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Sunday, March 27, 2016 at 12:16AM The New Yorker pays tribute to Garry Shandling who passed away suddenly on Thursday
Salon remembers the polarizing response to David Lynch's Blue Velvet 30 years ago
Lee Pace Network they did a "posterized" of sorts on Lee Pace's filmography only with gifs - how many have you seen? I've only seen 7 but he sure is nice to look at
Washington Post fascinating story on Hollywood's latest beauty trend: expensive post-production digital retouching
Vulture interviews RuPaul
/Film so sad but HBO's Togetherness starring Mark Duplass and Melanie Lynskey has been cancelled.
Playbill awwww. Hairspray and Smash composer and 5 time Oscar nominee Marc Shaiman got married. Patti LuPone, Nathan Lane, Bette Midler, and Whoopi were guests!
Meta Humans
MTV Teo remembers Batman Returns "There is only one true Batman movie, one Batmovie to rule them all." Amen.
Comics Alliance Marvel & Disney join other companies planning to boycott business with the state of Georgia if the governor doesn't veto the recently passed anti-gay law
Vulture asks celebrities to pick Batman or Superman in a fight. Michael Shannon's, the former general Zod, answer is the greatest
Film Freak Central amazing free associative depressive review of BvS by Walter Chaw
Terry's Fabrics suggests you decorate your room w/ Batman or Superman accoutrements (to make sure you have nightmares about the movie lasting even longer?)
Comics Alliance thinks Wonder Woman's MVP status in the new film is not enough to justify the treatment of the other female characters
i09 you can explore Batman's lair using Google Street View.
YouTube LOL. Sad Affleck hearing about the Batman v Superman reviews
EW Warner Bros DC universe movies schedule through 2020
Today's Watch
Batman v Terminator from Captain McKay. A fun little stop motion short using actual action figures. And it fits with Easter's ressurection theme, kinda, too.
ICYMI
The Oscars channel on YouTube added a ton of clips and speeches from last month's ceremony a couple of days ago
Reader Comments (10)
ITA Nathaniel, Batman Returns is still the best Batman movie I've ever seen and I even prefer Batman Forever to the current state of joyless comic book films. Also, even though she's totally a lead in Batman Returns, I think Pfeiffer should have EASILY won Best Supporting Actress in 1992 given 1) there's been much worse category fraud 2) villains are almost always campaigned as supporting and 3) Marisa Tomei.
Sadfleck.... I wanna give Ben Affleck a hug as I think he's just going through a tough time now w/ his split with Jennifer Garner and the pressures in delivering a big hit for DC. Besides, I'm sure this isn't the worst thing he's done. The worst thing he done is Pearl Harbor.
Steph: There's been great movies with Batman's name or nickname in the title (Returns, The Dark Knight), but there's not really been a fully on-point film adaptation. (Let's take Batman Returns for an example: In an even close to on-point adaptation of Batman 5 things, 1. Everything about Penguin would become Killer Croc. 2. The Max Schreck stuff would be pretty much eliminated, because 3. This is so far off point that Catwoman's motivation is murder and mayhem. 4. Batman shouldn't kill people, especially not smiling about it (And, yes, that includes the central villain) and 5. Bad freaking costume, so stiff that it forces a near exclusive focus on gadgetry.) The closest, and best, adaptation is still the 90s Animated Series. ("Good night, humanitarian.")
10 of 18 re: Lee Pace's filmography. The Fall and Soldier's Girl are both immensely impressive, and Miss Pettigrew Lives For a Day is the kind of thing that I'm always delighted to watch when I remember it.
Lee Pace posterized: I've seen 9.
But there are at least a dozen movies where I've mentally recast Lee Pace in the role. I don't understand why he isn't at the top of every casting director's list. So gorgeous, so talented, so interesting.
Batman Returns meh. Just never really bought into the Burton-verse, especially the villains. Sorry.
Paul Outlaw: I can buy that. All of the Burton-Schumacher era villains are, in some way, BAD adaptations of those villains. Of the 7, four are let down by how massively inaccurate they portray core concepts (Riddler is mostly Mad Hatter and Hugo Strange in a blender and should have been one of those two, Penguin is Killer Croc, Two-Face flips his coin multiple times to get his result and Catwoman is motivated by murder and psychosis) and the other three (Joker, Freeze, Ivy) are at the core accurate, but they're still disappointing-bad versions of those characters.
Truth be told, Batman Returns is actually a Catwoman movie. And more importantly it's a Michelle Pfeiffer movie.
KL: It's only a Penguin/Catwoman movie in the sense that characters called that are onscreen. Definitely a DeVito/Pfeiffer movie, though.
Exactly, Volvagia.