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OK you nerds, I'll finally watch The Town, and it better be gud.
This "talent" everone keeps mentioning better be apparent, because I want an Oscar-worthy Superhero movie for once, not just another blockbuster popcorn pumper. I don't want someone who will 'do ok' or can 'make it work'. Fucking Hollywood clockpunchers who have no imagination and no soul! I want to feel real, manly tears as Batman and Superman notice their strong kinship and basically become brothers. I want to laugh as 3rd Wave Feminist Wonder Woman shuts neo-chauvinist Hal Jordan down for the 20th time, crushing his ego, but carefully not breaking his spirit. I want to see Martian Manhunter eating Oreo cookies, Blue Beetle and Booster Gold bro-ing out, playing video games on the global crisis monitor screen. Common comparisons between what it means to balance your humanity against your superhero identity, how you relate to your family and friends and normal reality, etc. Basically a 'this is why we fight' story, against someone like Starro or Desperro or something big. Something that will make your mom cry and your little brother scream, "cool". A movie everyone wants to see. They don't make those anymore.
Goddammit, I want the perfect story, not a great action movie, but the balance of action, humor, self-identification, drama and emotion. I want people to get attached to the Justice League. I want them to get up at the end of the movie after the teaser-stingers that play throughout the credits, already demanding a sequel. This is my vision. It can be done.
I just don't think that one half of beautiful Bennifer can accomplish it.
I hope you're watching Young Justice.