"What is it, Sebastian? I'm arranging matches!"

Don't forget the school reporters who completely lost interest in "real" questions once Selina started throwing buzzwords around… Satirizing social progressivism is usually a surefire way to, at best, look very much out of touch, but I agree that it worked in this case. It probably helps that Veep takes place in a…

Wait, who on that set would have been impressed over Kilmer being in a damn Batman movie?

Concepts/mission statements like that have been around at least since Kraftwerk though, and I believe Pet Shop Bos had similar ambitions in the mid-80's.

Isn't there some kind of twist though? I might be imagining this, but for some reason I remember Scaramanga's main plan (the solar energy thing) not involving Bond at all, and them coming into conflict being engineered by someone else?

Considering how awful Apocalypse was (worse than BvS in my book), it's going to be interesting to see if Fox can pull the series back from the pits of despair a second time after the Houdini stunt they pulled with X3 - First Class.

I didn't care for it, but I do remember it getting decent reviews and a bit of a fan base.

"Off screen", certainly, but when other than the attack against the super solider experiment does he fight anything other than faceless soldiers with laser weapons?

I'm not well-versed enough in the Marvel comics universe to have an opinion on that, but the movie sure goes to great lengths to keep Captain America from killing anything that looks like actual Nazi soldiers.

To do a mega-event behind the idea that the really good evil punchers all have to team up to put a beat down on Dr. Manhattan is one of the more spectacular examples of missing the point in an industry rife with them.

I still believe there's a way to tell an awesome, mind-bendingly meta-textual story about Dr. Manhattan meddling with and even creating the fictional DC Universe, but whether that's what Johns and co. are building up to is another matter. In other words, I'm not going full-on Comic Book Guy® just yet, and am willing…

I haven't seen the first Captain America movie in a long while, but didn't that jump through several hoops to distance Hydra from garden variety Nazis as well? Different symbols, name, salute, and Hugo Weaving explicitly dissing Hitler?

It's incongruent with what's been shown so far for sure, but that line is so badass I'll allow it every day of the week and twice on Sundays.

Agreed, it's a solid story told with gorgeous scenography and costumes. And, off the top of my head, the last worthwhile film Tim Burton made.

The first Avengers has the same problem. The Chitauri doesn't look like anything that couldn't be handled by a platoon or so of regular-ass soldiers.

Cracked Actor is dope. I kind of feel like it's underrated, but I haven't fraternized enough with other Bowie fans to have a clear picture of those things.

Trying to explain platonic BDSM by inviting one's other partner to a "play party" as an observer seems highly ineffective as well as myopic.

Damn straight.

Granny Goodness…? Which could be kind of awesome, now that I think about it. Still, it would surprise me if he turns out to play a "name" character this late in the game.

Martian Manhunter was on the first iteration of the JL, but I read somewhere that the writers and editorial mostly thought of him as a ready-made Superman-replacement on the team, in case having the big blue boyscout there would turn out to oversaturate the market with him for DC.