The trend of 23 year olds with PhDs (sometimes multiples!) in movies is one of those constant reminders that nobody in Hollywood has any idea how the world actually works outside of other works of fiction.

They don't know how to write Kingly Doom any more. He was going to be an emo hacker, and then they cut the hacker part out, so he was just a brooding emo dude.

It started at least as long ago as the beginning of filming LOTR.

If your heart does not break when you understand the whole "being tamed" sequence, I cannot imagine what could possibly move you.

It's never gone out of print in English, every bookstore's children's section has had it front and center for my entire life, and it's frequently done on stage, for children's theatres, so yes it's pretty well known.

I guess you are unaware that she is a TAS character, and this does not resemble her harlequin costume or obsessed stalker who persecutes her "Mr. J" right back, in the least.

We can do two things.

Not really, since there is no where near the equivalent collective amount of movies that objectify men sexually and women.

It was a rather notorious recent episode in the history of a fairly influential video game series, so yes.

I guess you didn't watch TAS, where she displays zero skin, struggles between her unrequited stalkerish love for the Joker and her appreciative egalitarian love with Poison Ivy, and is far more than a mere "tool" — oh yes, and where the character was first originated?

My mistake — Heinberg was the executive producer of the CW's horrible WW pilot, not a (credited) writer on it, but that still doesn't make me any happier. And Johns is pretty darn gritty, and his stuff is often quite sexist, so I'm setting my expectations low in the hopes that anything that isn't completely horrible…

Yes. t was frustrating when I was trying to find some of the lines from that film that weren't already quoted online, without having to go through and transcribe them myself, for a discussion of the movie: I tried too look them up in the script and…they weren't there. I hadn't realized, before that point, how much in…

Snyder wants to remake The Fountainhead. We had long suspected he was a Rand fanboy, from various narrative "tells" but that clinched it.

Gimlet is a drill. "Gimlet eyes" see right through you.

A critic who gave TDKR a bad review got death threats when it came out.

"Caught" is unfortunately more appropriate, given the realities of development hell for so many good scripts and writers. Unless he could have produced it all by himself, he was at the mercy of the studios to make or break him as a name in film.

Superman should have leapt into the tornado to save Pa Kent…and punched a shark.

I do like the fact that given Ayer's style of editing, no one can say for sure if the movie was reshot in response to the BvS:WtF criticism, or not!

I am fully expecting Lego Batman to clean the DCEU's clocks. All of them.

You can do this sort of thing right - Seven Samurai/Magnificent Seven, any WW2 adventure movie all start from scratch throwing a bunch of ambiguous heroes at us to figure out - but you have to, well, actually write decent characters and give them arcs and moments of interaction in a plot that makes sense.