COMIC BOOKS

On my world "Zack Snyder" means "It will be boring and stupid but I'll still watch it anyway for some reason".

• It was entertaining enough, but not very substantial. Once the new car smell wears off, this will be the one Avengers movie people skip. Remember "Of all the James Cameron movies, why is Avatar the highest grossing?"
• They wanted an emotionally resonant movie with very serious scenes, and time travel. Those two don't match. Time travel never really makes sense in a plot, which is fine for a fun Star Trek one-off, but a disaster when you try to do something serious. Time travel is also a lazy and boring way to write yourself out of a corner.
• The characters have long conversations about how they can't create alternate realities or change the past and they also kill 2014 Thanos, so how did the snap happen?
• Captain America's shield gets destroyed because they needed a scene with emotional resonance and it is fine a few minutes later because they needed emotional resonance. I can't believe the same people that made Infinity Wars made this. This is the 'Dark Knight Rises' of Marvel films.

• An article about Theodore de Bry, an extremely talented Netherlandish/Belgianish artist who did dozens of engravings of the New World without ever having been there.
• Every six months or so I find myself watching Bernie Mac's performance on Def Comedy Jam (NSFW). Even though the jokes aren't really that funny, it's one of the great stand up performances of all time.
• Hyper-negative ancient Sumerian creation myth (NSFW).
• Seanbaby spent what I imagine was hundreds of hours finding weird things in pre-code horror comic books (NSFWish).
• You might have seen a clickbaitish Youtube video or the like saying that 1+2+3... = -1/12. Here's an article dealing with a lot of the math around that in a pretty simple way, with a link to Terence Tao's more hardcore, scary, NSFW explanation at the end.
• A Bestiary of Single-File Implementations of Programming Languages.

• This is a pretty good movie, as long as you don't think about the plot for even one second.
• This was supposed to be some kind of comment on the Occupy Movement, but what was the message exactly? The Occupy Movement was mostly a big deal on slow news days and there wasn't really a lot to say about it. Now that Occupy has almost completely faded out of public memory, watching this movie just makes you go, "What the fuck is this supposed to be about?"
• Anne Hathaway and Tommy Solomon were the best part of this movie and Batman doesn't have a lot to do after getting his back broken. Instead of getting his back broken, Batman should have just died, and the rest of the movie should have been about Catwoman and Robin.

As good a superhero movie as the decade produced and a miracle of post-production. Its lustre has been pretty badly diminished by its horrible, horrible, horrible fans.

I liked it the first time. The second time, the new car smell had faded and it felt like it was hitting me over the head with the courage thing.

Not as consistently good as The Lego Movie, but a still a lot better than it has any right to be.