Look, I’m fine with Kill Bill referencing The Bride With White Hair or Sukeban Deka or whatever. It’s cute, it’s a nod to his influences and — importantly — it happens as a fleeting moment in the middle of a more or less original story.

On a more positive note: “City on Fire” isn’t the only gem in Lam’s catalogue. It’s totally worth anyone’s time to search out the completely insane 1992 “Full Contact”, which kinda-sort did bullet-time effects (on roughly 1/1,000,000th the budget) seven years before “The Matrix” landed.

the unofficial inspiration for Quentin Tarantino’s Reservoir Dogs

So pretty much par for the course for late-period Gilliam is what you’re saying?

Her 16-year-old daughter, Shelby (Tatiana Maslany), openly despises her. Her ex, Ethan (Tatiana Maslany), pities her. Her colleagues make hurtful jokes about her looks and abilities. And the suspects she interrogates—including her former friend and associate Petra (Tatiana Maslany) and sleazy defense attorney DiFranco…

This is all well and good, and I like this movie quite a bit, but we’ve been talking about “Captain America” for several dozen paragraphs now and mostly it’s reminding me that I haven’t re-watched the elevator fight in Winter Soldier in several months now and clearly it’s time to fix that...

If you didn’t like Scott Pilgrim, make sure to never, ever see Baby Driver, which is basically all of the same annoying tics drained of the entertaining supporting cast that made Scott Pilgrim watchable for some.

Didn’t IM2 get mugged by the WGA strike? My recollection is that much like “Quantum of Solace” they had at best a first draft of a script when the WGA went pencils-down, and production was too far along to reschedule, so they just did the best they could with what they had. 

Warren Ellis is ALWAYS right, and NEXTWAVE is the cape-punch comic ever written.

Amen. I nearly skipped “Logan” because the early word on it was that it was mostly adapted from Millar’s “Old Man Logan” series, which was one of the most rancid pieces of shit I’ve ever made the mistake of paying money for, and the exact moment that I swore never again on Millar’s output.

“The Man who Fell to Earth” is easily one of the strangest films I’ve ever seen, a visually stunning and at times emotionally affecting film that seems to regularly forget what story it’s trying to tell or even if it’s trying to tell a story at all. (Plus full frontal Rip Torn, in case that was a thing you wanted.) It…

I’m seriously delighted that Lundgren was willing to revisit the part.  The man was always a substantially smarter person and better actor than his, uh, entire career suggested.  Nice to see that he gets the chance to stretch a little bit here.

Ooooh.  You may be on to something here...

She’s actually a surprisingly good comedic actress, and honestly was far from the worst actor involved in Watchmen. She was just 15 years (minimally) too young for the part of the adult Laurie and just not physically capable of looking like someone who could throw a punch that anyone would notice.

Huh, I’d not known that about Gibbons’ sources for Adrian’s look. And the funny thing is, upthread (or downthread, who know with kinja) I was saying specifically that Redford’s role in Captain America: The Winter Soldier reminded me far more of Ozymandias than anything Matthew Goode did or said while actually playing…

Thank you, I’ve always wondered how this movie played to someone unfamiliar with the source, but the Venn diagram of my friends who’d read the comic and friends who voluntarily watched the movie was a concentric circle...

Word. The trailer for Man of Steel was fucking fantastic. I was almost convinced enough to see the movie on opening night.

(As a side note, while Malin Ackerman acquitted herself reasonably well in the part, there’s just no getting around the fact that they cast a rail-thin fashion model as a woman who was supposed to be able to hold her own in a street fight.  They needed someone like Gina Carano except actually able to act, or Hayley…

Funny thing about that fight scene in the movie with Dan giving someone a compound fracture...

Recall that in the book Rorschach never intentionally kills anyone