... You say that like it’s two different things...

Kylo Ren is the villain we need. He’s deeply insecure, flies into fits of rage, and you get the feeling he sees himself as the oppressed party, even as he’s cutting down his enemies with an energy blade. We need that villain because we’ve all seen that guy. He’s the guy who goes into a frothing rage at the slightest…

I... did not expect to start an actual conversation about Tron, but I’m not gonna object! The biggest problem I had with Legacy was that the lightcycle fight was so boring. It was what I looked forward to most... and it was just... eh. (The other criticism I’d level at it is that they did a half ass job developing…

Fair enough! That’s my reasoning for why other people don’t like it, but I’m not gonna argue you shouldn’t like it. God knows I like enough things everyone else hates. (Tron Legacy wasn’t that bad, really, was it...? I mean, it was stupid but... it’s Tron it’s supposed to be stupid...)

People are incapable of saying it because he’d have to do a good job first. And it’s not like we’re incapable of saying anything nice. Snyder is a brilliant visual director. He’s fantastic at imagery and style. It’s just not enough to make up for his other shortcomings.

Blaming it on DC/Marvel fanboy rivalry is just a…

You gotta admire the workmanship there. Thing nose-dived into the ground hard enough to bury half its not-inconsiderable length, and thinly connected bridge bit on top didn’t snap off or anything. Not like these cheap weapons of oppression they build now, no sir!

Sure, I’m happy to hear it! If you wanna type it. (I understand that many people have better things to do than talk comic book films with strangers on the internet. And, full disclaimer, I didn’t see BvS, so I could be way off on things. So, yeah, if you’ve got better things to do with your life, that’s cool.)

What…

I always got the feeling that, in addition to really hating DC, a lot, Moore is kinda embarrassed by his superhero work. He had a real falling out with the genre after Watchmen, and I think the love people have for Killing Joke really annoys him.

That comic book fans did not love BvS for a start. Okay, some of them did. But there’s comic book fans, and there’s comic book movie fans. (I put myself in the latter group. I’ve only read a handful of comics.)

Some comic book fans liked BvS. Likely they were probably, like Snyder, fans of 90s era, post Watchmen comics…

I don’t hate the film, but I understand why people do. Watchmen is a high concept book... and you can tell Snyder didn’t understand all the concepts. Some of them, but not all of them. Some of the stuff he was close on just because it is slavishly attentive. He’s copying work without really understanding it in full.

Bv…

There’s another good thing you can say about it: He copied the original as much as he could, so there’s a lot less of his own work in this one.

Admittedly, I think that remark goes past damning with faint praise and goes into damning with thinly veiled insults.

I’m not sure that’s so much because Snyder knew what he was doing as much as Snyder trying to make the film as close to the comic as he could (because I really do believe Snyder loves that book, just for the wrong reasons). You can see the original ideas, but that’s not really proof that Snyder knows what he’s doing.…

I’ve not seen 300 and always regarded it as something that looked like... well the absolute worse, but I actually kinda agree with this. Watchmen is a serious work that Snyder didn’t really get. Superman is a character he mangled. 300 is just about perfect for him. Silly, over-the-top shit is kinda his thing. You give…

I don’t disagree that the Dr. Manhattan ending works, but I was always skeptical of the original ending. I never quite bought that humanity would actually come together against a common external threat. Maybe I’m just more cynical than Alan Moore. (Darkness aside, in the few Alan Moore works I’ve read, he’s rather…

Alan Moore wanted to use DC characters, but the editors didn’t want him killing off their characters, so he had to change it to original characters. (Pretty sure they aren’t in the public domain though.) So... it’s more a case of who had the tighter editorial control.

Of course, to borrow a phrase that makes no sense…

Would that be a graph of people who like the comic or the film? Because I like the comic WAY better than the film, and I always felt Snyder never really understood the violence in Watchmen was a deconstruction of how superheroes fight crime, and just took graphic violence as being awesome. (As I’ve said before, it’s…

Funny thing, actually, I was reading an Alan Moore interview (more looking for a quote on the Killing Joke for another conversation) and I ran across a mention he had about the Killing Joke. Specifically he mentioned that, due to the nature of the character, he was more comfortable messing with, and making dark,…

Oh yeah, Tony’s an asshat. But it’s also looking a lot like one of Cap’s major starting points is trying to keep his buddy out of the court system. And... well Bucky kinda shot everyone in his last film, he really kinda does need to be taken in for that. He can used brainwashed as a defense in court. After all, Cap’…

Looks like it might be. It seems to have an even tinier than normal arc reactor powering it, so it’d probably have the juice for it. Even so, given that it’s a very minimal glove, the outdoor setting, the people running in the background (maybe) and Tony Stark’s clothing, I’d say he’s acting defensively, probably at a…

Definitely deserves to be associated with it. Especially as it’s a rare example where the actual character is still alive, so not following up on how this affects her is more egregious than usual.