@twophrasebark: Star Wars as written by Quentin Tarantino?

@Mike Davis: Exactly who else was he competing with for the title of "Best Superman since Reeve?" Dean Cain?

@rudecherub: Does making them 10 feet tall, blue, and with tails count as a good explanation?

@rudecherub: Convergent evolution. There. Disbelief suspended.

@muddi900: A lot of those stories that have Superman as an icon of all that is good about American ideals were written by Brits.

@Cash907Censored: Well he is supposed to be the Man of Tomorrow, not the Man of Yesterday.

Well, he certainly looks the part. And if a Brit can write the most lauded Superman comic of recent memory, I don't see why one can't play him in the upcoming movie.

@FrankN.Stein: That's one thing I always found amusing about dystopian movies. They always have situations like this to satirize the ever-increasing intrusion of advertising on our lives... while also providing a convenient excuse to include extra advertising in the movie.

These paintings remind me of the Magic Rocks I had when I was a kid.

@greenman1: The idea of web shooters is absurd no matter where they come from. Every other power Spider-Man has is equally ridiculous. You just gotta roll with it and hope the characterization and action are good.

@greenman1:

@TheGreat&PowerfulTurtle: No, Smallville is a long, drawn-out origin story. This is more akin to something like Clueless, 10 Things I Hate About You, Easy A, etc., where they take a classic story and put it in a high school setting. Could have been a great one.

I was interested until I read the word "demystify." I don't mind a dark tone, but I want my Camelot to be a crazy place with magical swords and green knights, dammit!

Eh, I'm not really feeling these. They're not posters for what a Kubrick Iron Man would look like. They're just posters of existing Kubrick movies with Iron Man replacing the main character.

Great. This is going to bring back those nightmares I had after reading American Gods. Thanks, io9.

@Raidenshred: A show that's not nearly as good as the show that made her famous, but gets by on the sheer force of her charisma?

Darth Vader really should have his own personal variation of Rule 34. If you can imagine an indignity that Vader can undergo, he probably already has.

@ltwass: I thought 28 Weeks later was a commentary on the impossible task of soldiers fighting the war against terror, since terrorists tend to blend in with the general civilian population. At least, that was what I took away from the scene where the rooftop snipers are trying to pick off the infected in the crowd…

@stereobot: I think that's the point. It's supposed to be funny because the alien's voice doesn't match his appearance. Kind of like a commercial that has a talking baby with the voice of a 40 year old pack a day smoker.

@RalOberon: Well there was that date rape scene in "Observe and Report."