Ironik

Once again proving why I should read further down before posting.

That must just be for Friday, because for the weekend it was 47% down. Plus, $9 million doesn't beat $24 million.

And if you're a fan of movies like 40-Year-Old Virgin and other Apatow flicks, go see Bridesmaids. It is altogether disgusting and hilarious, with very little of the sappy crap you find in chick flicks of this genre. It's basically an Apatow film that has girls instead of guys in it. Melissa McCarthy was brutally funny, basically stealing the movie.

Every movie is experienced for the first time by somebody. You can avoid spoilers by not reading about the film, but putting the twist ending in the movie's marketing is a dick move.

Seeing a movie or TV show "cold" is always the best way to see it, because you get the experience of the story unfolding for the first time. I really feel sad for kids these days, because there is so much information out there and their culture seems predicated on knowing the answers ahead of time. What a dull life that has no surprises. No sense of adventure, no thrill of discovery. Just pseudo-hipster dillweeds spoiling things for everyone because they think it's cool or something.

My 13-year-old cousin saw The Terminator for the first time over the holidays. He didn't know anything about it and was completely blown away by the film and by the cool ending. He raved about it for months. Because it really *is* a cool movie, something the emo kewl doods refuse to recognize. Good thing someone like Halcyon wasn't around to ruin that experience for him.

Nick Fury in the Ultimate universe is the same as in the regular 616 universe, he's just Samuel L. Jackson instead of Clint Eastwood. Everything else is the same, including his WWII backstory. Hawkeye and Hulk are the only other carry-overs from the UU. I didn't see anything from UU in Thor, because the UU Thor is a terrible character and they rightfully ignored it.

The TV show Friends used to be the worst at this, giving away every single thing that was going to happen.

What Lies Beneath was completely spoiled by the trailer.

The original Planet of the Apes was spoiled by the freakin' POSTER.

It has been answered, but I'll do it again.

Overall, the movie is extremely faithful to the comics. Like Iron Man, they changed some minor things and used the best bits from various sources. At the time IM came out, Adi Granov's design of the armor was the coolest out there, so they adapted that version for film, and it works beautifully. However, they managed to have their cake and eat it, too, by having Stark's first cave-made armor resemble the original Iron Man suit. Jarvis became an AI rather than a person, but that makes more sense in the 20th century for a tech wizard like Tony Stark.

Similarly, Straczynski's reboot of Thor has beats that they used for the film (hammer falling in the American Southwest, Thor ending up in a small town -- although in Oklahoma rather New Mexico), but like IM, they used Olivier Copiel's redesign of Thor's outfit and extrapolated everyone else's from it. A very good idea, in my opinion, because Thor has never looked cooler. Asgard and all the characters there were true to the comic book versions, although obviously less time could be spent on some than others. The reason Thor was exiled is the same as in the comic. The only major change was that "Donald Blake" was just a temporary alias of Thor's rather than Thor's actual secret identity. Like Jarvis, though, I think that was a better choice.

I had the same experience. I know three women who had zero interest in it until they saw the trailers and thought, "Hey, intriguing." And they all enjoyed it immensely. I see a lot more positive word-of-mouth from women than men, actually.

As a moderate fan of Buffy and a huge fan of Angel, I was anticipating Firefly. The first episode they showed was the train robbery one, which was not nearly as good as the pilot, an episode that is almost perfectly plotted with the character reveals timed to an amazing degree. That said, the train robbery wasn't a terrible episode, it was just lackluster. Come to find out that they had literally written it over a weekend when Fox said they weren't going to show the pilot first, and it's impressive that the thing is watchable at all.

Fox seemed to offer a mea culpa by allowing Dollhouse to run past its natural expiration date (and by Fox's standards, allowing it to run past episode 3 was a major admission of guilt), and they certainly gave Human Target a fair shake despite its middling ratings, but this year they've reverted to their usual practice of letting a show go after it fails to be an immediate hit.

It's time for a new direction in TV dramas. I present to you, Doctor Officer!

Yeah, that's been a bugaboo for me for years. Put a show in a slot and leave it there. Let the audiences find it and let it build a fan base. Cheers is the classic example of this. It did terribly at first, but the audience built for it until it became the number one show in America and is known everywhere. We can't watch it if we can't find it.

I totally would if you'd stop lighting your farts. "Back-Fire" should NOT be taken so literally, man.

Ooh, yeah!