Who Should Be Batgirl?

There has been a lot of talk recently about a Batgirl movie written and/or directed by Joss Whedon. He previously worked on the Marvel movies The Avengers and Age of Ultron as well as creating the series Buffy The Vampire Slayer, Firefly, Dollhouse, Angel, and Agents Of SHIELD. I actually gave up on watching most of those shows. Everyone is all “He is so good at writing women characters! Girl power!” and all that shit. I get it. To me its more important who plays Batgirl. And stop saying Emma Stone just because she has red hair, you non-creative bastards. He hair is actually blonde by the way. She dyes it red.

For those that don't know, Batgirl has been played by many characters in the comics. Four that are known. She was created in 1961 an her name was Betty Kane but six years later returned played by Barbara Gordon which is the one most know her as. She was played by Alicia Silverstone in that terrible ass Batman & Robin movie in the 90's but we won't talk about that. Yvonne Craig played her in the 1967 series. After being paralyzed and likely sexually assaulted by The Joker in The Killing Joke she returned as the wheelchair bound Oracle helping Batman and everyone including her own team Birds Of Prey. Years later she was able to walk again.

Theater Whore: The Equalizer

The Equalizer 8/10

This movie is a hard rated R! Just gotta put that out there. Oh, and some spoilers. I wasn't exactly dying to see this movie. I knew that the old series was called The Equalizer and my Grandmama watched it along with a bunch of other shows about old people killing murderers or looking to solve them. So going in all I knew was that Denzel Washington was in it and it was directed by the guy that did Training Day which is one of my favorite movies. So fuck it. I wanted to see what would happen.

This is a damned good movie. It helped fill that straight up action movie void that has been missing this summer. There has been a lot of action movies the last few months that had lots of explosions but didn't quite deliver. This movie did. Denzel plays Robert “Bob” McCall who is a retired guy from black ops. This story takes place in Boston where his life is very plain. He works at a huge hardware store and goes home and to a nearby diner where he keeps things simple to the point of being OCD.