Hooray! Wonder Woman, the most famous, iconic, instantly-recognizable superheroine in the world, is finally getting her own movie!

Well, let's get into it, shall we?

I can totally agree with that assessment. Sure, just because something has been done before, doesn't mean that omitting it is the better option… I think some of the lesser films in recent years ended up so screwed up because they ignored basic elements of narrative formula in an attempt to shake things up and do…

Yeah, I can get the annoyance at casting a Brit as Bane, but given that the film relocated his prison from Latin America to Eastern Europe so that he could be in the same prison as Talia, it kinda made some sense. As for Ra's and Talia, yeah, it would have been better to go with Arabic actors… but on the other hand, I…

Nope— I don't buy that. The pearls were missing, which Selina was wearing when Alfred saw her with Bruce. The autopilot was definitely fixed by Bruce (a completely meaningless development if he never bothered to use it). And it would be a bit of a leap for Alfred to assume that Bruce had run off with Selina Kyle—…

Wow. Okay, obviously I'm not going to change your mind about any of this, but just know that I completely disagree with pretty much every criticism you said.

The endings weren't moronic; they just weren't cynical. And I don't see them as the result of studio intervention, either.

Chris Nolan is probably my favorite filmmaker working today. I can't name a single bad movie he's made, because he hasn't made one. Pretty much the only one I'm not a dyed-in-the-wool fan of is Following, and I still at least liked that one.

Good call, lol! The first Nightmare gets pretty creepy… even a little intense. But at least Johnny Depp is there to take the piss out of everything.

The scene you described was actually from Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare. It's probably the cheesiest entry in the entire franchise— at one point, Freddy sucks a pot-smoking Breckin Meyer into an NES-style video game and "plays" him using a clawed "Power Glove"— but the grotesque art direction and general…

Actually, it's funny— the only trilogies I can name in the horror genre are wildly spaced apart. Like, if you watch Halloween, Halloween 2, and H20, it forms a trilogy of sorts… And I'd say Nightmare on Elm Street, Dream Warriors, and Wes Craven's New Nightmare make another one. The one that comes closest to fitting,…

It's funny, I know a lot of people on this board have said that you can't really enjoy Scream without an extensive back-knowledge of horror films… but for me, it was just the opposite. Scream was actually the first horror film I was ever able to sit through, and for a pretty good reason: I was terrified of them.

The first novelization I ever bought was for Batman Forever. It was written by Peter David, and it included a hell of a lot of material that wasn't in the film, including an introduction to Edward Nygma when he was a child, which went some lengths to explain his fixation on Bruce Wayne… and, of course, the complete…

Good God, Robert Englund… did you just have NO standards whatsoever back in Freddy's heyday?! I mean, a paycheck may be a paycheck, but Jesus Christ…

I wanted to get that one! I've heard it's actually one of the better novelizations.

I still don't get how anyone could hate Scream. Sure, maybe they hate the movies that Scream inspired, because there was an awful lot of Dawson's Creek-flavored horror drecch coming out in the late '90s that was clearly taking its cues from the style of Scream… but Scream itself is a sharply-crafted piece of satire…

I read books! I read Star Trek and Star Wars expanded universe novels!

I liked Scream 3 on a much more basic level than any of the other Scream films. It isn't very densely layered in terms of meta commentary, subversiveness, thematic underpinnings, etc., but it has bits and pieces that shine pretty brightly: the opening, the ending, that chase through the set of Sidney's old house,…

Funny thing… I was about twelve when Phantom Menace came out, and I was a huge Star Trek nerd at the time. I loved science fiction, but never really had a taste for science-fantasy… so when I saw Menace, I thought the reason I couldn't see the appeal was that Star Wars just wasn't my cup of tea. I didn't really get…

"A dozen years later, and after a string of inexplicably awful movies…"