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I don't understand the logic of this decision. Kudos to Minnie Driver for going out there and being a good company man about this. But it's kind of an incomprehensible creative choice.

What does everyone expect from the Joker/Harley partnership? Is it real, or do you think there'll be a twist at the end where it turns out Arthur imagined it all and she's really just his therapist?

If the film's title is to be taken literally, then my guess would be that it's a shared delusion. If anything, I speculate that they're amplifying each other's madness.

I echo TDK. This looks very much like a follow-up to the original. Even the lighting looks the same. Very impressed and very excited.

Next month my theatre's hosting an eighties movie season that'll include screenings of RoboCop, Predator and Beverly Hills Cop. All the Spider-Man films are getting re-released as well, but I'm not too bothered about those. But seeing RoboCop and Predator on the big screen? Hell yes!

At one point, we had a theater uptown that would show midnight movies. Usually (but not always) deep cuts, rarities or films with cult followings. Rocky Horror obviously, B89, STM, The Big Lebowski, The Nightmare Before Christmas, etc. There was also Tommy Wiseau's The Room, which was the most raucous movie screening I've ever been to.

The REAL selling point was that they were shown on old school film prints. So, you basically saw and heard what audiences saw and heard (more or less) in their original releases in theaters.

Probably one of the best experiences I had was a screening of Predator. In the end, the organizers had no choice but to run the film again the following month (the next available opening) because demand was MUCH higher than they originally expected.

And yes, watching the movie on a big screen is a great experience.

Started a reading project last week of Geoff Johns's run on Green Lantern. I first read it start-to-finish about twelve years ago. I adored it back then. And so far, it has DEFINITELY held up.

I started with Rebirth and have worked my way up to Green Lantern v4 #04 and Green Lantern Corps- Recharge #05.

What strikes me about this run is how instantly familiar the characters and concepts seem. Hal, John, Guy and Kyle all have their own unique identities as Lanterns that distinguish them from each other (which can't be easy to do since they essentially have the same "powers"). But the characterizations are done in a way where you can pretty easily believe that they're capable of working together in spite of their differences.

As most of you probably know, the stuff I've read is pretty much just the tip of the iceberg. The Geoff Johns run on GL is among the biggest, most epic storylines (or series of storylines) any comic book publisher has ever attempted.

I somewhat criticized Geoff Johns's run on Superman as STM fanfiction. Others agreed with that sentiment. And I think it's a fair criticism of his Superman work if I'm being honest.

But frankly, I simply do not see much room to criticize his GL work. It is true that Johns wiped Emerald Dawn I and Emerald Dawn II right out of continuity. But aside from that, the amount of retconning he DIDN'T do is pretty impressive. Hal Jordan was Parallax, Kilowog was killed, the Corps got wiped out, Kyle became a Green Lantern, Hal became possessed by The Spectre, etc. And Johns doesn't back away from any of that.

Most impressive of all (at least to me), Johns gave Hal a REAL characterization. Before Johns, Hal was pretty bland. Even Denny O'Neil couldn't find a satisfactory way of writing him. But Johns reimagined the character as a sort of Maverick/Top Gun figure. Hal can be a little freewheeling, he can be a bit of a horndog and commitment-phobe, he can be all those things. But he is still a true hero and you can see how he earned his reputation as the best of the Corps.

Another cool aspect of this run is how early on Johns foreshadowed the Blackest Night storyline. He wasted virtually no time in setting up the fact that something BIG was coming. And I can't wait to get Blackest Night... which is arguably where his run should've concluded. It's not that what came later is bad. But I don't remember it being as good as the lead-up to Blackest Night. But who knows, maybe that stuff has improved with age?

Something else is that the energy and excitement is immediate in these comics and it even shows on the covers:

Every single one of the covers demands to be read. They're simply exciting to even look at.

It was around 2008-2011 that DC began trying to position Hal Jordan/GL as DC's replacement for Superman as the company's main mascot. It's not hard to guess why that ultimately failed. But it's also not hard to see why somebody ever wanted it to happen in the first place. Because the GL titles were firing on all cylinders and it was a pretty exciting time to be a fan and follow those comics.

Not sure if anyone else is as in love with the Johns era of Green Lantern as me. But if you've never read these comics before, I can't more highly recommend them to you. Because from 2004 to 2013, the Green Lantern titles were regularly in the top five most exciting comic books coming out.

Can I be happy that Judith Hoag WAS there?

Seems interesting. I'll give it a look when it hits streaming.

What works for me about that scene is Batman's planning and risk management. Yes, some part of him wants to fight them. But ultimately, he understands that this health is the most powerful weapon in his arsenal and it's the one thing he protects above everything else.

Also, this trait is one of the reasons why I adore Marv Wolfman's relatively meager amount of work on the character. Wolfman's Batman, like the pages you posted, doesn't take stupid risks. Instead, he always stacks the deck in his favor to ensure he comes out on top.

I find that more persuasive than a Batman who knowingly goes out into the field when he's less than 100%. That's not courage; that's stupidity. And I never bought it when Batman was written to do that.

Carl Newman (AKA 'Ballet Bat') was Keaton's movement double on Batman '89 and portrayed the Dark Knight in many of the film's most iconic shots.

Boy, I'll say. These five...

... are some of my favorite shots in the entire film. And I never even heard of this guy until I opened this thread. I guess I just assumed that those shots featured Keaton in the suit. Anyway, thank you for posting this. This is great!