To Frank Miller’s credit: he doesn’t want to defend Holy Terror either and regrets making it. He’s sobered up and kind of reflected on his shit quite a bit recently.
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Honestly, I wish I didn’t have to take sides because I wish there wasn’t a blatantly clear winner in terms of one studio truly loving and respecting their stewardship of these characters and trying their absolute damnedest to bring them to the screen in glorious, spectacular ways and one studio floundering sadly in…
I like the one that Paul F. Tompkins was a guest on.
I love I Love Films and I love I Love I Love Films, but I don’t care for I Love I Love I Love Films
Wow, every category is extremely bad! I can only look at this and assume this is radio trying to get revenge on podcasts by promoting the shittiest stuff they can find.
I think I agree that Vader was all presence, with very little substance. The best Vader has ever been as a *character* is in the Disney/Marvel comics, which really effectively blend his terrifying presence and power with a cold, stripped down version of Anakin. All the petulant rage focused into clear-headed goals,…
I’ve always loved him as a character, but “You’re not allowed to show him as a spoiled child” strikes me as Lucasfilm not even watching their own movies. That’s the point of the character. He’s a stunted man-child, unable to control his anger, and playing at pretensions of power because he inherited the ability to do…
Ranking both Hudsucker and Intolerable Cruelty above True Grit and O Brother is a wild goddamn opinion that justifies Love being cancelled and Paul Rust never getting work ever again.
Heath Ledger got an Oscar, not TDK, and without Heath, TDK isn’t actually that interesting, see also: TDKR. Suicide Squad has an Oscar. Is that art?
Maybe, but I don’t even fully buy that’s true. Iron Man nearly quadrupled its budget premiering two months before TDK came out on the strength of a relatively unknown B-list Marvel character. Nolan’s trilogy successfully rehabilitated Batman, but it’s the goddamn Batman. For my money, those early years of Marvel…
You didn’t take into account how shockingly awful 2007 was apparently.
Yeah, I don’t think there’s a lot of connective tissue between Marvel’s output and Nolan’s. Maybe Marvel is benefitting form the heightened opinion of superhero movies post-TDK, but they’re doing such a completely different- even opposite- thing than Nolan ever did that I don’t actually think TDK had that much of an…
Well, Robbie is already in the MCU. And we briefly see Johnny Blaze too.
They can never do F4 in the MCU because then they can’t recast Johnny Storm into a much, much better character for the MCU.
Making Dunst Gwen and killing her in the first movie when they, y’know, put the exact scene that Gwen dies in the comics in there, would’ve been hugely shocking to the moviegoing audience and I think really changed the course of superhero movies for the better.
The best F4 movie is called “The Incredibles”
Barista edition is pretty hard to explain why they chose that version of such a good character, especially in a show that, absent her presence, is a fuckin’ non-stop bonkers comic book joyride.
Like, just in that Mulaney and Kroll video yesterday they mention that at the same time as Mulaney auditioning and getting on the show as a writer, so were Ellie Kemper, Jordan Peele, and Nick Kroll. There’s 8 Emmy nominations, 1 Emmy win, and 1 goddamn Oscar amongst who they DIDN’T hire that day.
No, but also Gene Coon and Carey Wilbur aren’t credited in Wrath of Khan for writing Space Seed in the first place. I don’t know how any of that works. I guess invoking the Great Bird of the Galaxy is good enough for writing credit.