No, I think she just believes in a... life, after... love?

If we’re being blunt, the real distinction is that Nolan’s DC films almost, but don’t quite, take Batman too seriously or push the “what if fantasy character grapple with real world shit?” thing to the point where it just breaks the story and makes everything become stupid again, except stupid in a joyless and…

To be totally fair, most of the good ones started coming along after the bad ones had already shit the bed. “Fool me twice, shame on me” and such.

There’s a version of Man of Steel that can work. A version where the world is a little colder and more hostile than Richard Donner’s, where Clark is a little more unsure of himself and what the right course of action is. There are ideas there that can, with some nurturing and development, create a version of Superman…

I’m gonna push back a little on this; even in the second season of the Third Doctor’s run, the showrunners started doing a couple of stories where they’d have the Time Lords send the Doctor and Jo to an alien planet in the TARDIS for some kind of mission precisely because they realised that setting a science fiction…

“Yeah, but John, when the Pirates of the Caribbean broke down, the pirates didn’t eat the tourists.”

In other words: “if you hold Zack Snyder to the lowest possible standards, this film is kind of alright.”

But-but the “Star Wars cantina” scene is set in a brothel! What better illustration of Zac Snyder’s deconstructive genius could anyone possibly need?!

So we’re tryin’ to force another Barbenheimer meme, huh.

Yeah, honestly, that was just fucking weird. Like, I’m not expecting The Crown of all things to fully commit itself to an intensive in-depth searing analysis of all the nuts and bolts and nuances and controversies of post-war British policy towards Northern Ireland, you’d need an entire series just for that and this is…

To be totally fair, if I had lawyers saying “If you write anything involving the British monarchy post-2005 you will be sued to fucking Andromeda and back by everyone and their mum,” I’d be a bit uncomfortable as well. 

[Passive-aggressively pops balloons with a pen while not breaking eye contact]

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Fuck. This one’s rough.

By itself in a vacuum, it’s a reasonable thing to do for your own self-interest — though, let’s face it, no one likes a narc.

At this moment, you mean everything.

True, and as we all know, people don’t do that kind of thing with fish.

I mean, I’m on record saying that the pedigree of the people making it is enough to give me a chance on this very thread, but this isn’t totally just the internet being mean to a random target: “a prequel to Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory” is already a hard sell to begin with, Timothee Chalamet didn’t exactly…

It means that you remember him from such films as P is for Psycho and The President’s Neck is Missing.