Person of Interest is generally okay to pretty good... until it is an episode directly about the machine and it becomes awesome. The first time Reese looked up into the traffic/security camera and said "You're going to help me find him" and it started thinking about it, I was blown away. After that it quickly…

Aronofsky DID get another shot at a superhero movie - it was The Wolverine. And he dropped out of it. Just like he dropped out of the Robocop remake and every other big budget movie he tried to do until he finally settled on...a big-budget epic based on Noah's Ark.