He really needs to stop making story-related calls and should just focus on visuals, yeah.

I didn’t have a huge problem with that. Watchmen was a fairly faithful adaptation, aside from what you’ve mentioned.

Yeah he does best when adapting material that already has a strong story. He can then focus on visual stuff without making (major) calls about the script.

My guess is that he brainstorms a bunch of visually appealing, yet completely disjointed moments, then storyboards them, and tries to write a script that strings said moments together somehow.

If you look at the entire history of the character, including the many Elseworlds versions, there’s certainly some precedent when it comes to deviating from the ‘hopeful, upright paragon of virtue’ version of Superman people my age are most familiar with.

I have a much, much higher tolerance to ‘bad VFX’ than some, possibly because they always look fake to me, even when ‘good,’ so that part didn’t particularly bother me.

I like a lot of Zach Snyder’s work. He has a knack for setting up cool shots and stringing them together. He’s at his best when provided the narrative scaffolding required to justify said shots, though. Man of Steel didn’t have that.

I was surprised by how much I enjoyed that, given that I wasn’t crazy about the Burton adaptations.

Anything’s possible in the multiverse.

The new Batman is Jarro.

It’s much, much weirder than that.

They have a different take on what happens when you travel back in time.

The laziest, really. I always give movies like that one a wide berth in terms of believability, and certainly did so with TLJ.

You won’t be surprised by the broad strokes, but the details were pretty surprising to me — also funny.

Saw an advance screening last week. It was OK! A bit slow to get going, but pays off in really interesting ways — also pretty funny.

Depressingly accurate.

We’re sorry, eh?

Yeah, as much as Scalia sucked, he was pretty consistent about opposing unreasonable searches and seizures, and sided with the liberal justices on those cases.

Yeah, it entirely removes the ‘duty to retreat,’ which we have in Canada... and some US states, I think?