went from a dead Joe to a live Cid, and it felt like there was something else about to be revealed since the ending was kind of abrupt. Also, Joe, you could have just shot your hand or something, geez.

I think you really have to want it to be a fucked up ending to go there. Now, I wanted double penetration (Eiffel Tower style) to fix the end of Cabin In The Woods, but that seems just theorising for disturbance's sake. It's not a question that Joe doesn't time travel as a child and doesn't have TK and has no scar on his cheek. How is that even remotely an issue? There isn't time travel during Joe's childhood. And we'd have had the inserting memories if things had been happening to him to change his history.

That's weird.

As for shooting his hand--if the blunderbuss never misses within 15 feet (or strides--I think they said both) how do you achieve that? Also, you'd have to be sure that he can't shoot with the other hand, or he doesn't get a prosthesis or ... or ... There's a reason that policemen are trained for two centre mass shots, and don't try and wing the bad guy except for in the flashy movies.

You have to be sure, when big things are on the line.

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the fucked up question came up because at the end there were parallel scenes of hair on forehead being brushed away and Beau said that the kid sometimes had the same facial expression as JGL . I think that was the director getting arty, of course.

Pardon my ignorance; what's TK?

It's telekinesis.

Yeah, that was pretty much just a callback for emotional resonance, I figure. Nothing else lined up.

I think at that point she was all mothers, the mother he never had, yadda yadda, but when he slept with her, she was pretty much Mother, just not his genetically. That was her sole function in the movie.

I watched Avengers on the plane coming over here and my main question about Hawkeye remains, why the bow and arrow? His power is he can see really well, so I get why he's good with a bow and arrow, I just want to see that first conversation where he convinces the military top brass that a bow with trick arrows is a better investment for him than, say, a sniper rifle with trick bullets.

(I also realize that this is a completely stupid thing to get hung up on given that this movie contains Actual Norse Gods, cryo-revival, and an interdimensional portal, but still.)

I think trick arrows are a better conceptual sell than trick bullets. Ignore the bit where 99% of them won't fly or perform as shown. What do trick bullets do? How do you get the right bullet into your gun for the task at hand?

Never mind the visuals and general comic reticence about guns and heroes. Don't see as many as you'd expect. And Batman is very pissy. Don't want to make him mad. I mean, unless you're Helena.

We had 21 minutes of trailers and the silly Nemo shark-will-eat-you ad. Is that standard? Some were pretty creepy. I can't wait to read how Mama turns out.

I just assumed that the trick arrows had mechanisms too big to put in a bullet, or that would be damaged by being fired out of a gun.

They're always rope or foam or something...in comics the hero's usually not shooting to kill, unless it's Frank Castle, or summat. So gun's aren't a straight swap.

Watching parts of the Planet Of The Apes movie, and I dig where it ended--I thought the apes went on much more of a rampage than they actually did--that was just a damaging escape, pretty much. Is there an estimate of how many uplifted primates that was?

Do they cover the distinction between intelligence and knowledge? I mean--I wouldn't have been able to break myself out of that place, so I'm assuming they got boosted past an IQ of 100--as noted, I came in late. I can see how some of them had an opportunity to learn, because they'd been exposed to the drug for a while, but when Caesar dosed all his pen pals and they rampage to set the other experimental subjects free, they seem to move with an informed purpose I don't understand when or where they had a chance to acquire.

I did find it very not uncanny valley--the intelligent apes were distinct by posture and eyes before much was done, but it felt reasonably visually plausible. Props to the FX and Serkis and his co-apes.