…but they don't rhyme. They just don't! They don't sound alike! Sure, the vowel sounds are there, but what's the good of that when the consonants throw it off so? The final 's' sound of place is practically an additional syllable, the way it makes the word linger.

Same for me. Plus (as we are more accustomed to limericks being humorous than not) it makes absolutely no sense to have the last line (or last part of it) repeat the first, because there can be no possible surprise there (a rhyme in songs and poetry is a form of question and answer; you're given the setup, and you…

If you think birthday sounds like first place, you may need someone to look at your hearing.

True, but that's not so much a rhyme as it is a return to the opening line, as was common in limericks at that time; in fact, it was the format of all of his 'limericks'. It's possible there was even meant to be a different intonation than that which we would use today for a poem with a limerick's structure.

Yeah, he's not the finest wordsmith in the music industry. Can't complain much about the rhyme there (apart from being pretty uninspired), but there's plenty else to gripe at in that passage. There seem to be precious few songwriters out there who fully understand how to write lyrics, and Mr Osbourne, God bless his…

I did say 'marginally'. And I'm only defending it because my bugbear for half-rhymes is greater than my one for pretending homographs are distinct enough to be used to complete a rhyming couplet.

I didn't give it a multiple paragraph Great Job, Internet! article.

It's a bit clumsily put together, given that the headline refers to Beckinsale only, but it's actually about Megan Fox for the first half. The numbers just about line up, with Fox being 17 when the film was released, so about 16 when the film was made.

Marginally better than 'boy' with 'boys', because a) the two versions of masses have different meanings, and b) it does actually rhyme. Still dumb, though.

Okay, he's not that bad.

Yeesh, you're easily impressed. He rhymed 'boy' with 'boys'. For something he knocked up in a few minutes it's fine, but I'm sure (if he intends to write songs professionally at any point) his second and third drafts will have more effort put into them.

I'd perhaps be a little more generous… there's some good performances (depending on your tastes maybe 'great' performances), which lift a lot of the script, and provide a few very good laughs (and a decent number of chuckles, again depending on tastes). But it's really lacking in both story and character work; it's a…

Can't speak for everyone, but for me:
1) That it's a reboot, not a continuation. But I haven't seen much with any of those four women in, and what I have seen I haven't liked (though not typically their fault). Didn't get along with either Bridesmaids or Spy.

That's fair. It's not what I'm after in a film - none of what Burton specialises in is - but they're always interesting, one way or another, visually. And yeah, the music is brilliant, and the Batmobile is iconic. Heck, the realisation of Batman himself is still kind of the definitive one, even echoing through Bale…

Definitely different strokes ;) I'm a true Whedonite, and while I prefer his TV shows I really like all his films (he didn't actually direct Cabin in the Woods, but I do really like that, despite not liking other Drew Goddard stuff or many horror films at all).

I think we're going to disagree there - while I wouldn't necessarily say Avengers is the best superhero film, it's pretty darn brilliant in a number of ways. Batman Returns had a huge number of things that just didn't work for me… but that's the same of all Tim Burton-directed films.

True, Daredevil isn't at the bottom of the superhero genre… and neither is Burton's Batman. But, for me at least, it's about the same distance from the top.

It's alright, there's (surely?) only one more year of flashbacks before he actually gets rescued. Then if they go to season six they'll have to find another gimmick. Maybe puppies?

Yeah, I found this pretty darn satisfying, although I do get the point that nukes are way outside Team Arrow's remit (when they mentioned getting the president in the bunker, I thought 'I wonder what he knows about all of this?' Killing the planet must surely get Star City onto a higher radar than Argus.)

I finally watched Batman, Batman Returns and Beetlejuice a couple of weeks ago. They're really quite bad films. Admittedly, I'm not a fan of Tim Burton anyway (I like The Nightmare Before Christmas, but he didn't actually direct that), but I was expecting (given the high reputation of those films even to this day, and…