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@RubinReport Yeah, I gave her another chance in 2024 then she lost me by not sticking up for Erika Kirk. Her words are worthless now. What an evil bitch.

I want to be really careful with my words here. What a duplicitous evil cunt she’s become.

@arcticninjapaul I skipped Season 2 on the feeling that what you just outlined would happen. I also felt burned by Season 1. The Disney + MCU writers haven’t really read ANY of the source material and they just cherry-pick what they want to fit modern Disney’s agenda. I’m glad I passed on it.

I had high hopes for Daredevil: Born Again season 2, but it felt like a step backward for me. I love the main cast, who do what they can with what they’re given, but they’ve yet to reach the heights of the Netflix show. The writers seem obsessed with overstuffing the show with boring and unnecessary side characters, meandering subplots, and an overly convoluted story that amounted to a nothing burger of a finale. The pulse, energy, and aesthetic of the comics feels lost in the new show and I wonder if anyone actually read Born Again by Miller and Mazzucchelli before calling this show by that name. There were so many opportunities to build to something satisfying, cool, and character building, but it just lagged, losing all momentum. They girl-bossed every female character and tried way too hard to fit news headline narratives into comic book story beats, while hodgepodging elements from the comics randomly, ignoring the stories that made these characters who they are. I’m happy for anyone that dug it, but I’m perplexed and disappointed. There’s a great show in there, but it has yet to emerge under the Disney banner.

@plainrunner2 Agreed! TLJ is very nihilistic which is contrary to Star Wars.

I can't speak to motives of anyone involved, but there is a pervading sadness in how that chapter takes shape, and not in a "darkest before the dawn" sort of way (which is what Empire excelled at). It feels more like it's built around a lack of belief that anyone can stay good or even be good enough to warrant that faith in the first place, and I just don't think that's ever what Star Wars was meant to be.

Luke Skywalker becoming a fearful, forgetful, resentful man was not character growth. It was imposed change. A sophomoric stumble of artistic arrogance if ever there was one. Yes, the challenges of mid to later life are different from those of youth, but the qualities that reveal themselves as heroic at one stage will persevere to the other stages, even amidst pain or loss or uncertainty. Luke crossed the threshold. The growth comes from where he goes in that larger world. While this can include a type of deconstruction or reevaluation of youthful ideals, for the hero, this process is always to strengthen the foundation and advance in a wiser, more committed direction of service. The hero may retire as strength wanes and other heroes take up his mantle, captured by his vision, led by his example. He does not give up. He does not wallow. He does not feel sorry for himself. Those are the traits of a coward. Those are the traits of the selfish, the bitter, the shamed. That was never Luke Skywalker.

@JackPosobiec You’ve gone full Matt Walsh. Never go full Matt Walsh. Defended Erika Kirk lately?

Fun Fact: The final medal scene of the first Star Wars movie (1977) was ripped off from Leni Riefenstahl's Triumph of the Will (1935)

@bekoumovies I remember all the “Keatonites” scoffing when Bruce was training in BVS. “PFFFFT! Keaton’s Batman never did any workouts!” 🙄

Ppl have to understand muscular superheroes are always been the norm especially since the early 2000s with Hugh Jackman, ,Chris Hemsworth ,Chris Evans et cetera and this is what the studio put in the movie so that women who are not interested in CBM would watch them also it gives some motivation to people to work out and be healthy, but if for medical reasons the actor cannot work out ,fine ,they can CGI the muscles but it’s always nice to see that they put in the effort to play the role Just like cavill & affleck & unlike what lazy Pattinson who played the mid man or even David cornball who barely worked out for the role !

@RobHHill @anishmoonka Last Laugh and Death Of The Family took that concept and ran with it. That first time seeing it play out in 2000 was shocking.

@batdude211 @anishmoonka I didn't love the weird early Batgirl subplot added much, and I would have left it out. But either version seems far darker than RotJ. Gordon's carnival ride is easily the most twisted and f-ed up thing I've ever seen in a Batman material.

Batman Beyond's spin-off movie is now widely called the darkest Batman story ever animated. Its creator never wanted to make any of it. In 1998, Warner Bros. ordered him to put Bruce Wayne in high school to sell action figures to teenagers. He thought he was dreaming. Bruce Timm had spent seven years running Batman: The Animated Series and its sequels, still considered the gold standard. The order from Warner Bros. would erase all of that. The new show was supposed to slot in next to teen-drama hits like Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Dawson's Creek, with a high-school-aged Bruce Wayne going to class and fighting crime. Timm called it "surreal, disappointing, shocking, dream-like." He found a way to give the network its teen Batman without burning seven years of work. His pitch: jump 40 years into the future. Bruce Wayne is now old and retired. A new kid named Terry McGinnis stumbles on the Batcave, takes the suit, and becomes Batman. Old Bruce mentors him over a radio earpiece. The team had only months to build the world from scratch, and they studied Blade Runner for the look of the future city. The street gangs came straight out of the Japanese animated film Akira. Terry's life was modeled on Spider-Man, where the hero juggles school, a girlfriend, and crime-fighting all at once. The pilot aired on January 10, 1999. Hasbro, the toy company that pushed for this show, missed the point. The figures they shipped were goofy variants like a Batman on a skateboard and one in neon camouflage. The actual villains and supporting cast, like the Joker and the elderly Bruce Wayne, almost never got made. Then came the movie. Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker came out in 2000. Warner Bros. ordered huge chunks cut after the Columbine school shooting the year before. In the original ending, the Joker brainwashes young Robin into a mini-Joker and orders him to kill Batman. Robin turns the gun on the Joker instead. He pulls the trigger. A little flag pops out reading "BANG" and stabs the Joker through the chest. The Joker dies on screen. The censored version replaced it with the Joker getting shoved into electrical wires. The full uncut version came out on DVD in 2002 and holds a 100 percent score on Rotten Tomatoes. The show won two Daytime Emmys, two Annie Awards (the Oscars of animation), ran for 52 episodes, and set up Justice League and Justice League Unlimited, the cartoons that defined DC animation for the next five years. What started as an order to sell action figures turned into one of the most respected superhero stories ever put on screen.

@RobHHill @anishmoonka I wasn’t crazy about the Batgirl subplot either. I just wish they had thought of doing Killing Joke as an animated short while Kevin Conroy was still with us. Still, seeing a Jokerized Robin in 2000 was a horrifying first.

@RobHHill @anishmoonka Well, The Killing Joke when originally published in 1988 was the darkest piece of Batman work back then. The animated Killing Joke adaptation after Return Of The Joker was still dark but it was missing something.

@batdude211 @anishmoonka This sounds 1) plenty dark (I haven't seen it!), but 2) substantially less dark than The Killing Joke.

@G_O_A_T_Lantern Just remember, these idiots haven’t READ a Green Lantern comic since Kyle’s first run in the 90s.

Is bro living under a rock? Bro is ignoring the most famous green lantern run of all time which happened after the 90s

@BestMovieMom I meant to say “it’s shocking how WB never learned”

@BestMovieMom It’s amazing how WB never learned from the hard lesson of Batman & Robin that letting your merchandisers call the shots wasn’t a good idea. However, Bruce Timm flipping the script on those demands was an amazing experience.

Warner Bros. asked for a "teenage Batman" to sell toys. Instead, Batman Beyond (1999) became a dark, cult classic that grossed millions in home video sales and spawned a massive DC franchise.

@alpharivelino @Khalidalzarouni Friends then led to The Big Bang Theory where the men were absolutely walked on by the women. Even the nerdiest character Sheldon was always berated by Mayim Bialik’s character.

@Khalidalzarouni Friends encouraged young men to be pathetic and neurotic, and encouraged young women to seek out pathetic and neurotic men Great example here:

FRIENDS was invented to make men weak

@TheEasternOptic Every reason already listed here. In short, it was fully a James Gunn movie which was my worst fear. Just remember, this is what Toby Emmerich wanted!

What do y’all think the fundamental problem with Superman 2025 was?

@ThesilenceJames @kateesackhoff

@kateesackhoff Katee that top is bad, bad concept, bad materials, badly made, terrible fit. If I was the cameraman I would've refused to shoot, insisted on a wardrobe change. White long sleeve, black tie would've been infinitely better. No offence, I think you lovely, your stylist not so much.

Frak off… I mean that with love😂🚀

@DT2ComicsChat It doesn’t help that cuck-ass Ryan (completely miscast) shits on this movie every chance he gets. WB forced him onto the director Martin Campbell and now that director’s career is halted. Shame because Campbell directed two of the best 007 movies!

#Fandom🤓 I really, really, REALLY hate the damage that this one stupid Ryan Reynolds movie did to Hal Jordan. It took the greatest #GreenLantern of all time, and made the studios so gun shy to feature him, until we've never gotten Hal in his prime (think Luke at the end of Mando S2). There are so many great stories, even going back to the Silver Age, that feature Hal. Along with his teamups with Ollie and Barry. Now, that's not to take away anything from John; not at all. But you don't have to diminish one generation's Lantern just to exalt another. 👊✳️

@normnormisson Just remember. These are the same people who were thrown off during Batman Begins with the correct portrayal of Joe Chill killing the Waynes and not Jack Napier/Joker.

"Johnathan originally dies from a heart attack." Completely wrong. No, he doesn't. This is from the Donner Superman movie. This is NOT "official canon" of #Superman. I getting sick and tired of these larpers and tourists trying to make up rules.

@MovieMantz Absolutely! My first issue was actually number 2 and I caught up through ordering the back issues. I wish it was still in publication!

When I was growing up, STARLOG MAGAZINE was where I got all my sci-fi, fantasy & horror movie and TV news and interviews! I absolutely could not wait to get it every month, and I still have all my early issues — Those were good times! Any other STARLOG fans out there?

@cynthiajadee Hi

deleting in 10 hours, but whoever likes & says hi, i’ll send a nudie in dm 🖤