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"Every break with the laws of physics is explained with 'It’s a Batman movie,' which is a total cop-out. An honest one, which is entirely valid, but still!"
"Mamet is either trying way too hard to be clever with the dialog or is having some extended alone time with his own prose... People have a certain level of suspension of disbelief and so they understand people talk more eloquently than they would in real life. But it reaches a point when every character is spouting cutesy bullshit that people reject it as too unrealistic. Juno had the same problem when everyone talked in the same Diablo Cody hipster speak and some cannot get into Tarantino for the same reason."
Chris: It was essentially the perfect television adaptation of an issue of Superman’s Girl Friend Lois Lane. I will readily admit that the plot made absolutely no sense, but everything about it was played so straight in that same earnest, Silver Age style... If I hadn’t watched the credits, I’d swear Otto Binder wrote this.
David: I just think that kind of stuff works well on the printed page, as a novelty. Watching it acted out by grown-ups is just… man, I dunno, I sound like a total fogey.
Chris: “These kids today and their tributes to the Silver Age!”
David: I just think that kind of stuff works well on the printed page, as a novelty. Watching it acted out by grown-ups is just… man, I dunno, I sound like a total fogey.
Chris: “These kids today and their tributes to the Silver Age!”
—Chris Sims and David Uzumeri on
Smallville ("Isis")
Smallville ("Isis")