Gaffer Tape

Actually... you're right about that.

But you still smell funny.  I rest my case.

Wow.  We must be on the same wavelength!  For months I've thought about doing an all-positive review of Batman & (note the ampersand) Robin, just for the fun of it.  As screwy as that movie is, I actually think there are plenty of decent concepts in it.

Superman The Movie The Ending Review!

My next challenge for Who Reviews the Reviewers.  Oh, yeah, I guess I should have mentioned that I wasn't voted off last week.  This week's challenge was to review something I didn't like.  So I did.

Oh, and at Frink's great advice, I reduced the run time from three hours to seven minutes.  I hope I didn't leave out anything important.

Spock spelled "principle" wrong.

I hate it even more when the three hour video upload fails partway through!!!

I hate that it takes over three hours for me to upload a video to YouTube.

What it really needs is a gif where Vegeta takes off sunglasses instead of a scouter.  Someone needs to make that happen.

Aw, carp!  Now we have to redo the tombstone.  I wonder how much that's gonna cost?

Not if you Bat-empt my post to the previous page...

doubleofive said:

Or is Batman way too into me? TMI, I'll have to kill you now.

I hope you're using Bat Protection...

Ugggghhh... I think I need some Bat Brain Bleach for that Bat Image on this Bat Thread.

Well, let me just say if I was going to dress up as any serial Batman, it wouldn't be the Batman and Robin one I reviewed.  It would be the 1943 Batman.  That guy has class!

...I really need to get around to doing that one eventually...

But that might alienate the extremely marketable title of The Dark Knight.  Therefore, in order to bring in as much revenue as possible, the new film should be called:

Batman:  The Dark Knight:  The Caped Crusader

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You're dead to me...

none said:

Don't have any stats to say one way or the other if the average street walker was the convincing opinion which proved that GOUT was worth the LFL time

Wow.  I wasn't aware that that many prostitutes had discerning opinions about Star Wars.   I'm impressed.  ^_~

No-name pilot?  Ric Olie's going to have words for you soon.  ^_~

But, yeah, aside from the almighty establishing shot, that kind of dialogue is part of what makes the prequels so... "special."  But I will say in the defense of that particular moment is that at least he was talking to a child, somewhat justifying such a blatant piece of exposition.  George saw the easy way out and just RAN with it!

Welp, Halloween is over, so...

THREAD IS OPEN!!!

Yep.  That's what I assumed for at least a few years.

Oh, wow, Leo.  My grandpa would have been 97 this year, and his wife (my grandmother, obviously) would be 98 if she were alive.

I'm very sorry, Sluggo.  Mine died about four years ago, and while it was good because he had been deteriorating terribly for years, it didn't stop it from being extremely painful.  So you have my empathy.

This topic does come up every so often, and, as a huge fan of Batman Returns, I also don't mind its take on The Penguin.  And watching all the documentaries and such, it's awesome just how connected Danny DeVito was to his character.  It's true, looking back, that you can kinda see how Batman Returns marked Burton's... completion, I guess, of the evolution into his unyielding style, which I admit has fatigued me quite a bit over the years.  So I can certainly understand derision towards Return for it being that.  As was also said in the supplements, "It's a Tim Burton movie."  I can also certainly see people agreeing with it being a Tim Burton movie at the cost of not being a Batman movie.  I don't think it crosses that line, but it does come pretty close at times.

All that said, I would certainly like to see The Penguin done "right."

That's a good point, though, especially about The Riddler and Catwoman.  I wonder why no Riddler?  Has that always just been idle speculation?  And it's just such a shame that Catwoman has been so marred due to her own terrible movie.  But, still, it might give Nolan a chance to redeem her.  After all, with Rachel blown to smithereens, it would make some sense to give an emotionally-scarred Bruce a femme-fetale on the rebound.

I certainly see that as being a plausible and satisfying story as well, but I personally hope they don't bring him back.  The Harvey/Two-Face story was my favorite part about The Dark Knight, and I thought it was handled so perfectly that I really don't think it needs to be addressed anymore.

My name is Gaffer Tape, and I disapprove of the preceding statement.  I also want to point out that we do have more than one mod.

Alexrd said:

Gaffer Tape said:

Alexrd said:

generalfrevious said:

Stop milking the cash cow, Lucas. It's been bleeding for the past five years...

Has it? People keep drinking their milk. I never understood that problem. Let a new generation have Star Wars too.

Why does there have to be new Star Wars for a new generation to have it?  There's already plenty of Star Wars for this, the next, and every subsequent generation to be satisfied.

And who decides there's plenty? The movies are there for everybody, yes. But what's so wrong to give people (old or new) more Star Wars? I'm not talking about more movies, but everything else. If people buy it, it's because they like it. I still don't understand the "stop milking the cash cow" argument...

Because there are fans who actually realize that stories need to come to an end at some point.  That if you just keep going for the sake of having new stuff, it's utterly useless.  There is one mindset of fans that they just want to always have that feeling of having new stuff come out because it feels nice when new stuff comes out.  Then there's that mindset of fans that just want an awesome story told in an awesome fictional universe and then have that awesome fictional universe laid to rest because, let's face it, that's part of what makes it special.  If you're constantly inundated with it, first it becomes routine, then it just becomes annoying.

Today is BTTF on Blu-ray day.  I have a feeling you're not going to find a lot of disgruntled fans out there begging for another sequel under the logic, "Let a new generation have their Back to the Future too."  The existing trilogy already tells a story that continues to delight people.  No need to drag it out or spin it off or milk it dry.

Yeah, this thing really surprised me.  I wonder what caused it.