Dude, this is the AV Club. Of course we're all going to be really fuckin sad that Phillip Seymour fuckin Hoffman died. Spare us the "in the grand scheme of the universe" lecture and consider the context of the forum you're trying to enlighten us all in. An article on a pop culture website inhabited by obsessive film…

Wow, very 'edgy' of you

Very difficult, but in the end I'm going to have to go with crying in his Corvette alone after Wahlberg won't kiss him. "WHY did you do that Scotty??" "I'm sorry I'm a idiot, I'm a fuckin idiot…"

"I will be dying and so will you, and so will everyone here. That's what I want to explore. We're all hurtling towards death, yet here we are for the moment, alive. Each of us knowing we're going to die, each of us secretly believing we won't."

SHUT UP! SHUT THE FUCK UP! Shut up; will you SHUT UP SHUT UP! SHUT SHUT SHUT SHUT SHUT UP… SHUT UP! NOW…Are you threatening me dick? Did you just say go fuck myself? Well…that wasn't good, YOU'RE DEAD!"

"I'm gonna light the cigarette old timer!"

"It's the suck zone!!!"

He was the best

And again, "because I said so" is not a very compelling argument

Hah you're really making a strange argument here that makes pinning you down very difficult. You initially seemed to be saying there's not enough time to cover all the gravy you want to see with any additional subtext, the gravy being

"How often do you bring up to the rest of your family that you were adopted into them? Or were confused for a family friend when you all went out together? How many times have people been surprised or a bit confused when they meet the rest of your family?"

I really don't understand your position…it's called subtext, right? You don't like the idea because its too ambitious? A reasonably talented screenwriter could weave it into the script without it coming off as a 'mess' or a 'narrative burden.' And honestly, 'origin story' 'how they react to getting powers'…

Respectfully, I disagree. How is the family dynamic between a white sister and black brother, one being adopted (for the sake of argument I'll pretend like we don't already know which one this is going to be) not an inherently interesting sub-theme in a movie already about the surrogate families we create, and the…

It's called adoption, bro. I have a white sister. She's my real family, I swear.

I guess I'm alone. I thought this was a very good episode.

The whole Luthor protecting and dragging around an out of his element Kent who happened to get stuck doing a profile on him during the middle of a prison riot was one of my favorite moments. I think you're right, that iteration of Luthor would be perfect for Eisenberg's strengths.

Tom Cruise was also Snyder's pick; unfortunately he was interested but never signed on. I'm assuming he found out about the gay subtext in the comic from one of his handlers and distanced himself immediately. He would have been perfect.

Ok, but does he have to disappear into the role? What's wrong with a more ruthless Zuckerberg for instance? That sounds pretty cool actually.

Hah this is the best answer I could have hoped for. So I guess there is a long history of people getting upset about franchise casting and being totally vindicated. I feel like the Topher Grace one is the best example of what I was going for, a big tentpole movie casting a beloved role with an unusual, out of left…

Very good point. To be fair, I also think beyond the makeup and costume a big difference was that Ledger was a seismic, earth shattering talent, a sleeping tiger people had an idea was very talented (Brokeback) but weren't sure if it was a fluke or not