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Big Eyes: By far the least "Tim Burton-y" film out of all Tim Burton films I've ever seen. Not a moment of black and white, as this movie's completely swimming in warm pink colors. I quite enjoyed it, but Christoph Waltz chews the scenery like it's his last meal. It works for the utter douchebag character he's playing, as you want to punch him more and more as the movie goes on. He has this perma-Jokerish smile on his face the entire time. Amy Adams did a great job, although she's also stuck on "about to cry" mode as an acting choice. None of the above kept be from enjoying the movie though.

Dunno if these count, but I now own the Batman Files, The Batman Visual History and The DC Comics Visual history, where except for the latter all were totally written by Matthew K. Manning. They're fantastic informative books. The Batman Files specifically is fun for continuity snobs, but the Visual Histories are some of the most informative works on the character since Les Daniels Complete Batman History that I've read. That or the Bat-Cave Companion, which was really good too.

I thought she was the best part of Don Jon.

Happy B-Day!

Moffat on Clara and her ego: https://www.nerdist.com/2014/12/steven-moffat-on-clara-becoming-the-doctor-in-series-8/

Very cool. Is there one like this out there?

In terms of the quoted usage of racial slurs, I'll say that when I first heard that in the Swing Kids discussion I thought to myself "Did he really just say that?". I had to remind myself that he was quoting a line from the movie. Whenever a white person throws out that word I (and most black ppl I know) have an immediately bad reaction to it, but I'm not one to ignore context when discussing things like that. I'm of the opinion that you can say virtually anything, you just have to mean something when you say it. I appreciated Pandy's hesitation of it.

Well I thought this was the best X-Mas episode to date. It was a legit mystery that brought with it some character stuff that kept me engaged. I really really enjoyed it.

¡Feliz Navidad!

My brother had never seen A Christmas Story before, so thankfully TNT was there to help him out and we watched that, followed by 15 minutes of the sequel which was on the CMT channel for some reason before he turned the TV off in disgust.

Yeah, in the collection I read it has the original outline where Batman's possessed by Parallax, is confronted by Nightwing, Jim Gordon, Robin and the League, shoots Robin with a gun and is talked down by Hal. That would have been sooooo over-the-top, and the story, while very entertaining, is fan-fic-ish enough as it is.

Just finished Green Lantern: Rebirth from start to end for the first time. It's kind of hilarious how clearly anti-Batman Johns comes off in that book. Like, he's the Roger Klotz to Hal's Doug Funnie. I've never read a comic so blatantly against a character.

Would the whole "This guy Spock here is clearly Chinese" routine be a form of casual racism? Not sure myself...

I'm not crazy about the mask, but it's a step in the right direction. Like this and Batgirl have taken cues from the animated Static costumes where regular clothes found around the house could pass as costumes, which is a concept I've always liked.

Horrible news. One of the best artists of the last 30 years and one of the greatest Batman co-creators of all time. Hope he gets better soon.

I'd go for Ken Watanabe personally.Freeman would be LULZ inducing. Also nominating Daniel Dae Kim for Wong.

His whole overwrought "PETER PARKER GETS FIRED!!!" storyline made me drop ASM for the third time after OMD, and his Black Cat/Daredevil crossover after Spider-Island was utterly deplorable. I'm not a fan of bitching out Spider-Man to make other characters look good, especially if those characters are supposed to be his friends.

By hiring a 52 year old man to write teenagers. MARK WAID CAN WRITE WHATEVER HE WANTS Except Spider-Man, as he proved during BND and after Spider Island.

I remember that, which made me surprised when this news came out. But I'm excited now, it keeps the Craig continuity solid.

That's it. Fuck EVERYTHING THAT'S NOT THIS SHOW. Cuz this show is awesome

I hope to hear you guys get into the back story of that episode on the next Edge of Forever as I'm aware it has a back story (but thus far haven't gotten around to reading about it), but I've seen that comic at my shop and the cover art at least is gorgeous.

Maybe since they'll have the original Flash show exist in a different universe, and Hamill's Trickster has crossed over.