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Aren't most prestige dramas these days? Breaking Bad is basically a Western with a mad scientist, Game of Thrones is about kings and dragons and stuff, Don Draper from Mad Men is basically sad Superman, and The Good Wife keeps trying to convince us that there's good stuff on network.

They will if you request it, won't they?

He developed as a character following Final Crisis and Jason Todd became a generic anti-hero, so it's Todd who's now the Robin everyone hates.

If they're good enough for the Hulk, they're good enough for me.

Ugh. That would have thrown five year old obsessed with paleontology because of the first Jurassic Park into a rage of correcting people nerdily.

We realized they were only OK, if only because Lucas's first mutilation of Star Wars was released theatrically. The '97 Star Wars re-releases made me disappointed in everything until Spider-Man.

Sometimes I imagine myself having kids, then I remember that I'll have to wait half a decade or so before they quit making those movies or the experience will be unbearable.

Age of Ultron opened during the same weekend as the Pacquiao/Mayweather fight, though, which severely reduced the percentage of my Mexican friends who saw the film the opening weekend. If that same pattern applied nationally that could mean a lot of empty seats.

It's sort of like Aliens, which was a solid sci-fi action movie which was a sequel to one of the best horror movies of all time, only this time it's a decent popcorn flick that's a sequel (basically) to a solid sci-fi action movie.

I'm 25 and more of my friends know Unix than know how to change the oil on a car. And I live in a city where everyone drives. Being able to get a brand-new American car to run properly is an achievement in my book.

I thought the balls looked like the time machines from Silver Age Superman and Legion of Superheroes comics, so I was sad to see they couldn't move in time.

When I saw the movie, I thought the fact that the protagonists were a velociraptor-herding Gary Stu, a woman who puts her career over family who falls for him, a millennial who can't appreciate the fact that Gen Xers didn't have smart phones and couldn't just find good music on the interwebs and had to actually go to

Since when are we supposed to pay any attention to Pitchfork?

Although their primetime content was mediocre, WB Saturday mornings were great, asort of a last hurrah for traditional animation before the FCC finally let networks just show infomercials all weekend long and syndicated judge shows until the nightly news during the week. Freakazoid was one of the first really

I actually prefer Batman & Robin to Batman Forever (and The Dark Knight Rises), based solely on Schwarzenegger's performance. If everyone else had been as enthusiastically campy as him we might have gotten a OK movie instead of the phoned-in mess we got.

'95 was sort of the beginning of the pre-Spider-Man dark age of summer blockbusters.

I say "obvs". I am in my mid twenties and a weirdo, though.

HBO puts out nearly as much garbage as Netflix does, but you don't hear as many complaints. Probably because nobody actually has HBO.

Why would NBC use the most popular sketch show on TV to promote it's most critically acclaimed comedy? That's the sort of thing a company interested in turning a profit would do.

Phoenix, Las Vegas, and Orlando are enormous cities that seem like endless suburbs. They're fascinating places to visit but I don't think I could manage living there long-term.