Oh, I was just commenting on the fact that no one else had responded yet, nothing against you.

Really? Two hours?

Oh god no, I meant the Dawn of the Dead remake. Which still isn't great.

Mmmm, references. I love knowing what things are.

The president-elect, for one.

Eh… I don't think Bannon would pal around with Fagin.

The only upside of Gingrich returning to the public eye is getting to read Didion's absolutely devastating profile of him over and over. Just a thing of pure beauty.

I love his classic stuff but I feel like he's gotten kinda lazy since, uh, pretty much exactly when he married Palmer. And there's a bit of a Burton thing there, where the good stuff feels like ominous foreshadowing of an artist in decline. American Gods and Sandman are still grade-A wonderful though, but one of my…

Oh no, goatse's a shot of a lot more than just the rim.

Ah, goaste.cx. Simpler times.

I'm not really willing to assign Snyder a whole lot of credit for that. The opening credits and the casting are both inspired, but apart from that his main contribution is that he didn't fuck up the source material too badly. He deliberately set out to do a faithful adaptation of The best superhero comic ever written,…

I agree totally. But I think that, like The Dark Knight, that's because of a strong creative hand on the tiller apart from the script. A director like Del Toro or Nolan is more than capable of wringing a masterpiece out of a Goyer script— Snyder's work is entirely dependent on the quality of the source material…

That's definitely what they were going for, but it would have made more sense without the reveal that his power actually was a giant angry god partially distinct from himself. (I also don't really dig that the member of the squad they tried to get the most pathos out of is a domestic abuser).

That's right— alongside Snyder, the dominant creative force behind the DCU is the man responsible for Blade: Trinity.

I liked El Diablo when he first appeared and I dug the idea of a supervillain who just wants to retire— then I realized that his conflict was going to be "learning that it's actually okay to burn people up" and I think I puked a little bit. His commitment to nonviolence was actually treated as his main character flaw.

I like watching bad movies (see: Neil Breen avatar), often because they are windows into the way that oddball artists see the world, or are so fascinatingly bad that they inspire imagination and storytelling about the decisions that went into them. Suicide Squad was the same way for me, except the artist was the…

I think that one of the most damning criticisms of Snyder has to be the fight scenes in Watchmen. For starters, the whole point of the book is that these are ordinary, real humans and that the violence is ugly. But the bigger issue is the slow-motion and special effects. Watchmen's 3x3 grid, the lack of sound effects,…

(The titles actually connect powerfully with a certain mindset).

Making it a pretty great adaptation of the X-Men comics!

That's Goyer for you. If nothing else, his scripts for the DCU are a testament to Nolan's skills as a re-writer and editor— the fact that Goyer has script credits on both TDK and BvS really shows off how much Nolan had to rewrite those scripts to find the parts that work.