Bateman's Replies


... Because of <i>course</i> she is. Hideo, on the other hand, will be played by a <i>Korean</i>-American actor, because who can tell all them Asians apart anyway, amirite? Intentionally confusing and obtuse, you say...? Well, off the top of my head: Tracks (1976) Synecdoche, New York (2008) Mr. Nobody (2009) Strange Factories (2013) Mad Max 2 aka The Road Warrior (1981). It's probably my absolute favorite piece of <i>fiction</i>, full stop, so it's kind of a no-brainer. Sid and Nancy (1986). Pretty good, even though I was never much of a Sex Pistols fan. I've been a massive fan of video game music ever since the time of the NES, so this is one of those topics I could not only go on about forever, but also couldn't really pick a single favorite and stick with that choice for more than 5 minutes. That said, if I were to choose one right now, I suppose I'd go with this absolute banger: Guardian Heroes (Sega Saturn, 1996) - Rough and Ready https://youtu.be/S8JUgO1f4jU?si=rntLcGZEtmqdg5BN Too long ago for me to remember with any certainty, but I think it was Cowboy Bebop: The Movie. I still got it, though. I used to like them a lot back in the mid-to-late 90's. Haven't really listened to them in ages, though. Having heard of this guy for the first time now... yeah, goes beyond simply being a dickhead; that's just straight up severe mental illness, with a generous side helping of suicidal tendencies. He should be locked up in a padded cell, for his and everyone else's sake. I've <i>detested</i> them with a <i>burning passion</i> from the very first time I heard them. I sighed in utter unmitigated relief the moment the mid 90s rolled on and I was thankfully spared being subjected to their so-called "music" day in and day out. I'd die a happy man if I never had to listen to a single second of their insufferable self-important <i>whiny</i> shit ever again. I'd probably do a loose adaptation of Bruce Timm's and Paul Dini's Mad Love, just as the first was clearly inspired by Alan Moore's and Brian Bolland's The Killing Joke. Essentially, Harley as Arthur/Joker's Arkham-appointed therapist, well meaning but woefully unprepared, finding herself seeing things his way more and more as nothing goes right in her personal life, until she became Harley Quinn and broke him out, and they rode off into the sunset in a sort of twisted codependent "happy ending". It'd probably turn into more of a Harley Quinn movie than a Joker one, I suppose, but then I really don't think there's much more that could be done with the character without bringing Batman into it. Rien d'autre que c'est le nom populaire de ce phénomène, je crois; comme "schadenfreude," par example. I actually thought that was the only clever bit of writing in this whole disaster - Joker 2, "madness of two." Beat me to it. Adam Sandler Will Ferrell So he made a movie for "weirdos" and it made over a billion dollars on a shoestring budget, but when he came back to denounce those same "weirdos," the entire thing turns into a huge box office disaster? ...Yeeeah, maybe it's just me, but I'm fairly certain it isn't fans of the first film who got egg on their faces right now. ...Seriously, now? You mean to tell me neither she, nor anyone else for that matter, at any point thought making a <i>musical</i> was a bad idea for a sequel to a film whose target audience was fans of 70's and 80's Scorsese and/or comics? Same here. Well, I might actually watch it, but I don't care about spoilers and read it too. I gotta say, I think it sounds pretty stupid. So now the first film is retroactively about some guy who was in fact <i>not</i> the Joker... and therefore, a huge bait-and-switch as well as a waste of everyone's time? Bold strategy there, Phillips. Alan Moore's Jerusalem; it's 1266 pages long. I mean... it's a fairly straightforward sci-fi story about human evolution having been kickstarted by an alien species, and humanity's first contact with it. Like with pretty much all art films, it seems to me people have this weird tendency to try and read way too much into it. This entire show is written by people who think they can write Tolkien better than the man himself. In the <i>actual</i> lore, the Three were created by Celebrimbor alone; Sauron didn't even know they existed until he created and put on the One. Summerfield (1977) To be honest, I was kinda expecting a bit more. Very nicely acted, shot and directed, but the twist was so obvious I thought it was supposed to be implicit all along.