I watched this on my computer at work, which does not have functioning speakers, and I still laughed my ass off.

I don't know any of you people at all, and I feel brother/sisterhood here. Thanks Roger. Thanks, everybody.

So fucking sad. I never really understood why I was so drawn to his movie reviews— normally I feel quite capable of deciding a film's merits, but whenever I'd watch something I thought was important I'd rush online to see what Ebert thought. If he hated it, I felt crestfallen. Why didn't I see what he saw, etc.

Does this movie sound a little like Synecdoche, New York to anyone else? It makes me curious to see The Letter despite that the reviewer pretty much reviles it, just to satisfy my curiosity and compare the two.

Nice. Gonna dive in then!

Nice. Gonna dive in then!

I skipped Join Us out of malaise. I liked The Else but I liked the sound of their old stuff better. Then I just listened to "When Will You Die?" On YouTube, and I think I'm missing out.

I skipped Join Us out of malaise. I liked The Else but I liked the sound of their old stuff better. Then I just listened to "When Will You Die?" On YouTube, and I think I'm missing out.

WHAT A SOURPUSS.

WHAT A SOURPUSS.

It's hard for me to separate the audience's appetite vs. what fare is available to them. I agree, entertainment fashions change— but isn't there a certain naivete built into any myth? Distilling the world into some viewable form is to distill the culture and attempt to either represent it, or confront it. And we're a…

It's hard for me to separate the audience's appetite vs. what fare is available to them. I agree, entertainment fashions change— but isn't there a certain naivete built into any myth? Distilling the world into some viewable form is to distill the culture and attempt to either represent it, or confront it. And we're a…

Arex, you make some really good points, but I disagree with your assertion that Hollywood is "avoiding" dealing with iconic, intrinsically good characters by saddling them with human consciences. The stories we tell are largely a product of our times— early superhero movies (like early comic books) were timid about…

Arex, you make some really good points, but I disagree with your assertion that Hollywood is "avoiding" dealing with iconic, intrinsically good characters by saddling them with human consciences. The stories we tell are largely a product of our times— early superhero movies (like early comic books) were timid about…

I agree Superman is a difficult character to do well. But I've got a feeling we're not so much concerned with the mistreatment of Superman as we are what our mistreatment of Superman means. Superman is Christ-like. Maybe when we feel the archetypal idea of Superman is simply dead, and can't exist anymore, we feel…

I agree Superman is a difficult character to do well. But I've got a feeling we're not so much concerned with the mistreatment of Superman as we are what our mistreatment of Superman means. Superman is Christ-like. Maybe when we feel the archetypal idea of Superman is simply dead, and can't exist anymore, we feel…

You're right, of course. But I guess that depends on what era of the character you want to call canon. Superman has some pretty angst-y story lines in print.

You're right, of course. But I guess that depends on what era of the character you want to call canon. Superman has some pretty angst-y story lines in print.

Nolan's Batman movies made about 16 bazillion dollars, so I don't think it's necessarily an approach problem.

Nolan's Batman movies made about 16 bazillion dollars, so I don't think it's necessarily an approach problem.