Out of this world

Memes are messages from the deep

May the memes be with you

*Cue X-Files theme music*

Avengers, assemble!

Use the memes, Luke!

Fly you fools!

Live long and prosper

Avengers, assemble!

The memes will be with you, always.

To boldly go where no meme has gone before

The day I found out that Michael Crichton's “ Jurassic Park ” was an optional reading for a project in my honors biology class was one of the only times the public school science curriculum sent me over the moon. It was later that day that I learned the hard lesson of just how different movie adaptations can be to their source material. I grew up like a lot of children; enamored with the concept of dinosaurs. In the same way that monster trucks appeal to children, the awe-inspiring massiveness…

Return of the memes

One meme to rule them all

There's a somewhat infamous /tv/ “favorite movie lines” thread on 4chan in which someone humorously misquoted a character from American Psycho saying, "Patrick, it's you!! You're the American Psycho?!!" Another user replied, “He didn't say that,” escalating the thread into a barrage of ironic shitposts inspired by the OP's American Psycho joke. For example, an image of Frodo captioned, “That's why I'm the Lord of the Rings , not you Sam.” Putting movie titles in movie lines has since become a p…

There's a new Batman in town and to the delight of millions of millennials, he's emo, brooding, and a little bit weird. Matt Reeves' The Batman is the pulpy noir that fans of the Caped Crusader's iconic Detective Comics era have been waiting for. Mask of the Phantasm has always been my personal favorite Batman feature, and for me, Reeves' take on Gotham and the inner world of Bruce Wayne is the closest a live-action blockbuster has come to achieving the sort of stylistic world-building that Mas…