Ordinary Kramers

Taxi Driver is trying to elicit a response from the audience, but it’s not trying to elicit a specific response. It’s not providing emotional guardrails to guide you to a predestined conclusion. Scorsese gives you the space to work through that yourself. (Which one could hypothetically argue is actually a…

I believe that arguments don’t have to come from a place of pure objectivity. A person can explain, for example, why a specific movie “earned” its emotional beats. They can direct us to plot points, character moments, and visual imagery. We can disagree on whether they worked for us, but it still provides a shared…

I know I’ve said this before in other conversations, but slamming on superhero movies is basically just slamming on the collective movie audience’s taste.

What was especially egregious is they’d set up a bad guy that worked because he wasn’t someone Oliver could just punch kick to defeat. After Al Ghul they seemed to try and change up the formula for the exact reasons you gave. Damien Dahrk had magic powers, Prometheus was playing this weird emotional/psychological game…

I totally get that. Like I said, I always thought it was weird. I just thought watching Kirk Acevedo chew scenery was fun. I also think it never bothered me as much because The Flash is much more egregious (to me) about it. The Flash, who spent almost an entire episode moving at a speed that made one second last an…

Well, Ronan (whom I rather liked as a badguy I must admit; it was also nice to see him return in Captain Marvel - as someone who isn’t too up to speed on the comics it made you do a doubletake when he appeared, like, “what the hey is HE doing here. aren’t these supposed to be the GOOD guys?!” lol) And at least Ronan ha…

Yeeeaaaahhh, Court of Owls only works in the context of the New 52 giving Snyder a carte blanche to change Gotham history to suit the premise. But then once he was done with the arc, he just kind of ignored the court and carried on with the usual Batman shenanigans.

Not to nitpick, but Chinese Democracy was NOT a Guns N’ Roses album. It was an Axl Rose and a bunch of other guys album. Appetite For Destruction was a fucking Guns N’ Roses album.

Agreed, so many times Batman has only saved the city by a hair and the shadow cabal running said city is ok with that. Then again, this is also a world where Superman could technically save Gotham in minutes on most nights, but chooses not to because a rich orphan with no powers yells at him and tells him “Gotham is…

The thing that I’m curious about is their relationship to the League of Assassins. It kind of seems like they’d be natural foes.

Snyder’s run seems like it was written to be completely disposable and never considered again, but he’s also a fan of the “Everything’s connected” style of writing, so everything ends up being retconned to have a cosmic significance. Every single issue of his run has something aggressively stupid happen in it, like…

Something something, the League of Shadows

Something something, hearts and minds

Agreed. I really liked Snyder’s run, but some of those kinds of details don’t make sense like. He tries to explain it like they’re behind the criminal elements too—and I could see that for Penguin or Dent or whatever—but, like, they were cool with the events of Zero Year happening?

Probably because they are also bloodthirsty murderers.

Megyn Kelly defended blackface, she doesn’t compare.  NBC fucked up because they’re thirsty for some of that crazy FNC demo.

Better than His Girl Friday? (I’m going to watch this one of course, but HGF is probably my favorite.)

Don’t you like Rob Zombie movies?
WHY? Don’t they make you puke?? Aren’t they fuckin gory?!

Not to mention the best hitters would wear themselves out three times as fast.

I hope they go full 180 and have people surprised he’s black because he recorded a super-white sounding song.