No, Green Lantern WAS DC trying to explicitly ape Marvel by reshaping a halfway decent superhero movie script by Marc Guggenheim, Michael Green, and Greg Berlanti (the guys behind "Arrow" and "The Flash") into a dollar-store Iron Man clone.

Well, obviously. But the comic book mentality has unfortunately turned the once-human Batman into some sort of infallible Ubermensch demigod. And the number one thing people who hate Superman like to see is Batman kicking his ass.

Well, Batman fighting Superman has NEVER been a good story. It's a gimmick at best, and the only time it was ever done well was at the climax of a story that was pointedly NOT supposed to be about Superman.

At the very least, he could have played Sgt. Rock.

Well, I think they're just so desperate to look like they're NOT aping Marvel's formula that they're shooting themselves in the foot by trying to do things differently— fixing something that ain't broken, so to speak. So while Marvel methodically built up to a team-up movie by introducing the characters one-by-one, DC…

Exactly! None of it is motivated by any kind of storytelling or narrative logic. It's just a question of which characters Warner Bros. thinks would be most popular with audiences. I can't even THINK of a decent, solo story you could tell about Black-friggin'-Adam.

DC's policy when it comes to the characters that get a movie seems to be completely arbitrary at this point. "People like Harley Quinn and Catwoman, right? Let's just make a Gotham City Sirens movie. And Cyborg can TOTALLY carry a movie on his own, right?"

I actually wouldn't mind seeing a nu-Trek reimagining of Sybok as a manic nutjob who "hears the voice of God calling him". That's what reboots SHOULD do— take things that didn't work the first time around and make them interesting.

It's good! There are moments when Gal Gadot strains a bit here and there, but for the most part she's a fantastic Diana. And the supporting cast she's surrounded with all do impeccable work— Chris Pine and Gal Gadot have great chemistry.

So you're saying this version of Jughead DOES like In-'N-Out, then?

If there had been any kind of attitude or personality behind it… some snark, even… that line might have worked. But given how flat and direct a delivery Felicity Jones gives it, it comes off as clunky and robotic— a character EXPLAINING who they're supposed to be, rather than actually being like that. (And it's not…

The "Lethal Weapon in space" logline gives me a lot of hope for this movie.

Lemme put it this way: I'm a huge DC fan, and I enjoyed Man of Steel, but I'll admit that it's a pretty flawed film. I also enjoyed PARTS of Suicide Squad, and I feel like there was probably a better movie there at one point, but it was completely mangled in editing and is, as it stands, kind of awful.

So I'm glad this information is out now, 'cause it means I can talk freely about Ares being in the film (I saw this in a preview screening waaaaay back in October)… but I DID just want to say that it's actually not as simple as "Ares is the bad guy, Wonder Woman is going to punch him in the face". In fact, the film's…

Cheetah could supposedly cut Superman because her powers are based in magic. However, I have MAJOR gripes with that line of thinking.

It kinda reminds me of how vehemently J.J. Abrams denied that Khan was the main villain of Star Trek Into Darkness up to its release. We all knew it was Khan— the rumors all pointed to Khan, the original casting of Benicio Del Toro screamed Khan, and it was pretty obvious that J.J. and crew weren't creative enough to…

I think it's physically impossible not to like Alan Tudyk.

Well, personally, I blame the performances. The characters in The Force Awakens are all thinly-sketched generalities on the page, yet the actors cast in the roles brought so much charisma to the table that it was hard not to love them. Meanwhile, the characters in Rogue One are just as thinly-sketched, but the actors…

There aren't many filmmakers that I would say I have total, blind faith in, but Rian Johnson is sure as sh*t one of them.

"The Internet can't stop envisioning alternate versions of Rogue One."