Odd, Rob is trying to tell me that Crystal Skull is better than my eyes told me. Sorry Rob, going with my eyes, I've known them longer.

And I gave Dark Shadows a shot on a couple of weeks back. I wasn't able to watch the whole thing but what I saw was delightfully campy in its over the top presentation. It may not have been a comercial success but Depp has been in much worse- like some of the later Pirates movies.

 Eh, the comics have long since stopped trying to pretend all the continuity there actually fits over the 50 years or so, so whatever. Give me an entertaining movie and I'll treat it like a one off, Much like there are what, half a dozen X-Men cartoons or so? 

Would continuity be nice? Yep. Is it make or break for me, no as even a movie with complete continuity can suck totally (at least 1/2 the Star Trek movies for example and the Star Wars prequels were mostly in continuity with themselves- though not the "original" trilogy- and they were some of the worst pieces of cinimatic excess and egotistical masturbation seen in decades as Hollywood largely has stopped giving directors that much power to destroy pictures with manic flights of nonesense.

Largely anyway.

 Joker looks good here but some of the other figures in the line (other than Penguin from what I've seen) have that chest joint thing and I really have never found it to be useful for posing and it just detracts from the figures themselves.

 Yeah, the "most creative people in the world" are showing us their originality and brillance by coming up with new ideas.

Again

 Plus side they can do a two for one and probably destroy all the condemed buildings they like and Detroit gets to save on tearing them down before they collapse.

Did anyone 25 years ago think Robocop would actually be a roseier picture of Detroit than reality?

And seriously, plot? Why bother now? I know Dark of the Moon was almost good but beyond that the films have all been visually special but nothing really worthwhile beyond that.

 Amazing the sadness that can come from knowing that someone you never met or even talked with is now gone and that you'll never see them post again. But hearing of the family left behind is even more heartwrenching. My heart goes out to them and I hope they find what they need at this time.

And to Jakester all I can say is a bit of a twist on the 4th Hitchikers book- 

So Long, and Thanks for All the Fun Times.

 AGDTDH felt like a movie that either was trying to go Indian Jones and the Last Crusade or which had been written as something else and just forced into Die Hard. Mindless over the top action and even the characters seemed dumb- seriously, who in the theater didn't see what was going to happen when the helicopter took off and McClane was still on the top floor of the hotel and yet they tried to sell it like the characters who'd just seen through a major plot thing couldn't figure that out in advance.

Also went to see Silver Linings Playbook, nice feel good movie that had some predictable parts and some parts that were underdeveloped for what they set up but it was very sweet and feel good.

 Metroplex might just drag me back into my Transformers addiction...

-Violator14 Actually look up some of those critics reviews that films pull tag lines off from sometime. I had one film I watched recently that was so bad I wondered how the hell they had the two splash quotes on it and then found they cherry picked them carefully out of some not flattering reviews. I imagine almost any reviewer who gets quoted for promotional copy a couple of times will likely have at least one quote pulled out that makes them scratch their head and feel like the audience is going to be mislead.

And Rob- lol at "Springtime for Hitler". I actually had that part flash through my head while watching a different movie last week that was so bad I thought they must have intended to do that. 

This is where I wait to see if they are going to have an unrated version as that really made the difference in 4, which I like better than 3 (which I finally find tolerable after not seeing it for a decade and a half since it hit theaters, but still don't love). 

*heresy ahead* Hopefully this one won't have Kevin Smith just chewing up scenery in it though. :P