Oh gods, can we finally talk about this as a genre show? Thank goodness.

Oh man, this. I went in expecting Spielberg nostalgia. Instead, I got Spielberg deconstruction and one of the few movies that is genuinely smart and compassionate about mourning.

At the risk of double-posting and over-generalizing, I'm noting a trend here. It seems like their whole "it's hot people, don't think about it" has turned from cynicism to an incredibly well-executed ploy to get people watching genuinely decent genre programming. Even my friends who don't like genre shows often end up…

That was totally my get-drunk-and-hate-on-it show in college until That One Episode about HRG happened and it became my get-drunk-and-make-lots-of-affect-at-it show.

I spent years thinking this was nothing but CW-style pretty-people-with-no-substance-can-only-be-a-guilty-pleasure show. Then, I got drunk one night in June, accidentally mis-clicked on it on Netflix, didn't have the wherewithal to click back, and figured it would be my new target for schadenfreude viewing.

Oh, brilliant! I'll add everyone above, so please add me, too—it's 3222-6429-3957.

Well it certainly got the stuffing beaten out of it.

Well I can certainly see how they'd need them! Maybe S.H.I.E.L.D. R&D should focus on something less ostentatious and prone to crashy-go-boom.

Good lord, how many times can they crash and rebuild that poor Helicarrier?

"Interesting" choice.

I guess the problem with me for all of this is that it simply isn't necessary for Final Fantasy, and it adds nothing to any of the games. I'm okay with the notion that the games share lots of themes and gameplay elements, but the notion that this means they have to share a universe/universes is just sort of silly. I'd…

Oh. Gods. Did they actually establish that for FF, or is that just nonsense from Dissidia (great game, ludicrous story)?

I might be having a brain fart here, but has the Marvel Universe ever been rebooted? Yes, Ultimate was a fresh can of paint, but it was also a) an alternate reality parallel to the main Marvel Universe b) not a line that replaced or contradicted the original continuity, since mainline Marvel titles were still running…

To be fair, if camp weren't useful, then a large swathe of queer aesthetics based around it wouldn't have happened. Whether or not that can—or should—translate into the realm of blockbuster action movies is a separate question, but dismissing camp as the domain of "6 year olds" is selling it more than a little short.

I mean, sure; the movie is crass commercialism at its finest. That being said, there are lots of movies before and since that have been just as, if not more, invested in selling infinite toy variants, and rarely do they seem to raise hackles so often as Batman & Robin does. It's as though part of the hatred towards…

I definitely take your point; the Burton Batman films are in some ways much better at the camp when they reach towards it (Catwoman's "Black rubber!" scene spring to mind), and are generally very good films (Batman Returns is my favorite in the franchise to date—nothing beats the ballroom scene with the Siouxsie & The…

You know, at the risk of defending a bad object (because it is a genuinely miserable film in some fairly objective respects), I feel like from the vantage point of three absolutely humorless Nolan films—which were very much greenlit as paranoid reactions to Batman & Robin—I have a retroactive appreciation for…

To be fair, everyone's incredibly washed out here due to filters (Ellen Page is full-on sickly grey), so I wouldn't necessarily judge the casting choice based on the one image.

I'm hoping the 60's sequences will also feature the more steel bucket Sentinels in action, too. The Nimrod-esque design is cool (it looks like the revitalized Phalanx during the dark days of the 90's), but it's also a far cry from the chunky sentinels I've been wanting to see in the films.

*Gasp!* Heterosexual Liberace!