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.

Danny Strong to write 'Hunger Games' [two-part] finale.

Coooool! Check out that Emmy power!

With the powers of DVR, I am watching Shutter Island (I'll get over this new-fangled contraption soonish) and, when Leo finds the kids in the lake I lost it. More than when I first saw it.

Still love the ambience of the whole movie. Still have no clue how all the stories hold up, but I still love it.

Danny Strong to write 'Hunger Games' [two-part] finale.

Jesus Christ, that's huge!! Go Danny. Do us nerds proud.

That's awesome. Go Danny!

Did we know about this? [link]

Yes, yes we did. It's been a long time coming, though. There were photos from filming ages ago.