That might be nice. One thing most superhero stories flub is how they give their cities moods but no sense of place. Morrison and Morales tried to give Metropolis boroughs in their Action Comics but seemed to abandon the idea. In the original Shuster and Siegel comics, there was no doubt that Superman's home was New…

Because that's a TV show. There were bad episodes, and good episodes. The good episodes were very good in the context of 1990s children's programming, but a popcorn action movie has (nowadays) a little over two hours to tell a story on which it will be judged forever. It also has to sell tickets, and mainly to people…

You could make a terrible Batman movie with all of those things, and a good Batman movie with none of them. In fact, it's already happened.

I remain surprised by the number of A.V. Club commenters who think most people judged an Easter weekend action movie based on personal investment in the integrity of Batman as a character.

It's why those movies were so good; the superhero baby-play was reduced in favor of a sparkling romance.

The problem with The Mary Sue isn't what you said, I don't think, it's that their writers have no background in academic or professional criticism and lack the context to advance a convincing analysis, feminist or otherwise. That's how you end up with articles like this one, where the premise is more or less "make…

You have weird ideas about feminism yourself there buddy

Madden.

Just milk for this guy.

These psychic friends reunite at a cabin in the woods where they exchange dialogue like the following:

"Got blown last night."

"Good for you. First time?"

"Bite my bag. Met some lady at Bingo. Turned into a pretty nice fuckeree."

"Jesus Christ bananas"

"Pitching a buzz saw. I've heard some mighty burps in my time, but…

These videos have always been a form of entertainment instead of a serious critique of the movies. They spend the better part of a half hour complaining about movies that they outright admit they think were great. You can take apart most of their criticisms in a second but that's not really the point. It's more of a…

But unlike many of the dissenting opinions online, Smith’s critiques of the film on his podcast Hollywood Babble-On—along with those of his cohost Ralph Garman—come from a place of warm fandom,

Joe Shuster got notes from his editor saying Shuster was making Superman look too gay. For those who don't know, he designed the character.

Agreed. No politics could make a book this half-assed as good as some people think it is.

Barack Obama has shown up frequently enough in Marvel comic books.

A non-fascist superhero would resemble Superman in some of his earliest stories. It would be denounced as vile leftism by audiences today even though it was fine for little kids in the 1930s.

I misread the headline and thought this was an adaptation of Peter Benchley's The Beast, which seemed to me like exactly the sort of thing David Schwimmer would be doing nowadays.

Funny story, often this feature doesn't do well but in this case you and a lot of other people came here to read this one. This has somewhere between twice and ten times as many comments as most of the "Great Job, Internet" articles.

I thought exactly the opposite. Only Snyder could take his own derivative personal fantasy that seriously.

The only director's cut of Snyder's I've seen is of the Dawn of the Dead remake, the one movie Snyder directed that I've enjoyed, and the director's cut was flat-out terrible. The subtle disaster-zone romance between the leads gets hammered into the audience, and the exploding barrel trick happens three times in one…