An ongoing exploration of the dark and gritty reboot
It's been out for a while, but there are still two things that bug me about Interstellar. And no, neither of them is the science of it. I'm not expert in theories of time travel, interstellar travel, worm holes, quantum mechanics, etc. I'm not even very interested in such things. I know that some people …
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Now that The Dark Knight Rises poster is out and the teaser trailer has been released, it's a great time to be talking about Batman. There is something you have to accept: Christian Bale's Batman is an allegory for George W. Bush. Google it. Or, I can save you the time by suggesting you read …
Twitter is sometimes amusing. This might be the best you can say for it. It's rarely informative, regularly frustrating, and the "trending topics" reveal its ability to be a cesspool for intolerance, ignorance, and misinformation. However, as I said, it's amusing. Entertaining. Especially when you "follow" the right people. Yes, you have to be certain …
The fact that Spiderman is currently being rebooted proves that it is never too soon to start a franchise over from scratch. One might point out that Spiderman's reboot (the new trilogy's first film with a release date that comes only five years after the end of the last trilogy) is nothing new for comic …
Bale as George Bailey. When he tells the the angel that he wishes he were never born and comes back to see the town as a cesspool, he is too short sighted to unmake that wish, and instead, through fists of guile, begins the long road to clean the town up. Sadly, several years later …
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