Ten-Word Review

Tim Blair brings us more insanity in US colleges…
http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/blogs/tim-blair/caution-speech-ahead/news-story/def763c48367c2d9dba0d271ef619ae0

The apparent popularity of Saturday Night Live is utterly inexplicable.
That show hasn’t been good since the nineties…
I’d almost say seventies. In the eighties we used to marvel that it was still on and wondered what goods Lorne Michaels might have had on NBC execs.

As far as Benny Hill, for all the complaints of Ohmighod!!!! He’s so crude and disgusting!!!!!!
Thanks for those clips. Benny was immensely talented, just one of the many casualties in the 1980s of ‘alternative comedy’, a movement mainly of university-educated finger-waggers who descended uninvited to hector the British public out of their sexism and racism. There were an awful lot of babies thrown out with the bathwater, and very little of what replaced it deserved to be there on merit. This was an age when several rather successful comedians’ stand-up routines revolved around screeching ‘Thatcher!’ or ‘I hate men!’

I have to say, I’m not much of a fan of superhero films. I quite liked the first Spiderman with Toby Maguire and Batman Begins wasn’t bad, and I did enjoy Ironman II in the cinema, but otherwise I find them rather silly. The early Batmans I found silly, and when I watched The Dark Knight only yesterday evening, I found it rather childish and silly. I’ve seen most of the superhero films and I find them dull as hell: a flat storyline with special effects which mean nothing. I reckon they should make a film of Bananaman, then quit altogether.

Have a pickled egg.
What will it turn me into?

The early Batmans I found silly, . . .
A friend and I strolled out of the first post ’60s attempt at a movie of The Batman, with very definite assessments that we could do better blindfolded and with an arm tied behind us. My impression of what’s followed is that nothing ever got better, or even tried.
My read is that the HollywoodIsh types keep going with We Are To Be Seen Creating Great Cinema, cue echoes there, and, ah, No. The Batman can wind up getting called Great Cinema, and I expect someone will get it done, but only while realizing and showing the basic and unchanging bit of A Mystery Being Solved By A Detective . . . . The Batman is basically and no more than Phillip Marlowe meets Hercule Poirot, without the scotch or the mustache. The bit about the billionaire doing the funding merely allows the detective to keep disappearing into the shadows.

Oh, don’t fuss. There’s a crash cart on stand-by.
Another British expression I had to look up to confirm my suspicions of its meaning:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crash_cart

The fact that there can be a post and multiple comments, from people who can read and compose coherent sentences, about a cgi infested movie derived from a comic book, a fucking jesus h fucking christ comic book, amply demonstrates that western civ is doomed.
I am beginning to hope the muslims win.
Let it fucking burn.

The fact that there can be a post and multiple comments, from people who can read and compose coherent sentences, about a cgi infested movie derived from a comic book, a fucking jesus h fucking christ comic book, amply demonstrates that western civ is doomed.
a) It seems you haven’t paid much attention to everything else on the site;
b) Lighten up, Francis.

I enjoyed Battleship
First world problem I know, but I’m trying to think of something that’s disappointed me more this year and I’m really struggling
That includes the recorder scene in Alien: Whatever
I’m certainly going to remember this day when you next post a film review

I’m certainly going to remember this day when you next post a film review
Heh. I’m complicated, alright?

an aggregate of what DC Comics published for years on end
My point is rather that 1) It’s not possible to film an “aggregrate” of what DC comics published for years on end because the character is fundamentally, qualitatively different depending on who’s writing him, what book he appears in, and what decade it is; and b) the movies have already been remaining fairly faithful to specific visions of the character at specific points in the publishing history.
a cgi infested movie derived from a comic book
Comic books – well, comic book movies – are a multi-billion dollar global industry. How and why that happened, and how and why it’s currently failing, says some rather interesting things about the economy, the zeitgeist, and the politics of entertainment. One could say the same thing about Harry Potter and Star Wars.

Fixed.
[ Points to jar of pickled eggs. ]

While I’m on the subject: Is this guy a first offender or a repeat offender? If the latter, perhaps some time in a Correction Booth would be appropriate.