My own personal Jack Ryan: In Patriot Games Jack lived in Annapolis MD and worked for the CIA under cover of a job with The MITRE Corporation, a defense contractor. In the ‘80s I lived in Annapolis and for about six months commuted to my new job at MITRE in McLean VA, just a few miles down the road from CIA…

Dear BBC, I object in the strongest possible terms to the above comment. It was clearly not written by a member of the general public and was merely included here for a cheap laugh.

 * rolls dice; looks up; shakes head sadly *

This is how you answer the question. No need to shit on anything, be kind or diplomatic about it.

**record scratch and freeze frame**

“See that guy there? That’s me.”

There is a hilarious gif on twitter of Jane Levy & Melanie Lynskey doing something really cute & the first person to comment on it was Lynskey’s But I’m a Cheerleader co-star Natasha Lyonne

Know I can’t be the only nerd with a memory.

I’m pretty sure I know what side he’d be on.

I’m not proving a fucking thing. You’re just an insecure asshole desperately seeking self-validation.

and the site is completely biased against any right-leaning figure

These days I just physically recoil whenever I see imgur-esque links full of arrows and boxes and text. Too much GamerGate/MAGA.

“SOME SORT OF DISCORD RAY?”

Agreed completely. I never thought of the film as mocking superhero movies (which, as part of the superhero target audience of 12-year-olds at the time, I was barely even aware of) - I just thought of it as a great, silly comedy with an amazing cast (even the tertiary characters - Lena Olin? Louise Lasser?) within…

“Roland Tembo is... The Trivia Master.”

He still looks younger than Wilfred Hyde White did even in the youngest picture I’ve ever found of him.

I can say with utter certainty that my wife and I saw Mystery Men at 12:30am the morning of August 11, 1999. She had to be at the hospital at 5:00am for a scheduled C-section and there was no way we were going to sleep that night, so we went to a post-midnight showing. The theater was rather empty but we had a great…

Spot on. And the fact that there are so many quotable lines, even by a reviewer who claims to dislike the film, means it did what it set out to do: Be a dumb but memorable popcorn flick making fun of superhero comics.

To make Mystery Men and enjoyable movie, you must first enjoy the movie that is a mystery.

Interesting. I had no idea Whistler was created for the movie. He was very much what Micro was to the Punisher.