I can't wait for the inevitable shot here he looks at the Empire State and smirks a little, and we all laugh because we get the reference to the older, better film.

I wasn't thinking that until I saw "from the producers of Godzilla."

He was too busy fighting the guy trying to kill the civilians to stop and look like he gave a shit about the people that were getting killed. Also, nothing was borrowed from 9/11 that Marvel didn't do much more clearly in The Avengers. Man of Steel was a city getting levelled, Avengers was cut aways to skyscrapers…

At least it isn't classic rock this time. Nothing says wild bad guys like a song my dad bought before I was born.

You are losing your mind. That's a real stretch.

He was Lex Luthor.

My least favourite thing about Batman V Superman was Anderson Cooper strenuously telling the audience that the financial district was empty so that drama-adverse Marvel fans couldn't complain about collateral damage from super powered guys destroying things but that whole trailer makes me think DC have bought into…

And, get this: they're extreme.

After STID and the terrible Cumberbatch reveal, I did think how great it would have been had they done the bluff about him being/not being/definitely being Khan, only to have him reveal himself to be Jean-Luc Picard or someone else memorable from a different Trek timeline. For all the talk about it being an alternate…

It's co-opted everything else so why stop now?

The amount of people in this comments section who seem to regularly hang out in toy shops is scary.

Just when I thought Wingard couldn't get worse, he's upped his game from everything being some kind of nod, wink or reference to making an entire film out of someone else's material.

I only saw a clip on the news earlier but it reminded me of a less sci-fi inspired version of the Scientology events from Going Clear. The RNC could have been speaking directly to me and my political affiliation and I'd still have found it beyond unsettling.

1983 - The end of time

Ford's barely contained disdain for Star Wars is one of the best things about the franchise.

Clip from good film becomes extra tragic with footage from bad, contradictory film unnecessarily added.

Is "spin off" some kind of lesbian sex code?

Gabriel Byrne in End of Days is mine, almost entirely for the "hey, kid. Nice shirt" scene.

I have a problem with every aspect of his filmmaking.

It's a fair comparison because their films are very similar and it's also pretty clear that auteur theory on the internet is more about prejudgment and fitting films into those narratives than the other way around.