It didn’t really transcend the genre. It was just the perfect mix of hype, Ledger’s performance and death, and of the tone being the first superhero movie to really nail that “grimdark” feel without any real winking.

I remember when Dunst, MaGuire and Franco were doing the promotional rounds on television, the seemed so disinterested and bored with the movie. Like they were above doing comic book movies. And now those movies are basically the most important movies on the planet. 

Dead parents and who think people always secretly wanted Peter Parker to be a cool outcast instead of a nervous nerd. 

The Amazing Spider-Man 2 is the only Spider-Man movie I never saw in the theater. I finally saw it on, like, TNT a year or two ago. The action was a bit improved over the first, but somehow it was an even worse movie. It’s the closest thing to another Batman and Robin we may ever get from a comic book movie.

Stop believing politicians when they say they have your best interests in mind. Demand candidates that are in favor of unions, in favor of higher taxes for the rich and for regulation.

There isn’t a more homoerotic sport than football. That’s the thing.

Great piece. The ending was a little abrupt, like the sudden of a kung fu film, so I guess it fits the overall theme.

This is great kinja. 

And you get him to go left by telling him no one is there. 

Halloween 2 had Michael Myers walk through a glass door.

Starred for pretzel bun burger mention. 

“I discovered that the world should be divided not into good and bad people but into cowards and non-cowards. Ninety-five percent of cowards are capable of the vilest things, lethal things, at the mildest threat.”

Yeah, and that’s that Kubiak isn’t a very good coach, either. Phillips won them that Super Bowl and Kubiak should be given credit for not getting in the way of that, I guess. 

Yeah, but, cops suck and Spider-Man is awesome.

Yes. And a small percentage of them were “progressives” who refused to vote for Hilary.

More registered democrats voted for Trump than for 3rd party candidate or than those who didn’t vote at all.

I mean, these are people who are paid to injure other people for a living. This “kerfuffle” is not any worse than when benches clear during a baseball game. This isn’t Ron Artest running into the stands to fight fans.

Yes. Not a big chance. But more than some people are letting on.

Nuclear always seemed to me to be an imperfect solution that is still preferable to all the fossil fuels we use. But there’s still this taboo around it. Just the other day I was talking to a woman who was bragging how she got arrested for protesting the building of a nuclear power plant, like, 20 years ago. I felt…

Yeah, honestly, he kinda sucked as president too.