I believe that what doesn't cast you makes you… whiter.

"you can't force them together"

Costume? In a modern sci-fi movie? Dream on.

One third of young newsmen are in prison. It's a sad state of affairs.

Because hating a movie means you forget the dialogue from it?

One small toot for a man, one giant BRAP for mankind.

@avclub-1f5b519cde67ac0d0fcab419aa3048a4:disqus That was the plot point that turned me off, too. The funny thing is, apparently it's based on a real historical occurrence. Kind of out-there to hinge so much of the plot on, though.

But I don't wanna be an Oedipus!

It was cute when Watchmen did that with Robert Redford.

I wouldn't call him shitty, just obvious and self-indulgent to a fault.

The fact that it evokes 9/11 is a big part of why the sequence is so problematic. By ignoring everything about that event except the explosions, it makes 9/11 look awesome. Worse, by making Superman himself complicit in some of the destruction, it also diminishes the perceived abhorrence of the attack. Even if the…

Gilderoy left Sybil for Bellatrix?!

Yo Gabba Gabba is a show about a spy!

It presents issues, but it doesn't engage with them substantively and sincerely. It uses contrivance and narrow focus to ignore consequences and force awkward resolutions.

Great points, but I think you slightly misinterpreted the "anything can be done with special effects these days" adage. It doesn't necessarily mean anything can be done well, it just means that there is no action or object that can't be depicted with a tolerable baseline competence. If that depiction is still bland…

I'm with you on most of this, but "colorful"?

Nobody's arguing that the deadbeat dad and island-lifting parts were good. But there was a lot of other stuff in the movie that worked.

That's what I love about having Pa Kent die from a heart attack. It's so freaking poignant. You can't punch or laser-eye your way out of that one. Having Pa Kent die because it was really important to retrieve the dog, and really important that Clark not be the one to do it, and really important that he not run over…

"All of the "great" dramas of the western canon tend to focus on a sympathetically flawed character, one who we can't be certain will actually succeed"

"We're never shown anyone in the rubble"