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What does that mean? Does that mean that we aren't supposed to expect comic book movies to have a decent plot, to be well shot, and to have great performances? I don't buy that at all. We've had some really good comic book movies (X-Men 1 and 2, Spidey 1 and 2, Batman Begins, etc) that had a...

I've got a serious question to ask: Does going to these conventions and watching football really hold back GRRM this much? I mean, we all have hobbies, we all have things going on the side, but how many of us completely slack in our main job and use those things to excuse it? I love Martin, I...

I don't think Desmond time travelled at all. I think it was all in his head. I think he got smacked around by the hatch, had some serious head trauma, and that was his mind's way of handling it. When he got whacked upside the head he woke back up on the island in the present. Now he has this...

I think they are about to ramp that up, according to the preview of next week's episode. I think we are finally going to get the army that Jack and Anna Lucia talked about at the end of a Season 2 episode, and I like it. It's time they started being hostile right back to the Others. I still...

Erikson is different from a lot of fantasy authors with long series because he has it pretty well mapped out and he is putting out books at a quick rate. His first Malazan book was published in 1999, and the 7th is set to come out this year. That's a pretty good rate. Also, we know it will be 10...

Very well put.

Nobody is saying the movies are equal to or better than the book. The movies are a good adaption of the book. But I wasn't even arguing that. My whole point was there were a large number of purists who never gave the movie a chance. Some people hold the book in such high regard that they cannot...

Oh, I agree that it has to be done right. It has to capture the main spirit of the book(s). My main point is some folks don't ever give a movie a chance. As Horace said, there are a large number of fans that hold the text to be some sacred entity and go as far as saying the movies shouldn't even...

I think that is what bothered me the most about the hardcore Tolkienites attitude toward the LoTR movies. Like 'em or dislike 'em, they didn't hurt Tolkien's books in way, form, or fashion, but rather they brought interest from people who had never read or heard of the books and renewed interest...

Martin shocks you with just how brutal his world is. He has often said that he wanted his readers to understand that he is playing for keeps, and he accomplishes that. I've never gotten the feeling that certain characters are safe, even though you figure Jon, Dany, Bran, Arya, etc aren't going...

Sorry man, just didn't want to spoil stuff for those that haven't read.

To Klaus: I have a feeling they will suffer. Martin mentions how sacred the guest right is so many times and how noone before the Freys would dare break it. I just have a feeling that something bad will be visited among those involved. Also, it seems like everyone in this series gets theirs at...

No kidding. I had to put down the book for a day or two after that. Spoilers: When you read that part a second time Martin practically screams ambush at you, but the first time it's like you won't let yourself believe it will actually happen. It's kind of like the execution in AGoT - it really...

I won't argue which is easier to follow - no doubt SR is. About SOTL, that is why I said nearly every sequel rather than all.

We were working on the scenario of someone who had no prior knowledge of anything Superman going to see Superman Returns. Not very realistic, but it was just for discussion sake. I think it isn't very realistic for someone in 1980 to not be aware of at least a little of the Star Wars story. The...

You bring up the point of Luke using the force early in ESB without an explanation, and that is very valid. I would also point out that Superman uses his powers in SR without any explanation of why he has them, which was explained in Superman I. Just saying.

I don't think sequels should delve back into the origins of a character or what happened previously, but one shouldn't blast one sequel for not doing this while praising another for the same thing. You could follow Superman Returns, sure. You could follow ESB also. But do you truly understand...

So if they are filmed at the same time they should be judged as one film? That doesn't make sense. They are three movies released at three different times. It forms one continuous story, but they are separate movies. If you say that TT has no beginning and end, how can you say that FOTR has an...

So, because Two Towers is a middle movie and you need to see FOTR and know about ROTK it is a bad movie and makes no sense? By your reasoning there are no good sequels out there since you are required to watch the first film. I wonder if you will feel the same way if they make a movie about Eldest.

It's obvious now because there have been countless movies made with similar happenings. But in 1977 most people were probably pretty surprised by that. It did have an ending. Vader telling Luke he was his father and then the Falcon escaping and preparing to go save Han is the ending. "I am...