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Fresherpie, The Shadow can cloud other people's minds and can see the evil in their hearts, but can he also read their minds/thoughts? For some reason, this wasn't clear to me.

Oops, my mind immediately went to his physical appearance when you mentioned attractiveness. Priorities.

The shape reminds me of the Manhattan Bridge.

Dr. Tam does a "metal analysis" and determines that Khan's coin was made of "bronzium." He stares at it in wonder and claims "I didn't think it existed, but my God, here it is." Sorry, Dr, but bronzium is just the Medieval Latin for bronze, one of the most oldest and widespread metal alloys known to man - the bronze age, ever heard of it? Then he goes into how bronzium can be used to produce a weapon. What follows is just random words thrown together. He says "supposedly it is very unstable on the molecular level..only the cell bonds hold it in check...if the power of the cell were to turn on itself in an implosion...then you'll have an explosion." If anyone can make sense of that explanation or the blackboard diagram, please let me know. The problem is, bronze is rather stable. Look at all the bronze statues around. They won't be imploding/exploding any time soon no matter how much beryllium you throw at them. Also, Dr. Tam keeps mixing up "molecules" and "cells." Metals are inert non-living things and thus they don't have cells. I feel bad for Dr. Lane, who probably toiled for years on this project, while Dr. Tam talks it out over 2 minutes and figures it out. Who knew all it took was a little bit of bronze.

Just one more post about this. The Shadow doesn't have any guarantees that the people he rescues will accept the ring and become a Shadow Bro or change their minds later though. If a superhero offered me a chance to be included in his gang, I'm not sure that I would jump at that chance. I dunno...he cleaned up nicely. How much more attractive does he need to be? Was he clouding my mind with formal wear?

Isn't this the same motive for a lot of other heroes/superheros though? Don't destroy Earth, I keep my stuff there. At least The Shadow didn't abuse his powers to pull a Mel Gibson from "What Women Want" to manipulate women into sleeping with him? My hero!

Er, didn't he prevent Shiwan Khan from conquering the world?

Let's give Patty Jenkins a chance.

Yet he had a problem with Batman branding criminals. Some lives are worth more than others, I guess? That made no sense. I think they tried to make Alfred more like JARVIS.

For example, there's a scene where Lois is taking a bath and Clark comes into the bathroom carrying a large bag of groceries. Who does this? Put down the damn bag and at least put the ice cream in the freezer before wandering around the house looking for Lois.

#firstworldmillproblems

Isn't his costume basically a coat, hat, and scarf? Doesn't seem too hard. Carmen Sandiego does it all the time. I don't think Lamont uses a prosthetic nose. He makes himself appear that way to others using his powers like Quasar said. Why are Lamont's fingernails so fucked up in the opening? Is that a side effect of opium abuse? Thank goodness there were no close-ups of his toes. The scrolling text in the beginning says there's only one thing he can never hide - his Shadow. Can't he just duck into a shaded spot?

EllenM, did you catch June's comment how someone Jessie's age shouldn't have hair that long in the Mannequin ep? And then Casey said she went to the Ghostbusters premier with June and Paul. If I could wedge PFT in there somehow, I'd be so happy.

How 'bout now?

Nooo, I don't want women to be discouraged from being ghostbusters. The question popped into my mind from struggling with romper issues over the weekend.

DID YOU KNOW that some competitors pee on their bikes during Ironman? Every second counts, man. Thank you for subscribing to pee facts.

Not sure if this is the appropriate place to post this, but since there's been some discussion about the Ghostbusters movie here, I was wondering if anyone else had a concern with the functionality of the uniforms? I think the new uniforms look cool, but I feel like nobody took into consideration how the ladies would pee in these, especially with a proton pack belted on. The women have to undo the belt, place the proton pack on the dirty bathroom floor (ew), unbutton/unzip the uniform all the way, and take off the tops. Who has time for this when they're about to bust some ghosts? Separates would have been the way to go. ETA: I haven't seen the film yet.

Crimson Peak nailed what I thought a Guillermo del Toro gothic thriller would look like, so at least there's that.

I'm so pumped. Ip Man in Space! Hope he's also doing the fight choreography.

Uh, Germantown is still Philadelphia. Awkward.

Oops, I didn't see that, but I'm kind of glad I didn't. I don't think the new Ghostbusters counts as a role reversal movie anyway. Those are more like Vice Versa, Freaky Friday, 18 Again!, or Just One of the Guys. People who write off the new Ghostbusters before they even see it will get the side eye from me. If your precious childhood was able to survive the TMNT reboot, then I think you'll be fine.

And yet nobody bats an eye when a reboot of Mannequin with a male mannequin is proposed.

Aw, I should've asked if that was in the script or if you came up with it.

It's kind of different when you can see who the stranger is compared to say, using a sample lipstick at a department store that countless unknown people have used. I think this trope of strangers/acquaintances lending cosmetics is not that uncommon TBH. One that comes to mind immediately for me is The Breakfast Club where towards the end,* Claire (Molly Ringwald) gives Allison (Ally Sheedy) a makeover. That was totally Claire's makeup, right? I guess they're not total strangers, but they only really met that day. *Hopefully a spoiler tag was unnecessary; if you haven't seen this movie by now, may God have mercy on you.

If I understand correctly, Hollywood's assistant was fired for what, dropping a bunch of mannequin parts on the floor, thereby not following the rule "make a show place at the work place." Maybe Jason's new job as the assistant was making sure no random mannequin parts are accidentally thrown around on the floor? I really didn't see him doing anything else at work.