This week, The Moriarty Brothers team up to discuss the one topic they can’t shut up about: Batman. Join us as they discuss everything from the 1940’s serials all the way through The Dark Knight Rises.
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This week, the Nerds discuss the recent announcement of Ben Affleck being cast as Batman, then they welcome local filmmaker Lon Lopez as their guest to talk about this documentary Rock the Block, and finishes off with Nerds on History co-host Eric Bricmont bringing back the Movie Quote Game! Enjoy!
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I know what you’re thinking and I agree. Batman & Robin is one of the most terrible films to ever disgrace the silver screen, or any screen for that matter. The script is garbage, the acting is awful, and the production design was way over the top. However, a true Batman fan, comic book fan, or comic book movie fan can actually enjoy it and I will tell you how.
Ben-
You’ve done it again. You’ve created waves of hatred and distrust in the social media sphere all by accepting a job. Within moments of your news, anti-Affleck Facebook pages cropped up, Twitter exploded with hashtags and cruel words; memes were immediately created depicting you and Damon as the dynamic duo (the internet can be so cruel). Likely you’ve seen none of these, or if you have you just said, “Fuck you, I’m Batman” (I’m genuinely hoping for the latter).
With the powers of Nerds of Film and Culturally Ill combined, we litigate the hell out of Batman v Superman: Ultimate Edition. We laughed. We laughed. We laughed. Ben laughed way too loudly. Bryan didn’t cry. Sean came. Ethan drank. In the end we landed…pretty much exactly where we started! But we had a lot of fun, made a lot of jokes, and talked for about an hour longer than we intended.
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