Superhero fatigue seems like an impending threat to these franchises. How many times can we see a sky vortex pop out a snide, super-evil being who's after some ultra-powerful ancient glowing orb or another, firing energy out of his hands and punching various unkillable superheroes into the sides of collapsing…

Which is a refreshing change from super-powerful being in pursuit of some vague sort of glowing energy stuff/giant roaring monster that shoots energy. Whatever happened to interesting evil characters, such as Brainiac?

That would have saved the scene, IMO. Instead, Superman leapt over it, yet again. There's an evil force permeating the DCU that infects the movie-making process.

That is a grim reality. Having bought two pre-paid seats for Suicide Squad at the regal sum of $17 each prior to seeing any reviews, I now want to stab myself in the eye with a Kryptonite spear.

Will Smith has a cigar when he's being manly… a ciga-cigar right from Cuba-Cuba. He just bites it. It's for the look, he doesn't light it.

I didn't even catch that! You are right on.

Wait - she wasn't a robot in this one?

Couldn't they have just given her a foreign name and been done with it? We do have people in this country who were raised elsewhere and who speak with accents, and I imagine some of them work in the CIA where fluency in languages is a handy talent. Was it absolutely necessary to call her "Heather Lee" and challenge…

Among all the hard to swallow elements of this movie, and there were a lot, that went way too far. Hard to imagine any vendor would set a fully charged, ready-to-use piece of super high tech hardware on the edge of a table with those crowds milling around and not even keep an eye on it.

I thought he was doing classic Tommy Lee, but the guy looks older than Moses - how much energy can he have? I note Harrison Ford also seems even more subdued than usual now that he's in the "I've fallen and I can't get up" age group.

Slippery CIA boss, check. Sympathetic yet not-entirely-committed female character, check. Mano-a-mano melee against equivalent tough guy, check. Extended car/motorcycle/foot chase, check. Implausible superhero-like escapes from impossible situations, check. Control room full of computers and agents tracking…

Tommy Lee Jones is great in everything he does. Just saw him in Jason Bourne, and now he's so craggy in the face he's starting to look like an Ent. If he played Two-Face today it would be hard to decide which side was the normal one.

Aren't the Joker and Batman tired of looking at each other by now? They're like an old married couple.

Yes, I can see that. Quite a lot of respect for aristocracy built into the story. How about James Bond? I remember a great deal of ethnocentrism built into the books… was Bond well-born?

I forgot about that one! Hilarious. I always identified with Scotty and as a child wanted to become an engineer because of him, actually probably because of James Doohan's amazing performance in the role. I can say to an extent I owe my engineering degree to Scotty.

Scotty loves the Enterprise above all else - there's not a lot of room left for women.

Kirk and Spock are a lovely bromance… read some fan fic sometime and you will see it go where no man has gone before.

From the first episode of the first season of TNG, I always thought Ryker was the gayest dude in the Federation. The woman-chasing thing was just a front so the ultra-conservatives at work wouldn't find out. And Worf, too. All that gruffness… come out, Worf, you big bear - it's ok, your parents are light-years…

Though a case could be made they were not raised in civilized society but in primitive society with frequent exposure to the jungle. At least that blurs the message that apes are better parents than humans. So did that zoo gorilla video a few months ago…. Even I could have given that ape a couple pointers on how to…

At least in the US in mainstream theaters. People would stay away in droves, or at least that's what the old white guys who produce big movies think. And that's the shame of it. The few roles available for people who are darker skinned seem to be heavy on the Mystical Black Guy (at least Morgan Freeman has only so…