Starlord

The irony of this article is how the author is, while decrying how outrage journalism has taken over movie reviews, makes his case through invective and hyperbole.  It's kind of sad.

Well, I wouldn't want to moderate Trump.  Supposedly you could starting bleeding from your eyes and your...wherever.

Well, I wouldn't want to moderate Trump.  Supposedly you could starting bleeding from your eyes and your...wherever.

If you weigh 200 lbs on Earth, then you weigh 76 lbs on Mars.  You're not overweight, you're just on the wrong planet.

I don't know why everybody is complaining about Eisenberg...I thought he was an awesome Joker.

I don't know why everybody is complaining about Eisenberg...I thought he was an awesome Joker.

I don't know why everybody is complaining about Eisenberg...I thought he was an awesome Joker.

I don't know why everybody is complaining about Eisenberg...I thought he was an awesome Joker.

What if malice and insanity merged into a single being, hereafter referred to as 'ex-wife'?

LOVED the nod to 'old-school' Power Man when he rises from the tank!! 
 

I don't know why everybody is complaining about Eisenberg...I thought he was an awesome Joker.

LOVED the nod to 'old-school' Power Man when he rises from the tank!! 
 

I liked Suicide Squad. Went with my wife - the first superhero movie she has actually wanted to see in a decade - and she liked it.
 
I have avoided BvS simply because I know how I want the film to play out and I know the versions of Batman and Superman I need to make that happen. I know it will not. The Superman I know and love is bright, optimistic and intrinsically good. So good that other people dont even need to ask if he is a hero. The Batman I know and love inhabits a dark world without participating in that world. He is dark and grim to the denizens of the underworld which makes others question his position in society but, at the core, he is just as much a hero as Superman. For them to fight there has to be some kind of mismatch of their world views. Batman is not stupid, he can see Superman is a hero just as much as anyone else, he can see that he would never do harm intentionally to anyone else and would try to avoid that harm even at his own expense but he knows that even that kind of hero draws risks. He would not go after Superman because Superman 'might' turn bad but because he represented a threat that Superman was unaware of and incapable of mitigating. Superman would only fight Batman in self-defence and be the one constantly looking to find a way to convince him they were on the same side.
 
The difference between BvS and SS is that in the former you have two heroes. In the latter you have a squad of villains with, at best, a couple of anti-heroes. They need a different approach.
 
I fear that Marvel may take Captain America to the same dark place DC took Superman. Both of them should be the shining lights of hope and optimism in their universes.
 
Doc
 
PS: sorry - didn't mean to write so much - obviously this means more to me than I thought!!

Great things are done by a series of small things - Vincent Van Gogh

Great things are done by a series of small things - Vincent Van Gogh

Great things are done by a series of small things - Vincent Van Gogh

Trump is no Republican...I believe the panic attacks started for their 'establishment' the second he became the probable candidate.

I just think the fact that he's no politician, he's not establishment, supposedly funded his own campaign and directly appealed to some undercurrent of 'white' anger is actually what the primary process preferred.  He ran Republican because that's where he thought he had the best chance to win.

Trump is no Republican...I believe the panic attacks started for their 'establishment' the second he became the probable candidate.

Thought Johnson/Weld were brilliant, articulate, honest and humble at their town hall last night. 

Given the direction of things, I believe I better bow out myself.  No offense, since I do know you have a lot to handle with this, Simon, but it is getting a little too sensitive for me.

I finally caught FF a month ago and didn't really feel it was outright bad, just alotta boring meh-ness.