I judge the film on what it wanted to do and its execution and not solely based on how happy it made me.

There is a column in Comic Book Legends Revealed about that. Tl;dr, he got a year's advanced notice.

Boy, they are really just falling all over themselves making the most absurd costumes in the New 52, aren't they?

Yeah - and it was meta back in 1956 in SHOWCASE # 4!

The kids, after watching action films of the 1990's, had no attention span or patience for the 1960;s Bond films, where you had to sit through 15 minutes of plot before an action set piece.

Be clear, I have several categories for people and why they don't like the film. Just because not everyone fits into just one, doesn't mean that there aren't people like that. This isn't all or nothing, thats a logical fallacy and its not the discussion at hand.

Hawkeye Initiative!

Personally, I agree. But try telling this to the marketing guys.

Another interesting example from the Bond movies is the golf scene in Goldfinger. I remember the first time I saw that, I was thinking, "this is sooo boring! Why are we watching people play golf?" But the second time I saw it, when I was a little more properly attenuated to the pacing of that era, I realized that…

Back when I had aspirations of being a screenwriter, I got this book from the library. But before I finished it, I made a conscious decision to stop reading it. I have no clue what that reason was now, but so far I don't regret it.

Now, because we don't like the director or we're not comfortable with the style, we create a concept like "not staying true to the character" and I think that's dishonest.

It's such a shame they apparently couldn't figure out what to do with her. She was definitely one of the high points of the show for what little time she was there.

I emphatically agree with this, especially as it regards comicbooks and their adaptations. In the comics themselves, we're drowning in the endless sea of mega-crossover events. Then, since the most financially-viable place to adapt a comicbook is in summer blockbusters, those have to have huge stakes as well.

That's not at all what I pictured Tim Daly looking like...

...if we are continuing the pendantednessery.

I think, though, that a segment that would focus on the MOS outfit would give this a pass because thematically DC is "grimdark" (sigh) while Marvel is shiny and happy.

That is true, but remember also that some of the promo materials for the first Avengers movie, specifically the ones that were painted rather than photographs, had Hawkeye wearing sunglasses and little creative licenses like that. So we can't really be completely sure until we see an actual photo.

Well, as usual, I disagree with you. I think someone who didn't like elements of the Man of Steel costume would dislike those same elements in this one.

Fair enough on our differing preference for Superman's powers. All I ask is that we not use Smallville's execution of a Superman with dialed-back powers to judge all uses of a lower-powered Superman. By that logic, I could judge all God-like interpretations of Superman based on Richard Lester's Superman III.

Okay, fair enough. I absolutely think the green is way too dark on this image (though, like the Wonder Woman picture, we can always hope this isn't exactly how he'll look in the actual movie). And as others have indeed already pointed out here, I also hate all the unnecessary lines about the torso.