Great effects.  Horrible dialogue.  "Run!" "Don't you get it?  We're at war."

The only film of Night's I'm not too fussed on is Lady in the Water, and even it has some good moments not to mention a terrific score, though I haven't seen Airbender.  I use Unbreakable and The Village with my Grade 10 English students when we study hero and villain characters and they love both films, particularly the Village.  So I think there is a good chance that his films will find new life with later generations who discover them without all the attached hatred of Night.  I for one hope that he continues making films.  I'd rather see a film that attempts to inject some intelligence into the plot rather than a vacuous popcorn blockbuster (i.e. Revenge of the Fallen) any day.

Can't go wrong with suits of battle armour, and throw in a bit of Groundhog Day for good measure.  Interesting.

I don't have much faith in Goyer after the bore-fest that was Flashforward.

I wish I could be JJ Abrams just for a day.  To sit around and talk about robots, aliens, mythology and secret agents all day.  This guy is living my dream. 

Here's an idea for Batman 3, the Gotham police could enlis the help of a master detective, someone who is able to solve the most baffling puzzles- that is, the Riddler- to track down the whereabouts of Batman and bring him to justice.

I loved that this film wasn't afraid to be too smart for the audience.  I had to work hard to keep up with what was going on at times, but it was a pleasure to do so.  Nolan knowingly takes the audience for a ride, but he stays a couple steps ahead the whole time.  Many a time I just shook my head in the darkened theatre and thought 'Nolan, you mad genius'.

Hollywood, enough with the soft magic movies.  Harry Potter has had his day and the world has moved on.  Get into some real gritty epic fantasy.  I don't know why no one has tackled Raymond E Feist's Magician yet.  Or even if you want to go down the  well trodden path of the apprentice-themed plot, the Ursula Le Guin's Earthsea stories are amazing.

The only way they could adapt this into a trilogy is to take the superficial story and ignore all the rest.  It could still make a decent film though- it's a fantasy style universe that's unique and hasn't been done before and Roland is a charismatic character.  But Howard is the wrong choice.  He's way too soft. 

This is the episode that convinced me to abandon the flashforward ship.  It's a great premise gone to waste.  If only there wasn't the need to stretch out the big mystery over an entire season then maybe the show would have a bit more pace.  It's painfully boring.  I love the irony though that a show called 'flashfoward' is going is 'ultra slowmo'.