It's the only live-action Batman film that knows exactly what it wants to be, executes it, and sticks the landing.

My definition of the South has two parts: 1) Did it secede from the US during the American Civil War? 2) Does it share culture with the rest of the region? If the answer is yes in either case, I think it's a strong contender for being considered a part of the South. Both things are true of Texas and Florida.

The one thing it does that I sort of wish had actually happened in a better entry in that iteration of the franchise was Uma Thurman playing Mae West-as-Poison Ivy. That was just fun.

Lithgow's performance really elevates that character. He has a throwaway line in his death scene when Dexter says he doesn't believe in Heaven of "oh but you do." I don't know if it was written or ad-libbed but it makes it seem like Trinity's religiosity itself is just another mask he wears.

Batman '89 also got us Batman Returns, which is closer to Burton's actual take on the material and still the best/most thematically consistent live-action take on the character.

"Facts" are racist if they aren't facts but aspects of a racist fantasy narrative you tell yourself to convince yourself you aren't racist, which is the case here.

Florida is the Deep South. Most times there are stories about unarmed black people being shot by civilians or women being beaten or shot or arrested for firing warning shots at a guy about to beat them, it's from Florida. There is a reason for that.

You keep pushing the idea that one is unlikely to identify a "safe" community that isn't overwhelmingly white. Pointing out that's as racist as racist thoughts get isn't "filling in gaps," it's pointing out the abundantly fucking obvious.

Making an assumption is different from pointing out what you're saying. I know that may be hard for you to grasp—as are apparently the definition of 'literally' and the function of the scare quote—but do try.

Again, do you honestly not see you are saying rape and murder go hand-in-hand with non-white people congregating in large numbers? You are literally making the same point that the writer of The Clansman: A Historical Romance of the Ku Klux Klan makes.

My answer is that the idea that such areas are "safe" is a lie. Maine is totally safe, if you aren't one of the thousands of people in that state living with a violent drunk or drug abuser, driving on the roads with such people, or depending on a first world standard of health care.

Yes because challenging a person to name a safe area that is less than 90% white in no way suggests you think non-white people are inherently dangerous.

You have strongly implied and then stated outright that "white" is synonymous with "safe." If you don't see how that is proof of a racist mindset. . .

You're aware that you are making yourself sound more racist the more you write, right?

So, you're doubling down on the racism and pointing out you don't know what "irony" or "xenophobia" means. Good job defending Southerners from that vicious lie that they tend to be racist rubes, guy.

And nothing you've said has made you seem like anything but the kind of thin-skinned, casually racist Southerner that is the basis of all Southern caricature. Unless, like LePage, you want to walk back/explain how Maine's "demographics" are responsible for its low crime rate. (And Maine only has a low crime rate if…

"Because of their demographics" = it's a lily white state but I don't want to tip my hand that I'm using a racist dog whistle here and reinforcing the very points you are making about my home region.

You're one of those people who think sarcasm, even the broadest form of it, makes someone seem clever, aren't you. Aw, bless your heart.

Also, there is the lack of appreciation for irony, like starting a flame war beginning with "You know we hate Yankees like you, right?" and then arguing that Southerners are tolerant, hospitable folk with a bad rap.

Southerners are "very nice" to people exactly like their "kin" and passive-aggressive, at best, to everyone else. Hence, why "bless your heart," when used in the South, is the smuggest version of "fuck you" that exists.