Yeah, that's pretty much it. It was at the absolute height of Tony Scott's lunatic camera-tricks period, so the whole thing played like one of those mid-nineties music videos where you never, ever get a clear look at anything and nothing makes a lick of damn sense, but it's all very pretty in an abstract way.

I like to think that Silver Age comic writers just tossed a dart at the Sears and Roebuck catalogue and whatever it hit, that was the new villain premise. "So this week, we have "Maytag Washer-MAN", and "The Baking Soda Bandit!" That works . . ."

Yeah, ICE isn't exactly running "papers please" sweeps through Polish neighborhoods.

The Joker incorporated himself as a chemical company in the '70s, so technically he can poison anyone he wants without really breaking any laws.

I'd think that'd be a demotion. If he's an M.D. (even if he lost his license) it'd be more lucrative than random low-level criminality that's constantly foiled by Batman.
Of course, that's always been an issue with these rogues . . . there's always some dude with nine advanced degrees who invents amazing,…

At first I read that as if Batman accidentally got shark bait on his cowl.

Or more specifically on the pseudo-English of the little kids in Beyond Thunderdome, talking about the pox-eclipse and the before-time in the long-long ago.

The last two books were really one book that was forced to be split into two, explicitly for page-count reasons.
So when GRRM says "three more books" what he ACTUALLY means is one book split into two books, another book split into four books, and a third and final book, split into eight books.
So fourteen physical…

Yeah, I'd rather watch "Die Another Day" than "World is Not Enough" or "Tomorrow Never Dies". At least Die Another Day is memorable. I KNOW I've seen the other two several times and I still can't remember anything about them. It's like they vanish from memory as soon as the credits roll.

I'd say Octopussy was worse. At least View to a Kill had Grace Jones and Christopher Walken. Octopussy made Bond dress up like a rodeo clown.

I'm in the minority in liking Die Another Day. All of the criticisms are legitimate, but it's still entertaining. Even including the invisible car, it never reached the painfully stupid of the worst of the Moore movies, or the rote blandness of the other Brosnan entries (Goldeneye aside). Whatever its faults, the big…

I SWEAR that line is in the movie, somewhere.

I love "Lucky Number Slevin". It's a perfect movie for a bored Saturday afternoon. I've rewatched it a lot more than most objectively better movies. It's fun with twisty dialogue and they accomplished the rare feat of making Josh Hartnett seem relatably human. It helps, of course, that Morgan Freeman and Ben Kingsley…

It's kind of depressing that Peter Mensah is FAR better than 95% of the roles he ends up in. Dude needs a better agent.

I find all the hubbub surrounding Daniel Craig's love/hate 007 relationship kinda silly. It's a long, hard, pain in the ass shooting schedule that's physically draining and kinda dangerous. Of COURSE after every go-around he doesn't want anything to do with Bond again.

Yeah, but if somebody came up to you, today, and said, "hey, I'm gonna pay you to be FUCKING BATMAN", you KNOW you'd say yes.

You also get to be fuckin' Batman.

Sometimes you just can't get rid of a bomb.

Moving schools is non-political.

Honestly, because of stuff like the Slate article that seeks to politicize a fundamentally non-political disagreement. "Let's not get the whole goddamned internet up in arms about a local decision we should be rationally hashing out amongst ourselves" isn't an unreasonable position to take.