Well, at the time of The Matrix, they only had that and 'Bound' on their resume, so no one was really making that statement about their body of work.

Well, yeah. I hadn't seen the original cartoons for many MANY years, and had forgotten just how… idiosyncratic they were. Especially the speech patterns. Unless you have that in your head, I can totally understand why people would look at Speed Racer and not understand what the hell they were doing.

I'm going to offer a theory, which I wish was original, but I can't remember where I heard it:

the goal of 'moving past racism' is noble, and is pretty universal. But one of the MAIN POINTS about all the crap that's happening lately is that even if each and every individual doesn't act racist, the systems and social constructs we live within have racism BUILT IN.

Are we really just going to ignore the utterly, UTTERLY ridiculous wardrobe they have poor Meryl in? The Barbie Combat Boots? The side braids!?! GOOD GOD, THE SIDE BRAIDS!!

I watched the whole first season, too. At first, because I hoped it would be good. Then because I hoped it would get better, and finally, because of the 'sunk costs' fallacy at work, I felt a misplaced obligation to see it through to the end of the season.

Finally. A good reason for me to say "fuck off" to Gotham. I was truly on the fence as to whether Gotham would get so stupidly bad it might qualify for hate-watching, but since Jada Pinkett Smith is gone, I expect her to take whatever little fun there was left with her.

Has season 2 ever become available (in any format?) I know netflix only has the first season.

I only realized after your comment that it would, in fact, spread the run over 10 books, and at $20+ each, well…. I don't even own a bound Sandman yet because a full set is well over $200, and that's SANDMAN.

They've put out a relatively recent bound collection called The Maxx- Maximized. The original run, but in color. I just saw in the bookstore the other day. Looks stunning.

If I thought it was funny enough, I'd spell out 'nananana BATMAN' in big letters made up of $'s, but really, it's not worth it.

I would be completely un-disappointed with any sort of lap dance (or really, a dance of any sort) from Amy Schumer. Or Bill Hader.

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One of the few old Eddie Murphy routines that does not involve gays:

come to california. yeah, you gotta get a card, but they just throw one at you when you cross the border. plus no snow.

I'm pretty sure that they tried this already w/ 'Heil Honey, I'm Home'

cot and caught are two OBVIOUSLY different words.

No one defends the original as an actual good movie. They (that is, I) defend it as a movie with (at the time) groundbreaking visuals and (at the time) groundbreaking ideas on VR all tied up in a rather slow and kinda incoherent plot.

Is there any moment in cinema that makes you want to take a crying shower more than Dangerfield asking "Are you all clean?"

I can't they get better, because they really, REALLY don't. But Fish shows up with a killer haircut and Selina sorta…