“ The most recent examples are probably with Zemo in Cap 3, Vulture in Spider-Man: Homecoming, and Thanos in Infinity War.”

The worst offender was Dick Tracy- they killed off pretty much every villain in Tracy’s rogues gallery in the final scene. I guess they weren’t anticipating any sequels.

...so magnetic that crowds of people risk almost-certain death just to hang out around him

“Bob, gun.”

I always liked the “You’re My Number One Guy” callback.

“He’s also wildly charismatic. The Joker is a known murderer who killed a mob boss in broad daylight in front of cameras, and he’s also a suspected terrorist in possession of chemical weapons. But throngs of Gotham citizens still clog the streets when the Joker shows up to throw money from a parade float. Nicholson…

“Superman: The Movie had been a huge hit a decade earlier, but the ensuing sequels had been progressively crappier and less successful”

They should have upgraded to Dixie Starship.

“I’m just going to roll this over into an offshore account... AND YOU’RE GOING TO LIKE IT!”

The song and the video are such lavishly realized garbage they really are touchstones for the lavishly realized decade of cultural garbage that was the nineties. The movie on the other hand was utter swill.

I dunno, the Titanic song was written for the movie and basically summarizes the movie’s plot.

What a mensch, such a sincere and thankful farewell.

If you take Batman & Robin as a big budget, big screen adaption of the Adam West 66 series (sans “Pow! Biff!”) it plays much better!

In that he was crying all the time, never caught a rabbit, and ain’t no friend of mine.

Joel Schumacher had a massively interesting career. Thank about it. He started out as a costume designer before become Hollywood’s favorite screenwriter for Black films (Sparkle, Car Wash, The Wiz) and then a director known for beautiful but vapid films. He still manage to direct some wonderful films (The Lost Boys, Ti…

While in lockdown, I’ve been rewatching the LOTR trilogy. In a series filled with monsters, limb-chopping, torture, cannibalism, fratricide, decapitated heads tossed around, and Christopher Lee calmly instructing Peter Jackson on what kind of sound a man makes when he’s being stabbed, this is still the scariest moment.

Wait til Fox discovers what has happened to the lumberjack community after the Supreme Court LGBTQ+ ruling yesterday. 

On second thought, let’s not turn on Fox News. ‘Tis a silly place.