Right there with you.  I thought it was superb.  Most of the people who are disappointed just didn’t get from watching the trailers that this was NOT going to be yet another tiresome and predictable rehash of hoary old canon.

I’m right there with you. I thought it was amazing, and I’m really sad that so many people just can’t seem to check their comic book worship and take the film on its own merits, of which it has MANY.

I wholeheartedly agree with on the scene with the Waynes being gunned down. I would have that out as well. We’ve seen this MANY times. As you said, just cut from the masked gunman walking down the alley, and then cut back to the shot of Bruce standing there behind his parent’s corpses.

I just got back from seeing it and I’m still reeling. I think it’s one of the best DC films and one of the best “comic book” films ever. However, even without the comic tie-in details, which are really quite minor, it would still work beautifully.

I’m so glad to know that I’m not the only one who isn’t distracted by his visual splendor. As a cinematographer, his skills are sublime. But IMHO, both him and his brother are bollocks when it comes to character.

I don’t have much hope. . .

I’ll be skipping this flume ride through existential nihilism. I like hope.

I’m convinced that the only reason Harrison Ford agreed to reprise the role was so that Han could be killed and then Ford wouldn’t have to answer so many Star Wars questions and hear so many fan theories for his remaining years.

For me, “Nemesis” is kind of like “The Force Awakens” in that both are purportedly made for fans, but not necessarily made by fans. The director, Stuart Baird, started off in special effects. Of course, just because he started in special effects doesn’t mean that he couldn’t be a good director. James Cameron got his…

Yep, Abrams nailed the look and feel of the OT films, but the galaxy in TFA is ridiculously small. The hero’s struggles feel like they’re happening in a vacuum, so you aren’t encouraged to invest in their success since their actions don’t seem to have a considerable affect upon the universe.

I enjoyed the first quite a bit overall, but the red matter thing was dumb, and I found the whole alternate timeline things stupid as well. If you’re going to reboot, DO IT. Don’t chicken out and start some annoying timeline thing just to have Nimoy show up.

Agreed. That fight in the snow was gorgeous, and the visceral emotional quality, which was mostly absent from the fights in the Prequels, made it a pleasure to have a real stake in the outcome as opposed to just being entertained by the choreography, which while cool and fluid, felt more like a dance than a fight.

Wholeheartedly agree.  Anyone who’s disappointed by this film only has themselves to blame for not being aware of the director’s previous work.

“It’s a bad horror movie, but it works rather well as a comedy.” This is exactly how my wife and I felt about Part 1. Except we were laughing at the film, not with the film, so it didn’t even do the comedy well, either.

This is going to suck HARD, and not in a good way. 

That’s almost a retcon as far as I’m concerned. I cannot imagine how anyone who saw ROTJ back in 1983 would think that the Emperor wasn’t dead after falling down that shaft.

In the films?  Where?

Seriously, WTF?! I clicked on this link SOLELY because I did not see Ripley’s face in the image with the article.

Disagree. If you’re going to reach THAT far back in terms of in-movie years and non-movie years for a story thread, then IMHO you need to take a few moments in this new series to establish that connection prior to the big reveal.

I’m sorry, I should have been clearer in stating that I was discussing the film that came out last year, not the upcoming and IMHO needless sequel which this article is about.