Ok that was hilarious.Team Elderly Woman Who Walked Out Of This Movie!

I cannot imagine how Affleck could have the slightest effect on the quality of this project.

Seriously! I have been in "uh, I think it's gonna suck" mode for a long time now. The idea of Affleck in the role is entertaining! But I've already seen a good actor be a crap Batman in a crap Batman movie. This is nothing earthshattering or anything. He's nigh tangential, except for how funny the geek rage is right now. That's a price above rubies.

said Snyder, whose filmmaking specialty is definitely “layered portrayals,” of the need to cast someone who could seem just slightly more charismatic than Henry Cavill.

I don't think Affleck's the man for that particular job, at least not since the days of Dogma.

One thing, this news does make me thankful I've always been way more a fan of Superman than Batman. I suspect I'm going to enjoy Cavill's portrayal at least as much as I did in Man of Steel (which was quite a bit), so a even a Gigli level pratfall on Affleck's part won't necessarily ruin the movie for me.

Plus, Batman not as likely to be knocking Superman through buildings packed to the rafters with screaming bystanders, and Pa Kent unlikely to have made a holographic copy of himself so he can continue to be distant and advise Clark to disregard innocent lives in peril in favor of looking out for #1.

I wish to add another school movie, namely The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, starring a young Maggie Smith.

I feel like

There was just a big reveal. I won't spoil it because, honestly, I really don't want to take the time to write it all down.

is a line I should steal and use often.

I should probably not be quite so gleeful that the movie is getting terrible reviews, but I am.

Yes, yes you should.

Also, I have seen the tie-in clothing line at Hot Topic , and ... well. Even by HT standards, there's some really substandard manufacturing going on there.

One of my poor interns was beside herself over the Mortal Instruments movie. She's dying to read the book(s?) and has to read 1989 instead for her summer reading that is due in a week (man, either she's in some advanced HS program, or highschool in the 90's was much easier). She got me interested in checking it out. Now, not so much. Which makes me sad, because I want to see Lily Collins in more stuff.

Every time the movie or books came up at IO9 I had to blurt a plagiarism comment, and hold the Fanlore link for the first person to ask.

I've been avoiding the front page recently, but I am tempted to go back with

5:21 p.m. This movie "borrows" so many tropes, I would not be surprised if The Avengers showed up.

as my backup plan.

Also, in the trailer, the CGI on the werewolves looks subpar.

Also also, I'm not big on a film where the male lead looks one stroke away from an orgasm for every scene

I'm rewatching Winter's Bone. Such a crazy good movie, and Jennifer Lawrence and John Hawkes are so crazy good in it.