Thanks, everyone. Fingers remain crossed.

*beg -- My first ever sub, and my only PPoint.

Upvote. Primarily for SG-1 and, yeah, even the Atlantis inclusions.

Serves you right for trusting ANYTHING to the mercies of a being named Loki.

Regardless of whether the actual film sucks or not, this trailer has unforgivably bad music mixing going on. Zero punch whatsoever. The E.S. Posthumus mix from the original Sam Raimi film's first big trailer makes this sound like a kindergarten kazoopalooza.

Actually, the kindergarten kazoopalooza would have sounded better. It would at least have scored points for bravery.

And exactly who is supposed to fill the enormous galoshes left by J K Simmons as J Jonah Jameson? Probably a very hard-working, well-intentioned actor with no shortage of talent, but I feel for him, whoever he may be, without even having seen his face or heard his voice. Clearly the studio saw fit not to include him in this trailer.

I want to believe this won't be a bad film. It will be a very long time before a real-life President lives up to the fictional model created by Martin Sheen. I have zero beef with Denis Leary as Captain Stacey, nor with Rhys Ifans as Curt Connors, even as badly as I wanted to see Dylan Baker do it under Raimi's skilled hand. I want to give people a fair shot at doing good work. But the leadup to this film ain't making it easy.

[EDIT] -- Just to prove the point, it's a poor quality link, but THIS is how you mix a trailer:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mFtYmWb9FQA

I miss Sam Raimi mixing with Marvel, but I have reasonably high hopes for Joss Whedon.

There's just something so righteous about the formula:

Blackadder > Tom Cruise.

Where's the sift on his journey back down?

Yeah yeah, seen the system before a while back. Love it, mouth foaming, etc.

But he gets the Upsift for, "I am a professional Russian!"

I suppose there's got to be a line in there somewhere like, "In Soviet Russia, butt-kicking shotgun wields YOU!"

"I didn't let THEM kill him and that's not the same thing."

Oh yeah. Even almighty Clint could not have pulled this off the way Bronson did. Plus, Henry Fonda as perhaps not quite the same clean-cut goody goody you may be used to.

Wilhelm Scream at 1:23 FTW.

Upvote simply for the brand new channel "The Wehrmacht ain't what it used to be". Gotta put the smoke grenade clip in along with it. More, please.

I don't think I'm too far off base to assert that the vast majority of folks, probably including a court of law, would find a large difference between:

1) an activist, who might even go so far as to march in the streets, against the order of civil authority, to protest laws perceived as unjust, hoping to persuade the nation to get said law removed or changed, but still remaining part of the nation that produced said law, and

2) a secessionist, who has decided that they and their whole State should simply be allowed to quit and leave the nation, no matter what the rest of that nation thinks about it.

One seeks to change the nation of which they're a part, and the other seeks to quit that nation, and take a significant chunk of that nation with it.

Also - indeed, merely seeking a vote might not necessarily be in and of itself an act of insurrection or rebellion, but the act of secession itself would, assuming of course that the rest of the nation wasn't inclined to go along. So, then, where does the difference lie? If 14, 49, 51, or even 99 percent of Alaskans voted to secede, and Congress and the rest of the nation wasn't inclined to go along, and if the Alaskans then pressed their case with force of arms (or even civil disobedience in that particular case), they'd pretty definitively be guilty of insurrection and/or rebellion. Trying to get a vote on an act of rebellion doesn't make it not rebellion. Even the original American Revolution was an out-and-out rebellion. We just happened to win, which I don't think Alaska would be able to pull off against the rest of the US.

Now, as far as I'm concerned, if the Palins and a tenth of a percent of Alaska want to go, let 'em. Maybe China will give 'em a state-sponsored home. The "secession" of a single family, whether it be the Palins, the Bushes, the Rockefellers, or the Kennedys, makes me no never mind in the grand scheme. Also, as far as I'm concerned, there are far more serious reasons to avoid having Sarah Palin in any high office.

However, if Alaska successfully left and took the Palins with them, that would then mean Palin was no longer a US Citizen, and thus again Constitutionally barred from most high offices, either State or Federal.

I'd pay money to see her try to re-immigrate though - she'd have to pass the Citizenship test, and I'll just bet they don't allow notes on your palm for that one.

Nordlich's posting of the text of the 14th Amendment sparked an interesting set of notions and questions in my head:

1) If I'm reading it correctly, Section 3 specifically prohibits anyone from holding high office, either State or Federal, if they have previously taken an oath of such office, again, either State or Federal, and then "engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof."

2) Sarah Palin served as Governor of Alaska (until she quit, anyway), while being married to Todd Palin, who for the better part of seven-odd years was a registered member of the Alaskan Independence Party, which actively seeks to break the State of Alaska away from the Union.

3) The last time States sought to break away from the Union, around, say, 1861 or so, it was pretty definitively classified as an "insurrection or rebellion".

4) I can only assume Sarah Palin would engage in "giving aid and comfort" to her husband, or even go so far as to embrace some of his ideals.

If this series of connections holds up, would that not then mean that, barring a specifically-called two thirds majority vote in both houses of Congress, Sarah Palin is Constitutionally prohibited from becoming even Sub-Under-Flunkie to the Postmaster General, let alone President or Vice President of the United States of America?