Marvel films are not formulaic. They use standard tropes of the genre, like all other action adventure films do. There's a difference.

What about him?

As people have said elsewhere, that footage might not be finished yet. We're still six months out from the release date.

He's getting partial credit for it, so they're probably keeping his work.

All movies are the product of the work and creativity of hundreds of people and are greenlit by studios and producers. They can never possibly be the "idiosyncratic representation of a singular artist." You give Nolan and Burton too much credit and Marvel too little.

Pshaw! Fifteen year old miniseries? Get me a full season reboot, stat!

I luuuuuurve Revolutionary War set pieces and 18th century in general. so I hope Sons Of Liberty is a sign of things to come. In fact, I'll make it a New Year's resolution to amp up my mental vibes at the networks to make a series based on The Scarlet Pimpernel or something. It could work! I wished real hard for more…

As someone who totally dug Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, I'm down with this.

Judging by my last visit to San Diego, I think its safe to say they do. Lotta weird chemicals in vinyl.

Wait…the Superbowl is a game or something? Huh. All this time I thought it was a short-form film festival interspersed with shots of cosplayers.

More romance novel and erotica adaptations, which would be great. There are a lot of great books out there that deserve better than the Lifetime channel treatment.

*sigh* Another task we robots will have to take up for you meat-based entities, I suppose.

Soap opera is one of the only genres that gets even more undeserved disrespect than science fiction and fantasy—probably because of girl cooties.

It's Green Arrow, not Green Lantern, and it's totally worthwhile…but if you like a lighter tone, try The Flash.

They do not follow the same formula to a T. No more or less than any other genre offering does.

That does in fact sound elitist.

They can tell, and they don't like it, thus making entertainments which do this unpopular.

You underestimate the 'masses'. Not all entertainments made for popular consumption succeed—see the most recent Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles for one example. People can tell when they are being talked down to, or taken for granted. This is why the Marvel movies are successful—so far, they have been made with…

Yes.

If by 'pandering' you simply mean 'popular', well, your aesthetic judgment is fundamentally incompatible with mine, and most other people.