Every costume also has a million stylized seams, which are going to be impossible for every artist to make work with their own style.

I'm with ya.

Did you see the movie in the theater? Because I thought all the promo pics were shit, but on a big screen you could see the incredible detail and depth in the costumes and constructs. It wasn't perfect, but it was very cool and one of the few things I've seen in years that made me believe it was advanced alien tech.

I'm a lifelong hardcore superhero nut, and I agree with you. But it's not about movies, it's about good and thoughtful reboots.

"...comic book adaptations are often the only kind where it's so trendy to blame the failure of the films back on the original property, somehow. Isn't that strange? When a film based on a Stephen King novel fails, how many times do reviews say, "It was too faithful to the source material"...?"

Sadly, I have to agree with you on Johns. There was something I really enjoyed in his Flash and GL runs, but there was often something missing.

The expository intro really destroyed GL. They didn't understand that the movie should be about the thrill of discovery! Hal was introduced to vast marvels, and we should have been along for that ride with him, but instead, by the time Hal got to see that stuff it was old news to the audience.

Green Lantern wasn't good, but it really wasn't as bad as it was made out to be, and I think could have done respectably if it hadn't been preceded by 2 years of handwringing and criticism culminating in a crescendo of scathing reviews. While the Rotten Tomatoes score is embarrassing at 26, the audience score is more…

In my limited experience, jet pilots are pretty much frat boys at heart, with a lot more math under their belts.

I take your point, but think it would be better to continue widening the MCU.

Esther, what are you basing the cut-off of 2000 on? Asbestos use has been very strictly regulated for longer than that. I'd say any house built in the '90's and much of the '80's would never have had any. In fact, the Asbestos Hazard Emergency Response Act you refer to was passed in 1986, and consumer backlash was…

I agree- sometimes the best thing to do is not give us the believable, but go straight for "Holy shit that's a floating cube with a giant head in it that's spraying lasers all around."

AIM should be a splinter group from Hydra. The latter is an advanced secret army, the former is an advanced applied science lab.

And the arts require their own methodologies and ways of thinking- even of being. But those are more open.

The goal wasn't impossible, and he dropped the ball.

You're right. In terms of resonance, nothing beats the duel towards which the entire six movies have been building. But that's as it should be. That doesn't mean that in ANH Ben Kenobi doesn't look tired and old swinging his saber lazily at Vader, who seems to be there more for conversation than battle.

I think you're rationalizing about the OG series. They were better. They spawned a phenomenon, and it wasn't just kids or Sci-Fi nerds.

Yes, the Midichlorians scenes could go away with no detriment. In fact, it's a little creepy and morally questionable for Qui-Gon to take and test Anakin's blood and lie to him about it.

Hell yes. You win.

Yeah- there's so much awesome there! It's so dark, so edgy, so angry! So many serrations!