I thought the ending was beautiful, impressive, and on a certain level funny in the way it refused to give audiences the undercutting joke that they expected. It was a tool I didn’t expect to find in their kit 13 years in, and that fact made me laugh.

The Louie-adjacent comparison that came to mind for me was the…

There’s only one scene and one montage after The Joker’s big upside-down speech. Two-Face is a crucial part of Joker’s plan to show that he can push anyone into insanity/savagery (Harvey’s his “ace in the hole,” he says). Two-Face isn’t tacked on; he’s integral to the story both thematically and structurally.

Should I also try listening to Guns N Roses without Slash’s guitar, eating lasagna with no sauce, or reading The Great Gatsby with every noun removed?

Spider-Gwen and Miles Morales are really popular for new-ish characters, and Spider-verse lets you get both of them and the massively recognizable Peter Parker without justifying integrating them all into the same continuity. But perhaps more importantly, the premise means you can just keep making new toys by grabbing…

I genuinely like that, for all its darkness, the movie is that cornily optimistic about humanity.

He’s from a fictional country in South America. For a Russian who wears a full face mask and fights Batman, you’re gonna want KGBeast.

I see this sentiment a lot, and I get where it’s coming from, but I really disagree with it. I think The Dark Knight is so much stronger for being a complete thematic statement that hits its intended landing (the performances and music in that final Harvey/Gordon family/Batman scene are awesome and the best I could…

Yes! One of the greatest scores of all time. Certainly at the time it was the best superhero movie score since Elfman’s Batman. I’d say only The Dark Knight and Black Panther have really competed since in that category.

What struck me on my rewatch this year was that Syndrome’s “once everyone’s special...” was mostly a spiteful afterthought meant to needle Bob for his refusal to give him a chance as Incrediboy. The core of his plan involved ONLY Syndrome being special and “saving” the world from the Omnidroid (a threat of his own…

It’s only been seven months since season 2 of Better Things ended, which is no time at all for a creator-driven FX show. They’re changing production companies so CK’s name won’t be attached at all, but it was renewed for a third season last fall.

Since so much of her look is tied to the MCU character, it was an adjustment to see how much this Valkyrie’s personality, while borrowing some from that character, also resembles the old-school “thee”-and-“thy” Thor - or Hercules or Volstagg to pick more party-loving examples. I quite like her now that I’m over my…

I’m with Tom. Both Forever and Robin are bad, but B&R shedding any pretense of seriousness and committing whole hog to being silly makes it more watchable. TLJ’s Two-Face and Jim Carrey’s Riddler are just embarrassing and obnoxious. Uma generally gets the right tongue-in-cheek tone and Arnold’s puns are so tortured…

He’s also accused Reveal, a non-profit, of lying about the lacking safety conditions of his factory as clickbait for advertisements... which they don’t have. He seems not well-informed about media in general.

JOHN WICK does a very good job of making John’s actions both a wild overreaction and totally understandable. When you see the context of how and why he has the dog, and how and why the dog gets killed and by whom, you’d have to be a sociopath not to be on John’s side emotionally (even while understanding logically…

I like the Rick & Morty descriptions personally, but I had that same problem trying to figure out where I left off with Better Things. “Sam looks at some stuff,” you say? Hmm...

Yeah, can we try to avoid signal-boosting these dopes?

Can’t wait to have computers taken away and go back to simple peaceful times, like the Crusades. Thanks, Thinker!

The ship explodes, so half didn’t survive. Since Thor did survive in space, Valkyrie presumably could have too, but one line acknowledging her would have been nice.

I wish they had left half alive, ‘cause (a) it would have been consistent with Thanos’s MCU gimmick, (b) protecting the remaining refugees would have been…

Of course one of the reasons Arrow season 2 is so strong is it keeps the actual “Deathstroke kicks his plan into high-gear” part contained to the last few episodes. He’s a flashback character for the majority of the season, and I think that’s key. Your villain can be around for 22 episodes. But they can’t be doing…

He can’t feel Leia dying while he’s cut off from the Force. If he could, he should have felt four or five populated planets die (just one was a “great disturbance”) and probably his nephew killing Han. It’s important from an in-story logic standpoint that he’s unaware of what’s going on in the rest of the galaxy until…