It really could have been - at the very least I'd trust Miller to make an awesome movie, even if it wasn't great at the characters themselves.

And he did more or less the same thing with Batman in this movie.

I think of Zack Synder as basically Michael Bay only with even less talent, and an asshole in like three or four more ways than just Bay's creepy gender issues.

So, basically: "It's a JJ Abrams movie"?

The worst part about BvS is that it feels like twenty or so minutes from the end of the movie everyone suddenly realized that they couldn't actually use the ending from TDKR, since the only thing they'd actually taken from it was "Batman is old and doesn't like Superman". And so they panicked and picked up another…

A lot of those things are true for earlier versions of the characters, but not the actual 2010s Guardians of the Galaxy book that the movie is based on, though. There was a much earlier book with the same title, but the overlap is pretty minimal.

The bit with the Mandarin was sort of odd because, well, the Iron Man movies still seem like they're set up for the actual Mandarin to show up. There was just a fake Mandarin first? It's sort of weird and not clear what their plan was.

Zack Snyder is apparently a crazy randroid as well, though, so his total inability to understand what was happening in Watchmen isn't that surprising.

Until about half way through this article I just assumed that "too dark" just meant "the lighting was bad enough that you couldn't see whatever expensive explosion was supposed to be happening."

What confused me is that we're told that Perdegaton (look that's how they pronounced it I know it's supposed to be a first and last name but they apparently don't) distributes the virus killing billions of people after he takes control of the company five years from now. I don't know exactly how old he's supposed to…

"Use his super-powers in ways that are useful"? Oh sure, and next you'll be saying he should shrink down when he's flying around trying to avoid getting shot by robots that want to knock him out of the sky or something. Be realistic here - it's really something he can only use for no reason whatsoever in cases where…

Maybe it causes mass chaos and a lot of people die fighting against each other and/or starving because the food infrastructure gets all screwed up?

It wouldn't even need to be a moral appeal or anything!

Somehow in the last fifteen years nerd culture has turned into mainstream culture. Now you can't conclude anything about someone who watches either one.

I was actually surprised when he pulled out the disco revolver in the first place - I assumed he was going to take him out for a talk in an attempt to convince him not to be Eeee-vil or something. You'd think at this point Rip Hunter would know he couldn't do it, too, because he's already chickened out on killing…

I used to really like that actor and then someone in a comment on one of the Arrow recaps referred to him as "Blacktrick Stewart" and now that's All. I. Can. See.

I'm ok with Savage getting Sara into a hold like that because, hey, we didn't see exactly what happened and he's probably (supposedly) good at fighting at this point.

No. Why? No.

Skye should have a gun!

I kept wondering why none of the smart characters thought about it for a minute and realized "instead of changing the specific things that happened, which probably won't be possible, we should change the stuff around those things to make what did happen not actually bad the way it seems in isolation."