it hurts my neck to even look at her sitting that way

Kitty Pryde already showed up in X-Men 3, and Polaris is supposed to be in Gifted. Beyond those two…I mean, I was actually going to use Dazzler as an example of how the remaining characters wouldn't really work. Comics fans have a soft spot for her, but she's the disco superhero…it's hard to conceive of a way to put…

Well, I agree that there are a ton, but I'm not sure I'd agree they're very interesting. Then again, I wouldn't have thought they could do something amazing with Legion and they did, so what do I know

"Stan Lee masturbating" is now an adorable mental image for me

I mean, it's not like people are waiting for him to die to bring that up…

Huh…never thought about it that way

That's actually a good thing, though. The law is that the written version of Blurred Lines shouldn't plagiarize the written version of Got to Give It Up (which it doesn't). The jury incorrectly ruled on the basis of the "feel" of the recorded songs, which includes some cocktail party background chatter.

Fuck no

Honestly those lyrics are only rapey if you remove all context and squint really hard

Prince Estate v "Oh Shiela"
Bruce Springstein v Eddie and the Cruisers
Black people v white people (actually that one's probably a long time coming)

You could argue that Marvel Studios has a deeper well of good material to choose from, whereas the X-Men franchise has mostly exhausted their interesting characters and are getting into the diminishing returns. Personally if I was Marvel Studios I'd be trying to get the rights to Dr. Doom back

But you always assume bananas are my one weakness

Seriously…if there's no place on AVClub for a column like Flops, then I don't know what this site is good for anymore. I'm not interested in fucking memes or whatever

And there's She's the Man, which looks just terrible, but I'm going to expand this genre to include any adaptation of a classic work that gets updated for a high school setting, and I'll now take the blame off 10 Things and put it on Clueless where it probably belongs

yeah, this is one of those things where I feel like I'd need a very boring degree in specific legal stuff to untangle it. my expertise is really more in the 'bad movies that are fun to watch' arena

you should pay a streaming service a monthly fee to offer you a variety of white noises, rather than pay for a whole lot of one kind of white noise on physical media

Ah, well if Prince doesn't do anything for you, there's simply no hope

why didn't you just write Timecop seven times

Philadelphia, I think, is too much of its time. People forget how homophobic in general our culture was in the early-90s compared to now, and the message of the film seems to be: "yes, gay people are disgusting, but we should still treat them as equals". It's pretty jarring even in small quantities. (I haven't seen…

Yeah, I think 10 Things I Hate About You may have set off a brief mini-boom of crappy Shakespeare adaptations set in high schools