OMG, KalEl found a reason to be pissed at Bricken. Not any less shocking.

How about the unnecessary and wildly racist practice of any Middle Easterners in fiction only being villains or terrorists? Is that better?

And some of the problem is down to us reading characters as white by default.

The problem is that if they had cast an Arab actor, they would just as likely be facing criticism for making their only Arab cast member a villain, or that they cast an Arab actor for a role that will inevitably be written to carefully downplay any ethnic traits so that they can't be charged with vilifying an entire…

Seems we have to agree to disagree because I'm a huge Superman fan and I loved Man of Steel. I thought Cavil made an excellent Superman and I'm looking forward to seeing him in future DC movies.

If it makes a ton of money but audiences generally don't care for it then the next film suffers (and Shazam will probably suffer if BvS isn't well received regardless if separate or not).

Some people want to damn BvS before it even comes out... I don't know why.

I'm boycotting it just as I boycotted Into Darkness (Love DC and ST) because if we don't draw a line in the sand somewhere, we're just going to get crap from everything but Marvel.

I think you might be right, but I think it might also be possible for Superman vs. Batman to make tons of money just on name recognition and then end up killing the franchise (at least for a while) if it is really lame. To me, it just sounds too much like Pedator vs. Alien or some other movie grasping for a reason to…

Like I said - itll make a lot of money. It probably won't "underperform."But if you cannot "conceive" of a way it makes less than the studio would like - you're ignoring some key factors.

I read that column a while ago, and if I remember correctly, it's basically saying that DC is trying too hard to be like Marvel, right? Personally, I feel it's more of a problem that DC isn't trying hard enough to be like Marvel. In the 60's, when Stan Lee and the Marvel Bullpen were finally doing superhero stories…

I would be absolutely shocked if BvS made less than the Marvel stand-alone movies. Man of Steel's worldwide box office was on par with Marvel's solo movies, and sequels to superhero movies have generally made more than their predecessors. So, a sequel that also adds this historic meeting of the two most famous…

I know it would never happen, but I can dream; if they got Laura Vandervoort to reprise her role from Smallville, I would be a very happy person (not because I like Smallville, just because I like her).

It is kinda funny to me how parallel the developments of both DC and Marvel Studio's movie franchises are with the rise of the superhero comics in the 60's. Marvel is doing bold, revolutionary things and fundamentally redefining the genre, while DC is straggling along on name recognition and trying to copy the…

So when do you (Marvel obsessed fanboys) start bashing this (not made yet) movie for being campy (read: made by DC) and not serious (read: not made by Marvel)?

By "underperforms," do you mean making only a billion dollars? Because as much as the uber-nerds might knock it (and deservedly so, in my opinion), I'm pretty sure the sheer novelty value of Superman and Batman meeting in live-action for the first time will be an automatic guarantee of huge financial success, no…

In fairness, I don't think they knew what to do with him even before that. They started out doing stories that were pure imitations of the original Fawcett stories from the Golden Age, right down to the C.C. Beck art, but then Beck quit because he just couldn't stand how poor he thought the quality of the writing…

I would've been a lot more excited about this movie if the Rock had been playing Cap instead of Black Adam. A part of me almost wonders if they waited to see how Hercules did to decide of he got to be the star of this movie or not, and it failed, so here we are.

Are comic book fans so odd that they can believe people can fly and be nearly invincible, but can't accept that someone who is bald in comics has hair in a movie?

I always wonder how much different the public appreciation of Ledger's performance would've been if he had survived it.