@Jad: Did you read the Hunger Games books before seeing the movies, Jad? I feel like I remember you talking about having read them a long time ago. I read all the books and liked them, but I've only watched the first movie so far and wasn't really a fan. I feel like part of the problem was that nothing was gonna surprise me because I already knew generally what would happen from reading the books. Or do the movies just get better after the first one?
If Whedon can't keep doing the Avengers movies, then the Russos are probably the best choice. They made what I consider one of the best Marvel movies and have already started to get used to having more than one hero in their movies, and it sounds like Cap 3 will have an even bigger cast. That should mean they're prepared to handle having tons of Avengers all in one movie (or 2, in this case!).
@Hawk: Yeah, I wouldn't really trust any big organization in the Mass Effect universe with that kinda stuff. The Council is full of bickering politicians, and Cerberus is obviously tough to trust with The Illusive Man's methods. Hackett is good people with the Alliance, I guess, but they'd pretty much have to turn anything over to the Council if they want to stay in their good graces. Not to mention the threat of indoctrination from keeping any Reaper tech around. Haha, I'm shocked that you played them like Clint and Bobbi! Did you actually name them Clint and Bobbi, too? Yeah, I read about one of the writers (Patrick Weekes, who actually did the interview I was talking about too, and he was the writer of most of the Tuchanka stuff, so he does good work) who said that Casey Hudson and the lead writer were the only ones to do any work on the ending of ME3. They completely kept the other writers in the dark supposedly and didn't take any feedback or criticism on it. I'd say that ending could've used some criticism. It got plenty after it released, after all. The plan for the ending also got pretty messed up after Drew Karyphyn, the old head writer in ME1, left to work on The Old Republic. He probably would've put a stop to any shenanigans. He wrote KOTOR and some really good Star Wars books too, so he's a good writer. Speaking of DA3, I'm actually looking at playing the DA games eventually. It'd probably be a bit after Christmas that I get around to them, since I bet I'll get a few cool new games to play for Christmas, but the DA games do look pretty cool.
Yeah, it's almost like the Sony executives don't know what a good movie is. With the Fox X-Men movies, I've given up on them being anything like the comics and just hope they put out a movie that's fun to watch, if not anything groundbreaking. I don't have high expectations for them like I do for Marvel movies. I'm excited to see a more comic-like Pietro in AoU, but the DoFP version was fun, even though he really was a totally different character. I feel like Sony follows source material closer, though, even if they're not as close to it as Marvel. Andrew Garfield's Spidey feels like he's taken right from the Ultimate Spidey comics most of the time, except for the fact that they try to jam so much stuff in that you lose cool details like him going to school and working at the Bugle. I feel like we do get plenty of conflict between his regular life and superhero life, but there's just not enough space to flesh it all out because they try to jam 3 villains in a movie for no reason. Instead of seeing him showing up late to class or getting yelled at by Jameson, we just get a few arguments between him and Aunt May and stuff like that. There was some really well done stuff about how he was worried Gwen would be put in danger because of him being Spider-Man, since her father (Captain Stacy, a policeman) got killed in the first movie by the Lizard. Really, I'd say the romance stuff between Peter and Gwen was some of the most well-done stuff in the movies, since they just nailed the casting with both characters. Honestly, Peter's attempts at romance are actually a pretty important part of the character with him never being able to be there for anyone the way he wants to because he's always busy being Spidey, so I don't think it's something that needs to be cut out of the movies. They really should just cut down the action and the amount of villains they cram into movies. It feels like they were trying way too hard to build something as big as the Avengers by setting up the Sinister Six movie and stuff like that for no real reason. They need to just take it one movie at a time instead.