My kids were looking forward to it.  They like all things Scooby Doo, including Scoob.  Kids aren’t picky about this sorta shit

God help me, I think Diedrich Bader is picking up the sword. He’s done more humorous versions, but he’s still a solid Batman. 

I cried when I first heard the news.

He was the only person who ever really nailed different voices for Batman and Bruce Wayne without (ironically) making the distinction cartoonish. For almost two decades we’ve had movie after movie where actors adopt over-the-top grunts and growls for “Batman,” whereas Conroy achieved it with the slightest changes: A…

RIP

It’s just Dunsparce in a giant inflatable Dunsparce costume from Wish.

smokin’ funny things and eatin’ lotsa wings?

The only special effects you’ll find on display here are the waterworks squirting out of your peepers! But if you hate kids - watch out! In Meet the Fabelmans Little Stevie Spielberg is all grown up and putting his shitshow of a marriage to Ms. Amy Irving on full display. Sure the names have changed and it’s almost 40…

The greatest thing said about Kid Rock in the past...ever, I guess... was the Tweet saying he looks like Dr. Phil put on a Kid Rock costume.

Yeah, but when “kid” rock backs it up, he beeps.

My two cents: until the end of the movie, Chighurh is presented as this unstoppable, Terminator-like force who can kill even men as tough as Moss and Woody Harrelson’s Vietnam-vet colonel.

the final scene underscores the tragedy that even those of us with the most noble intentions may be too shortsighted, too sidelined by the mundane, to be able to overcome the horror and injustice in the world. this is why, i think, Bell’s dream “feels flat”—its meaning is inexact. if a person cannot even grasp the…

2007 banged real real hard. So many more examples as well...Assassination of Jesse James, Persepolis, Eastern Promises (not sure if that’s held up), Hot Fuzz, Ratatouille, King of Kong, Gone Baby Gone, The Savages, The Mist, and uhhhh the first 75% of Sunshine

My interpretation is that despite the current cold and darkness, he takes comfort in the fact that his father is pressing ahead to create a safe place for him. It’s a beautiful image that’s at odds with the events of the movie, including his own admission to his cousin that’s he’s retiring because he’s overmatched,…

His other writings on dreams (I’m thinking of The Crossing and The Kekulé Problem) suggest he doesn’t regard their contents as illusory or disposable.

I’m going to say off the bat that I’ve had students write absolutely incredible essays arguing both sides of this question, which I think is absolutely the point of the ending—it contains hopeful elements but at the same time suggests (without outright saying) that hope is illusory. My take on the ending is that it…

I think the latter, considering Ed Tom’s position by the end of the novel. He’s been beaten down by a world of cruelty he no longer understands. He held on long past when he could have retired, holding out hope that what he was doing mattered, that he was trying to save people and do good...only to ultimately resign…

If it is a fleeting dream that’s all the more reason to hold onto it.

The Tommy Lee Jones bookends have always stuck with me. I’ve tried to be an optimist and lean toward there always being hope but there is this nagging feeling that the only hope we have is while dreaming.

Could be both, I suppose.