Why do I suddenly have images flashing in my head of this actor whipping himself? Where have I seen this scene?!?!

Tuning in to the live interview with Edward Snowden, Noam Chomsky, and Glenn Greenwald in just a bit.

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I really want to see that, but my connection is ****e. I'll catch it on youtube, I guess.

Just finished watching Spotlight. Excellent ensemble cast and really well written. I'd forgotten this story broke only a few months after 9/11 which may have dulled its impact to a slight degree.

Saw Dawn of Justice today, and I can say it was much better than I had expected. It wasn't great, but it was decent enough to entertain for the full two and a half hour runtime. Most of the action scenes were fun and I thought the casting was great, but they were a little too ambitious and ended up having a lot of plot elements feel convoluted and unnecessary. 6/10

Thanks for the heads-up!

Watched Deadpool.
The humour didn't always work and the times it didn't, things felt pretty awkward.
Also the overall story was kinda formulaic and uninspired.
Apart from twose two (admittedly not exactly minor) points it was fun and well done. Hope its success will lead to some equally entertaining sequels, as well as to a general increase in r-rated superhero movies being made.

To be fair, 9.1 is expected because the first ones rating something on Imdb will usually be people expecting it to be really good before it comes out or people who really love it. I've seen it happen a lot. But it quickly dropped down to 7.6 from 90,000 votes. Still a good rating, but it might drop lower.

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Batman v. Superman


Disclaimer: Don't like spoilers, then don't read.

Honestly, if I wasn't such a comic book fanboy, who wasn't so committed to liking every comic book movie just because I desperately want the comic book movie universe to continue to rule the world, I might just call this movie a piece of crap. But I am, so I find it hard to not pull my punches.

First of all, at least the first two-thirds of this movie is a setup for the fight at the end, with everything else being a collection of, at best, mildly entertaining scenes building up to a climax that never even had the decency to deliver. So the entire movie just ended up feeling like otherwise pointless set up for the upcoming Justice League movies. I was kind of expecting this, so my expectations weren't really dashed, but my hopes certainly were.

The other big problem, and the one that makes me leery of the future of this potential franchise, is that it fell to many of the same pitfalls as any team comic book: the characters didn't have enough time to have any time to shine on their own or have story arcs of any depth, leaving the movie to rise or fall by just how epic the overall story was -- which I have already said was mediocre at ****ing best.

The first five minutes of the movie was actually pretty sweet: Bruce Wayne is trying to save people in Metropolis from the fallout of the final battle from Man of Steel, which leads him to distrust Superman and search for a way to defeat him. His story arc never evolves after this, and even when he decides to team up with Supes, it's because of a totally lame and contrived Convenient Plot Device that doesn't at all resolve his original motivation for trying to fight him.

Superman is boring.

Wonder Woman is there.

Lois Lane is there as well.

Lex Luthor is Heath Ledger's Joker, just without the Clown Agent of Chaos motivation (his actual motivation is who-the-****-cares?)

Then Doomsday is there.

Then Superman, Batman, and Wonder Woman fight Doomsday.

I imagine, due to how lame and poorly choreographed that fight scene is, that the script for it was basically the above sentence.

What a piece of crap. If this isn't just a rushed stumble on the stepping stone to bigger, better, and more well thought out things, but a sign of just how the rest of the Justice League movies will be handled, then Marvel has absolutely nothing to fear. I'm gonna go watch the Wonder Woman animated movie to wash the taste of boring out of my mouth.

P.S. Don't even worry about whether or not Ben Affleck is a good Batman, because he was not given the opportunity to either rule or suck. He was just kind of there, the same as every other character from the movie.

Told you so.