I love the coronation scene. I like the Cronstructicons blowing the trumpets and getting offended when Starscream tells them to stop.

I always figured he was an El Camino.

WOW! A mystery from my childhood solved. Thanks!

Bah weep gra na weep ninny bong?

While we're on the subject… Why does Rodimus Prime turn into a hot rod painted RV? No seriously, I want to know!

And actually I think if you watched the Star Wars movies Episodes 1-6 someone wouldn't patiently explain to you what the fuck a Jedi was until Episode 4. The prequels only work as stories if you know the original trilogy.

I really think the Ghostbusters franchise has little to no cachet. Sony executives and some nostalgic people on the internet seem to think otherwise. But really, I don't think anyone outside the faithful gives a real honest to god shit about this franchise.

Wait a second…

I rewatched Spider-Man 2 right after BvS, and it was so refreshing. Goddamn is that movie so very good. EVERYTHING in it relates to its themes, there's not a wasted moment. It felt like Raimi and co. were unconcerned about the possibility of a sequel and decided to make the best movie they could.

Hands down Spider-Man 2 is the template all of these fucking films should follow. The MCU gets the closest, but it astounds me that Batman v. Superman couldn't bother to follow the format.

It made me so so so happy that is how the movie turned out. I was very worried it was going to be three dudes battling an army of super people.

Totally agree. I do think a lot of the supernatural elements being played down make obvious sense for budgetary reasons.

So the comic opens in Heaven with the aftermath of the escape of Genesis. And a bunch of angels are concerned, and we see them they are angels, and some have wings and stuff. For me I feel like the show hides the ball on all the angel and god talk and it feels like it just doesn't trust its audience to go with it.

I like the show more than you do, but one of my major problems with the show is that it doesn't trust the audience to go with the supernatural stuff. Like all the angels and demons aren't other worldly. I guess this could be a budgetary issue, but since the show has done the bare minimum of explanation of its premise…

So I'm really digging the show, but I'm with you…at what point does this cease to really be an adaptation and is its own thing?

Wouldn't the review be better than, "it's mildly amusing."

The first 1/3rd of Ghostbusters II is really great. Having the Ghostbusters get yelled at by kids demanding He-Man is particularly inspired. But once the actual Ghostbusting starts the movie has to walk the audience through the premise again. Which is really frustrating. Men in Black II has a similar structural…

I have heard he's kind of an asshole. But an asshole told me that, so I'm not sure I can trust this information.

I'd vote it's the same world, but none of the characters are the same. I'd posit that The Duke of New York was once a Gramercy Riff though.

I'd say that or The Road Warrior.