Totally, it’s as if everyone has forgotten that WB featured the Snyder Cut as the big exclusive on its new HBO Max streaming service. The non-bot fans were there, the filming was complete, it was just a matter of completing VFX and editing it together. Not a bad way to spend money during a pandemic when in-person…

2008's Incredible Hulk sits in a weird place. It was only 5 years after Ang Lee’s HULK and audiences were only starting to understand these properties could be “re-booted”. As only the 2nd MCU film, no one knew at the time these films were going to be so interconnected for decades to come - not even Marvel knew for…

Batman Begins was still a respectable #7 box office for that year. Not huge by Dark Knight standards, but that was a stacked year for movies - War of the Worlds, Revenge of the Sith, Harry Potter, King Kong.

Yeah, I read that and figured the author either doesn’t know what “prestige film” means or was awkwardly trying to hit her mandated AV Club Avengers coverage hyperlink quota.

If I were WB, I’d pony up the money and replace them with a new actor. Because it’s not just about 2023's box office. People are going to see this because Michael Keaton’s BATMAN from 30 years ago is in this. The Flash could be the same, WB could make money off of this for decades or they can drop it and forget it.

inflate those clicks stats!

I’m surprised there’s no mention of The Doors, it’s one of the more entertaining (and notorious) bios since it leans so heavily into the myth of Jim Morrison (and Kilmer disappears into the role).

you must be new here.

That was one of the most bizarre casting decisions I’ve seen. I feel like they just realized what a fever-dream the whole event was and said “fuck it, let’s get weird”.

HOW IS THIS NOT NUMBER 1?!!

Nothing tops TORTELVIS

Might be too on-the-nose, but Michael St Gerard should be somewhere on a list that includes Harvey Keitel and Jack White.

Definitely check out the wonderful short films.

Still not as scary as this segment.

Still gives me nightmares. For years I thought I had imagined it.

Assuming this is #1

Just a friendly reminder that this epic thread still exists

I guess we have to define “old” AV Club, but I kept reading their reviews beginning in the 1990s because they were fairly critical yet to-the-point (2-3 paragraphs in the print edition compared to the lengthy rambling essays more recent reviews indulged in)

Sava clearly had a love for comic books, I think he started at AV Club with the restrospective reviews of the DCAU - from Batman to Justice League Unlimited. I appreciated his enthusiasm, but they often read like an undergrad paper desperate to find both criticism and deep meaning.

Season 2 doesn’t get enough credit for upgrading from dead-serious Casper Crump to scenery-chewing Matt Letscher, John Barrowman, and Neal McDonough who all seemed to realize they were in a comedy.