I’ll grant that it might be weaker on rewatching — the relative weighting of smart and dumb jokes shifts with time, and all the skewed humor suffers more from losing its freshness.

That would be such a tone-appropriate bit for this movie.

I think they’ve also failed to understand how much of human emotion is rooted in the same thing.

Just off the top of my head — I believe the Ottoman Turks were pretty major players in the slave trade, and the historical Vlad Tepes was definitely no fan of the Turks, so it honestly makes a little more sense than the backstory of, say, the Star Wars prequels...

For me, some of the rehearsals with random strangers in the boarding line have actually worked out better than the real things.

Technically the same bird, so you’re okay.

We can only assume that’s happened to many of us.

I hate Barry enough that one of the things I liked best about Dreamland was his getting a nicely decisive comeuppance.

One of my happiest moments was deciding to take out Vulpes Inculta and his legionaries who sneered at me after I witnessed the carnage at Nipton. I lobbed all the grenades I had, and fortunately had some extra firepower from a long-barreled grenade launcher I got as starting DLC. I had to avoid a lot of hit team spawn…

And the late, lamented (extra sadly before she could be in Incredibles 2) Elizabeth Peña is gloriously hot in this.

I get such a strong “alien anthropologist” vibe off of these things — finding practically all of the tropes personally unrelatable, but clinically familiar enough to write a thesis on.

A favorite cathedral tale of mine relates to that in Köln, Germany. Construction began in 1248. By 1473, a large crane was in use atop one of the towers, but expense brought construction to a halt.

Good historical perspective. The goofiness of all “Golden Age” properties to modern eyes is something frequently overlooked.

I can certainly see how it would utterly horrify an actual fan of Eisner’s Spirit, but I personally put it in the category of films that are engaging as can’t-believe-what-I’m-seeing spectacles — A mashup of Sin City and the 1966 Batman movie. At that level it at least inspired more giddy WTF laughter in me than…

I saw that noted elsewhere in the comments, and it’s been long enough since I’ve seen the film that I don’t really have clear enough memory to support or contest it.

Invasion and conquest make no sense in this context — An alien species with the technology to travel across interstellar space sends a naked, unarmed, and grossly outnumbered invasion force to the surface of a planet covered in a lethal substance, and expects them to prevail because... they’re about as large and…

So, instead of spending time redecorating the tree each year, they spend a couple hours vacuuming cobwebs out of it?

The Occult Roots of Nazism (by Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke) really is pretty excellent — a non-sensationalistic survey of the spiritual/mystical and pseudoscientific millieu in which Aryan-supremacist and anti-semitic beliefs grew in the late-19th and early-20th centuries. It’s a good, rational “chaser” to pulpy stuff…

I thought I might have remembered a flashback, but I’m now recalling what you mention — along with a lack of any particular chemistry.

It’s amusing that they’d resort to a body double in an animated film, as opposed to her just wearing a leotard or something.