I think the latest trailer shows why people in the screenings are going nuts over Affleck's Batman. He's easily the most agile and physically menacing version of the character in modern film. f they let him direct those movies and give him something of a free hand, we should get something interesting.

I think most people are excited for it. The number of people who would be excited by Batman and Superman being in the same movie is bound to be much larger than the number of people who have actually watched the mostly awful and boring promos.

My pleasure. As this review suggests, it's more a spiritual successor/variation on a theme of BB than a traditional continuation and is much better than it has any right to be due to that. (And the way they flesh out Mike is pretty awesome.)

While the beginning of Breaking Bad is much better, I think Saul's first season compares favorably to it in terms of overall quality.

I think it's likely delayed payoff. Saul very clearly isn't a millionaire during Breaking Bad—meaning Jimmy never gets the class action money. So, I think there's a chance he wasn't "quitting"—he's not taking the gig because he's determined to make good on his promise to burn that case to the ground out of spite.

I think the horse thing was a convenient excuse. That whole production had a weird vibe to it. Milch broke into the editing bay and threatened Mann's life at one point.

If you accept it as its own thing, it starts out good and gets progressively better as it goes along. In terms of tone, I'd put it more as a variation on the themes of Breaking Bad than any kind of continuation.

I just vaguely remember Faraci telling people what they could and could not post and admitting to having no social life and also engaging in degrading sex acts in bar bathrooms.

A clean-shaven Affleck in that suit could convincingly play younger—at least a mid-career rather than post-retirement Batman—and I don't think his physical prowess would be hard to sell. We live n a world where they had Michael Keaton playing the character when they launched the modern film franchise.

Plus distrust of power is kind of a central concept of American identity. The whole Revolution/Lockean take on government thing. This just seems like a dumb movie nobody though through all the way down.

I would bet money they set the Batfleck solo series prior to the events of this movie for that reason alone. All they need to do is take the gray streaks out of his hair and then dramatize the events they've implied already happened—assuming this thing doesn't tank.

Dementia, however, fared better. And given Connery famously does actually hit women and also publicly advocated for others to follow suit, it's one of the rare cases where I think the guy got what he deserved.

For me, this is up there with Patch Adams, Bicentennial Man, and What Dreams May Come in hilighting everything that bothers me about him as an actor. When nobody reins him in, he's pretty much the kind of actor Jon Lovitz was lampooning in those Master Thespian sketches.

Fox just has a reputation of hiring up-and-coming artists and treating them like journeyman who should be thanking them and Jesus for every day they are given, letting the marketing department squeeze every drop of interesting and original content out of the movies, and only releasing good genre films when they fall…

Out of Sight is also up there, I think.

I don't think disliking a person for being rabidly pro-Israel is a petty reason. It's a war-crazed apartheid state that regularly engages in genocidal campaigns and houses a population that is largely supportive of that identity. (During the most recent "mowing of the lawn" there were Facebook groups with large…

The show clearly takes itself seriously—and you can do a melodrama that takes itself seriously well, most of Mad Men's run and the early years of SOA are good examples—so I think the people arguing that doing that isn't fair to the show don't have a leg to stand on at this point.

Al Franken has known Miller most of their lives and—according to him—Miller has always had such politics in private. He just didn't make it a big part of his act until 9/11. But you can definitely see it in some Dennis Miller Live interview segments with other conservatives if you pay attention. (Gary Oldman provided…

Doesn't having good clones in the timeline after ROTS also raise huge problems for that storyline? If a significant number of clones didn't have the "Evil" switch flipped on with Order 66/Control-Alt-Kill All Jedi, wouldn't that have seriously screwed with his entire plan?

As long as you ignore how they chose to flesh it out in the full current canon—which is unbelievably dumb—I thought that essentially continuing that conflict with slightly altered factions both serves as a foil to the two other series and gives the conflict the appearance of how civil wars in advanced societies…