Wow… now I'm picturing some low-grade Jason Bateman roles with Michael J Fox in them…

I think "smirking nipples Batman" is a nice reminder that it's actually hard to do campy Batman right.

You don't even need to look that closely - Romero's "mustache under pancake-makeup" was clearly visible on my television in the early 90s.

One of my favorite anecdotes on the commentary track for the 60 Batman movie (one of my favorite commentaries ever) is West talking about the first episode of the show, and how when he showed up on set all the crew and everyone fell silent. He thought he looked silly, but later someone told him they had all grown up…

"Cesar! Adam's coming! Put some makeup on the mustache and follow me!"
- Frank Gorshin's ghost

I had a kind of know-it-all friend years ago who made a comment about the Nolan Batman movies being a lot more faithful to "the original comics." I almost asked her which "original comics" she was referring to, since the character was over 70 years old, and Nolan was deliberately following Frank Miller. It's just…

To be fair that puts him on in a class Tim Burton and Bryan Singer. Where that class fits in the grand scheme of things is a separate discussion.

I do find it delightful that of the 6 actors to play James Bond, 4 have been from the UK and 2 have actually been English. Not to open a whole can of worms, but when people talk about this or that person not fitting with the novels' depiction of a white Englishman, I'm always thinking "so 'English' is the only…

That's the weird thing about these situations - Adam West might or might not have succeeded in roles other than the ones he had, but he was not only right for those roles, he was great in them. The fact that there's an "Adam West cadence" means that he owned the shit out of his performances. Whether he could have…

"Do you believe the ghost of Dirk Richter haunts the bordello where his bullet-riddled body was found?"

I forgot about Drop Dead Gorgeous!

You know what's a shitty thing to do to a kid in the early 90s? Show syndicated Batman reruns out of order, so that the next day, on the same bat time at the same bat channel you see an episode completely unrelated to the previous day's cliffhanger. Thanks local UHF station.

I finished the first half but haven't had time to start the second half. The whole thing is strikingly modern - the early setpiece where Mabuse conspires to manipulate the stock market, which includes a mini-heist and a car crash, would fit comfortably into any 21st century thriller, as would the idea of a…

I found that seeing TFA for the second time was exactly like seeing it the first time - the whole thing was familiar and predictable the first time, so it didn't lose or gain much on the repeat viewing. It's a well-made movie and engaging to watch, and it's deliberately a throwback.

None of the movies have much narrative drive - the basic structure of a Star Wars movie is "go here, now go here, now go here, now go here, and finally go here." Roger Ebert made an interesting comment in a later assessment of the first Star Wars movie that seeing so many video games copy that style the movie has…

It's long, dumb, and the ending is a mess, but it moves like a motherfucker and it looks spectacular. It's a Spielberg movie, in other words.

On top of that, "you had it coming" is literally the worst possible response to the deaths of a bunch of people. Like, it would be hard to come up with a worse response. Even if you don't want to improve relations with Iran, do you really want to give their government a valid opportunity to trash your character?

I mean… even without Comey's testimony in front of Congress, he still could/would have testified privately as part of the ongoing special investigation. A big point of this testimony was to publicly confirm Trump's egregious behavior, which he did. The bombshells have been coming left and right since January, but…

Even though people know that you can't predict the future, when you present them with statistics they start to believe you can. Especially when you're predicting the binary outcome of a single event, a number like 2/3 is meaningful to a small proportion of statisticians and extremely misleading to everyone else.

… is a masterpiece of cinema?