I like Australians. They're perennially kind even when they hate your guts, and they adore my country's beer.

Dude, I took up kendo some odd years ago. You're well-entrenched in the culture of kendo, so you can see all the intricacies of the sport. What I meant is that to the untrained eye, kendo doesn't look interesting. Kinda like how to the uninitiated, MMA fights look like two scantily-clad dudes hugging.

To be fair, even the best swordfighting film this year bears little resemblance to actual kenjutsu:

Calling it now: Thea becomes Cheshire.

It's because TV swordfighting needs to be dynamic and visually appealing. Actual kendo looks very static and boring, especially if you don't understand that the combatants are dueling for space even before a single shinai is swung. Hence, swordfighting in cinema and TV use flashy moves that will get you killed in…

Our only hope now is that with Geoff Johns replacing Christopher Nolan as the DCU's Kevin Feige, he may ask Snyder to lighten the mood a bit.

And 16 years later, we get this guy:

You, sir, made me LOL literally.

So long as he doesn't sound like a bargain-basement Sean Connery impersonating the Pepperidge Farms guy.

No CCH Pounder as Amanda Waller, no sale.

I was expecting Alan.

– or the actor asks for a pay rise…

(although I'm not sure why he couldn't have run downstairs and caught him before he landed, since he's the Flash and all. )

Ok, why are they casting a new guy to play Flash for the movies? They're really committed to not unifying their various shows, eh?

http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/superman_man…

Flash is also pretty good. Or are you counting it as the same show since it's a spin-off?

Personally, I hated Arrow's first season so much, I didn't even bother hate-watching it. It was only after Season 2 that I got back to the show, and learned to love it.

I prefer waiting for a friend to visit Japan, then asking them to buy the game for you. Yeah, it takes a while, but it helps me avoid giving money to my country's ultra-corrupt customs officials.

Before localization was a thing, we had to rely on horrible mistranslations (one game actually read "Coptipue"), or worse, feeling your way through menus and options full of unintelligible kanji. Of course, it was simpler during the 8-bit days, where the core gameplay was almost always easily understood.

Why would he need to write kanji first, when this is an English-language blog, read mostly by people who don't speak Nihongo in the first place? Romanization exists so that we, non-Japanese speakers, can at least understand how the words are supposed to sound.