AKIVA GOLDSMAN: "Everyone knows the hardest part of making these superhero movies is trying to please the rabid fans… So we'll just buy up a comic book universe that doesn't HAVE any fans, and presto— not a problem anymore!"

Ehhh… I don't think they will.

Oh, I have— and that was ultimately the point I had to come to, as well. Star Wars lost to Annie Hall, Empire Strikes Back wasn't even nominated (Ordinary People won that year… which was, I admit, a pretty great drama), Raiders of the Lost Ark lost to Chariots of Fire… hell, Citizen Kane lost to How Green Was My Valley…

I humbly disagree. The third act is a little overlong, but the climax pulls it together beautifully.

I have a weird, love/hate relationship with Batman Forever.

Idk… taking the Burton Batman films literally kinda misses the point a bit, I think. Those films were all about the psychological symbolism, and taken on THAT regard, the Returns script did some interesting things with the Penguin, Catwoman, and Max Shreck— turning each into twisted reflections of different aspects of…

Ahhh, that would be nice, I suppose… but I don't really care either way.

I liked it for that too, actually… and I loved it for tying its visually garish qualities stylistically to the '80s setting (which was a brilliant touch).

Sometimes that works in interesting ways, though. Tim Burton had no actual interest in Batman or comic books before he was turned onto the character for the '89 movie; his two films, while not perfect depictions of Batman, were pretty darn interesting. (And his SUPERMAN would have been something else entirely, from…

Ahhh, nothing says passionate, emotionally-satisfying storytelling like the phrase "deliver a quality experience".

Hmm. Well, that would be a truly insightful critical observation… if I was in any way denying any of these points, or claiming to be an authority on the show.

Man… I knew Sony was desperate for a hit at this point, but sweet Jesus, this is awful. "The Emoji Movie" sounds like a joke title the guys from South Park would come up with.

I personally disagree. Force Awakens was derivative, simplistic, and shallow, but at least it wasn't dull.

Rogue One was SO CLOSE to being good. SO CLOSE.

I'll be deep in the cold, cold ground before I recognize Missour-ah!

Oh, shit! Everybody dies?!?

Terminator 2: Judgment Day WAS my childhood. I must have seen this movie well over two or three hundred times by now. I watched it as a kid and loved the robots and the action and the sci-fi mythology of it all; now when I watch it I just marvel at the skill and craft of all the visuals, the intensity of Hamilton's…

I think with Trump we got a full-on colon instead.

Uhhh… Faora's in the Phantom Zone.

Hmm.