Return of the Caped Crusaders was great too; Adam West doing "and I'm the surgeon!" and "You wanna get nuts? Let's get nuts!" was delightful.

I think the problem with the Penguin is that he tried to square a standard Burton "colorful weirdo with daddy issues" archetype with the "runs for mayor" plot from the '66 TV series. Penguin is written as two completely different, mutually exclusive characters.

Maybe they're taking a mulligan on Montoya after Gotham fumbled her.

I agree, but I also think those traits are pretty central to Batman. I don't object to a right-wing interpretation of Batman, because I think Batman represents a fundamentally right-wing fantasy. (Superman, on the other hand, was overtly socialist in his original conception, and to describe Wonder Woman as "feminist"…

You can definitely see a bit of the other Nolan, Jonathan's, fascination with surveillance and the ethical ramifications of technology in there, too. It's been really interesting to watch him develop those ideas from Dark Knight to Person of Interest to Westworld.

"Its cool, keeping talking and caring about this."

I think if they'd spent less time on new material they could have pulled it off; the movie is 109 minutes, and the first four episodes of the TV series (which cover the same ground, opening through leaving Magrathea) come out to around 132 (and that includes opening and closing credits and the largely-redundant…

And Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency reuses broad swaths of City of Death and Shada.

English.

Counterpoint: the books never get around to explaining just what the hell Zaphod was up to, why he plotted to become president and then erased his own memory. (Unless you count Young Zaphod Plays It Safe, which is itself a now-dated joke at the expense of a then-US President.) Yes, he drives the action, but the radio…

I liked it too, but here's where I think it stumbles: it thinks the plot is more important than the jokes. Over and over again, it uses dialogue taken verbatim from the book (or various other iterations) but drops punchlines in a rush to get to the next plot beat. You get the setup, and if you're a fan you know the…

Well that totally disproves my assertion that whining in a comments section is not the most effective use of your time, and simultaneously bemoaning other people's poor priorities demonstrates a clear lack of self-awareness. You sure showed me. Especially the "hot tip" part.

6% is a pretty small number, dogg. Obviously it would be better if it were zero, but it's less than a tenth of the percentage of the US population that believes torture is acceptable in some cases.

I am getting a VERY weird vibe from you based on the actions and beliefs that you are justifying here, including abhorrent violence and atrocities. It is borderline scary.

He doesn't condemn "Islam as whole". He's explained this many, many times, and you obviously haven't really paid attention and want to play the apologist

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sounds more like patronizing condescension and self-righteousness than someone trying to elicit a laugh.

At this point you've spent seven posts, each longer than the last, on this topic you claim not to give a shit about. (Sorry, not to give much of a shit about.)

Glad to help, though I recommend you give this one a read before using the "yelling 'fire' in a crowded theater" cliche again:

Welp, I know which hand you typed that with. Had to be the right; otherwise you couldn't have made those parentheses.

I was with you until the whole "balance" part. The Bill of Rights is not subject to balancing tests. There are exceptions, but those exceptions are not determined based on the notion of balancing the rights of the individual with the rights of society. (Strictly speaking, the Bill of Rights is proscriptive; from a…