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I hate that movie with the fiery passion of a thousand exploding suns.

The Robin and Gohan ones just blow my mind. Robin being stocky makes zero sense. HE'S AN ACROBAT, FOR F%$#'S SAKE. Certain activities result in specific body types… such as Gohan training in multi-G environments with weighted clothing. OF COURSE he's going to be built like a bodybuilder. And that's before you get into

Murmur (a.k.a. Stitch-Mouth) theoretically should work as an "Arrow" villain, except the writers completely screwed up his M.O.

Smith apparently broke down into tears during the season one finale, when Barry has his final talk with his mom… so I'm not surprised he would want to direct what may end up being this season's big tear-jerker episode. The show obviously hits him right in the feels.

Suicide Squad and Wonder Woman will be the make-or-break movies of the DCEU for me. Sure, Zack Snyder is going to churn out crap no matter WHAT he's attached to (there goes Justice League…), but these two will be the litmus test to prove whether it's Warner Bros. itself that's screwing DC's movies up so bad, or

The Mask of Zorro is such a wonderfully perfect summer blockbuster. It doesn't get nearly the recognition it deserves these days. I own it on Blu-Ray and enjoy the hell out of it!

But at least he was clearly having a lot of fun chewing the scenery. Personality goes a long way; if I'm going to see a stupid, plot-mandated battle between the hero and a two-dimensional villain, I'd rather it be Jeff Bridges than a C.G.I. puppet… (or, worse, Malekith from Thor: The Dark World.)

… Okay, I'm gonna have to draw the line at bad-mouthing Jeff Bridges.

… But the Winter Soldier DID do bad things. That was half the reason Zemo's deception worked. Just because he didn't [SPOILERS!!!] didn't mean he wasn't a murderer dozens of times over. And he sure as hell DID [SPOILERS!!!], which was kind of the crux of the whole thing.

Well, I wasn't actually refering to the circumstances that led to the splintering of alliegences. In a film like this, those are, frankly, incidental.

"The living are not finished with you yet."

I have to say that what I probably liked the most about this movie is that it did organically what Age of Ultron seemed so desperate to force: a splintering of the Avengers. Rather than giving the team a bunch of cheesy visions to compel them all to act like idiots (and to sequel bait), this movie actually examines

I can't tell you how glad I was to see the team of Winder Soldiers all dead when they walked into the cryo chamber. I was honestly not looking forward to a big, stupid brawl with a bunch of generic thugs.

I love superhero shows. I'm a die-hard comic reader and a DC loyalist (Zack Snyder and the "DCEU" aside)… but I just had to give up on Legends of Tomorrow. Good GOD, that series is stupid.

"Garrick" is Henry's mother's maiden name?

… Uh… okay?

Comedies churn out some of the absolute worst sequels. Humor, after all, comes from a gut reaction to the unexpected… and sequels are, at best, further explorations of things that we've already seen. If you're familiar enough with the original to want to see the sequel, the joke has effectively been ruined for you in

Well, I was never trying to suggest that the movie was any good, nor that the characters were effective or accurate in any way. I was just saying that the writers put a lot of effort into the themes and subtext. The PROBLEM is that they forgot to put and equal-or-greater effort into the text itself, or the development

Well…

I think they wanted to suggest that he was coked out and/or demonstrably crazy throughout the film. It's propaganda at its heart: make the opposing side look as bad as is possible.