I don't know… I'll take the Burton and even the Schumacher Batman movies over the Nolan ones any day. The latter just feel so self-serious that it turns me off majorly. Even if the older films throw out the source material, I feel like they're a little more true to the original comics in tone.

shouts out to the Blow Up poster on his wall.

Rob Schneider in Demolition Man. Yes.

Jim Jarmusch also says that 9/11 caused him to slip into a creative slump. 

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Like I said above, it's not as much in-jokes as it is a general atmosphere of Mormon culture.

No problem man. Glad I could explain. 

I know exactly how you feel. Have you read that recent NY Times Magazine article about the animation department at BYU? Kinda gives me the creeps. There's one girl in the article who makes a short film that the others consider "weird," and it just gives me bad flashbacks.

Also casserole.

They're hard to detect if you don't have any experience with Mormons, but things like Napoleon's Ricks College shirt, euphemisms like "friggin," the slightly outdated and super-modest clothing, stuff about Boy Scouting. They're not really "in-jokes" persay. It's more of an overall atmosphere derived from Mormon…

Yeah, most of the heavily Mormon parts of Idaho/Utah/Nevada/Wyoming are really dreadful. Actually a lot of parts of those places are really dreadful.

Oh, and as far as technology is concerned, Mormons generally seem a little bit behind. There were plenty of families more ahead of the curve than my own, but we didn't get any CDs until 2003 (our first was a Better Homes and Gardens Christmas CDs) or a DVD player until 2004 (the first one I saw was Mr. Mom). I didn't…

I think that makes a lot of sense considering that Jared Hess spent his two-year Mormon mission in Mexico, so he probably got a lot better handle on the culture than most Americans abroad would.

When I was a kid, I had some similarities to Napoleon Dynamite, so on occasion other kids would call me Napoleon Dynamite. Every so often that remark would spring up again in high school, but by that point I had stopped believing, so I would get super mad, not necessarily because I hated the movie (although I mean…

Like I said above, I think the Mormon influence plays into that. There are a lot of Mormon girls who dress like the girls in the background (pretty modest by today's standards, a little bit dated, sort-of looks like a hand-me-down, but not Amish or anything) and the character of Don sort-of has an archetypal haircut…

There's a pamphlet for Mormon kids called "For the Strength of Youth," which is basically a how-to guide for being a boring person. The copy I had as a kid was probably printed in about 2000, but all the pictures of kids in it looked like they were taken in maybe 1991 at the absolute latest.

Damn, I had no idea I said "Mormon" that many times in my comment.

All I know is I'm going to see it because it's got Kentucker Audley in it apparently. 

One of my friends watched Lust, Caution with his parents. Similar experience.

Eh sort-of. I wasn't really expecting anybody to read it.