Watchmen the book is about de-glamorizing and romanticizing superhero stories. It depicts the action and the characters in a flat, objective, almost documentarian manner. Action beats are often played out in wide shots, with minimal emphasis. It's almost dispassionate; an adult analysis and critique of superhero…

And the really sad thing is, that's what makes the Batman/Superman pairing so interesting in the first place. It's another perfect contrast: Batman, the "human" one, is actually the more extreme and disconnected personality, while Clark Kent is just a regular guy who happens to have Earth-shattering superpowers. It's…

… Metahuman watch? o_O

Frank Miller's work is a lot like the Matrix trilogy. The early stuff was legitimately good, but the follow-ups were so awful that they tainted the original by association.

The amount of material they seem to have cribbed from The Dark Knight Returns is honestly stunning. I have a really bad feeling that Zack Snyder basically just wanted to make a Dark Knight Returns adaptation (without understanding what the book was actually about, just like Watchmen), and got the whole thing…

And the wonderful thing I keep reading in reviews for Batman v. Superman? Apparently they did exactly the same thing all over again.

"Manufacturing conflict between the two characters says a lot more about
the creators involved than the characters themselves."

So Wally West drops by juuuuust long enough to remind everybody that, yes, he is still on this show. And the one plot thread they seemed to be setting up for him— a minor love subplot with Jesse? Yeah, she hops a bus outta town at the end of the episode.

Yeah, but it's weird how arbitrary the whole thing was. Harper was seconds away from letting her walk! He didn't care! But Lucy makes a single unwarranted outburst— even though, again, she's not the person in charge of the investigation— and suddenly Harper completely flip-flops and they're not only arresting her,…

Agreed. Hulk maybe works okay on his own (just ask Lou Ferrigno and Bill Bixby), but the Punisher is a character who thrives on bouncing off of other heroes. He's such an extreme character that he almost works better as a dramatic contrast than he does as a lead.

Damn… This is what I get for binge-watching the show. I'm all hopped up to talk about episode 11 (the last one I saw), but you guys are all on episode 01. I tried reading the "binge reviews", but they were kind of annoyingly surface-level… I come here for analyses, dammit!

They fixed the nose/brow construction on the mask, so it doesn't look like he's constipated all the time anymore. They also made the nose piece longer and wider, so it doesn't look quite as stunted. And his eye lenses are bigger and smoother.

It was finished a couple of years ago. The film just never had a domestic release. It WAS released overseas, though…

'Bout damn time!

I honestly can't tell if you're serious or not… That would raise SO many more questions than answers!

I could see that, too. She exibited more likability in the back half of this one episode than she has in every other episode so far.

I like the Nostalgia Critic, for the most part, but he's a bit preachy when he thinks he's right about a point. Subtlety is not his strong suit, to say the least. And he does coast on slapstick and screaming a LOT.

I was really, REALLY disappointed with this video. Because yes, the Mask comic book is a bloody carnival ride of horrors, and YES, the movie with Jim Carrey is nothing like that. But Walker doesn't even address the obvious question: HOW did the movie end up so different from the book?

Yeah… it's funny, but the only thing in the world I could tell you for sure about Lucy Lane in the comic books is that she's Lois's younger sister. That's it.

… Alright, fair enough. Still kinda cheap, though.