The Killing Joke

And I really hope all of that convolution makes it into her film version. (crosses fingers)

I’ll see you Rogue and raise you Psylocke. I was a hardcore X-men fan as a kid and have read on and off for 20 years since and I'm still confused by Psylocke. Tho technically most of my confusion is all the Seige Perilous body swap madness, so it's not really her origin I have problems with. 

I mean, is that really a defense against my point?

Also even with the Variant Class Features UA it’s not quite a good idea for Beast Master Rangers to dual wield since Two Weapon Fighting and your Beast’s Attack action are keyed off of your Bonus Action.

Yeah, I mean, 5 is less than infinity...

Remember though, going from book to film doesn’t always translate into ‘great to great’ in the case of Mr. King’s works. The books too often have a poor movie showing, but an ‘eh’ book could be worked into a great movie or even set of movies/shows.

It’s a book about frustration. I honestly can’t even believe that they’re attempting this. But, then again, Hollywood was able to turn his short story about a man who wakes up to find a naked guy physically eating his yard into a series of films about an autistic landscaper who becomes the internet. So, basically…

I watched Kingdom of Heaven a second time. So not as bad as Elektra, but not ideal.

I personally believe it should be destroyed. At best it’s a 3+ hour cut of an already bad movie only it’s a bunch of actors standing around a green screen because the CGI wasn’t added in yet. If Snyder’s cult actually watch it they’ll declare it a fake and demand “The real Snyder Cut!”.

I found it annoying in the mid-00s when every DVD also came out as an “unrated version.” It was almost always one or two deleted scenes restored, and as good as or worse than the original.

same here- i didn’t even hate justice league as it came out (saw it via HBO, so i was already in a sunk cost situation, to be fair.) I’d be curious to see the differences- snyder isn’t always my cup of tea, but he does have a specific style. for better or worse he’s not a ron howard type director. i’d be curious to…

It’s fun when they release a director’s cut of a movie that you saw but don’t remember very well and you can’t tell the difference.

Not only does it exist, it contains missing footage from Greed, The Magnificent Ambersons, and two Hartnell-era Doctor Who serials.

I’ll just leave this here:

It’s probably the weakest section, but I enjoyed it well enough, and I don’t think it’s as much of a comedown as any number of other superhero movies with generic action climaxes. 

Counterpoint: Who cares, that movie is awesome.

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…