Tweets o' the Week: Batman Returns, Last Christmas, and More

Good morning! It's just three days until Christmas. THREE! To note that I am unprepared is to state, shrugging, 'he thinks movies are alright'

I mean we haven't even started the Year in Review! Rectifying. Rectifying.

This is the kind of time frame wherein you need little friendly woodland animals to be doing all your busy work so that you can focus on the important things like Going to the Ball. I illustrate twitter collections with a picture of birds and today Cinderella seemed natural since Into the Woods is soon upon us. I hadn't really thought about this before but Cinderella is supposed to have this miserable indentured servant life but look at that view from her bedroom window!  Talk about a room with a view... that's prime real estate. Shouldn't she be sleeping in the cellar or something? 

Herewith some tweets that amused, edified, or otherwise cocked a brow this past week for a variety of reasons, posted to get this week chirping away quickly, happily. Enjoy.

(SO MUCH POSTING DUE THROUGH NEW YEAR'S. BEAR WITH US... VISIT A LOT, OKAY?)

Fav Tweets Non-Celebrity Division...

"Oh Mommy, Mommy!! Lizzy and Jane are going to the Golden Globes ball!" screamed Kitty. pic.twitter.com/TQ9SM5BipY

— Awya (@awya) December 13, 2014

The Hobbit movies are immensely popular, though no one I know likes them or talks about them. The Hobbit is the NCIS of movie franchises.

— Mike Ryan (@mikeryan) December 21, 2014

"What'd you do today?" "Um you know...generally just...monitored opinions on Twitter and, like, interjected." "Did you go out?" [Hangs head]

— Mark Harris (@MarkHarrisNYC) December 15, 2014

Sadly that tweet describes so many ill advised days o' mine! Moving on with GHOST, BATMAN RETURNS after the jump...

Shame because he'd have made a great Wonder Woman. MT @THR Jon Hamm Says He Made "Right Choice" in Turning Down Superhero Roles

— Ali Arikan (@aliarikan) December 15, 2014

I want an oral history of the @peeweeherman Christmas Special pic.twitter.com/mdBvLwQwD2

— Seth Abramovitch (@SethAbramovitch) December 21, 2014

A lot of people are gonna feel really dumb when it turns out that in fact it ISN'T what it is.

— Amanda Guinzburg (@Guinz) December 19, 2014

@KermodeMovie Fantastic! pic.twitter.com/PlA5d8wbQD

— Paul McCormack (@paulymac4u) December 15, 2014

 

"The last time I was at the Ziegfeld, I was a publicist on the red carpet." -- Ava DuVernay at N.Y. premiere of SELMA pic.twitter.com/wzcq8nW3uf

— Justin Chang (@JustinCChang) December 14, 2014

a widow receives scheduled tweets from her husband for several years after his death in… #ILoveYou. (dir. Brett Ratner. 2015. R. 148mins)

— david ehrlich (@davidehrlich) December 21, 2014

Fave Tweets, Positing That Batman Returns is Tim Burton's Finest Film and a Christmas Classic Division
This is a niche division but Walter Chaw is working it and it is beautiful.

Observe... 

BATMAN RETURNS. Hands down the best comic book movie ever made. It's also a master's study in loneliness and isolation and despair.

— Walter Chaw (@mangiotto) December 22, 2014

The way Keaton sells "I mistook me for somebody else" is devastating.I genuinely hope he doesn't resent his time as Batman - he was awesome.

— Walter Chaw (@mangiotto) December 22, 2014

BATMAN RETURNS looks like a Fritz Lang film and has a character named Max Schrek. Innocents die. Children are snatched. Catwoman's a zombie.

— Walter Chaw (@mangiotto) December 22, 2014

The Catwoman creation sequence, from the "flicker" edit of her death to the cats to the "hell here" to the "yummier"; not much ever better.

— Walter Chaw (@mangiotto) December 22, 2014

Fave Tweets, Celebrity Division
kicking off with Xavier Dolan's foreign language finalist subtweet...

Um..

— Xavier Dolan (@XDolan) December 19, 2014

This old fight again https://t.co/bwLubBLwap

— Jason Ritter (@JasonRitter) December 19, 2014

While watching WILD my Dad leaned over after about an hour and said, "Hey that's the gal from Legally Blonde".

— Jack Falahee (@RestingPlatypus) December 22, 2014

 

There is a lady at the gym watching Ghost and crying and everyone is looking at her and I wish they would just LEAVE ME ALONE!

— Laura Benanti (@LauraBenanti) December 20, 2014

Today my agent called me Janet.

— Jennifer Ehle (@jennifer_ehle) December 11, 2014

When 13, my Dad threatened to disown me for being an idiot if I didn't like the following 3 films: Heathers, Big Lebowski, & Dr Strangelove

— Megan Ellison (@meganeellison) December 16, 2014

It's official apollo13 is in my top five favorite of all time movies.

— Kristin Chenoweth (@KChenoweth) December 15, 2014

 

Finally a few from our team members. Have a great week. (And also... you know visit a lot. MERRY HOLIDAYS!)

"On second thought, thanks for leaving us out of this." - racially appropriate actors after seeing EXODUS

— Michael Cusumano (@SeriousFilm) December 12, 2014

Fun fact: A ROOM WITH A VIEW, nominated for 8 Oscars, went out “unrated” in the US because of the male nudity. MPAA no like the peen

— Nathaniel Rogers (@nathanielr) December 18, 2014

Imitation Game's "Sometimes it is the people no one imagines" is this year's "Argo fuck yourself" in that I NEVER want to hear it said again

— Matthew Eng (@Eng_Matthew) December 20, 2014

Oh my god FRENCH ACTRESSES amirite???

— Jason Adams (@JAMNPP) December 22, 2014

"Who out there could love you more than I?” - Sondheim’s fans, constantly, to one another.

— Manuel (@bmanuel) December 17, 2014

Here's every time @SJP won a Golden Globe for #SexandtheCity #becausewhynot pic.twitter.com/4yTX9DAwYE

— Jose Solís (@josekicksass) December 21, 2014

Comments

[Seisgrados]

Yeah, very funny stuff… but where's your Into the woods review? ;)

[Hayden W.]

The great thing about a fringe/premature nomination like Knightley's for Pride and Prejudice is that she has one in the bank. I mean, think about it: She'll be a two-time Oscar nominee this year, which sounds about right given the quality of work she's given over the last 10 years.

The two might not be for her most outstanding performances, but that even highlights how gifted and challenging she is as an actress. Compare that to someone who gets nominated for everything (Guess who?) and she has a much more interesting career.

Also, can't we already call the season's red carpet game for Keira Knightley? Can't wait to see what she wears.

[Amanda]

Hayden she's pregnant. Her red carpet maternity Style will be to die for.

[Henry]

I love Grace Jones. What an original.

[kermit_the_frog]

I think that what makes Keira and her work so exciting and challenging is that she is NOT especially gifted. Her talent has been honed through hard work and attempting to justify the unwarranted early attention she received.

Well done Keira.

[Volvagia]

Nat: I somehow love Batman Returns, in spite of also understanding that, outside of the visual, both of Burton's second Batman movie is in name only for the characters being supposedly used. (Batman kills, Catwoman zombie, Killer Crocquin.) So I'm in the weird camp of loving it, but ALSO pretty much agreeing completely with the "Batman shouldn't kill" complaints. I also love the first two parts of Nolan's Batman trilogy, but they're just as far from even pragmatic adaptations as Burton's, but with different parts (In Nolan's case, the TOTAL abandonment of even relatively slight fantastical elements, with even The Joker being a perma clown as too goofy), lacking. Personal view, which I've said before: In the next solo Batman launch, they should bite the bullet on the idea of the kids as kids AND probably go hyper fantastical with 15 foot tall Killer Croc as their Rogues Gallery villain. Chomp!