I never really thought of Blade as a superhero movie when I first saw it. It was certainly not marketed that way. I think I only realized it was a Marvel property years later (I’m of the right age - 44 - but I was a casual comics fan at best).

Granted, but at least it is a pretty good movie.

“...like a microwave or TV, where you buy it and five years later, it breaks and you replace it.”

Yeah, I think it was on a Colbert appearance where Colbert was needling him about it and Oliver *so* wanted to say something but said that his/HBOs lawyers would eviscerate him if he did.

I think he might be semi-on to something. Not so much that the characters aren’t inherently “cinematic”, but that the producers of the big DC movies see their super-powers as the “point” of the characters, and any personality is just window dressing. While Arrow and Flash are occasionally weighed down by wandering…

So if I grant that he seems like a hateful monster and that the News Hour should have done a little more homework, can I get on to making fun of the fact that he’s evidently named “Arthur Arthur”?

I would watch the shit out of Nick Cage as Joker. I mean, it would be terrible. But I’d watch the shit out of it.

And even with her they ended up cramming a bloated CGI rampage into the last 20 minutes.

Wait, *that’s* what bothered you? From my memory They were on a roof such that there was about a 7-10 foot area from which he could reasonably jump (in such a way that everyone had their backs turned to him). And the landing pad was like 40' wide at least. Like there is all sorts of implausible nonsense in that movie…

Well, more accurately those journalists who don’t play the game are just frozen out of access.

Hmm, what would they do to Trump to make him less of an asshole?

Well, yes, that’s the whole conceit of the movie. They are are master psychological manipulators and they setup that scene in such a way that they give him both the motive and opportunity to jump from that specific place.

Huh. It never occurred to me that he “should” have committed suicide. That would seem like an odd ending to kind of a wacky action movie. Otoh, it’s been, what, 15+ years since I saw it, so maybe I’d feel differently now.

Well that’s kind of the point: There are people who are exactly as assholish and say equally reprehensible things, but they don’t *sound* as much like an asshole.

I love the crap out of that movie, while fully acknowledging it is pretty damned ridiculous. Jim Broadbent and Richard Roxborough are great, and you don’t really get much of them in just the music.

It’s like a million voices screamed racist epithets at once, and then were suddenly silenced. #NeverForgetRacistAlderan

Duh, because we got tired of winning.

Really? I thought they pretty and explicitly pulled back the curtain.

We’ve talked them down...to a booting.

That was before she snapped it off to keep as a souvenir.