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Something about the setting of Batman Beyond really made Paul Dini and Bruce Timm tap into some dark storytelling.

Terminal is a one off character, but he is, for me, still one of the most memorable and downright disturbing villians of Terry's rogue gallery.

Nevermind the spooky make up, but that icy, detached voice just adds a layer of intimidation. You just know this dude is a C- away from maiming someone.

The scene where he is torturing the commuter and wants to burn Max with acid just feels like the tip of a very disturbing iceberg.

Crazy that Michael Rosenbaum can do a villain and hero so well.

I didn't think of The Flash once when I heard his voice work in this episode.

They still feel like Tim Burton films.

Barry Sonnefield frequently collaborates with people that have worked with Tim Burton. Danny Elfman, Bo Welch, and the writers of Edward Scissorhands.

I always wondered what Tim Burton thought of these movies and how much of these films dictated his approach to Wednesday

I'm just saying...Viltrumites are not picky about mates

I feel that Batman & Robin has been hyped up as the "worst movie of all time" and as time passes I think that is just not true.

Is it not a good movie? Probably

Is it even a bad movie? Sure.

But the WORST of all time? There are movies i literally can't sit through...This isn't one of them.

Another thing I hear is the movie can be enjoyed in an ironic way (so bad it's good). While that is certainly true, there genuinely good moments in this movie.

The standout to me is Batman appealing to Mr. Freeze's humanity and even letting him continue to work on a cure for his wife while she is custody.

For starters, Arnold is pretty convincing with his emotions in this scene. The pure rage on the revelation of Ivy's portrayal and the relief/sadness on finding out the man he tried to kill has saved his wife.

Another thing: Batman is showing compassion.

This might seem like a low bar, but actually think about it:

How often does the live action Batman show compassion to villians he isn't romantically interested in?

I know people like scary, vengeful Batman. But behind the demonic visage is a man that just wants to make the world a better place. And he would rather see his enemies reform than destroy them.

This sentiment is rarely shown in live action.

Hell, the Keaton and Affleck Batman would have just brutally murdered him the moment he was down on the ground.

I think this moment is a good way of showing that both of these men can be more than monsters and can actually be decent people.

But then again, I guess that type of approach can only work with Mr. Freeze.

I was hoping the Pattison Batman would have shown a little more understanding to Riddler.

Besides weariness of the internet and cyberspace (The Net, Hackers), the most prolific subject matter for 90s speculative fiction was genetic engineering and cloning.

No doubt the news of Dolly the Sheep and all the articles of cloning dinosaurs caught the public imagination in the last decade of the 20th Century

Of all of these, I think Gattaca is the smartest. I love me some Jurassic Park (it's my favorite film of a time) but the science borders on magic.

Gene editing and eugenics is still something hotly debated among academics and politicians.

"We have gotten discrimination down to a science" has always stayed with me.

Deep Blue Sea is basically just Jurassic Park underwater

Island of Dr. Moreau is...okay. The making of the film sounds more entertaining than the actual film.

Mimic is still fucking creepy as hell and Guillermo Del Toro is great at making creature features.

While Alien Resurrection is schlock, and cloning is just used as a gimmick to bring Sigourney Weaver back, the biopunk aesthetic and nightmarish humanoid at the end is very much in line with the H.R. Giger art that inspired the franchise

Honorable mention to Species. The genetic formula via alien transmission was a nice way of bridging the gap between fear of the unknown to fear of genetic engineering.

Granted, he is a child kidnapper and has no real moral high ground to stand on, but the Others have access to all the info on survivors. Even info they couldn't possibly have contained by conventional means.

They don't see the layers and complicity of the characters we follow throughout the narrative.

We like, or at the very least understand, Sawyer because we are spectators

But how many of us would like a con man if we met him. Nevermind one that seems to take joy in hoarding supplies and screwing people over.

I'm sure Tom even knows Sawyer's origin story but still despises him for being no better than the man that ruined his life.

He was always extremely hostile to him. Even compared to how he treated Kate and Jack. So his animosity was clearly personal.

I was 12 when this show debuted, and I was naive and thought that bullies get punished in the work place unlike school.

Man oh man was I wrong.

Everyone has met a Randy at their job and guys like him prove how borderline useless human resources is.

But don't you dare talk shit back to him and defend yourself. Then HR will step in and punish...you!

Cartoony and intimidating is the best way to describe the opening music and accompanying images.

Batman 89 has a great opening score...but Mars Attacks! is so epically B movie-ish. The crescendo with the saucers surrounding Earth always makes my hairs stand up.

Ack ack ack!!!!

I doubt Tim Burton has ever seen or cared about Toy Story.

Despite it being tonally divorced from his usual aesthetic, he worked at Disney as a 2D animator and probably doesn't care that much for computer animation

That being said, the Babyface mutant toy in Toy Story feels very Burtonesque. Like the toy version of Edward Scissorhands.

In fact, the mutant toys all fall into a Burton trope: The bizarre misfits can be heroes

Just the thought of your free will and bodily autonomy being ripped from you is disturbing enough.

But an anti social, weirdo who feels entitled to you doing it just ramps up the nightmare fuel.

Mad Hatter was more repulsive than Clayface or Joker to me. Even as a kid.

A bit late, but i paid for a commission to honor Sam Neill. And I thought it would be cool to pair him with another dinosaur related hero from my childhood.

The two punch combo of Jurassic Park and Dino Crisis made me forever infatuated with media involving everyone's favorite prehistoric giants

As I said in another post, I think it is cool that despite being an academic, Grant is pretty handy with firearms.

Be cool if there was a fan fiction where Grant was part of Regina's team to investigate the third energy (which sounds cooler: Dino Park or Jurassic Crisis)

Just my gesture of remembering Sam Neill for such a beloved and iconic role.

Rest In Peace and thank you for taking us on your adventure...65 Million Years In The Making

This is one of the most visually dynamic shorts in The Animatrix, and though the story is pretty simple, it does make you wonder why Zion decided to give their soldiers a virtual reality version of a purity test.

The only thing I can think of is that this is all a byproduct of Cypher.

As seen in Reloaded, Morpheus, his crew, and his ship have an ominous reputation. No doubt due to how many people lost their lives, and how close Zion came to being destroyed due to the actions of ONE man.

My head canon is that Zion leadership knew that Cypher wasn't an isolated incident and they would need to screen other red pills as potential ticking time bombs.

My only problem with this short is that Duo is a construct and they were somehow able to get her to have feelings for a person that didn't exist

The nature of Red Pills is a heightened awareness of things and not taking anything at face value.

Other than that, good short.

Doc Brown has arrived in the year 2026.

Hope he likes it so far...

I can't fucking stand it

It's easy to take for granted what the Delorean Time Machine looks like, but it is important to remember it wasn't always a Delorean. In the original script it wasn't even a car at all, it was a fridge.

Even when they decided on a Delorean (because Doc Brown "doesn't drive a fucking Ford Mustang" according to Bob Gale), they still didn't know the specifics of what it would look like.

Designs by other artists were too polished and Zemeckis and Gale were looking for a junkyard "throw together" look.

Enter: Rob Cobb.

Rob Cobb got notoriety designing the interiors of the Nostromo vessel in Alien (he was even asked to come back for Aliens).

His designs prioritize function as much as aesthetic. He will draw something on a fictional device and explain what it's functions were.

The idea of large vents on the back of the Delorean Time Machine were his idea because he knew a nuclear reactor would produce heat and would need a vent to release the cooling vapors.

This is just one example of how meticulous he designed fictional things.

He, and his peer Syd Mead, are responsible for the clunky retro aesthetic we know refer to as "Cassette Futurism".

A perfect aesthetic for a vehicular time machine created in the 80s.

"Technically I'm the KEYMAKER"

"...Close enough 👹"