That's the thing—Chronicles was an ambitions failure, but it could have been *fantastic*. There was a lot of really interesting imagination on display—both conceptually and visually—but the story was a disjointed mess and the whole prophetic-messianic-visions-and-super-powers aspect of it just had no reason for being…

I felt the same way to a large degree, when reading the book. But the thing is... Snape's "heroic moment" wasn't a moment at all. It was, in fact, stretched out over a great deal of the series. This wasn't a case of having a big hero moment, but rather a case of the ongoing heroism finally coming to an unavoidable…

He seems inordinately terrified of going to the bedroom.

I'm totally with you on the Incredibles > FF point, but you lose me at Watchmen. Not because I think it's better than Incredibles (clearly it's not) but because they were trying to be completely different things; fast-paced, fun, lighthearted super adventure in one case, and brooding, cynical, deadly-serious…

Maybe it's art? ;-)

I'm pretty sure "I know kung fu" was *intentionally* cheeseball/funny.

BWAHAHAHAHA! That's probably the best reply I'll read all day on any site. :-D

Please define "recently". 'Cuz if you think that UP and Toy Story 3 were mediocre, then we shall have to step outside and have *words*, sir.

Not to mention that the dudes are not "on display" *at all*. They're either partially obscured or standing with folded arms, effectively covering themselves up to some degree instead of flaunting what they've got.

Weeeeellll... "Superman Returns" wasn't really an origin story, and nobody liked it either.

I'm really starting to wonder if this has become some sort of in-joke that I'm just not in on. Every damn Morning Spoilers column has someone complaining about being spoiled on something. These CAN'T be real complaints, can they?!

"Dawn of the Planet of the Apes". It would make sense that way, rather than implying that the actual, physical, presumably non-Earth planet is physically rising... over... something.

@b33g33: And humungous bugs in every climate! Tarantulas and scorpions and so-called "camel spiders" for everybody, hooray!

As betarded as some of this might sound, there are some neat ideas/themes in it. I kinda' like the idea of humans not only getting themselves kicked out of the garden of eden, but actually going so far as to *raze it to the ground*, in the process killing their own God(s). It's a great "what hath we wrought" kind of…

Amen, collex. It's one thing to be pissed about a terrible adaptation (or installment) of something you love, but all the drama-queen screeching about retroactive childhood butt-rapery got really old a long time ago. If people don't like the new stuff, it's not rocket science to just keep liking the "classic" stuff…

Aside from the fact that this is Morning Spoilers (as has already been mentioned), there's also the fact that a long post that begins with "...this pro/con list..." is almost certainly going to contain spoilers of some kind.

@ rudecherub: Actually I bet you're right. After seeing the preview, the flick is about an airborne biochem project that makes apes really smart... so I bet the newly-ingenious apes reverse-engineer and release a chemical that makes humans stupid.

To hell with 1-time CC numbers... I just wish that every web site had a flag to require them to flush/not retain my data after an order is fulfilled. It would be inconvenient to have to fill everything out every time, sure, but hackers can't steal anything that the vendor doesn't have anymore. The window of…

c'mon, man, if you haven't watched TSCC by now, you're not going to. It's been off the air for years.

That's a good point, though—the original Matrix did it right. I remember when I saw it all I knew was that it starred Keaneau Reeves and Lawrence Fishburne, and that there were people in it that could do superheroic things. I didn't even know it was sci-fi, much less post-apocalyptic sci-fi dealing with the nature…