Normal Movies for Normal People is a film-by-film critique of comic book and superhero cinema. Guided by a robot programmed to select movies, we discuss this apparently never-ending subgenre. Here are a couple of the terms we throw around. Golden Pounce: Our award for the standout performance of a given movie. Rotten Tomatoes Game: A showdown where Andrew and Alex try to guess if a critic blurb is
referring to the movie we just watched or an entirely different film. The winner gets to select what we watch next. Andrew is really bad at this game. Normal: Conventional, traditional, expected. Or the complete opposite. But seriously, the Most Normal Moment of a movie tends to be an outright bizarre or unusual incident within the narrative. Norm-o-Tron: A robot Andrew designed that selects two comic book movies at random. Much like Ultron, it turned out to be a bad idea. Re-Roll: A mulligan on the Norm-o-tron. Re-rolls are earned by acing the game portion of the show or handed out arbitrarily. Sandwich: Situating a comic book movie in between two other films. If Spider-Man 3 is the meat, The Spirit is the bottom slice of bread and Punisher: War Zone is the top. Capering: Pointlessly flamboyant and distracting behaviour. Often caused by an actor overindulging in their character's campy or pulpy origins without offering any substantive insight. Think Jesse Eisenberg in Batman v Superman. Chad and Justin: The target audience for all superhero and comic book movies. Aggressively dumb teenage dudes with very low attention spans who will see every action movie in theatres the day it opens, regardless of quality or word of mouth.
