Looking at the last decade, I cannot name a single film that is trying to capture the themes of Nolans films nor do I see its influence.

Iron Man 2 might be interesting to talk about insofar as it’s a good example of Marvel struggling with the shared universe stuff that they would later make look completely effortless.

I’ve never heard any of those phrases you quoted outside of the movie. They have not, in fact, seeped into my unconsiousness, and as much as I like to believe I’m a unique and special flower, I am not.

Presented with an option to live and use his life to work towards a better future (which most certainly would have meant living as a PRINCE in Wakanda)

I will say one other thing that Iron Man did that proved really revolutionary: it took the plunge in terms of very prominently dispensing with its protagonist’s secret identity, which had an immediate and electric effect on the MCU’s subsequent output and public perceptions of superheroes.

I wouldn’t cite Blanchett as an example of an actress being used properly.  Hela was a paper-thin character who had barely any interaction with the rest of the cast and spent most of the movie in a B-plot that the director clearly was not interested in.

Honestly, I’ve generally thought the opposite.  TDK’s ending for the Joker isn’t open, it’s the two characters arriving at a final resolution -- neither is ever going to give the other what they want.  I don’t know that seeing more of Ledger’s Joker would have done much, at least thematically.

Logan is the better film, in my opinion, but in terms of cultural importance nothing beats Wonder Woman.

Framing it as “a rich guy” is misleading. Bruce is a rich guy, but he’s a superhero; it’s hardly some political statement to assert that society needs its hero. Indeed, every superhero movie has the premise, pretty much.

Archie’s storyline is basically Shawshank crossed with a prison-set exploitation film. I’m cool with that.

That Brody column is genuinely awful in its willful misinterpretation of the text. Single worst moment is definitely this:

Lili Reinhart is one of the best actors on the show.  K.J. Apa I think is fine, once the show starts to figure out how to write Archie and involve him in the storylines.

- is the casting of the main roles as bad as those on Riverdale?

Seeing the ad for Chilling Adventures of Sabrina makes me wonder if the CW execs regret passing on that show; they definitely will if it becomes a hit for Netflix (however such things are defined).

And sure, there might be better solutions than planet-wide mass murder, but it’s hard not to be carried away by his idealistic anger when that fury starts to flow.

FDR’s strategy would have been to play possum and then sucker-punch to the groin once they get close.

This was only for one.  He couldn’t be tried for the others.

The Incredibles is an origin story for the Parr family as a superhero unit.  You’re right that by making their powers innate (as with, e.g., the X-Men) the story can skip the “power acquisition” phase of the origin, but that’s typically a comparatively minor part of a standard origin story.  But the main character…

This remains my favourite Spider-Man film. Spider-Man 2 was also good, but it largely reran the first movie, and it became apparent that Raimi kept repeating the same character beats (such as the climactic Aunt May speech to inspire Peter) over and over.

The 2016 Pete’s Dragon was legitimately one of my favourite films of that year.