Yep, Frankenstein sure is a monster!  With that square head.

Well, it's legal to show an adult film in a theater, and it's legal to attend that film and watch it through.  It is not, however, legal to pleasure yourself while watching that film.

Well, it's legal to show an adult film in a theater, and it's legal to attend that film and watch it through.  It is not, however, legal to pleasure yourself while watching that film.

Right, because adult Batman fans would never do this.

When I was a kid I recall the local paper advertising the local adult theater — a little 3x3 on the movie ad page that sported a silhouette of a naked woman and titles like "Inside Seka" and "Taboo".  (Yes, it was that long ago.)

When I was a kid I recall the local paper advertising the local adult theater — a little 3x3 on the movie ad page that sported a silhouette of a naked woman and titles like "Inside Seka" and "Taboo".  (Yes, it was that long ago.)

Albert Brooks almost makes Twitter worthwhile.

@avclub-5a1c0dcc8243c086c74ee944052f6f0f:disqus : Google Translate renders it as trous de gloire, which sounds pretty great.

@avclub-5a1c0dcc8243c086c74ee944052f6f0f:disqus : Google Translate renders it as trous de gloire, which sounds pretty great.

"I love Fred Willard. He's a great guy. For his birthday I'm getting him a den and a computer."
—Albert Brooks tweet.

"I love Fred Willard. He's a great guy. For his birthday I'm getting him a den and a computer."
—Albert Brooks tweet.

@avclub-81e42ebe6b44656990ff91adfd49b5f7:disqus : I think you'd have to say "pure insanity" is kind of a broad way of speaking.  If insanity is manifesting itself in violence of this magnitude, that's rage. Sublimated or not, affectless or not.

I don't actually find this premise to be far-fetched.  Given the manner in which the crime was committed, it seems unlikely that the movie just "happened" to be Batman — it sounds like the sort of atrocity a Batman villain would perpetrate, frankly.

"Spoons, eh?"

"Spoons, eh?"

Wallace Shawn.

@Chico_McDirk:disqus He does, but it's inside his head.

@Chico_McDirk:disqus He does, but it's inside his head.

History's greatest monster was Frankenstein.  There's no debate about this to my mind.

History's greatest monster was Frankenstein.  There's no debate about this to my mind.