My reading of Batman v. Superman also made me reconsider how I saw Man of Steel. too… If you look at it a certain way, it becomes another neo-conservative narrative about naturalized immigrants (those who have lived here since they were young, and have assimilated into our culture) vs. "invasive" immigrants (those who…

Well, whether the ideology is dumb or nonsensical depends on whether you agree with the viewpoints the film is espousing.

That's pretty solid! I could see that, and it gives the "False God" graffiti some new context.

I do. Luthor is a super-demonized intellectual liberal.

"Is Superman necessary?"

… Seriously, your comment had me wondering for a second if I'd either suffered a massive brain aneurysm, or whether Wally's storylines were just that boring so far.

So now Wally is enamored with the Flash after the speedster saved his life… just like Roy Harper was enamored with the Hood after his life was saved in the first season of Arrow.

That's the same kind of thinking that lead Tony Stark to try to solve the problems created from inventing an genocidal super-A.I. robot by… building another potentially genocidal super-A.I. robot.

"But that's not actually the essence of the X-Men, they are not really a
paramilitary group…they are a family of outcasts, very different
individuals who bonded over the fact that the world hated them."

So you're saying it would be better to take him to play laser tag? Admittedly, it would be pretty fun to help him utterly decimate a team of assorted sixth graders and their parents…

I don't get it. I just don't get it.

Uh, Adam West? His mask was even designed with the same curly eyebrows and black forehead that Sprang always gave Batman.

Yeah, in hindsight, it's pretty goofy… but that goofiness plays into Cap's initially anachronistic role on the team; he looks like a mascot, and a few of his teammates don't him seriously at first (Tony Stark, in particular).

God, I should just start whole writing articles at this point… These comments are getting out of hand.

But that explanation doesn't make any sense in a world where there ARE no other superheroes. The X-Men want to be compared favorably to, say, the Avengers, so they dress in similar costumes (even though the suits themselves are usually pretty generic). But without an Avengers to compare them to (or a concept like…

I have always supported the idea of the darker, "tactical" costuming that the X-Men films use, for one big reason: these films AREN'T, and shouldn't be, superhero movies. They're sci-fi action movies.

I liked Constantine a lot, and I think that whether one does or not comes down to whether they read the source material before they saw the movie. I didn't, so I was able to enjoy it for the pulpy, overwrought Keanu vehicle that it was (rather than cringing at how badly they butchered a comic I liked).

"Keanu Reeves seems like a pretty cool dude, actually."

… Yeah, but for a big, dumb popcorn movie, it's probably better to just give him the obvious, totally-justified reason for hating Reed. Just to move things along more easily.

"In fact, now that I'm thinking about it, if Doom did go to space/participate in the experiment-gone-wrong/whatever they go with next time for the FF's origin, but didn't get superpowers like the others, his jealousy would be an acceptable motive for the suit of armor and grudge against Richards."