The thing that I don’t understand is that Spider-Man may not offer the full breadth and depth of options that the rest of the MCU does, but surely there’s better things available than El Muerto, right? Or, and I know that this is crazy, create an original character for the movies!

I don’t think it probably counts, but The Devil from Reaper, gloriously played by Ray Wise, was one of the first that I thought of. Sure, he can sometimes get scary when he doesn’t get what he want, but most of the time he’s just an affable dad type looking out for his son!

And the thing is, I’m fine with people liking things that aren’t super popular. There are tons of things that I love that most people don’t like. But the Snyder fans don’t seem to realize that they’re a very vocal online minority pushing for a vision that not a lot of people outside their group really liked very much.

Yeah, and critically, outside of Snyder’s diehard internet fanboys, Gunn’s movies are pretty well reviewed, while Snyder’s are at best middling. WB didn’t decide to bring Gunn in for absolutely no reason in the world.

See, I think that adapting a work into a new medium is an interesting challenge and creates the possibility for really interesting results. It’s just that so often the people doing the adaptation are prioritizing trying to make something as profitable as possible instead of prioritizing making something good, and that…

Yeah, unfortunately, I feel like the reason that they don’t do things like this is that they are inherently new to some extent. The goal of the remakes is to find a way to produce something as similar as possible to the original because Disney appears to think that what people want is simply more of the stuff that…

Yes, this is a good article filled with good points. I don’t at all have a problem with remakes, reboots, or whatever. I like that something old might be given new life. But it needs a reason to exist. Maybe the original had some good ideas but poor execution that could be fixed in a new version (eg, Ocean’s Eleven).…

Yeah, I thought about that math, but my worry is about the action scenes. Avatar certainly had its share of action, but the action was pretty nicely contained within each episode. They still managed to tell a nice story on top of the action in those short 22 minute episodes. I don’t know if it’s an aspect of live…

They’re turning 20 episodes from Season 1 of Avatar into 8 live action episodes? Don’t get me wrong, there’s definitely stuff that can be cut from that season without losing a ton. Still, it feels like this may feel a bit rushed and/or leave some great stuff out, especially if they creators feel like they need to…

I mean, there’s a kernel of truth to the idea that fictional characters are what their writers make them. There’s no real Superman who we can just ask what he thinks about various subjects or observe to determine his traits. But those people are also being awfully obtuse in the idea that certain characters become so…

But the problem isn’t that there’s any amount of action, but that there’s such a focus on the action that it crowds out the ideas at play. That’s not something that you can say about A Voyage Home, which is a funny fish out of water story but that aspect doesn’t distract from the environmental ideas that the story is…

While it’s true that there’s no “one true” version of any character, there are some characters or franchises which are so tied to particular ideas that if you’re telling a story with them and not sticking to those core ideas then your story needs to be reacting against or commenting on them. Superman is conceptually a…

PLEASE don’t describe Snyder as a victim of the failure of the DCEU films. While it’s certainly justifiable to empathize with the personal issues that he went through at the time, from the professional side of things as a director and producer he was well paid for films that lots of people didn’t like. He wasn’t a…

So here’s the question, after 3-5 seasons do we want a SNW movie? (I think the answer is no, but I’m not going firmly against)

I think that Beyond had some good ideas, and as an episode, or maybe a 2-parter, of a TV show it could have worked. But the need to make it a showy action movie just bloated it out and reduced the focus on the ideas. 

Yes, you can’t out-Star Wars Star Wars. There’s a huge audience that wants to show up for good Star Wars action movies (though that audience has been battered a bit in the last decade), but a Trek movie that’s trying to be Star Wars will just seem like a pale imitation; a square peg being shoved through a round hole.…

I’d say that there are six or seven Trek movies that are worth watching, with at least 4 that are legitimately good. But I agree that Trek works best as a TV show with light serialization.

Pine’s right, trying to make Trek into an action adventure story like Star Wars is a mistake. Abrams flat out admitted back when Into Darkness came out that he wasn’t a fan of Trek growing up and was instead a fan of Star Wars, and it showed. It also feels like a lot of the people involved in the TV side are in the…

Yes, as sarcastro said below, related to the fact that it’s not novel or clever is the fact that every time it’s brought up people explain why it isn’t a good or valid point. And as I said, bringing it up like those prior conversations haven’t happened just makes it look like you’re simply ignorant of the many many…

Someone always brings this up as if it’s a clever or novel idea. It’s not, and presenting it as if it’s a clever or interesting argument sure makes it seem like you don’t really understand the issues at play at all. Like, even a little bit.