I don't know what it is about these movies that has people so convinced that critics just want them to fail. No, critics want it to be good. It's just that they didn't like it and it isn't their job to validate you for liking it.

He also smokes a pipe. He doesn't anymore, because the pipe was not an element of the character that carried over from that early phase of his development. If Bruce Wayne were to light up out of nowhere today, people would rightly find it out of character. Please note that smoking is a much more common and socially…

Question: was this particular element of these movies a strength or a weakness? Mind you, people like these movies, but few would hold them up as flawless.

How is the no-killing policy the dumb part of that equation?

Enter The Dragon is just fucking stupidly good.

There's a Bruce Lee documentary that I think is included on the deluxe DVD of Enter The Dragon. It includes as much of Lee's original vision of Game of Death as they were able to reconstuct from the footage he shot, assembled according to his notes. It's pretty cool.

Think of how many people he prevented from checking out the copy themselves. This man is a hero.

Zack Snyder is one of the people who can't grasp what Zack Snyder is trying to do.

I love how Zack Snyder's understanding of murder is basically the same as Tom Cruise's psychopathic character in Collateral: "I didn't kill him. I shot him. The bullets and the fall killed him."

I'm surprised there hasn't already been a parade of Internet tough guys parroting stuff they read in Black Belt Magazine about how Lee wasn't that great and how they would take him down in a fight.

The CGI in Dominion looks cheap because, after being left moldering on the shelf, it was finished cheaply and rushed out. It's one of those movies that ought to be treated more like a workprint or a proof of concept. What we got isn't quite what we were supposed to get.

Zack Snyder can eat a red and blue turd.

God damn it. I looked through the whole thread to make sure someone else didn't post it first. But here it is, at the bottom.

I feel like this episode does for Jeremiah what Man of Steel tried to do with Jon Kent but instead shat the bath in a fountain of greenish gray soft-serve.

Oh, I saw that one many times as a youngin', and I'm not sure I found it all that scary until I got a little older.

I suspect that any real ambition as an actor got crushed out of him during the brief period when he struggled to make it as a contract player. Once he had to resort to carpentry to make ends meet, he was probably in full-on cynicism mode. The kind of cynicism when you resort to smuggling in order to pay off your debts…

The only reason a Jacob's Ladder movie should ever exist is if the original were a bland movie with good ideas and the remake finally delivered on all that potential. Something like Cronenberg's remake of the Fly.

Can't go wrong with the '70s Superman movie, which is about as all-ages as superheroes get.

Funny how?

Takeaway: a Batman who is self-serious to a fault is just as embarrassing as a Batman who undercuts his image with rampant silliness.