It's the Raiders Effect. Everyone wants their blockbuster to be like Raiders of the Lost Ark (or even Empire Strikes Back), and thus they create a movie centered around a mcguffin that's basically an amusement park ride: one set piece after another. Sometimes, like in Raiders or Empire, it works pretty damn well…

Yeah, pretty sure he's just the living key to Pale Fire or something.

So it's like that scene from Being John Malkovich?

I think the executives at Warner might be crying after that newswire the other day of "We're so confident we're starting the sequels now!"

Well, hopefully he asked Nolan how he does that.

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Apparently, there's none of that in this movie.

I've always just thought the reverse time thing was Superman reversing time and then the Earth spinning backwards to illustrate "going back in time."

Have you never been to the internet? This question is asked almost anytime the guy is mentioned.

I remember Returns being kind of aggressive about it in parts.

If you're going to compare AV Club Grades (which only a moron would do, but I'm going to do it anyways), it's worse. B vs C+.

To be fair, "more space opera than superhero movie" actually sounds like a good pitch for a Superman film that works, but if they didn't bring along the sincere traits of Superman, then I'm not sure what the point is.

The original Superman kinda sucks.

Well, looks like you got your C+.

Well, shit.

Yeah, doesn't get enough respect.

I think he's saying that, as an artist, the people you interact with color how you make your art (see, every artist ever), and he's saying that Kanye married someone whose success has come to represent what Odduck perceives as some of the worst aspects of our culture. As a result, he feels this causes a tension…

No, Steve Jobs had to die for him to become Kanye West.

Stop looking at porn at work @avclub-22eda830d1051274a2581d6466c06e6c:disqus . Also, mine seems to be fine now that I have AdBlock on.

I just did. Seems to work. Sorry, AV Club.