Exactly. I don’t know why anyone would take praise for Miller seriously right now. The Flash movie has been one of the most troubled super hero productions of the last decade, it was super expensive to make, and they’re about to release it to the public. They have every reason to lie about any and every aspect of the…

Yeah, I came to say the same. Don't believe anything that they're saying when they have an expensive movie to sell you. Let's see what they're saying about Miller's future in the DCU in the Fall. My guess, "We are moving forward with a new vision for the DCU and we don't have plans for a Flash movie at this time."

I’ve never understood why so many people hate Return of the Jedi. A lot of it is surely the too cool for school pose of hating on Ewoks, but there’s just so much to like in Jedi and a lot of it is character focused. Obiwan’s conversation with Luke is legitimately one of the best parts of Star Wars. As a kid it was…

While that’s certainly true, there are plenty of examples of studios mining their IP and still coming out with a good movie that does something new or interesting with the property. Even in this list you have movies like Malificent which weren’t content to simply retell a classic story beat for beat with a live action…

Matt Berry should have been the next James Bond.

The chief evaluative factor for a list like this should be whether the movie justifies its existence by doing something unique or new with the story. A live action remake that just does the same story and songs is just a bad money grab.

Holy shit, and so that’s an excuse to go back to the 70s and have a period piece with all muscle cars and see the origin of Dom’s car? Why is this not in development?!

We live in such a corporate synergy dystopia that it feels like we should at least get a Fast/Transformers crossover out of it. It’s such an obviously good idea, like the 21 Jump Street/MiB crossover that was being worked on for a while.

Fast Five is easily the best in the series and you don’t really need to have seen any of the other movies to understand what’s going on. It’s a very competent heist movie, and I’d say that it’s legitimately a good movie on the merits. The franchise has become its own beast, and overall I don’t think that you could say…

Very true.

I feel like the list undersells Bill & Ted Face the Music. None of the movies in the franchise are what you’d call “great”, but they’re all fun and clever in their own ways. And of the three Face the Music has by far the most heart. 

To be fair with your last example, Wally had been The Flash for a while in the comics by the time The Flash TV show came out. And in that era death lasted longer and the comics weren’t tied in to other media. (And also Wally was a better character than Barry anyway)

Man, I always used to be the person that argued that there was no right length for a film and that it was fine for movies to go long if they needed the space to tell their story. But man, the last decade of 2.5-3 hour action movies have certainly led me to the conclusions that at least those types of movies don’t need…

Yeah, you could be right about that. Midichlorians didn’t really bother me the way that they bothered some people, but I can see how it could be related to this trend of just trying to explain and explore everything in a fictional universe and leaving nothing to be mysterious or open to theory/interpretation. 

Go fuck yourself.

It's a product for adults and kids.

You mean... interpreting art?

I think that you’re perhaps to resigned to the idea that giant corporations get to controls huge swaths of IP and that they get to decide whether people are or aren’t “looking for new IP”. At the root of the problem is that our IP system is borked and the protections for all of these properties should be passing into…

Ugh, the end of Daddy Dropoff.

I don’t know, as someone totally unconnected with the online Bluey fandom I saw that episode in the last couple weeks and that was my interpretation as well. But the fun thing about when stories don’t explain everything is that events can have multiple meanings and people can have different interpretations. Unless or…