Apparently the reshoots for Rogue One were necessary because Edwards hewed a little too closely to the earlier movies:

Rogue One could potentially be the first Star Wars movie without R2-D2!

WHY DO YOU KEEP SAYING THAT MEME

It was too clever by half because it forced Batman and Superman into sounding like weirdos for it to come across. Even a moment after Batman saves Martha Kent where he just says, "You know, Martha was my mother's name, too," would have accomplished so much more and not become a hilarious Internet joke. But that's none…

Which is a bummer. There's no way that's going to be as cheap as Hulu. At least I can drop Hulu and pick up Shudder now.

Damn, how are you getting a wi-fi signal in 1979?

Look up the sex offender registry in your neighborhood, I'm sure someone there will be able to explain it to you.

I signed up for it because The Criterion Collection is up to stream there and there are so many classic films in there I've meant to see, but in reality that meant I just watched "The X From Outer Space" like 10 times.

Correct, Robin! The only possible answer!

Well damn, my apologies to Mr. Goyer.

Scooter Computer and Mr. Chips. They've got the answers at their fingertips.

Those are actually mythic, though, not just co-opting the term as an excuse for overbearing seriousness.

Put David Goyer in the stocks and now we're getting somewhere.

Anything that would have made any of the characters' motivations clearer would have been great. They even build in a place for Superman to monologue about why he does what he does, but then a wheelchair explodes and he never gets to say a word!

I've pointed to the "Martha" scene as a prime example of this. In theory, the idea that Batman suddenly realizes Superman is just a guy with a mom and a dad trying his best to make them proud is a good one! It makes sense for Batman to change his mind after seeing Superman as a son concerned for his mother. But…

Yeah, Affleck uses the words "mythic" and "Gothic" in that JoBlo interview, which I took as euphemisms for "self-serious" and "unnecessarily grim."

They didn't even wait for Batman v Superman to hit DVD! You'd think they would try to push some nerd sites into running "Maybe BvS is actually kinda good?" stuff before they went full-on with "Justice League is gonna be TOTALLY DIFFERENT, YOU GUYS."

I sort of appreciate how nakedly transparent the "Justice League" spin campaign has become.

This joke will apparently never get old for me, and that's great.

There's really nowhere for the classic Defenders to fit in the MCU with the Avengers and the Guardians of the Galaxy, but it would be fun to see them attempt to translate some of the Steve Gerber stuff into a big-budget movie. Ruffalo as Hulk, Cumberbatch as Strange, the Rock as Namor, Tilda Swinton as the Silver…