Maybe "manipulative" was the wrong word. I'm all for emotional manipulation in movies, but not like this. "Hey, he died; feel sad about it! Just kidding, he's fine!" "Deceitful" just sounded too strong. It's different than, say, when Han dies in The Force Awakens. There's weight to that because we haven't seen any…

The criticism was directed mostly at BvS shoehorning the unnecessary Death of Superman story. I get that superhero stories inevitably use nonpermanent death as a source of drama, but doing so in the *second* entry of their shared universe seems kind of early, doesn't it? At least have the pretense that any of these…

"Let's establish right at the start of our franchise that all deaths will be entirely manipulative and have no weight. You know, lower the stakes much as possible, that'll get butts in seats." - WB

She means wage slavery. After the line, they engage in a heated debate over anarcho-syndicalism, after which they fight Germans for a few minutes and then the credits roll.

It's trying way too hard to convince us this is the complete opposite of the last movie's dreary snorefest. I might buy it if it didn't have Snyder's toxic name attached to it. The final BvS trailer looked fun too with the rock music and Alfred wisecracks. He can direct individual scenes that look good in trailers,…

Lucy is the Hannibal Lector of the Peanuts universe. For only a nickel, she'll help you with your mental illness, but if you ask her how God felt when He made Blair Walsh miss his 27-yard field goal? "He felt powerful."

I hate when I hear, "It's a dumb kid's movie, why rate it so harsh?" As if these movies are entitled to an A for some reason. And even if we go by the absurd logic that a certain number of A's need to be given to them, there's enough smart ones to take kids to, like Zootopia and Inside Out, we can afford to give…

Trix and Scrat reminds me: why can't they ever let Charlie Brown kick the goddamned football? :(

It was the product of a bygone era and doesn't fit into the currency of affairs.

Just based on informal observations, most of his supporters don't seem to have any idea what his proposed policies are (aside from the Wall, of course). They just view him as "strong" and Hillary as "dishonest." It doesn't help that the media portrays his every confrontation as a "dropping the mic" moment where his…

I always just assumed he was a real scientist and had no idea he did sketch comedy. We watched plenty of him in elementary school, along with Levar Burton in Reading Rainbow. I thought they were both adorable and kind of love that Bill's still relevant today, championing evolution and global warming in the face of a…

2 has that creepy scene where Riggs follows the South African embassy's secretary from her work to the grocery store and tells her he'll make a scene if she doesn't go out with him, and when she says she'll call the cops, he responds, "I AM the cops!"