Secret Wars was also produced at the request of Mattel so they could promote the toy line (synergy!) that competed with Kenner’s Super Powers (which were already promoted via the long-running Super Friends).

Anyone else wonder how Hank Pym knew his daughter’s cup size?

I hate hate hate NYC pizza that’s covered in hot plastic (cheap cheese)

Most likely, just like how the excellent Spectacular Spider-Man cartoon was canceled immediately after Disney took over Marvel in 2010 (and replaced by the wretched Disney-produced Ultimate Spider-Man).

Poor old Gen X just gets forgotten, which seems like the most Gen X thing it could really do.

Not getting sniffy, you’re just inferring much that I never said. There are always going to be threads that connect movies in a series (Scarecrow was done perfectly) but rehashing the League of Shadows and making Bane a sidekick was Dark Knight Rises’ biggest flaw.

Well, I was only speaking generally. Dark Knight Rises, Godfather III, and Spider-Man 3 both have many flaws, one of them being looking backwards to previous movies, kicking up previous conflicts. Apologies for not listing the rest of their flaws that don’t have anything to do with, you know, the topic at hand.

Yeah, it wasn’t fully fleshed out. It was a half-ass way of Luthor manipulating Superman into thinking Batman should be beaten up, and it doesn’t really hold up. Which isn’t surprising since the movie is so packed with unresolved themes and ideas that don’t contribute to the story at hand (like Batman’s clairvoyant…

The Joker as just part of Two-Face’s origin story in the same way that the terrorists that captured Tony Stark were just there to feed into his origin.

Totally agree with you regarding Iron Man. Robert Downey Jr makes what was a B-list hero completely compelling. Other than giving the villain a back seat and focusing on the hero (something Batman Begins had already done to a lesser degree) Iron Man doesn’t really do anything revolutionary, and can’t be credited for…

But didn’t the extended cut imply that was false info that fed Superman’s suspicions of Batman? The branded dude who gets shanked in prison shows up in the warehouse fight alive and well.

There are some interesting kernels of ideas there. (It’s also a total slog to get through).

Snyder puts together some solid visuals, even if the context and tone are off. Affleck’s Batman is pretty solid (his intro is pretty damned effective) and Gadot’s Wonder Woman is great, even if she doesn’t really belong in the movie.

Agree, so he was Batman for, what, 6 months? He’s Batman. Wouldn’t he just keep Batmanning in the shadows rather than quit and go total Howard Hughes?

Bale already had a whole movie devoted to establishing his character, so the seeds were there. But with so many plot threads in The Dark Knight and colorful new characters, he and Alfred still center the film. Isn’t Batman always reacting to his villains, otherwise he’d probably stay home.

Man of Steel has some wonderful moments, but Nolan and Snyder were probably the wrong people to shepherd Superman movies. Batman v Superman shoots for the moon, and also contains some successes (which do not include the baffling decision for the Batmobile chasing a truck with a bazooka — again), but Snyder was clearly…

They really wrote themselves into a corner. I’m sure they had plans for a possible (uh, likely) 3rd Batman film and maybe that all changed drastically when Ledger died, but I agree they should have kept Two-Face around. Instead, The Dark Knight Rises jumps ahead 8 years and spends a lot of time looking backwards and ta…

Nolan’s judicious use of The Joker was the way to go. His “disappearance” works for me because the story is Harvey’s, the Joker is merely the colorful catalyst. He sits back and watches the dog he set loose.

And I’ll bet that, as a total Ass, Megyn Kelly is offended by Butt-Face.

a quiet place: PART TWO!!!