Back stories ruin the magic of characters. It’s why no one wanted Solo - we didn’t need to know what Han Solo was like in his 20s, or what he was up to. Part of the Joker’s mystique is not knowing what the hell happened to make him him.

Which I never fully got, either. On one hand, they paint him out to be the devil, right? On the other hand, he actually is set up more as not creating a curse, but passing it on. He was a very famous comedian who then disappeared. If you had this curse, what would you do? The noble thing is what actually happened, but…

The comedian one fell very flat for me. For one, Tracy Morgan was miscast, and didn’t come across as very devilish. For another, it just felt so obvious, as if it could have been a 5-10 minute episode and had every bit the weight. Every twist, every turn, was just too obvious. The Twilight Zone is hard to do, because…

That's an exact Christopher Lloyd as Uncle Fester reaction shot

True, I remember every Owen Wilson movie

No.

“If you want the restaurant to improve or learn from the mistake, you’re better off bringing it up to the staff so they can correct it and maybe try to salvage your meal.”

Agreed, the Elton John stuff was the wrong kind of campy.

Definitely some cool fight scenes, but every plot point was dumb. I’m even willing to overlook the way they revived a dead-man, with gel, but then taking him out of the action, killing off one of the 4 major protagonists in an unceremonious way, killing off another in a stupid way... I’m not very excited for more in…

Yeah, the Feig film rehashed way too much, and way lesser. It was an odd way to go - a reboot that paid too much homage to escape the shadow.

What a fantastic year. I haven’t seen WW, but Logan, Thor:Ragnorak, and Spider-Man:Homecoming remain among the best comic book movies of all time.

RIP

I much prefer RobertCop

Pretty sure I’ll always call Rebel Yell the best single of all time. It’s had some good covers, too, just wish Dillinger Escape Plan had made theirs a tiny bit heavier.

The gate-keeping teenager somewhere still inside me, though barely heard from these days, definitely gets his hackles up a bit at calling these guys “metal.” To me, back then when I cared, the difference between hard rock (which was perfectly great) and metal was the inherent metal-ness. Metal was inherently complex…

Only morons who don't know how to act fear that

Growing up, two of my cousins were about 12 years older than me. They tickled me every time they saw me from like 4-7. I’m now in my late 30s, and those cousins do not see me. Being tickled was not fun for me, it was uncomfortable and humiliating. I hated it, but the angrier I got, the funnier they thought it was.

Yeah, Dead Alive/Braindead, Evil Dead 2, Army of Darkness, The Shining, Johnny Depp in Nightmare on Elm Street...

But who stars in it!?

Yup. It makes them talked about for a weekend, not several weeks. If you aren't around that weekend, it disappears without you knowing.