I know people have been complaining about a lack of a Batpole that costumes him automatically, but did we really have to spend 45 minutes explaining how to clean and maintain the new one in the film?

Ouch. And I mean ouch.

Yeah, maybe when I know seeing it isn't encouraging anything.

The thing is you have to read them and not look at the score. If a critic says the film is all scenery porn, important glances by repressed people and long takes, but really good at those, that doesn't make it a bad movie. But it does make a movie I won't see. If a critics says the movie is scattered, dull but there's…

I guess Jesus doesn't travel well.

Eh, somehow I'm assuming they go back to the same well, in general if not in terms of specific plot-point and hit all the same points, beats and strawmen.

Fractals!

1955 wants its cliche back. The whole point of critics to is see if a movie is something you might enjoy, based on your pre-existing tastes and preferences. The only people I see butthurt are fans angry their "thing" isn't winning imaginary critical horseraces.

I usually don't see that. I see people angry critics don't like their pandering product, and people angry about that. Bust usually critics just stay out of it once they're had their piece. I mean, there was a Deadline Hollywood story this week that said that maybe it was "herd mentality" that resulted in low reviews.…

Maybe. The B Cinemascore is worrisome; Cinemascore is most used for determining the multiple, which is how much the total release returns are compared to the opening. For something that opens this big, and is for fans and not general audiences, all bets could be off though.

When he admitted he killed Jimmy Olsen because "there really wasn't any place for him going forward", maybe?

It finally beat Jesus Chainsaw massacre? I knew it was close to that Sniper film all the RW guys on Facebook went nuts over last year.

I dislike them if there's no compelling reason for them (such as a brand-new city built where there is none in sci-fi, say). Granted, nothing beats "Raccoon City" for pure stupidity, but even okay ones like Metropolis add a layer of distance to reality for what reason exactly? And they always sound terrible rolling…

That cat knows what it did.

Wasn't Parker a lunatic though, with deranged demands that he'd sadly got away with? You don't just get Elvis, you get the whole show, and that means Parker too. I just remember a story about him offering a deal to Dolly Parton to have Elvis record one of her songs and when she read the actual terms just went "nuh uh"…

Was BE really that much of a success? It seemed like it got lots of stars and was on for multiple seasons, but was intended to be a Big Thing and it wound up being a reasonably successful HBO prestige drama. But it wasn't Sopranos, Wire or Deadwood. Or was it more watched than I'm thinking?

There's always flipping through channels like our forefathers?

This is starting to go into a weird place.

They cut out all the filler of shows they aren't reviewing or watching die.

That seems… random? It's hard enough to get any hard data on Jesus' actual life (like there's almost nothing outside of religious texts). I'd have a hard time thinking something that specific and weird could be demonstrated about his 'rents with available evidence. So, signs point to no.