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As a fan of the movie Stripes I liked this episode.

Tom Hooper's style: Love it? or Hate it? I first noticed his odd framing choices and frequent use of close ups shot with a wide angle lens in The King's Speech("Why are they showing so much wallpaper?") I didn't really mind at the time because it kept it from looking like the typical Masterpiece Theater period piece. When Les Miserables that's when everybody started commenting on it. I think it works in scenes like Anne Hathaway's big moment as Fantine singing "I Dreamed a Dream", but the rest of the movie it's overused. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SyQ-0JOF1Qk

The problem was they only have enough time to focus on the central mystery which Hermione is key in solving, but they didn't have time to go into the day-to-day school where Ron and his friendship are equally important to Harry. They usually do one scene in a classroom each movie and I understand more would be repetitive. I always thought that a TV show would be much better adaptation of the books so you could explore each school year fully.

I think the eyebrowing acting really started in Goblet of Fire. The train scene after the Quidditch Cup it's very noticable.

I loved when Susanna Thompson was Dax' wife in a previous life in the episode "The Rejoining" in Star Trek Deep Space Nine:

I think everybody who was in The Conquerer regretted it since they unknowingly filmed downwind of a nuclear test site in Nevada and most of the cast later ended up dying of cancer: Wayne, Dick Powell, Pedro Armandirez, Susan Hayward, Agnes Moorehead. Out of 220 cast and crew, 91 had developed some form of cancer and 46 died from the disease. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Conqueror_(film)#Cancer_controversy

I think there's still a way to make him like the mainstream Hawkeye. MCU takes a lot from the Ultimate comics but not everything. Steve/Captain America is a far more progressive guy in the movies than the Ultimates version.

Except for the part where Harry drinks the Felix Felicis(liquid luck) which wasn't memorable to me in the book but was brought to life in a hilarious way by Dan basically acting like Harry was really high! It's still one of the funniest scenes in the series. It's funny that most of the magic in Half Blood Prince was brought to life through the acting instead of special effects: Harry on liquid luck, Ron under the love potion, Dumbledore drinking the horcrux potion, the "Unbreakable Vow". Even the pensieve scenes are basically flashbacks. I think Mike Newell, being the first British director and who had actually gone a real English public school(St. Albans) brought a lot of his experiences to it. The scene where they're talking about who they're going to ask out to the Yule Ball. In the book they're in the common room or something but in the movie they're taking some kind of test in the Great Hall with Snape overseeing it. Ron and Harry get caught talking and Snape whacks them in the back of the head and it's one of the funniest scenes in the movie to me. Only a British person would come up with that and make it funny! An American like Chris Columbus wouldn't think a teacher hitting a student would be a joke. Also when Harry goes to see Cedric to warn him about the dragons and he's in a quad lounging on a bench surrounded by fellow Hufflepuffs. Little details like that. I always thought if Hermione(Emma) wasn't the prettiest girl in most of the movies fans wouldn't have that sentiment(no offense Fleur fans, but it's TRUE). It makes it seem like she is getting so much attention because she's attractive. This joke from Modern Family tells you how Hermione is seen by the general public:

I just saw Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol again on TV recently and I like him a lot in that movie, how he plays off Cruise and Simon Pegg. Hawkeye is not a great character on his own in the comics but he really is vital as part of the Avengers and I want to see that reflected in the new movie.

First look at Ultron on the cover of the new Entertainment Weekly: Link to the EW.com article which contains some plot spoilers: http://popwatch.ew.com/2014/07/16/this-weeks-cover-avengers-age-of-ultron/

John Oliver did a very good job of pretending to be worked up about Lord Grantham's latest f@#k up on Downton Abbey even though he never actually watches it and gives a good explanation of why in this video:

In The Godfather when Luca Brasi pays homage to Don Corleone at his daughter's wedding, the actor was so nervous acting in front of Marlon Brando that he kept fumbling his lines and he couldn't get it right. Finally director Francis Ford Coppola decided to use it and later shot the scene that comes earlier of him by himself at the wedding rehearsing the lines: "Don Corleone, I am honored and grateful that you have invited me to your home on the wedding day of your daughter. And may their first child be a masculine child." That way whe Luca messes it up later it becomes payoff of a joke!

Or as Bono from U2 once said on Conan O'Brien's show(6:30 mark): "An American will look up at the mansion on a hill and think 'One day I'm going to live in that mansion." while in Ireland they look up at the mansion on the hill and think "Someday.... I'm going to get that son of a bitch!"

My favorite part of that is when they cut to a hotel room and you see the the aftermath of Jack's rampage with the bodies on the floor and the camera moves up to see final guy crawling on the floor trying to reach a phone band Jack stabbing him in the back with a fireplace poker! Heller's speech to the British PM made me cry.

Peggy Carter going to touch Steve's chest after his transformation in Captain America: The First Avenger was an unscripted move on Hayley Atwell's part.

Her aunt whom she always heard great things about from her mother and grandmother and whom she had admired and wanted to meet. Or she could just be a naturally sweet girl who was expressing her real feelings and should not be blamed for whatever issues Lin has with her mother. How are we to judge Korra for what she did is when we as viewers were all disturbed by Lin's behavior and also wanted to know what was bothering her(even watching the next episode that leaked online). Korra cares about Lin and wanted to help her.

I love the "Literal Video Verson" of it:

You mean that she wants to see that the chief of police is still adult who is still capable of being reasoned with? If Lin told them right away to go away then I would agree Korra was crossing the line but she told them to stay. Lin has a right to feel how she feels while Korra has the right to say that it sucks.

Okay now I want Kate McKinnon to bring back her Angela Merkel impression and bragging in the premiere. "Ve vun! Ve have vun zee Vorld Cup!"

David Anders is always a great villain. He was so fantastic as Sark on Alias. I like the part where John, not trusting Moira and spying on her follows her into a restaurant and bursts in to find that it's just her friend's 50th birthday party and embarrassed says "Pardon me ladies, I need to use the bathroom!"

It's kind of distracting to me that she looks like Judd Apatow's wife.

I can enjoy the fights whether they're based on choreography or emotions. The DVD commentary to The Princess Bride where either Rob Reiner or writer William Goldman talked about how do you top the early fight between Indigo and Wesley which had all these great choreography and acrobatics and they realized that the fight between Indigo and Count Rugen(the Sixth Fingered Man) actually is the greatest fight in the movie because of the emotions involved with Indigo finally avenging his father. Liam Neeson also had an even better fight against Tim Roth in Rob Roy. Roth's style along with his whole attitude is frightening.

It's an interesting thing that on the one hand, I think the many sequels do diminish the impact of the original Rocky, which is a genuinely great movie. But on the other, it's the sequels that helped make Rocky Balboa an icon and still part of pop culture thirty years later.

Favorite moment will always be from Identity when Felicity is complaining to Ollie about her new cover as his secretary when that's not what she went to MIT for and Diggle just casually snarks(as he takes a bite of c) "Well it could be worse. My secret identity is his 'black driver'".

Yes, kidnapping people and forcing them to be soldiers against their will to possibly conquer other nations is an "extreme" form of Tenzin getting overexcited at at last fulfilling his father's dream of restoring the Air nation by being too pushy on people.