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Craig Stephen Tower
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Yep. ( Thank god it wasn't in "Great Job, Internet!")

I was asked. (it's a legitimate question; it's not like the AV Club yanks posts on a regular basis. )
I sure as hell aren't going to name the guy or provide a link!

He took up tapdancing once they put the nails through his feet. When life gives you lemons, make lemonade!

A guy who does white supremacist covers of Disney songs.
I mean, it's reprehensible… but it didn't cross over into BODY HORROR the way THIS does.

Everyone knows the real, historical Charlie Brown was white.

You know that post the AV Club deleted last night?
OK, that was still WAY worse than this on a moral, ethical, and philosophical level, but THIS is the one that's going to give me nightmares.

NBC: sure, we let HANNIBAL get past the censors, but now we're REALLY pushing the boundaries.

Of course, the guy they SHOULD have given it to back then was Sam Raimi, who was crazy eager for the job, and was rejected multiple times. (hell, he made DARKMAN just to get it out of his system).

There's only two things in Texas: steers and vampirism used as a really questionable metaphor for homosexuality.

35-year old Wednesday would essentially be Morticia.
And Morticia DEFINITELY knows what she's doing.

Well, I'm sorry if you hear it as shouting, but I got tired of people misunderstanding my points, and word emphasis really does clear that up.
It's like punctuation: There's a difference between "What is this thing called…. LOVE?" and "What is THIS thing called, love?"

You're obviously FAR more irritated by my suggestion that The Mighty Superhero Genre is not the pinnacle of art and literature.
Probably because you can't refute it in any way, and you're ENTIRELY too emotionally invested in it.
Maybe you should spend MORE time reading Kazuo Ishiguro.

Well, firstly:
I don't "dislike" superheroes"; BTAS is one of my favorite series ever. I just think the genre is limited in specific ways few other genres are. (I am one of those few North Americans who have loved comics all my life, but have never been a die-hard superhero fan; I love plenty of SPECIFIC superhero

That most westerns (most MOVIES) aren't true to real life? Sure. But it's possible to make a western that's both TECHNICALLY historically accurate and PSYCHOLOGICALLY realistic… just as it's possible to do so with a war movie or gangster film or even a science fiction film.
Superhero movies CAN'T be anything but

I note your absolute refusal to deal with the second point.

According to Alan Moore, Gilliam told him that he eventually realized that, in order to make a viable big-budget movie based on WATCHMEN, you'd have to get rid of everything that made it worth doing.
Financially, at least, Zack Snyder proved him right. (I'll give Snyder THIS much credit: I think he butchered the

People actually used to ride around on horses and work with cattle, and occasionally even have a gunfight.
No one has ever gotten super-powers. And if someone ever DID get superpowers, they sure as hell wouldn't put on tights and a cape and fight crime as a hobby.

The biggest problem with superhero movies is that they are, first and foremost, Big Studio Blockbusters.
Of course, you COULD make a little indie superhero pick- but frankly, all the good indie filmmakers are either COMPLETELY uninterested or would only see it as a target for parody and mockery. (not without valid

I saw it in a theater. The audience was kind of digging it at the start, when it was basically a half-decent Western; it was only when it turned into a lame sci-fi movie that it lost them.

Westerns are just more relevant to real life. (after all, they're BASED on real life).