When does a mistakenly held belief become a delusion? What's the official definition?

When one clings to it despite being exposed to much evidence to the contrary? (Just a guess.)

Roger Ebert's conclusion on his review of The Village:

Eventually the secret of Those, etc., is revealed. To call it an anticlimax would be an insult not only to climaxes but to prefixes. It's a crummy secret, about one step up the ladder of narrative originality from It Was All a Dream. It's so witless, in fact, that when we do discover the secret, we want to rewind the film so we don't know the secret anymore.

And then keep on rewinding, and rewinding, until we're back at the beginning, and can get up from our seats and walk backward out of the theater and go down the up escalator and watch the money spring from the cash register into our pockets.

Heh. Is it so wrong that this is making me want to see the movie even more?

You know, I really wanna see it now. I just don't wanna pay $9.50. Or even $4.50 matinee prices. I just hope it comes to a cheapo theater.

To call it an anticlimax would be an insult not only to climaxes but to prefixes.

Cute. And funny.

The preview they showed on the news this morning made we wanna see it too. Poor Sigourney.

edit: I just went to imdb. A big red slash appeared across my screen. Stupid ad for the movie.

You know, I really wanna see it now. I just don't wanna pay $9.50. Or even $4.50 matinee prices. I just hope it comes to a cheapo theater.

The way the reviews are going, it would be a good shot for a revived MST3K.

I checked out reviews on Google News---and some people are giving really positive reviews.

Obviously they are suffering from Insane Troll Logic.

The Insane Troll Logic that escapes me is: If you live in a forest with potential hunters (lawn mowers) in the vicinity, wouldn't wearing red be a good thing?

I can see "never wear the ancient camouflage color. it equals danger."

Rotten Tomatoes is currently at 44%.

Oooh, one of those reviews used the phrase "high-camp." It also used the phrase "may be the year's worst film."

The Village is a sure-fire DVD mockfest, I think.

He has his share of hallucinations, but probably no more than any other hero in the DCverse.

I'd venture that there have been more cases with Bruce with no known external cause than there have been with the other hero types, because Bats lends himself to weird little stories that are *just* Bruce and Batman arguing over the importance of Batman, or just young Bruce down in a cave talking to some random Thing about when the time will be right for him to give himself over to it.

In pre-sidekick canon, he doesn't form many close relationships, and those he does form are with people who serve his needs (Alfred) rather than his equals.

Not entirely true. If you're going by current continuity, Leslie was almost as important to him as Alfred, and while she can and does sew him up, that's not why he's attached to her.

I'm reading a Catwoman review that says:

This is a new Catwoman, though her story remains true to the original

Huh? Really? I'm assuming it's one of the originals, but which one? Current continuity?