Eh. As noted in the article, DC has done this before as has Warner Brothers in the films for that matter, so I’m not really going to get worked up about it one way or another. In fact, it seems kind of like a cynical effort to drum up media attention by making a show of announcing this in such close proximity to the…

Apparently just standing in place, repeatedly tensing and releasing your muscles, in a psychiatric facility, is great cardio.

As I look at that banner image I remember that in this timeline Michael Meyers is just a regular dude who’s 64 at this point.

It’s tough.

Dave is in my top 3, but my God, he’s making it tough. And there’s also a salient reality that people forget about Dave: he wasn’t a stand-up superstar before Chappelle’s Show.

Yes, he had done specials before. Killing Them Softly was great, but it dropped in 1999, a full 4 years before the 1st season of…

I mean how could he turn it down? What with the craft services table they’ve got set up? Take some of that home, add some broth, a potato? Baby you got a stew going.

Completely agreed.

It sounds to me that he could be a blend of feral Wolverine, Hulk, and maybe Ultraman or Neon Genesis (using your powers for only 3 minutes).

“That just seems so far removed from the fighting-Nazis”

It worked pretty well for John Wayne in The Shootist (1976), which was a riff on his cowboy roles from the ‘30s and ‘40s. I imagine that’s the vibe Mangold is going for. Dunno if it’ll connect with the public.

I mean, sure, Chappelle is doubling down on some very problematic stances here, but...really? We’re doing the “I never thought he was funny, unlike you plebes” thing?

Amazing. Everything you just said was wrong.

Definitely not unique anymore. But also, it stagnated. As you say, SW borrowed from tons of things (Dune, LotR, John Carter, etc.) Its success was how efficiently and seamlessly it collapsed every popular genre into one thing: it was a western, a WW2 dogfight movie, a fantasy adventure, a samurai film, a romance, and s…

I imagine that the vast majority of people who went to see the LotR movies had never read the books, or had even heard of Tolkien. A movie always has infinitely more reach than a novel.

I think that more than just Curry’s amazing performance holds up well from the original. The horrifying egg rolls still give me the willies. Also, some of the performances, both adult and child, are very good. I will always remember when Bill Denbrough and Mike Hanlon are walking through Derry to Mike’s house. At one…

Curry’s portrayal is better in two critical ways:

I’m a huge fan of the whole multiverse concept, but while Marvel has always managed to tread the middle line on it - using it judiciously while never trying to make it go away (well, except for the need for occasional pointless crisis-level events that literally accomplish nothing), DC seems unable to manage it well -…

Southern Comfort mixed with Bud Light 

The original mini-series has exactly one thing that holds up, Tim’s performance. I maintain that he is still today, quite scary, and the best, most unsettling part of that original series.

...one that involves Jennifer Tilly’s Tiffany Valentine, his girlfriend who managed to get her soul back in her human body.

4-hour Bond movies where he spends 90 minutes talking to a psychiatrist. Only at the end of the film do we realize that the doctor is secretly working for SPECTRE.