TadThuggish

Yes, it would be more realistic. No, I completely don't f**king want it. The act of superheroism itself is unrealistic and silly, but that's what makes them enjoyable.

"Are occasional breaks to go poop necessary for realism in comic books?"

What they got right: The Sandman's origin. He was an awesome, classically-rendered comic book villain up until the Uncle Ben dogshit.

Spidey 3 has a number of good things in it, they just aren't as overt. Bryce Dallas Howard as Gwen Stacy was incredible, but the storyline was crappy and people would rather pay attention to the bad things so they can play the "how far can we skew the word 'rape'" game.

No. There, I just answered the topic question.

Really though, Spider-Man (the character) has no defining characteristics that determine his race, unlike Black Panther or Luke Cage or, I don't know, the Hate-Monger. If Spidey was talkin' 'bout how white he was all the time, it would be an issue. All this move does is make it a lot easier to find racists on the internet.

At the same time, it's up to Marvel to not promote a black Spider-Man as edgy or cool simply due to darker skin pigmentation.

Audiences are getting slightly sick of "comic book movies", but not so much "movies based on comic books". Adaptations have always existed, good ones, bad ones, it doesn't matter. The past decade had a wealth of comic book-based films that were successful. It was nice to see these properties getting the treatment they (mostly) deserved. But now, after that honeymoon period, we have to settle.

Thousands of movies come out based on books but we don't call them "book movies", just like how movies will continue to be based on comic books but we can't keep calling them "comic book movies". This is the dream everyone wanted; comics are now accepted as an equal media format, as ripe to be humiliated and abused by asshole Hollywood producers as anything else.

(Warning: I have yet to see this movie!)

But...I think my biggest problem with it isn't that it subverts continuity, but that nearly every character in the multicultural world group has become an inoffensive white male plucked from the Disney channel with the sole purpose of getting 14-year-old girls to pause and touch themselves to the DVD copy. That betrays what the X-Men intrinsically are, and is a shitty way to cast a movie.

Good has always won over evil.  It's never not.  When evil things occur, when the villain is posing triumphantly by the end of the issue, it's just a guarantee he'll receive a greater comeuppance down the line. 
 
Comic books reflect reality in this way.

As a big Captain America fan, this all looks really good. 
 
EXCEPT for Chris Evan's head hilariously photoshopped onto a 12-year-old boy.  Holy shit, that is beyond awful.

" All-in-all, Duncan's portrayal of Daredevil's nemesis was probably the best thing to come out of that movie. He wasn't "Black Kingpin." He was Kingpin."  This phrase is the most accurate! 
 
Anyone of any race can play Green Lantern or Kingpin or Spider-Man, as long as they have the general personality down.  There'd be nothing wrong with a white Blade. 
 
At the same time, occasionally there will be characters whose race is a part of their story.  You can't make Ryan Reynolds into Luke Cage, because part of Cage's existence and importance is that he's a representative of the black community and struggle.  If stuff like "shade of dude's skin" is not a plot point, creators should have free reign to color however they feel like.

As an unapologetic fan of Hal Jordan, what the fuck.

Stealing from acquaintances again, but “ Good old constantly sarcastic, womanizing, karate jumpkickin’ Hal Jordan! Ryan Reynolds got him PERFECT!”

My hopes are not in tatters; there are so many things that look good, even if it’s just CGI aliens.  But it looked real, real off.  Hal Jordan doesn’t act this way.  The women only serve to look pretty and give entirely predictable moral boosts.  Random car chases.  Silly fight scenes unfit for the series.  I don’t want to be the guy getting all “noooo they deviated from the source material!”, but it aches to see something whittled down to appeal to a lowest common denominator.  People who write “lol epic faggot fail XD teh” on Youtube are stoked for it, of course.  Why wouldn’t they be?  It is something very different trying to be very much the same.

You can alter without dumbing down, and this looks dumbed down.  I hope it’s only the way the trailer was edited.

"Zombie Jesus" is only offensive in that it's the laziest joke in the book.  "Jesus smoking!"  "Jesus riding a dinosaur!"  "Jesus is gay!" lolololololololol! 
 
It appeals to people who (like in these comments) constantly and arbitrarily spout off "Epic fail!"  It's not like any of it is really funny, it's just the mandatory thing-to-say-when-you're-on-the-internet-and-can't-control-your-own-opinions.  Want to "stick it to the man?"  Jesus joke!  But this is Liefeld.  It's the establishment posing as disestablishment, while consumers are none the wiser.