The Dark Knight is no more responsible for crap like the Snyderverse (come at me) than Star Wars is for the glut of tiresome imitator space movies from the 1980s, or Nirvana is for the entirety of late 90s rock. Innovators are not responsible for imitators.

As is pointed out in the article, the MCU went with a different tone from The Dark Knight and was hugely successful.

Also, a sign that you’ve passed into adulthood is when you realize that Sally Field was 100% in the right to dump that immature jackass.

I think I know roughly how you feel.

How many bangers in the mouth do we need to cut to get it down to NC-17?

. . . they connect just right to the Original Trilogy.

Exactly. In the elaborate version I’ve been crafting in my head for two decades at this point, AotC is not about the (weird, nonsensical, convenient) beginning of the Clone Wars but instead a movie that begins with the Wars underway and Anakin Skywalker as a full-fledged Jedi and hero. The focus of the film is that…

Also: man, Ninja Yoda SUCKED. Hated that these films gave him and Palpatine lightsaber fights. When I watched the original trilogy, I imagined that both light & dark masters had transcended the need to use lightsabers- that’s why they had knights/apprentices to do all the hack & slashing. Who needs a sword when you…

I don’t know, I think “I refuse to listen to a trans person telling me about their experience of this depiction of transness” is pretty representative of this awful year as well.

Ironically, Silence of the Lambs gets into trouble because it’s so well-made that the absurd trashiness gets overlooked. It’s about a cannibal helping the FBI profile a serial killer who kills women to make a woman-suit. Every part of that premise is too ridiculous to have any grounding in reality - as he appears in…

generational warfare is dumb as fuck.

Arwen gets some decent moments of bad-assery in Fellowship (“come and claim him!”), but after that, kind of disappears except for a couple of flashbacks and some random bits.

Eowyn’s “I am no man” takes it for me. It’s smaller than some of the other ones, but man, what a delivery. I think the films are better than the books in a few ways, and this is absolutely one of them.

I like JPIII because it was basically “set-pieces from the first book that the fist movie didn’t have time to do,” like the pterosaur aviary and the boat trip (subbing the Spinosaurus in for the book’s T. Rex).

It’s weird that somehow Jackson completely forgot that “CGI won’t solve everything” for the Hobbit.

Can we all boo him?

Completely agree with you on the second part, but I have to join the ranks of being baffled that people took the first part in a different way. Homer is not quick enough to pull a kiss-ass fast one on his new boss, and he’s not stupid enough at that point in the series to interpret the question that literally. It’s a…

because homer actually seeing something so outlandish once before is an escalation of the already absurd event DUH

No, it is funnier for Homer to have seen something so completely random before than it is for Homer to remember something he has just seen!

I’ll sing the praises of “You’re Wrong About” all day. You can’t stop me.