It’s basically a movie that compressed Scorcese’s early career into a single film, funnelled through a popular IP to make it even easier to consume. It’s like a cheat sheet if you want to get the feel for all those early Scorcese films without actually having to go watch them.

Phoenix winning the Oscar for Joker is in line with many others who won the award because it was just ‘about time’ they won one. Actors (and directors) are often overlooked for their best performances and get the statue for just being overall good at what they do, if they do it long enough. See: Al Pacino for Scent…

This looks really promising. And also expensive.

Of all the movies I’ve ever seen, Joker was one of them. Just a totally unremarkable bit of cinema. Good LOOKING movie, though.

Deep fake Adam West showing up as the Grey Ghost or gtfo!

“No deal!” - Ezra Miller

I think that’s a lot of it.  A lot of these dudes did not, to put it mildly, make much money on their output, and had to tour constantly if they wanted to make any money on their material.  Life on the road is a grind, healthcare in the US is a joke if you’re not rich (and sometimes even then), and a lot of stuff that…

I could understand if it was drugs, but it always seems to be some underlying illness. Is it the lack of available health care?

Yeah, definitely Kevin Conroy.

Goddamnit. Bad enough that he joins the now disturbingly long list of hip-hop pioneers to die in their early 50s, but going just before they were finally able to see streaming revenue from their back catalog is insult on top of injury.

Keaton wasnt the best Batman AT ALL. I have no idea why its become such a big thing. I guess its childhood nostalgia combined with the stupidity of the internet.

Boobs and kitties.

Back in the day we all thought the internet would revolutionize the world as we knew it. Everybody would have equal access to all information, the world would be better!

Wow you REALLY missed the mark with any critique of this show.

their content costs way less.  it’s mostly non-union garbage and you don’t have to pay royalties to sharks!

You can make Velma any color you want but stop defending this unfunny piece of trash show. It’s easily the worst piece of television released year. The ultimate hate watch show of 2023.

Huh, who would have guessed there’s not much overlap between the audience for a show like “Westworld” and a show like “My Kid Got Fat From Eating Out of the Trash Can.”

I think the problem with Velma was just that it’s not actually good. 

Most of the criticism I’ve seen of Velma has run along the lines of it being smug, mean-spirited, and not nearly as smart as it thinks…with the related criticism that the Scooby Doo connection only exists because the show wasn’t good enough to be made on its own merits.

While they can speak to similar issues of representation, I’m not sure Azaria voicing Apu (and the question of whether voice actors need to match, loosely or precisely, the ethnicity or background of their characters) actually relates much to changing the backgrounds or traits of a live action character (you could be…