After a shaky overly-serious first season, they’ve rebranded Legends of Tomorrow as a geeky meta-comedy. Season 3 of Legends was probably my favorite of any of the CW DC shows.

Yeah, that always stuck out to me. In Begins, Bruce is failing out of college, so at best maybe he’s a 5th year senior. So if he and Rachel are similar ages, she would have had to cruise not only through college, but law school, and the DA office ranks to become an ADA. And then she has the same job for 7 years…

NBC canceled the show, but Ryan’s Constantine was so good has since been brought into the CW DC shows. After a handful of guest spots on Arrow and Legends, he will be a regular on Legends of Tomorrow season 4.

I felt like that was intended to be Ledger’s Joker, which makes more sense.

I think that goes to the character’s Britishness - his dry, dark humor for being “damned” whereas Keanu plays it as a dourly burdensome.

For sure. Snow adds some personality and character to the city, especially one under siege for a period of time. In the Dark Knight, Gotham looks like a clean, modern city - a pretty nice place to live.

That makes sense, his love for the city shows. But he should have been even more aware of masking or dressing Chicago as Gotham in The Dark Knight as he had in Begins.

I hated how much Rises calls back to Begins, and Dark Knight for that matter. “Connective tissues” are a great way to create continuity and world build in a film series, but it’s lazy to dredge up old plot lines (see also Spider-Man 3, Godfather III). Just let Bane be Bane

Her delivery of the “Relax, Harvey, if they weren’t trying to kill you...” exchange always sounded off.

I think a big part of that was Keanu’s Constantine was American. I’ve never seen the movie, but Constantine was an Alan Moore creation and very British and physically modeled after Sting, and comic book fans being comic book fans, they took issue with such key character changes. Having cast Keanu, possibly for the…

Can we talk about Cillian Murphy’s Scarecrow? I remember a lot of people complaining when they heard he’d just be a guy in a suit with a bag on his head, but it was so effective and made sense in Nolan’s Bat-world. Scarecrow in tattered strait jacket on a horse made a pretty sweet image, even if being casually tased…

Yes and No. I like Gyllenhall, obviously she’s the better actress, but Holmes reminded me more of every ambitious righteous girl I knew who went to law school. Gyllenhall’s Rachel would have gone into environmental law and tied herself to a tree that was being leveled for a pipeline.

One thing that Begins nailed that Dark Knight didn’t was Gotham. In Begins, it looks like a slum. In Dark Knight, it looks like Chicago. Maybe Nolan wasn’t familiar with Chicago to know how familiar it is to people in the U.S., but I kept expecting the Blues Brother to drive by one of the Joker’s bazookas. Nolan used…

I recall that too. I think Warner Bros was cautious, worried that casual viewers wouldn’t understand that it had nothing to do with Batman & Robin since this was kind of the first “reboot” of a major series.

Nolan is a huge Bond film fan (he lifted the Alpine fortress siege in Inception wholesale from On Her Majesty’s Secret Service) and the water main actor (Shane Rimmer) was the US Naval Commander in Spy Who Loved Me (he was also in Superman II and III). I just assumed Nolan geeked out and couldn’t get enough of him.

I haven’t seen the movie, but wasn’t Michael K. Williams originally one of the leads? Replaced due to a scheduling conflict due to the replacement director reshoots.

Geez, Bonnie Raitt looks terrible.

Why not just use The Ritual of C.H.U.D? Problem solved.

Before the Crowes, it was more well-known as a staple of Gateful Dead concerts, practically Pigpen’s signature song.

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