Well, for a final combo slideshow for everybody to mess with, it was a good one to go out on. Best of luck, you guys. 

I think Nicholson gets a few points off in the rankings for basically just being Nicholson in white makeup. Don’t get me wrong, it’s a great performance and I love it, but he doesn’t exactly disappear into the character. 

Would you say Batman has a plethora of psychopaths? 

Well, Spacey was supposed to be Hackman’s “Greatest Criminal Mind of Our Time” Luthor, so it makes sense that he took that performance and added some extra rage and brutality to it. 

Yeah, the Clancy Brown animated version is still my favorite Lex Luthor. He’s a far better antagonist for Superman when he’s a publicly respected, even beloved mogul who secretly pulls the strings on a whole array of criminal shittiness. What’s Superman to do when Lex can’t be tied to any of the crimes that Supes knows…

Yeah, I felt like Eisenberg went way too far into “crazed madman” since everybody was chasing Ledger’s Joker (which was the style at the time).

Fare thee well in your next chapter. It’s a bummer that the powers-that-be have decided to gut what made the AV Club great. It’s been my go-to for a staggeringly long time, but that time is over. 

 But I mean, it’s a “mistake” for the character, if it gives away his secret identity, no?

True enough, but they’re on-record as saying this version of Bruce Wayne hasn’t quite gotten to the “put on an ‘eccentric billionaire Bruce Wayne’ mask” just yet. It also seems like this Bruce Wayne is a little more anonymous, less Kardashian and more like one of Bezos’ kids. (Does Bezos have kids? Probably? I dunno.)
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Way back in the 90s when I worked there as a teen we’d pre-make the living shit out of EVERYTHING, especially for the lunch rush. There’d be something like 150 various sandwiches baking under the heat lamps by around 11am. The time between placing your order and walking away was the amount of time it took to put…

Yeah, I get it, pandemic and all, but if you’re doing a heavy customization, mask up and go inside. It’s just so much less hassle for everyone involved. 

What makes me nervous when I see that sentiment is that it feels like it’s often used to just shrug off the long term effects of historical atrocities under a sort of trite “everybody makes mistakes” justification.

I’m generally okay with movies and TV eliminating smoking to the point where the lack of it is just kind of an accepted anachronism in most period movies and TV shows . . . like everyone in dark-ages England speaking in received pronunciation, or people in the old west and colonial times all having perfect teeth.

Oh, and that show where there’s a doctor who’s REALLY good at being a doctor but has difficulty connecting with people. 

Anyway, I came to the conclusion the other day that Ritchson would make an excellent Batman!

Yeah, they could just presage anything with “ice” and it was fair game for Zan. “Form of, an ice sub-machine gun!!”

Dave is a fun movie with some typically great performances by, well, everybody (Kevin Cline, Sigourney Weaver, and definitely Frank Langella - “He’s not the President, he’s an ordinary person . . . I can kill an ordinary person . . .”)

I love how Auggie’s minions are listed in the credits.

Eh, I’m pretty sure an AR-15 would have about as much stopping power against a T-Rex as a BB-Gun against an angry bull.

Yeah, I hate the “Jedi don’t do attachment” stuff. It’s canon, it came from Lucas in the prequels, but I really wish they’d do the “almost completely ignore it” the way they’ve almost totally ditched the whole “Midiclorian” thing aside from one mention of “m-count” in Mandalorian S2. It was a dumb idea in the prequels…