I just got back, and I loved it. I'm still in that stage where the film is swirling around in my head too quickly for concrete opinions to form, but my initial reaction is very positive.

Films 2 and 3 of the Swedish trilogy feel more like TV movies (probably due to the fact that they literally are). I don't even like the first Swedish film much. It just feels uninterested and uninvested in the characters.

Oh yeah, I heard about that movie. Seems like it could be alright. That Nolan guy seems like he's got talent.

Here's my story about that trailer: I saw Mission Impossible on Thursday night at an early screening (it's great, by the way, check it out). I saw it in IMAX, knowing full well that my theater would not have the DKR prologue. Instead, out of the blue, I was treated to this. In IMAX. Needless to say, it was a pleasant surprise.

I keep seeing this all over the internet. Good for you guys!

Hey, those are my bad jokes mostly all of them!

I always found the controversy over the "full retard" line akin to the people who got angry at Randy Newman because they thought he actually hated short people.

The Intermission might be a great way to talk about franchises. Is it worth it to do commentaries for all 87 Friday the 13th movies? Maybe the first one would inspire a full conversation, but the rest of them all together would make a fun discussion in brief.

I think that we can excuse the arc reactor, the serum, and certainly vibranium as Movie Science. Or maybe we can link them because they all come from Howard Stark, and "genius movie scientist" isn't really a magic bean. The Cosmic Cube is the closest thing that the universe has to a true magic bean (or maybe it's more of a Macguffin, because it's the thing that everyone wants and, as far as we know, it's nothing but a glowing box). The magic/science that comes from Thor's world is the most absurd thing, and since Loki is the villain of The Avengers, that will probably be the magic bean.

Pop culture has been accepting the Marvel Universe and its countless magic beans for a while. And even people who don't know anything about it will acknowledge that, since it's a comic book movie about superheroes, things are going to be ridiculous.

The problem is that all of those are so much simpler than they appear.

The toughest one for me was the flower that The Crow is holding in its beak. It's "Iris".