I saw one of them! I saw Suicide Squad!

Heh… pretty much. I have no doubt that there will be excessive to the point of boring violence, messy and incoherent plotting, and a subplot about gay seduction that feels like an uncomfortable glimpse into Williamson's issues with sexuality.

Kevin Williamson is wildly inconsistent, and his best stuff seems long gone by this point.

One of the hallmarks of the X-Men is that they have greater diversity than basically anyone else. And part of that is a specificity of background. Rogue isn't just an American, she's from a pretty specific region of the South, as just one example. So Storm is from Egypt and Nightcrawler from Germany and Wolverine from…

Which brings up another point, with the X-Men, the characters are from all over the planet. Mystique is from somewhere in Europe (in the comics, it is Vienna, but the movies never specified), Xavier is from England, Magneto is from Eastern Europe (likely Poland), Storm from Egypt ect. ect. ect….

Well, first off setting the movies in definitive time periods helps quite a lot rather than at a vague future time. It also allows them to build the movies around events in history that are thematically relevant to the films themselves (the Cuban Missile Crisis in First Class and the Paris Peace Accords in DoFP). So…

Carmine's: A Place For Steaks

I like that Rebecca's imagination is intense enough to give her own fantasies an existential crisis.

Have you not realized that basically all the end tags are amazing?

The season one theme song explains her situation. The season two theme song explains her psychology. I think they're both great.

I love that they held on her face for far, far too long. Sort of like the ending of The Graduate, except Rebecca's manic energy forces her to keep pretending everything is still fantastic.

"Glad to see a more nuanced fiction (than, say, most sci-fi films) tackle the issues of robots/AI"

Be just like Maya and her father!

I think the best thing about the film was that it took a lot of things that were mostly subtext about Batman and made it text. His insecurity about family issues, his arrogance, his showboating, his isolationism, his messed up relationship to his rogues, the fact that everyone thinks he's an asshole….

Hey, I saw The Lego Batman Movie. It was great. I was surprised that Lego seems to have the rights to a whole boatload of properties, they must be licensing the rights to use them in movies at the same time they are licensing the sets. This also had to be the first non-comics appearances of like two dozen Batman…

I was talking about the books.

That said, magic creates a new hierarchy based on talent and willingness to study. The appeal is that the new hierarchy is a genuine meritocracy based on brains and hard work.

I was reading an article that pointed out that we don't make resistance films any more, we make righteousness films. In all these dark, post-apocalyptic dystopia films our protagonist rises up against a great evil… but then discovers the rebellion has some unsavory aspects and rejects them. The central themes aren't a…

"So, uh, you're gay? Huh? For pay or for free?"
"For free I guess…"
"Chump."

On The Good Place it was listed as something that got you negative points… and then Trevor from the Bad Place told Eleanor she should smile.