re: #77 Dr Lizardo

Yeah, that looks good. Backstory is a wee bit different (namely that the atomic testing in the 1950s/1960s wasn’t what created the kaiju. It’s our attempts to kill what we found in the Pacific.

Other movies that look good this summer? Guardians of the Galaxy (what a bunch of a-holes). Scarjo’s Lucy looks like a real mind trip - Luc Besson’s got a most impressive visual style, and this looks to be a worthy successor to Fifth Element on that front.

Saw Winter Soldier this weekend, and I give it a hearty two thumbs up. More than your usual comic book fare. It’s a political thriller dressed up as a comic book movie. Real depth of characters, including Black Widow. Robert Redford definitely chewed up the scenery, and it was glorious. I was half expecting him to rip off a mask to reveal Red Skull, but that would have been too much. There was enough humor and playful teases to other parts of the Marvel Universe, to say nothing of pop culture (and no, there’s no spoilers to be given away here other than Sam Jackson having to leave references to his other famous movie characters along the way).