Have never heard that particular viewpoint on Watchmen before. Fair play to you, sir (even though I absolutely adore both book and movie).

This is what I'm super curious about regarding people in your position........what would it take to get you to break?

Everybody in the known universe is going to end up seeing that damn movie. Including emo fan boys who often make grand claims about never seeing it.

Heck, Marvel Studios has had such a Midas Touch with their movies that if they "win" any harder, Warner Entertainment might just give them the rights to make movies about DC superheroes.

Remember the first time you watched Avengers? That was the last time any of us truly felt the threat of death in the MCU.

Man of Steel didn't loathe its source material at all. Quite the contrary.

It was a rhetorical question.

I believe before SM3 became a critical failure, I heard Avi Arad take full credit for personally convincing Raimi to include Venom in the movie. Parse that how you will.

I think they need to be gritty intitally because the default experiences and associations most people have with comic books are story-lines and characters that are a little childish and simplistic for 13 year olds, much less adults. By making it gritty you promise the college and adult audience they are not paying…

Considering the shit that's going on the New 52, I'd say things won't be back to normal until they revert back to the Post-Crisis continuity.

All the outrage over Man of Steel and "grimdark" would be a lot more credible if it wasn't coming from the same people who hated Superman Returns for being too tongue-in-cheek and campy.

It certainly would be unfair to say, "I like light-and-fun movies, therefore all movies should be light-and-fun, and people who prefer dark-and-grim movies should just be out of luck." There are certain characters and concepts (mob movies, the Punisher) that wouldn't be right in a light-and-fun setting. But by the…

The Last Airbender recently and one of the episodes towards the end of the series dealt with a similar question when Aang was worried that he'd have to kill Ozai when one of the previous Avatar's points out his duty is to world, not to his conscience and he might have to do bad things in order to save the world and…

The reason I get mad about Batman and Superman killing has less to do with in-universe justifications and more to do with the writers. Because after all, the biggest reason Batman doesn't kill the Joker is that for 75 years writers haven't made him do it.

That is where Man of Steel failed, not at the neck break scene (which was a direct result of the failed morality). The "maybe" after the bus scene, Clark allowing his father to die from something he could save him from, his revenge of the destruction of the Truck driver's property... all of these things are not…

Everything people are bitching about with MoS Kal are the exact reasons Lex and others will use to attack him/go after him.

I'm hoping this effect, when applied to StarTrekIntoDarkness, will help people realize how terrible the original AbramsTrek actually was.

Sure, he had his moment of being crazy,

I make dinner and go to work every day in real life; why would I play a game that involves doing the exact same things (albeit in a slightly nicer house than my own)?

As far as I'm concerned, no exploration of trying to achieve maximum evil in a sandbox game is complete without some cursory attempt at sexual perversion.