Because all comic book movies are threaded by an unspoken tension between fantasy and reality, and disrupting that delicate balance fundamentally weakens the overall story. So far, Marvel's done a fantastic job maintaining a world that isn't too cartoony or too serious, but once they introduce omnipotent alien big…

The Hulk is supposed to be the strongest or one of the strongest characters in comics, so that's at least vaguely plausible. Black Widow's superpower is having a firearms license.

Oh yeah, it's cool in smaller films where he's fighting Nazis and whathaveyou. My point is that comic books and their adaptations have a serious problem with escalation: Once you've had one doomsday monster with the power of God firing a blue laser at the sky, there's literally no where else to go. In film studies…

I run into that problem a LOT with DC movies. Originally, the point of a trailer was to show you snippets out of context to get you excited about how they fit into the story. You see an arresting image or cool line of dialogue and imagine all the events leading up to that Big Moment, as well as the narrative…

Uhhh, I can do that for like 30 of his songs. It's sort of like challenging me to name one memorable John Williams theme.

Haha, you guys think YOU like to drink? I can't drink anymore because when I tried to quit cold turkey, I literally have potentially fatal seizures from withdrawal! I even had one while driving, costing me my car, license, job, and thousands of dollars, forcing me to move back in with my parents at age 30! Suck it…

You are the only person ever to utter the sentence "I did not like Winter Soldier's action"

Take that back.

The movie where Superman caused a bunch of 9/11s and looked to be in physical distress every time he did a good deed.

Yes he was. Yes he fucking was.

I am seriously convinced they wrote the diaoogue for the trailer first, then reverse-enginered a script around it.

Ugh, look: I shouldn't have to spoon-feed you this, but Lex's motivations could not be any more clear. Let me spell it out for you:

Have you noticed how many problems in the DC universe could be resolved with a single sentence?

hahaha so, like Bane, Thanos can only be defeated by banishing him to the Friend Zone.

"Relax Alfred, he's got, you should see this kid Alfred, I'm a scientist. He's got super fast speed but I have to test it with science by throwing razors at his face."

So at best, one of the half-dozen people that are going to effortlessly wipe out an entire planet's worth of doomsday alien gods has a prehistoric weapon updated with technology from the 1940's.

I just imagined 20 minutes of ejaculating urethras and they're all better actors than Jared Leto.

…okay, and?

I was referring to Hawkeye's arrows and Captain America's shield.

I meant Black Widow, whose superpower is empowering young women with a positive role model.