They could say "Beeb" (like, "Bowie at the BEEB" meaning his BBC-Radio shows).

Maybe he's levitating…helping….I don't know.

It's not "redundant" any more than Kal-El crashing to earth in the 1978 Superman is "redundant." They're telling the story, and that's how it starts.

It's not a "nitpick," damn it. The MCU is a legitimate creative construction, a fantastic collaborative effort, and the X-Men and earlier Spider-Man movies conspicuously have nothing to do with it and suffer immeasurably as a result.

Peter Chung! Oh my God.

Then you are lost!

But that's exactly what I love so much about live action superhero movies: they make it all plausible. That's what's especially great about the Marvel movies: you can have your mind wide open and your brain fully engaged and still be transported to the mental zone where such total wish-fulfillment fantasy seems 100%…

He hadn't yet had his cinematic acting breakthrough — he had to work with Soderbergh for that to happen. Once it did, his entire career began in earnest.

As of the most recent movie, yes.

Oh, he's totally nice! Everyone in that sunny landscape is totally harmless. I'm just saying, West plays up Batman's square-jawed, Dudley-Doright, self-satisfied pontificating (especially with Robin and the commissioner). It's a minor complaint; I actually kind of dig it — he seems aware of how ridiculous the whole…

This is all so well-reasoned, knowledgeable and deeply considered that I'm almost embarrassed to keep arguing the other direction (especially since you graciously agreed that it comes down to subjective preferences).

Maybe, if you start from the premise that Batman is kind of a jerk, the way Adam West played him as kind of a jerk (but, to be funny) and that's why he's Batman, rather than the vastly more interesting, subtle, likeable (and plausible) half-crazy-but-keeping-a-lid-on-it characterizations by Keaton and Bale.

Well, that's the operative theory in some quarters.

Yeah…they haven't focused on that enough, over the years. I think it's arguably Bruce Wayne's motivation for becoming Batman.

David Caruso

Everything about this — your username, your bad grammar, your annoying opinion — fits together.

Lawrence of Arabia — with its anal rape/"penetration from behind" imagery carrying through from the rocks rolled down the sand dune (that hit Lawrence in the ass) to the attack on Aqaba "from the rear" — is full of homosexual innuendo.

Heston is not very smart.

Cruising is one of the more interesting movies I've seen. Friedkin is always good, especially when he's not hitting his commercial targets (see Sorcerer). Cruising has a very strange plot that I can't quite figure out; it's almost a Lynchian or Pirandellesque story. It's like Blow-Up in that there's a central murder…

I was just about to mention Sal Mineo (but I thought I'd search first).