What's mentioned in the film is that the policies Dent enacted and possibly some of his convictions—which basically gutted organized crime—would likely be overturned because of said revelation, not a rise in crime rates.

It's certainly got less baggage. And it really is, for all intents and purposes, the only Batman origin story we ever need.

I dig it, too! Due for a rewatch of the whole show, actually.

Uhhh….J.J. Abrams didn't really have a big hand in Lost after the pilot, and he certainly didn't write or direct the finale?

The people in that latter category you mentioned are the kind who are fiercely loyal and protective of Christopher Nolan—a very talented filmmaker with some flaws, but some people who worship him need to expand their views a long way.

Reading several comments on this article, I realize how difficult it has become to distinguish between real reactionary racism and ironic dismissals of it.

Apparently, the Kingpin won't be appearing this season. I assume he'll be binding his time in prison for a big return in Season 3, or whenever they feel like putting him and Daredevil up against each other again.

The sequence from the Paul Schrader movie is all we need, I think.

That is true, he made other comedies, but none like Wolf. I presumed the OP was referring more to the structure and visual style of the movie, which are somewhat similar to Casino and Goodfellas. Even then, I think there's a lot of distinction to be made between those three movies.

This show isn't really his brainchild, I presume he worked on it because Winter and Jagger wanted him to. And if you're looking for a change of pace in his work, his next film is about Jesuit priests in 17th-century Japan, which should be a pretty big change of pace from The Wolf of Wall Street. I think he's…

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Classifying Coen brothers movies as comedies or dramas is like classifying porn—you know it when you see it. That's because their darkest dramas have moments of great comedy, and their comedies have moments of deadly seriousness.

Involving kidnapping, you've got Raising Arizona, Fargo, The Big Lebowski, and Hail Caesar!, which is a fairly sizable amount. But if you expand kidnapping to just extortion, then it's a pretty all-encompassing plot point: Blood Simple, Miller's Crossing, The Man Who Wasn't There, Burn After Reading, and A Serious Man.…

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To be fair, it's not like there's never been an incarnation of Batman where he's happy. For all of the angst that motivates Batman, he does the job because that's what he likes to do. I mean, you gotta take some pleasure out of dressing up like a bat and taking down criminals who are hopelessly outmatched 90% of the…

He's "alpha" in the sense that he's nigh indestructible and omnipotent. But Superman's personality is nowhere remotely in the realm of "frat bro" and it's pretty stupid to think of him in that way.

Great song…or greatest song?

That's a match cut, actually.

Most definitely. Watching Yojimbo and Seven Samurai back-to-back lets you see just how great of an actor Mifune was. Sanjuro and Kikuchiyo are both samurai, but he makes them both such distinctive and memorable characters. Just in the two introductory scenes, he is able to to make a huge, singular mark on each movie.

No, I see that you certainly have some good points. Corporate structure may not be inherently evil, but deregulation and political favors have made it possible for any organization with enough money to do what they want without fear or repercussions. You're right that doing bad things for profit has always been a…