I’ll count the Ghostbusters video game from 2009 as a proper third movie . . .which for some reason I can’t embed because who wants their COMMERCIAL to be easy to watch, right?

The thing with Marvel movies is that none of them have been outright bad. Even the weak Marvel movies are still decent and, more importantly, don’t fuck things up so badly that it makes it hard to course-correct. Incredible Hulk is pretty inessential, but it’s still a fun movie. Iron Man 2 and Thor 2 both struggle…

“Ohh, that looks good,” is a terrible thing to hear after making a drink that takes 10 minutes to put together. 

Well, combining a shit-load of hard alcohol with a shit-load of caffeine is a recipe for alcohol poisoning and a trip to the hospital (or, ya know, death), so no, a nasty hangover isn’t the worst part.

Since you know a longtime Potbelly employee I’ve got a question, did they eventually stop treating their employees like indentured servants? Or was that just specific to certain franchise owners?
I knew someone who worked at a Potbelly’s and I stopped going there when I found out their employees weren’t allowed…

Portillos is good, but the truth is that you can get great Chicago-dogs all over the city and they’re nowhere near as expensive. Just avoid “fancy” places or places that are fancy-place adjacent (the most half-assed excuse for a Chicago-dog I ever had was on Michigan Ave).

I think I was maybe 9 years old the last time I saw a K-Mart that didn’t look like a set from some post-apocalyptic zombie movie. Barren shelves, crap piled in random aisles, flickering or dead lights, mysterious puddles of multi-colored liquid everywhere. It’s like the stores themselves had gained sentience and …

hard edges are actually really fascinating in the world of aerodynamics. long story short, the air the tumbles behind a hard edge can actually create a new surface the air travels over, and actually reduce drag

Well, there aren’t really any stories of Western colonialism that aren’t shitty and depressing.
“Then white people showed up and . . . slavery, genocide, subjugation, rape of the natural resources, also of the people, etc. etc., you know how this goes.”

I actually liked that, over the decades, Dick finally just had enough of Bruce’s bullshit. Though you’re right about hooking up with Barbara. I get why the writers did it . . . they needed a single thing that they could show in a quick flashback rather than gradually becoming disillusioned with Bruce’s rigidity, but…

It’s a solid follow-up to Batman:TAS, but the opening credits lean hard into that late 90s “we’re hardcore as fuck” aesthetic, plus a totally inexplicable mid-credits dance break.

So . . . a little Stepford Wives by way of The Shining? 

Yeah, Hot Rock is pretty good on its own, but casting the preternaturally handsome and charismatic Robert Redford at the height of his powers as the ultimate sad sack Dortmunder is about as serious a case of miscasting as John Wayne playing Genghis Kahn.

It’s the most popular late night show (aside from some Fox News thing, because Fox News viewers are gonna Fox News), so yeah, he’s a thing.

Not really playing himself, but playing a “Jack Nicholson-type”. He’s played against type (especially as he got older) in things like About Schmidt, but if someone says “playing a Jack Nicholson-type” you have a pretty clear idea of what they’re talking about. 

What’s cool about Nicholson’s portrayal of the Joker was that both Jack Napier and the Joker were definitively Jack Nicholson characters. He leaned hard into one bit of his persona (the laconically cool and arrogant Jack) for Napier while going hard to another bit of his persona (the live wire lunatic) for Joker.
You…

Forgive me, bfred. I know that I, skipskatte, do not have your superior intellect and education. But could it be that once again, you are angry at something else, and are looking to take it out on me?

That’s certainly true, and it is a great performance. But it was definitely JACK NICHOLSON playing the Joker, which, again, is great, but it’s not really a surprise, if that makes sense. If you imagined Jack Nicholson playing the Joker, you pretty much got exactly what you would’ve imagined, so he doesn’t get as much…

True, but by then he’s a convicted felon and verified “bad guy” in the public eye. (Also, somehow prison completely changed his personality and fashion sense?) To my mind, the most interesting version of the character is one who has enormous public and political influence and pulls the strings on wide varieties of…

Do you know what a plethora is?