Author: Michael Thomas

Search for Justice – 4 Takeaways from Justice League: The Whedon Cut

Okay, fine. Facial hair is not the ONLY important thing worth considering in the tragic Joss Whedon cut of Justice League. I will be checking out these Justice League animated movies as much as possible. I will be using the same four questions I use here to assess each film. I have opted to do a little preview of this series with the two versions of the live-action Justice League film while it is so much in the news. Continue reading Search for Justice – 4 Takeaways from Justice League: The Whedon Cut

4 Crucial Thoughts After Re-Watching Justice League Before #TheSnyderCut

Justice League is your average bad film. Somehow Zack Snyder fans came to believe there existed a separate “Snyder Cut” of the film that would be more true to the film’s original spirit or something. No such cut existed, but Warner Brothers is financing an absurdly expensive reshoot. While Snyder and all of his films are cringe, this is all a hilarious takedown of Joss Whedon so it’s a clear net positive. Anyway, here are some hyper serious thoughts on The Whedon Cut.

4. MUSTACHE

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5 Thoughts on Batman V Superman: Dawn of Justice Ultimate Edition

Previous Batman V Superman: Dawn of Justice coverage at The Reel World:

Ranking the Batmen (where Matt argues the Ultimate Edition has value!)

The Tape Crusaders Episode #8

Five Things About Batman V Superman: Dawn of Justice That Do Not Completely Suck

With Zack Snyder’s version of Justice League getting released soon, this will probably be the only relevant time for me to examine THE ULTIMATE EDITION of Snyder’s Batman V Superman. Here be my thoughts.

Government’s Fetishization of Elon Musk Lex Luthor is Tragically on Point

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Ranking the Seasons of The Office

The Office was a weird fucking show! When it was great, it was really great! They accidentally concluded the natural narratives around the end of season 5, and they ran out of story. Then they did four more seasons. And it got really bleak! And it somehow became the most-watched show on Netflix for like a decade so everyone basically watched it. I don’t know. Weird fucking show! Here be the rankings of the seasons.

9. Season 8: OMG NO

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4 Best Things in The Hobbit Misguided Trilogy

I tried **really hard** to think of some things about The Hobbit “movies” to like after basically calling the whole exercise shit last week. But I could only come up with four things. Pretty weak, Peter Jackson!

4. Gollum

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7 Worst Things in The Hobbit Misguided Trilogy

7The Lord of the Rings movies fucking rule and are such a happy place to be. So what the fuck went wrong in The Hobbit flicks to make me (and everyone else) so ambivalent towards them at best? 

1. 9 fucking hours?

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Ranking the Lethal Weapon Movies

Yo, these movies are fucking weird. Each individual one is like a very bizarre time capsule of the time it came out in regards to the fears and discourse of the time. All of them are incredibly messy in just about every way. They’re wild and mostly pretty fascinating even if “good” is not quite the word to describe ’em.

4. Lethal Weapon 2 [1989]

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Top 8 Supporting Performance in The Matrix Films

The Matrix fucking rules, and the sequels mostly rule and are certainly much cooler than 99% of shit that comes out today. These are the best non-Keanu performances in the series (SO FAR). Something of note is that the majority of the performances originate or are solely contained in the first film! Probably not a coincidence!

8. Monica Bellucci

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Top 10 Performances in the Harry Potter Films

Okay, so these movies are mostly ass. In fact, calling them “movies” is pretty much a stretch. For the most part, it just feels like the books were plugged into Google Translate to go from “book” to “movie” and they were just spit out. There was no real vision and the differing early styles, and the whole thing was clearly just a quick cash-in. Whatever! These books were not designed well for adaptation for the screen (big or small). As such, there’s really no great acting in there, but some characters were better served than others in the script with actors actually doing what was needed!

10. John Cleese

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Ranking The Star Wars Films

At The Reel World, we believe instead of paying us money to listen to and read our mundane thoughts on popular culture, you should give back what you can to people who need it. I suggest supporting The Manna-hatta Fund. “The Manna-hatta Fund presents an opportunity for all settlers to support the Indigenous peoples, such as the Lenni Lenape, who were forcefully displaced by European settlers and their descendants to create New York City and the United States.” Follow the beneficiaries on Twitter: @AICHNYC

We ranked the live-action, theatrically released Star Wars films! Here are the voters:
Matt Waters
Jerome Cusson
Kevin Ford
Ben Phillips
Mike Thomas

Enjoy!

11. Attack of the Colones (dir. George Lucas)

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