I wouldn't be too concerned with any GdT project until the Hobbit stuff is done. And that's going to take a while.

No, it really doesn't. If I sat through two hours I'm going to want to know how it ends, because I've invested two hours. That doesn't imply it's any good. One thing has nothing to do with the other.

If the story is worth telling, spoilers can't kill it.

How? That doesn't make any sense.

I read some of the comic after seeing the film, and yeah, a bunch of those ideas were Millar's. But the movie version actively bugged me, while the comic version just seemed goofy and dismissable. Not saying it's a rational response, but the movie angered me in a way the comic has no power to.

Yeah, that was me being an idiot. Thanks for pointing it out.

The Hangover: Escape From Butcher Bay. Vin Diesel needs another hit.

Mike, no one wants to see anyone who makes a movie succeed at it more than I do. But McFarlane has had over twenty years to prove he's got the sensibility to tell a good, character-oriented story, and the closest he got was making Spider-Man double-jointed. As soon as you set the guy on something with a writer's pen or real creative control, things get ugly.

I'll happily eat my words if this movie works, but I'm not going to put off any upcoming meals waiting for that feast to happen.

I hate that you'd even think to ask that, but I guess it's a fair question. So: no, not at all.

I make the comparison because they both had a certain image as pretty guys in big movies, but each proved (or, in Franco's case, is proving) more talent and ability than people would have afforded them early on.

I did not. Pretty much the whole thing is spoiler text.