I know it’s a bit early, but mark in your calendars that the sequel to Marvel’s “The Avengers”–currently known as The Avengers 2–will be released May 1, 2015.
And in other Marvel-related news, according to Superherohype James Gunn is the front runner to direct “Guardians Of The Galaxy.”
I am not quite sure that I agree with that decision, especially since Payton Reed, who’s also in the running, directed “Bring It On,” which was so entertaining that it actually made me care about cheerleading (I still don’t think that it’s a sport, though I am not sure that there’s a director anywhere that can change that).
SCREENPHILES 
I’m counting down the days to this already! The first movie was magnificent, and I’m really glad that the same director will be back for the sequel! I just know it’ll be awesome.
I have to agree. It was great to see that Marvel was able to create a movie that was not only exciting, but FUN (something beyond Chris Nolan’s ability, it seems).
That’s very true!
Exciting! I can’t wait 🙂
Yeah, it’s going to be all sorts of awesome!
Hmm, I disagree about the “Christopher Nolan” comment, though, I thought every batman movie had it’s moments of lighthearted fun.
There may have been a few subtle jokes, but on the whole “The Dark Knight Rises” took itself way too seriously. I tend to despise directors of genre films that somehow think that such films are somehow beneath them; which is the opposite of the problem “The Dark Knight Rises” faced.
TDKR wasn’t necessarily “dark” more so than needlessly muddy, in an effort to find a realism that the director ignored whenever convenience dictated. For instance, do you recall when Bane beat Batman (He also needs to find a better fight choreographer, btw)?
What did he decide to do? He takes him to a prison ON ANOTHER CONTINENT! Now, I understand that if he were to have killed him, it would anger a lot of fans, but that would have been a realistic response to the situation. So he not only ends up doing something extraordinarily stupid, but he also ends up doing something inconsistent with the character (who is portrayed up to that point as being so dangerous and ruthless) and inconsistent with the very realism Chris Nolan seems to champion.
Please don’t construe my issues with TDKR to show that I don’t like dark stories, because I do. What I take issue with is when the fantastic is made mundane in an effort to impart realism to something that isn’t.
The Batman isn’t realistic, and to make characters like him so will end up more muddled than anything else.