So funny to think that Universal wasted hundreds of millions trying to launch the “Dark Universe” on the back of Tom Cruise getting slammed into walls every five seconds but then the movie where the Creature From The Black Lagoon boinks Sally Hawkins gets 13 Oscar nominations. Makes you think.

It’s all a rich tapestry.

HI-FUCKING-YA

If Netflix hadn’t revived Mystery Science Theater 3000, I’d probably cancel it. The early days of Netflix streaming were great for me because they had so much schlock that you couldn’t find anywhere else. Now they’re apparently too good for it, but Amazon Prime is there if I want to watch Death Spa or Terrorvision or…

If my grandkids ever ask me what it was like to live during the Obama years, I’ll just show them a two-second clip of Bill O’Reilly spitting out the word “arugula” like it killed his mother.

I was at Target last week and saw these WWE action figures where all the wrestlers were monsters and I was shocked to learn that that’s not how they actually dress in the ring. I knew enough about current WWE to know that John Cena doesn’t wrestle painted like the Silver Surfer, but you mean that hillbilly guy isn’t…

I mean, when you think about it, it makes sense that a guy with an allegedly pathological fear of stairs would see a wall as the ultimate security measure.

The event that triggers DC’s next reboot will be Superman standing outside Wonder Woman’s apartment with a blue French horn. “Kids, sometimes you don’t realize who your true love is until it’s almost too late, and the universe is collapsing in on itself. And that’s why I’m going to punch a hole in the time barrier to…

Wasn’t Kelly’s JLA run also when Plastic Man spent like 6,000 years in pieces on the ocean floor or something? Dude just likes making superheroes thousands of years old for some reason, I guess.

I don’t know, I feel like bathrobe-and-slippers look puts him way past retirement age no matter where he’s from.

I am actually William Katt.

What’s wrong with being sexy?

This is the perfect time for my “The Last Jedi but all the young people are cut out of it” fan-edit. It’s 45 minutes of Luke Skywalker telling Rey to get off his property, followed by Supreme Leader Snoke illustrating why you should write your damn free-loading kids out of your will the first chance you get. Luke…

Rey was in the last movie. Holdo died, Paige died, Phasma died. Leia and her mother were the only two main female characters in the entire series before Force Awakens, so she wasn’t “added” to anything in Last Jedi. So half the nameless extras were women. That’s a “forced narrative,” yikes.

The Last Jedi introduced a grand total of two new female characters into Star Wars, and one of them blew up before it was over.

I agree with you, it dilutes the character and makes the entire Shazam concept into something different from what it was - but that’s been basically the entire history of the Marvel Family since DC purchased those characters in the 70s. They’re the square peg DC has been trying to fit into the round hole of its…

I don’t care how many words he used to say it, he said that he didn’t like how the movie made him aware of the women in it, and his wife noticed there were a lot of women in the movie, too. Apparently this is an “issue,” according to him.

That’s true, yeah. Luthor is more of a technocratic Bond villain in these current movies than a full-on mad scientist, but making Sivana a wizard makes the distinction between the two characters much more distinct.

You’re in the wrong thread, but I’m sorry the Star Wars movie had too many girls in it.

It might have had more to do with the idea that the classic Sivana may have come off like a K-Mart Lex Luthor to audiences. That’s fine in the comics, where there’s an evil scientist on every street corner, but in a “cinematic universe” they don’t want too many characters to fit the same archetype.