The deficit is the Minotaur in the Labyrinth and the Bush administrations loved to trot him out - Rawr! Rawr!

It always happens. Fucking conservatives make a big deal out of budget deficits, so long as they’re not in power at the time.

You think you’re better than them???

Did Legendary ever say they weren’t planning more movies though? Obviously, King of the Monsters flopping (relatively) probably gave them second thoughts, and Warners had tried to sell this to Netflix, but GvK had a better opening weekend than KotM, despite there being a pandemic and it being on HBO Max.

Warner essentially had to beg Nolan to make another Batman movie, and it’s clear from The Dark Knight Rises that he never quite figured out what that should even be.

The Oscar nomination extension doesn’t give credit to WALL-E - a film which was the centre of just as many articles about its snub (maybe not on message boards) as The Dark Knight and was cited alongside it as one of the reasons for the extension (which was followed by Best Picture nominations for Up and Toy Story 3).

The Dark Knight is no more responsible for crap like the Snyderverse (come at me) than Star Wars is for the glut of tiresome imitator space movies from the 1980s, or Nirvana is for the entirety of late 90s rock. Innovators are not responsible for imitators.

Ledger’s Joker isn’t a human being. He’s a mystical force, a destabilizing agent.

As is pointed out in the article, the MCU went with a different tone from The Dark Knight and was hugely successful.

Yeah I was about to say, this is more or less how he was played post-Crisis. The late 80s particularly have got everything from Death in the Family and Killing Joke to Arkham Asylum. There’s several major 90s and early-mid 2000s pre-Dark Knight storylines, including his key role at the end of No Man’s Land, Hush etc…

One little scene that gets this idea across nicely is when Bruce asks Alfred, who was once tasked to find a bandit in a situation that always seemed to me to not be entirely legitimate, how he succeeded. Alfred responds, “We burnt the forest down.” Once you start on an extreme path, an extreme solution is essentially…

Something I love about ‘The Prestige’ is that it tips its hand in a way you don’t notice until you know the twist. Once you discover that (SPOILERS, if you still haven’t seen it) Christian Bale is playing identical twins that pretend to be one man, you can see he’s playing the brothers as two entirely different…

6 foot is tall, and for an actor it’s very tall. 6' and a lean 200 lbs is fairly muscular.

This is the movie you bring your friends, have a couple of beers, and watch on the biggest screen imaginable. This is what I wanted KOTM to be. Hell, this is what I wanted Pacific Rim to be. Just a full on wrestling match between two titans. I think I shouted “Fuck Yeah” at my tv screen at least seven times.

Also the…

Pretty much any time you see a very defined, muscular man on a magazine cover or in a film, he has dehydrated himself beforehand.

I know that it’s easy to say he’s good looking, he gets paid quite well to be impossibly muscular, and what straight man wouldn’t enjoy that kind of attention from women, so what does he have to complain about. But I’ve read multiple interviews with him where his feelings about his body and the unhealthy things he…

Huh. Quite good to hear his normal voice instead of his Acting Voice. Which makes him sound like he just took a nasty blow to the head.

An Israeli moving into someone else’s space without permission? Surely you jest.

I gotta give credit to a Vs movie kinda having a winner?  Key word kinda?  Ah whatever, I'm glad this wasn't taken seriously in the way Batman V Superman was taken deadly seriously.