Pictured: the lead researcher in the NFL’s study.

I’m really not interested in paying $15/person + overpriced snacks just to watch people punch each other amid CGI explosions. There are plenty of movies like that I can watch on Netflix at home for basically free. (Or I could watch MMA clips on Youtube for definitely free.) There needs to be some kind of decent story…

Ugh. The very first response I see and it’s “Turn of your brain.” I could go for the rest of my life without reading it again. What a thoroughly boring way to watch movies.

Why? Some of them are great. The Dark Knight. Batman 1988. Captain America 2. Iron Man. Deadpool. The Matrix, to some extent. Your attitude is as snobbish as it is unjustified.

I don’t get comic book films being dependent on David S. Goyer. He’s literally one of the worst writers in Hollywood and somehow has claimed a monopoly on the genre.

oh noes sjw feminists!

Something being faithful doesn’t necessarily mean it was adapted well for the screen. The movie was boring, poorly paced, and a lot of things that read great on the page felt stilted and disjointed on screen.

Okay, but in the meantime, because the media is not covering ISIS attacks killing Muslims in Yemen, Lebanon, Afghanistan, Turkey, and north Africa, most Americans are going to think that ISIS just attacks European Christians when in fact they are killing far more Muslims.

Apparently he just did an interview with the Wall Street Journal and claimed that there were way more deaths in The Force Awakens than there were in Man of Steel, so he doesn’t quite get the issue. The guy is just so completely oblivious...

Yes, Americans should have identified more with the victims in Tunisia than those in Belgium based on the nationality of those victims. Belgium is an ally and Tunisia isn’t (I don’t know for sure), but as far as Americans typically go, they couldn’t point to either on a map if their life depended on it. You, in…

I respect your points made here and agree with the frequency argument. My problem is the ‘basic human condition’ part; this notion we care more because XYZPeople are closer to us culturally? Why is that ‘normal’? Why is that an allowance, or worse, an excuse to be more sympathetic to certain horrors than to others?

“educated people” you’re a sweetheart.

That’s not really a fair comparison. You said, “People care more about things that a) affect them and b) remind them of themselves.” That’s not inaccurate, but kind of deflects the real truth. If we are to use that logic and apply it to all terrorist attacks, the massacre in Tunisia last June should have been met with…

Snyder has the same “feel” for actors that George Lucas has.

Sure but can anybody recommend good news sites that give more attention to what happens in Beirut and Istanbul? Because I would like to give my clicks to such sites. Al Jazeera jumps to mind. I’m sure there are more. Fuck CNN.

That would be fine if the scope was limited to random Americans’ FB posts or twitter feeds..but this is the mainstream media we’re talking about. The coverage should (lol) be more encompassing, but I’m not naive.

Not callous — just unfortunately accurate. Violence in the middle east tends to be underreported because most Americans (completely unfairly) think of that region of the world as one constant blood bath so they tune it out. Things that make us feel unsafe or at risk (shootings and bombings in seemingly genteel…

Innocent people in Belgium remind Americans of themselves more than innocent people in Turkey?

Come on, man, that’s unfair. Anyone who’s read “Watchmen” knows how super-faithful Snyder was when he turned Silk Spectre and Night Owl into Neo and Trinity in their fight scenes..

When all else fails, remember: Zack Snyder is, has been, and will be a hack director.