I still have not seen the movie yet, but I'm going to request the John Travolta/Ayre Gross Cold War comedy "The Experts" solely on the basis of the presence of Jack Mack and the Heart Attack on the OST.

Their impression of Broderick sounds like a Rankin-Bass puppet, and I love it. The Addicted to Love episode is great, too.

Selma's earrings are shaped like the letter S. EDIT: Wait, no they're not. What the hell show have I been watching?!?

That’s fucking hilarious considering that Texas was using textbooks that didn’t use the word “slavery.”

That box is the strangest advertising mascot I can think of. I've bought insurance before - in person and online - and I've never been handed a box of insurance.

Also, not that it means anything to people without small children, but dude is ALL OVER the PBS Kids lineup. Parnell is approaching Frank Welker levels of ubiquity.

"That's Nice, Internet."

C: "Everything that happens after [X] is just a dream [CHARACTER] has while slowly dying!"

I remember seeing commercials for H&R Block with Ghost Rider getting his taxes done around the time that first movie came out. Shit’s weird.

I think a much stronger third act would have helped it out significantly.

I think Marvel would happily drop Inhumans in a heartbeat to fit a Fantastic Four movie on its slate. That one always felt like a placeholder to me. “And then in, uh, let’s see, 2020? Jeez, that’s a long way off. Inhumans, I guess?”

Fantastic Four is a square peg that Fox has been trying to fit into a round hole for a decade now. They’ve tried to make it fit into the template of other superhero movies without understanding that the FF doesn’t exactly fit the template of other superhero concepts, period. The stuff that makes Fantastic Four so…

It's that context in TDKR that makes all the difference. In the comics, he's angry that Superman allows himself to be held in check. In the movies, he's angry that Superman apparently isn't held in check. Snyder and Goyer wanted the big fight scene from TDKR but they didn't know or care why that fight happened.

That makes sense, but I think the way the whole movie was written makes Batman's motivation against Superman - and the moment that makes him change his mind - muddier than it needs to be.

Wow, is that right? It's been a long time since I read DKR that it slipped by. That makes the line even clumsier to me. In DKR, Batman has known Superman personally for decades - it's an extremely trenchant dig because in that context Superman has shown himself to blindly follow any kind of authority figure. In BvS,…

The idea that the fight pivots on Batman realizing that Superman isn't a weird alien monster but a regular person who happens to have god-like powers is a good one, but the "Martha" scene was a very clunky way to pull it off. Remember, just a few moments before "Save Martha!" Batman tells Superman "I'm sure your…

When I was very young, Svengoolie made a big deal out of showing Creature From the Black Lagoon in 3D, the catch being that you had to get the glasses from 7-11. Without a 7-11 anywhere near me (I lived in White Hen Pantry country), I was out of luck. I tried squinting my way through the movie but just ended up with a…

I’m more than okay with it because I’ve gotten used to ignoring Agents of SHIELD. I can totally understand that Marvel wants to tread carefully here because they don’t want to fall into the same trap the comic book industry fell into by making everything so interconnected and interdependent that casual fans start to…

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What the fuck does Ghostbusters have to do with Star Wars?