Unpopular opinion:  I think the League series is pretty disappointing, particularly given how much time Moore has devoted to it.  Most of it is just him stringing literary references together, and most of the reinterpretations of the characters can be summarized as making them horny and/or psychopathic.

Just being a science experiment gone wrong isn't the issue.  The issue I have is that the experiments are blamed not just for their powers but for their turning into villains.

We were introduced to Venom as Eddie Brock, and meant to feel sorry for him (even when Peter was exposing him for fraud, for some reason this was played like Peter was being a jerk), even though he wasn't redeemed.  Osborne was definitely played as sympathetic, and driven mad by science, just like Ock.

I mean that reusing the same basic character template every time gets wearying.  It would have been nice if we could just get a villain who was evil for some other reason.

This is kind of outside Church's performance, but I had a hard time appreciating it because I was so tired of that franchise's refusal to have any villains who were actually just evil.  All three movies hinge on the villains all being tragic figures mutated by science.

@EvelKareebel:disqus , the top of that list would be the mermaid naming herself "Madison" in Splash, a joke that now makes no sense, entirely because of the cultural influence of Splash.

Dodgeball holds up pretty well, but Lance Armstrong's subsequent history kind of ruins one of the climactic punchlines (or, if you prefer, makes it funny in a different way).

Midway through the last decade, Shyamalan lost any capacity to direct actors.  Since then, he's been bogging down even generally capable people.

I'd say Clooney has plenty of gravitas.  I don't know about darkness, though — but his big scene in The Ides of March made me really curious to see him play a full-on villain.

He's the title character, but he's not the lead.

will.i.am:  the worst lyricist in contemporary pop music, or merely one of the worst?

I liked Arys, what little we saw of him; he's another example of Martin's analysis of the conflict between oaths and one's own moral sense, and ideals of knighthood (which, when you read the fourth and fifth books together, comes up a lot, with Jaime, Barristan, etc.).

I think he forgot to put anything about it in the script, and now he's refusing to admit his mistake.

I have to disagree here.  Gandolfini's scenes in this movie stopped the already turgid pacing dead.  His monologues are interminable, and add nothing of substance to the film.

It must be some kind of cosmic joke that Heigl was the only member of the main cast to win an Emmy for the show.

That's some Lovecraftian imagery right there.

Wow, Paula should consider going to work for whoever Rush Limbaugh works for.  They don't even blink at stuff like this.

And thus the worst scandal involving a celebrity TV chef since when that Barefoot Contessa lady spurned the Make-A-Wish Foundation inevitably gets to the false contrition stage.

As if being Kanye and Kim's child wasn't going to pose enough challenges, they decide to give her a stupid pun for a name.  Ugh, celebrities.  Naming your kids is not a creative writing exercise.

When I saw this headline, I immediately assumed she was playing the wicked stepmother, who would look almost exactly like every other pseudo-Gothic freakshow she's played in the last decade or so (The King's Speech aside).  We're at least slightly diverting from type, at least.