Just Take My Money, Super Hero Movies

By Joe Parello (@HerewegoJoe)

We've reached a day that many a comic book nerd has waited for with bated breath: The opening of Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice in theaters nationwide.

But this Good Friday may not be so great for the Caped Crusader and Big Blue Jesus, as critics have been slamming the film for the past week. I've personally watched BvS sink like a rock on Rotten Tomatoes' "TomatoMeter," going from a 45% critic approval early in the week, to the 30% it sits at as I type this.

Still, the same site reports that 74% of the audience enjoyed the movie, so it can't be that bad, right?

Well, no, it can still be awful. If the previews are any indication of the actual movie, it's going to be a slow, brooding, pretentious build to one fight scene between Batty and Supes, before they shoehorn Wonder Woman, Doomsday, Lex Luthor and Aquaman all in at the end.

That all seems to make for a bloated and discombobulated normal film, but it's exactly what I want in a super hero movie.

The Overthought Podcast: Overthinking Time Travel

In the second episode of The Overthought Podcast, editors Joe Parello and Jeremy Conlin, along with their buddy Joe Blake again go way too far down the rabbit hole.

This week's subject is time travel, but luckily we kept head exploding paradoxes and time loops to a minimum. The gang discusses which portrayals of time travel in popular media are best, along with the ethical issues of hypothetical on-demand time travel.

The multiverse theory against a single universe is also debated, and I believe at one point Joe Parello argues that a movie where you accidentally prevent the Titanic from sinking, then have to go back and make sure it does sink would be fun/terrible.

As you might imagine, this one went pretty far off the rails, but don't take my word for it. Listen in below.