Yet I'd argue that the Batman/Catwoman relationship in the 2nd movie is easily one of the best relationships in all of the genre. They have chemistry, compelling reasons to fight, and a hellava way to break up.

I disagree. When he's playing the Bruce Wayne, he's either blank (Bale is only good when he plays an extreme personality with lots of quirks) or too slick, like his character in American Psycho, a smiling, oily sociopath.

Returns is my favorite Batman movie ever AND maybe in my top three superhero movies ever, and I don't give a fuck.

I loved the moment at the party where Bruce and Selina (in their normal people drag) are dancing together and they realize that they are respectively, Batman and Catwoman, and she asks, "are we supposed to start fighting?"

The part with the poisoned make-up which killed people and left their corpses with a grinning rictus on their faces is still the most scary thing every to appear in a Bat-film.

*waves hand* yes, Virginia, I exist! Others of my ilk existed too. We signed petitions and sent post cards to Leslie Moonves and I got to see SERENITY at a special ore-screening attended by some of the actors.

I've never see The Big City, but it better be a mind-blowing epic if in comparison Charulata is a "B" movie. (Which is another rant in the making: why assigning letter grades in reviews are dumb.)

Maybe once every couple of months? I have two IKEAs within 30-45 minutes of San Francisco, and a couple of my friends have moved or bought their own houses recently. I'm always down for a jaunt there — mmmm, Swedish meatballs & weird desserts are totally my jam.

Every time I go to IKEA, Fantastic Mr. Fox is playing on the TV screens in the faux living room sets and I always stop and watch a few silent minutes of it. Yesterday, I went to IKEA and the TVs were playing King Kong, the original Merian Cooper directed one from 1933.

Me too? I haven't been following WB/DC's properties since TDK; I saw TDKR on DVD and I might not even bother with that with MoS. So hearing about Affleck's casting news really is interesting on the intellectual level; like, is the studio trying to troll fandom now? It's that ludicrous.

Yes, like in that episode of the Simpsons where Homer was elected by the union to negotiate with Mr. Burns. In this scenario, Nolan is obvs. Homer and we (the people of the world) are Mr. Burns.

A fucking FLAMING KEBAB, c'mon!

Friday, I went to see a double feature of Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom and Evil Dead 2 at my local movie palace and I don't care what people say, Indy 2 will always be my favorite of the series.

Friday to Sunday, I've been at Outside Lands, the 3 day outdoor music festival in S.F. I got to see Paul McCartney from about 30+ feet away sing "Blackbird" and "Hey Jude" and "Yesterday" (with a string quartet) and I will not lie: it was amazing.

I am late to this thread, but that's okay because I didn't do much pop culturally: I spent my weekend outside the house mostly. I went mini golfing on Saturday and then did Alcatraz night tour on Sunday (which is boss: I highly recommend it — the prison is beautiful and spooky when it's wrapped in late summer fog, and…

There is something about Gellar — lack of accessibility? her lack of easy humor? the way she distanced herself from the role that made her famous and rich? — that rubs people wrong.

I'm not even kidding: Gellar in real life collects rare books, especially rare children's literature. So, I'm guessing she can read.

I watched over a dozen episodes of SNAPPED — endless true stories of women breaking bad and murdering others. I have no excuse.. I have like five DVDs from the library to watch. Ugh.

Maybe juuuust outside my top five of his movies, which is a high recommendation, especially as I am a huge fan of musicals. Perhaps the most purely delightful movie he made outside of Annie Hall.

I think looks matter to women, but personality (and in acting, stardom is personality) matters more. It's the force field of magnetism that's made actors like Cumberbatch, Hiddleston, Fassbender (who is conventionally attractive) and Hardy into proto-movie stars AND girl-magnets.