2003 Turtles have them all 6 feet tall and built like linebackers. Personally, I'm not holding out much hope for this film, given the pedigree of its director.

Who says that self-awareness in any way derails storytelling? If anything, it helps ground storytelling that's in danger of crawling up its own expository butt. And I'd rather my fiction be clever than be like a moody teenager. Seriously, life is already dark; escapism doesn't have to be.

What Man of Steel did was finally drop all the Silver Age-y play violence where no one really gets hurt and everything snaps back to normal at the end.

Or my next prog rock band.

To be fair, Brienne is kinda on the beefy side.

That movie wasn't bad because it was camp; it was bad because it was hideously constructed. It's like none of the people involved cared about making a good film, let alone a good Batman film.

The negative press for Superman Returns isn't because it was light and goofy. As far as tone goes, there's nothing wrong with it. Its problems lie with the messy plot, the retarded kryptonite island, and the super baby that Kal-El skipped on.

More importantly, CA:TWS never lost sight of what Cap truly represented: The American Ideal everybody aspires to, the living embodiment of the whole land-of-the-free sales pitch. In a world of grimdark spies, here was a man who was a shining beacon, able to bring a smile to an old woman's eye, and to rally people to…

And here I thought we'd actually get to see the A'askvarii girl that Quill slept with.

Yeah, that argument can't work anymore, now that Guardians is a success. Here's a movie based on comics, that obviously doesn't hold itself in high regard, that uses the fucking Piña Colada song of all things as part of its soundtrack.

Funny thing about Man of Steel: once the initial Krypton scenes were done, it looked like they were going for the same optimistic angle that Captain America's films thrive on. His first flight was even played rather comically.

Wonder Xena implies that there will be a level of irreverence and charm to Gal Gadot's performance. Which I doubt there will be.

It's still a minority opinion, even with critics.

Hasn't Feige gone on record that they might go through with a "real mandarin" plotline anyway? I mean, there's IM4 to think about.

The Transformers movies are siting at 50% and below over at Rotten Tomatoes. CA:TWS is popular not just with the masses, but with people whose jobs it is to determine if a movie is good or bad. And more than 90% of those guys say that it's good.

Didn't she spend like a few minutes explaining how she'll have to start crafting new identities now that her cover's blown? Besides, she has that super face-changing thing — and very strong social engineering skills — so disguising herself really won't be that much of a problem.

Glad to know that despite your rather smug responses to me, you're capable of humility. Unless you're being sarcastic, which I guess this being the Internet, is more likely. I'll just pretend the sarcasm doesn't exist, because I honestly don't want to have to interact with you any more.

Personally? I thought it was just hitting its stride. Take note, my opinion of the show isn't because of those three egomaniacs demanding a million each, but because of Melissa Rauch and Mayim Bialik. Aside from providing a more balanced female population, they also provide less dorky coutnerpoints to the show's…

EDIT: Ignore my original post, I thought your reply was to something else. Anyway, yes, you're reading too much into it. With little effort, any film can look like it's cribbing from somewhere else, especially if they share the same genre. Hell, a case could be made that Guardians of the Galaxy is beat-for-beat…

Also, Groot's nickname was "Giving Tree". I think that says it all.