TV/Movies Megathread

[Ideologue]

Ide, you sure that Social Media scene was a deposition and not a negotiation/settlement?

Don't think so.  The attys were asking questions and all the parties were sworn.

[Ideologue]

The bad thing about the Batman-is-mean-to-Hal-Jordan dynamic that Geoff Johns--as far as I can tell--invented out of whole cloth in the mid-2000s, is that I dislike Batman too.  Though I do find him less annoying to read about since there's not four superior versions of his IP hanging around like there is with Green Lantern.

How can you not like Batman?

He's rich.

And a crybaby, and a deus ex machina.  They maxed out everything that was kind of iffy about Batman and made him a pretty unpleasant character.  Grant Morrison's work on JLA had a lot to do with it, and obviously Frank Miller's take on Batman still informs the character at a fundamental level, but I mostly blame Geoff Johns and the post-Infinite Crisis stuff.  I really liked the part where Bruce Wayne has a ten billion dollar constellation of spy satellites run by an AI that he invented, and which he launched in secret with no help and without anyone knowing.

It's also overexposure: Batman this and Batman that, and suddenly the adventures of one of DC's flattest major characters becomes a little repetitive.

The underlying Batman concept remains sound, obviously.  I do kind of wish they'd left him dead, but I think that's always true--Ollie Queen, Barry Allen, Hal Jordan,* everybody except Superman, because what better for a conscious Christ metaphor than to return from the dead?

*I'm still sad they went Hal Jordan in the movie--Kyle Rayner as the second Green Lantern of Earth--and the last Green Lantern alive--set against a villainous and genocidal Hal Jordan has all the Star Wars appeal you could ever want.

[Ed Anger]

I'm the goddamn Batman

[CountDeMoney]

The one with nipples.

[Ed Anger]

Never rub another man's rhubarb.

[katmai]

Run all Night- Liam Neeson being a bad ass again.

[The Brain]

I really liked the part where Bruce Wayne has a ten billion dollar constellation of spy satellites run by an AI that he invented, and which he launched in secret with no help and without anyone knowing.

You know he has superpowers, right?

[Admiral Yi]

Celery, have you ever seen Hoosiers?

Just watched it again for the 20th time and it still makes me blubber from start to finish.

[celedhring]

Celery, have you ever seen Hoosiers?

Just watched it again for the 20th time and it still makes me blubber from start to finish.

Yes, I have. I grew up in a basketball-crazy town and when this came out it became an instant local hit. They used to play it in bits during breaks of basketball practice. The film is the quintessential underdog sports story, but it has character, mainly Hackman's.

[Martinus]

Amazon just delivered "Imitation Game". So gonna watch tonight or tomorrow.

[Martinus]

Cant wait.

[celedhring]

Now that I think about Hoosiers a little, isn't it subtly racist? I mean, they are an all-white school from an all-white midwestern town that defeats a more athletic integrated team in the finals.

[CountDeMoney]

Now that I think about Hoosiers a little, isn't it subtly racist? I mean, they are an all-white school from an all-white midwestern town that defeats a more athletic integrated team in the finals.

No, it isn't subtly racist.

[jimmy olsen]

 

[Martinus]

Is it non-subtly racist?