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Don't worry man, someday they will cover MK Annihilation.

This might be the case because even the smallest bump in the road caused those bikes to soar 10 to 15 feet into the air.

Hold the phone, Quigley Down Under is an underrated classic of a Meatpie Western. All three leads give great performances and it's unfortunate that it wasn't a bigger hit.

I had to rewind to watch that because it legit looked like the kid barely dodged the elbow that Remar seemed to throw on an improvisational whim.

Entrapment needs to be covered solely for the last 5 minutes being twist after twist after twist.

As a librarian I can tell you that yes, we they all have a section like that, usually hidden in the area where they have the minutes from city council meetings.

Sorry I didn't even read the words you wrote before I saw that pic and noticed the bronze dong in front of Billy Zane's face. As for this movie I didn't really think it was that bad for what they were trying to do. I still wonder why all of a sudden Catherine Zeta-Jones is suddenly a good guy and what powers was Treat Williams expecting to gain with the three skulls outside of a laser beam, because he is easily defeated by the Phantom's ring at the end?

Never said that you were comparing Jokers, just that it was a big issue for many of the reviews that I read, sort of like what happened when Heath Ledger was announced for the Dark Knight. As for his New 52 portrayal he is abusive, definitely and I'm not saying it's right or anything, it's just made to seem more of an underlying thing in the film rather than how it's always been portrayed in comics and cartoons as an overt part of the relationship. At least with the New 52 Harley is shown finally breaking through the abuse Joker has put her through, though it is a very long and hard road for her, she's still dealing with it as of the most recent volume of Suicide Squad.

Looking into this a bit, I see that filming started only last year, which is shocking as I thought this was filmed years ago and only released to cash in on the resurgence in popularity of Spacey over the past couple years. What kind of blackmail material did they have on Spacey for him to do this?

Also another couple recommendations for comics for people come from Mark Millar and are more emotionally satistfying than is action forward stories like Kick-Ass and Nemesis. Superior is a great story about a kid with MS who is granted a wish to become his favorite movie superhero while the Jupiter Circle and Legacy books are great stories about how modern superheroes came to existence but then decided to take the world for themselves. Lastly, his newest book, Huck is a great story about a gas station worker with incredible abilities who goes about doing at least one good deed, no matter how small or big, each day, and the people who try to harness his abilities once he is discovered by the masses. All really focus on Millar's ability to create emotional connections with the characters and build upon that, rather than just making giant set piece fights.

Why, it's nowhere near as bad as better candidates like Elektra or the recent Fantastic Four. While it's main problem is what has plagued other DC movies in that they expect their audience to know the source material, the characters are portrayed very well by the actors chosen, who outside of Cara Delevinge as Enchantress who was just kinda awkward and for the majority of the movie. And while people will say Jared Leto's Joker is weak, I actually really enjoyed the portrayal, for how limited in the film it was. The problem is people compare each performance of the Joker to another, which really doesn't work as it's like trying to compare the various generations of Batman films to one another, they each have different approaches based on the works that they are adapting. This version of the Joker works perfectly in this world as it pulls from the Joker graphic novel and the more recent iteration in the New 52 of DC comics.

Am I the only one to notice the center of that grill is a giant dong?

Hawkeye is great up until Jeff Lemire takes over for volume 5 and 6, which are kinda ridiculous with a bouncing between current time and future, and for some reason Lemire can't really bring the great emotion that Fraction could into Hawkeye, which is odd as he can usually create great emotional connections with characters, Sweet Tooth being the prime example. The Wicked + The Divine and Sex Criminals are two of my favorite titles from Image, another great one is Southern Bastards by Jason Aaron, which is a gritty southern version of Breaking Bad mixed with Walking Tall and has maybe one of the most shocking conclusions of an opening volume that I've ever read. Some other series that I would recommend No Mercy by Alex de Campi concerning a bus of kids on a school trip in South America that goes off a cliff and how the various students interact with their situations that the know about and the ones being hidden from them. Nailbiter by Joshua Williamson is a great mix of Twin Peaks and Silence of the Lambs about a town that has had sixteen serial killers born there, The Woods by James Tynion is a sci-fi fantasy story about a school that gets teleported to a strange planet, and Unfollow by Rob Williams is a type of Battle Royale set in a social media environment. As for print books I cannot recommend John Niven highly enough after reading his books Kill Your Friends and The Amateurs, which have a dark sense of humor mixed with grittiness and pop culture, kind of a Scottish Brett Easton Ellis or Chuck Palahnuik. They made a great movie based on Kill Your Friends starring Nicholas Hoult which is currently free on Amazon Prime.

DING DING DING. I get that the first XXX was kind of the template for what the later Fast & Furious movies, but it still wasn't really good. Now that F&F has become a huge series they are trying to grab some of that lightning for this shitty series.

There have been a lot of versions of that over the years, but the one that they did in the last edition of Suicide Squad was really good because it was shown to the reader using Harley's internal voice. Basically it's her first day/week in Arkham and she is assigned the Joker as everyone before her has either gone crazy themselves or tried to commit suicide. It starts normal for her where she is being analytical with him, trying to solve the enigma that he is. Eventually she starts getting obsessed with him and is called out on it by the lead physician, who Harley attacks once she realizes that the doctor is stealing her notes and work in order to write a book of her own. Harley then helps Joker escape and is later tossed into a vat of chemicals that bleaches her skin and alters her hair, completing her transformation as a follower of the Joker. There was another great short that was a part of the Batman: Black & White anthology series where an Arkham doctor finds an old report that goes into great detail about the Joker's past and the things he did leading up to becoming who he currently is. Unfortunately Harley is escorted by and sees the report, telling the doctor that she wrote it years ago while studying him, thus making it unreliable for scientific study as it was written by a person who was in love with the subject and suffering mental issues of her own, thus another prank done by-proxy for the Joker.

The only real crazy things to talk about happen in the first 10 minutes and last five which are Finn riding a car off of the Stratosphere casino and then sailing on a flood using one of the ships from Treasure Island, and then Tara Reid being able to fly and shoot lasers out of her hand. Everything is kinda meh.

I'd actually watch that, especially if the 'nado had a bad comb-over and mustache. The whole red curtain in the middle of the casino floor was just weird and made him look really pitiful, I wouldn't have been surprised if there was a hat at his feet where people could toss their change.

Oh and for those looking for something unique and great on Netflix, The Tribe was recently put on and so far what I've watched is amazing. It's completely silent in that all characters speak to each other in Ukranian Sign Language and there are no subtitles, so you have to follow ever closer to get an understanding of what's happening. Some things I could catch onto as there are similarities to ASL but for the most part it's a totally visual experience that's engrossing, especially the dark subject matter of the film.

So was The Phantom not doing well at the box office the reason Billy Zane was relegated to being a character actor? This came out a year after he starred in Demon Knight which also tanked, and I just wonder because Zane is actually really good in this along with Treat Williams, who also fell into character actor territory. If he had decided to do a superhero movie in the last decade he would have been a perfect fit because he is JACKED in this movie. Also, why does Catherine Zeta Jones all of a sudden become akin to an evil gossip journalist in the middle of the movie? When Kristy Swanson and Zane are captured in the museum and taken to Drax's office, she pops out of nowhere to deliver a hot scoop about how Swanson is in love with The Phantom. And why did she suddenly turn good at the end of the movie?

I'm thinking/hoping that the fifth will be the last, because it's clear that they are now beating this dead horse with its own legs.

This series now reminds me of an old episode of Rocko's Modern Life where the main characters get hired by their neighbor's son to help create new episodes for his cartoon The Fatheads. The son hopes that with their lack of experience would send the show's ratings downward so he could get out of his contract with the studio, but each episode they do gets higher and higher ratings, namely one which is just a static shot of a jar of mayo which gets rave critical reviews for being artistic. It's only when the son starts trying to make a good show he can be proud of that the show tanks and he's let go to pursue his other dreams. I think Asylum and Thunder Levin made the first movie thinking "oh well it's SyFy, they paid us and we gave them this shitty movie." Then all of a sudden it's got over 80% on Rotten Tomatoes, rave reviews from viewers and various celebrities, and unbelievably high ratings. The sequel happens and its more of the same, so they are now stuck having to make a third. Again, a bigger budget, but now they are trying to sabotage the movie with countless cameos and product placement. Same result of strong ratings and viewer response. Now the fourth movie is basically bad puns followed by nods to Star Wars and so many cameos you lose count, I honestly will not be surprised if the fifth movie is just a single shot of Ian Ziering flipping off the camera.

Yeah it's really bad when the cameo list is actually longer than your cast list.

So serious question, has Billy Zane had a stroke or really bad plastic surgery? Because I saw him recently in Zoolander 2 and he looks nothing like he did from even the first Zoolander. Either way I feel bad for him.

James Remar has three appearances: Judge Dredd, The Quest, and The Phantom.

Wow couldn't even spring for Grease 1 references?