Bill’s survivalist montage (set to a jangly rockabilly tune)

It was well done, but was completely against the tone of the rest of the movie. The shot where Talbot gets blown up and it freeze frames into a comic panel like Wild Wild West did not work.

I think Batman & Robin and HULK are the pendulum swings that went too far in opposite directions for mass audiences. Since then the tone of most superhero movies has been pretty consistent.

whoa.

She did have it all. Well, except a solid gold car.

Story checks out.

RIP Miss Fuzzy Britches.

The Bogie and Bacall factor definitely raised the esteem of The Big Sleep, the two of them together were bigger than the movie. Don’t get me wrong, it’s a classic noir, but Bogie isn’t a great Marlowe. Murder My Sweet and Dick Powell best captured Chandler’s writing the Marlowe character on film.

Ok, fine, do the movie, but afterwards can we maybe pump the brakes on Harley Quinn?

Remaking The Big Sleep in the Europe with a 60 year-old sleep-walking Mitchum didn’t work (who was great in Farewell My Lovely). I’m not sure why they thought doing that again would fair any better. Maybe they were trying to distance themselves from HBO’s Perry Mason, but a PI + LA is the essential foundation for a…

I don’t think it was an “about time” award, I think it was a ‘never-go-full-retard’ award.

I’m still blown away by how blatantly derivative of Scorsese it was. I’ve heard some people talk about how it broke the comic book movie mold, but it’s not even a subtle riff on Taxi Driver AND King of Comedy. Drawing inspiration is one thing but it’s a complete remix. Phoenix’s Joker isn’t even very compelling, his…

Can we talk about how wonky this looks?

Also one of the reasons writers either make Superman evil or kill him is because they can’t write around how megapowerful he is, so they either take him off the board or make him flip sides. If he is so powerful, there is no challenge (just look at how quickly he beats up Steppenwolf in Snyder’s JL movie). And if he…

Fault Snyder for presenting the actual future as “fever dreams”, (even and American Werewolf-style double dream where future Flash interrupts the Knightmare to warn him about Lois). As I mentioned, Cyborg even sees the future in his vision where Darkseid kills Aquaman, Wonder Woman and Lois (& Killowog), and Superman…

I don’t think anyone was rooting for Black Adam, but point taken.

The fever dreams Batman has in BvS (which bizarrely fuels his desire to kill Superman) are meant to be premonitions of Darkseid’s conquest of Earth after he turns Superman evil by killing Lois. The apocalyptic scene at the end of his JL movie is what would have come to pass had Snyder continued making DC movies…

Marvel, I think, was careful to not feel like it was making comic book movies. The characters and scenarios start very grounded in the world around us.

Clark spends the first 1/3 of Man of Steel hiding out off the grid, only helping when he has to and only going public once Zod smokes him out of his hole. His adopted dad actually tells him not to help people, and dies on that hill.

Snyder had to basically change Batman’s entire character and make Superman stupid in order to get them to fight.