I am a cruel man:

Unfortunately, Snyder’s influences lean more in the direction of this:

You might call it challenging or complex, but to me, it feels like the whole movie is playing Devil’s advocate. Putting superman in a bunch of contrived moral quandaries is less interesting to me than if Goyer and Snyder just said “Here’s what superman means to me.”

Yeah, Goyer can gibber about immaturity and inexperience as much as he wants. what got me is that his Superman isn’t moral. Even a kid can grasp the basic morality of “It’s good to help people, and bad to hurt them.” Especially if that kid is fucking Superman.

It’s sort of amusing to try and figure out what Lovecraft was being racist about based on his stories. “Evil gatherings of gibbering, subhuman mongrels slavering around demonic totems” are probably black church picnics. “The unholy wailing and shrieking of the denizens of the underworld” is probably jazz. The “Innsmout…

Analyzing the behavior of large groups of people would be in the domain of a sociologist.

“But how are you doing?”

I think quite a few problems with the flick could have been solved by removing Gwen Stacy, and having Harry Osborn be Venom.

I thought so too, but then I realized 667 would be across the street, not next door, which is a funnier premise.

THEN the side-scrolling video game, THEN the books, THEN the books in color, THEN the screenplay.

Not Snowpiercer? The eyelid wiggle gets me every time.

In the Star Wars Galaxy, a “poodoo” is the equivalent of a PhD.

President of Disney: “We’re moving the show back? We OWN these people! Tell ‘em to read their contracts and get back to work.”

As a fake lawyer, I can confirm that in doing whatever happened above, Ivanka extremely broke America law, that the Constitutionally-prescribed justice system for such crime is mob rule, and that the minimum sentence is keelhauling. The maximum sentence is “exploding,” but I imagine American angry mobs to be…

I can’t think of a single other superhero movie right now where the real superpower that saves the day is the protagonist’s ability to convince other people to Do the Right Thing.

Hudson, who reportedly offered 100 free meals to people who visited the restaurant without a mask, was backed up by protesters who clearly savored the publicity.

I know it’s aimed at an age group that doesn’t care as much about these sort of details, but why do Andalites have cheeks and a jaw if they don’t have a mouth?

Encyclopedia Brown?

Yeah, pretty much. I mean, every single “final” spidey-suit has had a molded helmet to keep facial features from poking through. I may be very alone in wanting Spider-Man to not look like someone spent a million dollars crafting his suit for him.

François Truffaut said “There’s no such thing as an anti-war film,” because in showing the violence in a way that the viewer can walk out of the theater without shrapnel wounds, you still generate all the adrenaline of combat without the trauma.