That's right! Forgot about that!

I am trying my best to put myself in those scenarios… To the first one, I don't think so. Just no "scary" in a clown standing there. Sorry.

I thought Tim Curry was great - just not scary.

All I can say is that if the emperor did do that then I have no idea why he was considered the bad guy…

You know, I never quite got the scariness of clowns. They just don't bother me at all. I look at a clown and see a guy in makeup that either must love his job or really hate his life and that's about it…

Something that occurred to me - we never see Jar Jars any time other than in the prequels. Therefore it seems obvious that the rest of the universe were just as annoyed by them as we were and they were completely exterminated in a genocide by the emperor.

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Meh - it's a movie. The 2016 Ghostbusters won't rape anyone's childhood - the original is right there on DVD, Blu-Ray and Netflix (I think). It's just a movie.

Actually, that attack was only introduced in the Arkham Knight game - it didn't exist in those first two.

One good example - those first two Arkham games. It actually pays off to think like Batman in them - you enter an area, grapple up to a place where you survey the area for enemies and then formulate a plan to take them out one by one. You don't just blunder in and start punching - that's a bad thing to do in those…

I get a giggle out of the youtube video but it does seem odd that she is still around…

Currently I am trying to make sense of Philip Dick's "Valis"… And utterly failing.

Oh god no… After Suckerpunch I thought that guy was barred by federal law from ever writing a movie with a female lead ever again…

But even there, they do it differently than being truly evil… The characters on Sunny do those things because of an almost childlike innocence that they think is good. They aren't actually trying to be knowingly evil… That's the difference.

Can you imagine any of those characters being broadcast into your living room 23 times a year with reruns the other 29 weeks and repeating that for 10 years?

Well, on TV I think that the US needs it's comedy to be likable. And that is more of a function of the series themselves… British TV is a hit and run mindset - You do a show for 6 episodes and then you can be gone for a year, 6 months, a decade or whatever. So they can afford to be a bit more barbed.

I don't know… I kinda liked it. It basically becomes a slog by the end for anyone over the age of 12 but I'd still consider it slightly better than most movies like this. I laughed a few times at least.

I was going to say that but was too embarassed to admit I liked that first one.

True, but sometime one will be. After all, before Superman there weren't a lot of really great comic book adaptations either - about the only one before that of note would have been the Batman TV series adaptation… So sooner or later there might be a good one. And, honestly, AC makes a decent candidate for going to…

Well, of course it is a marketing thing, first and foremost. Do people think that videogame to movie translations are done for purely artistic reasons?