Mary Poppins’ (ONE WEIRD) trick is that the adventure is backed by implied threat -- she can make wondrous things happen, so imagine what would happen if you actively pissed her off. League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Black Dossier often goes up its own ass and has a hate boner for a certain boy wizard that is more…

Hell, I remember whenever an adult would say “Let’s play the Quiet Game!” I didn’t know what the fuck they were talking about, so I didn’t participate.

Reminds me of the Maxi-Mortal - if anyone remembers that comic. I’m intrigued

Yeah, I also lived in NYC during the period, and I didn’t understand any of this Rudy is great stuff. He went on TV and said — what happened is awful but we will stand up to bad guys. Which is totally true; but like, duh. Any normal human would say that. And then Bush gave a speech saying, “terrorism is bad, and I’m…

How dare Bill Maher not give Jack Kirby co-credit for destroying society.

Nite Owl is Ted Kord, the second Blue Beetle. It’s not subtle. This is like saying Rorschach is based on John Constantine, it’s just obviously wrong.

But I do think if comics were still more oriented for children at least some of the industry’s more questionable practices would have been nipped in the bud.

I think Ozymandias is by far the worst problem with the Watchmen movie (I actually said “what the fuck?” in the theater when Nite Owl punches the shit out of him at the end). And I think the best evidence that what’s wrong with the movie’s Ozymandias is due to Snyder’s take on the character can actually be found in…

Alan Moore did the amazingly great TOP 10 comic book, about being a super powered cop, living in a a super powered city.  Even the rats and cats had cosmic level events and reckonings.  He clearly had a blast writing the book.

For added weirdness, there was a recent deathbed confession that was relayed, which (if believed) indicates that there was an attempt to set up Gary Hart. However, no one directly involved has admitted anything to trying to set it up.  Both Rice and Hart denied the affair and have continued to deny it since then.

Watch it and get back to me.

The tongue flicking is great. I don’t know if it was in the script or a choice of Ledger’s (I think Ledger’s choice), but it almost certainly indicates that he’s been on, and is coming off of, anti-psychotic drugs. It’s a somewhat rare, but fairly well-known side effect of antipsychotics called https://en.wikipedia.org…

I agree with you about Hancock. Personally, I love that movie. Watch it all the time.

My favorite bit of acting in the film is how he bristles when one of the gangsters calls him crazy. He reels for a moment and you learn so much about him in one fraction of a second.

You can’t overstate how good Michael Caine is in these films. He manages to ground the action with warmth, humility and humour (it’s obvious how much he loves Bruce and how heartbroken he is that he’s become completely driven to be Batman), but he also gets across the shades of the hard bastard military man he was in…

Agreed. It must suck, though, for him to look at the comments; hopefully he just never does.

given that the planting of the flag (in reality) was so ridiculous that audiences would either not believe it happened, or would be baffled by the sudden injection of near slapstick humor into an otherwise very serious movie, i have no idea how you would do it without making up an entirely different story.

it turns out…

You beat me to it. I came here to gush about Charlie Cox, who indeed doesn’t get enough credit for the role. Sure, Vincent D’Onofrio’s great, but I absolutely love Cox in this role. He brings so much humor and charm to the character, which does a lot in balancing out all the angsty issues (though for a character like…

“I don’t understand, this is the fifth confused and terrified kid that’s come in today. Chief, what the hell is going on?”

I really think you need to question your own bias regarding your focus on the drag queens making you forget they are men. I don’t see how anyone can look at even an excellent performance by RuPaul and pretend he’s passing. RuPaul does not look like a woman. He does a very convincing performance of a female theatrical…