It was low- hanging fruit.

For the record: Burt Reynolds is Native American. (indeed, one of the most interesting things Burt ever said was when he noted that he SHOULD have used his BO clout to do something like DANCES WITH WOLVES instead of lazy nonsense like CANNONBALL RUN 2).

Mom was a scorpion? So the armor is really just a sexual thing?

It's true. He insisted on referring to himself as "Bigg Daddy".

TOUGH, BUT FAIR.

(also- Jawas would TOTALLY sound like Cheech Marin)

I'm convinced that if Larry Kasdan hadn't been doing the dialogue for EMPIRE, Yoda would have talked like an old Jewish man.

Although it is true that Lucas originally considered Orson Welles, but decided that JEJ's voice would work better because (at that time) it was less immediately recognizable.

If Darth Vader's black armor is a racial signifier, what does dressing all the OTHER Imperial troops in white armor mean?

Well, Cronenberg's actual comment was about how he toyed with being a novelist, but felt that he wouldn't have a distinctive authorial voice because his influences were so strong; he did specifically refer to both Ballard and W.S. Burroughs (of course, he later made films adapting both men's works).

Watching the show as an adult, you realize that it really was GENUINELY hip; at a time when the concepts of both "Camp" and "Pop" were still considered avant garde, BATMAN embodied them in a way that mainstream America could totally understand.
Not to mention a few jokes that the censors only let by on a…

Well, one's a PC and one's a Mac.

He never let anything happen to Robin that was worse than the hazing he would have gotten if he'd joined his high school football team.

POWs being allowed to have a functioning coffee maker in their barracks? UNLIKELY!

There were a lot of quality hench-wenches on that show.
Pretty easy to see where Harley Quinn came from.

I think it's officially been ret-conned to be a Two-Face reference (you know, the flipping coin thing), even though Two-Face uses a silver dollar.

Batman does NOT beat up the poor!
Yeah, sure, he beats up the mentally ill, but to be fair, that's pretty much a clash of equals.

It's just part of Snyder's utter misunderstanding of the source material; Moore's Ozymandius is at core a good man genuinely trying to save the world, but that kind of complex morality is beyond Snyder's grasp, so Ozymandius is played as a sleazebag the audience is supposed to find creepy from the beginning.

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