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If they're still casting stars for Green Lantern then that probably means that it sucks balls and they're desperately trying to cram big stars in to try and Lethal Weapon/Caribbean us into not noticing said sucking of balls.

I don't get it, TK. Are you saying audiences are too stupid to grasp that different movies will have different versions of the same character? Comic book fans, by and large, aren't any smarter than any other audience (trust me), and we deal with multiple interpretations of the same characters all the time. Like, every single week. For at least the last 30 years. Maybe that's true, that audiences wouldn't get it (I remember after Batman Begins people were asking why it was an origin story when Tim Burton's Batman already covered it), but I just don't get why everyone seems to think these movies even have to share universes to make sense, or be successful. Or why Nolan's Batman is the only Batman we should ever want, need, or expect from now on. Grim 'n' gritty realism isn't the only way to do the character, just look at Grant Morrison's take -- that's the Batman that should be in the JLA movie.

As for Superman, yeah, definite silver lining.

I'm sad that I just can't get into the Green Lantern movie but....I just can't.

I'm with TK. It's not that people are too dumb to get it, the concept is dumb. I can see the reviews now saying that a campier Batman in the Justice League film means it's bad because it's not Nolan's Batman.

Furthermore, if they're launching new versions in the film, that means a whole lot more exposition at the top to explain who all these new heroes are. So another backstory film after some of the characters already got their backstory films, only those don't count anymore because this version is different. Then there's the element of the production company wanting to reboot Batman to fit the Justice League interpretation when we have a perfectly fine Batman series going now. It's a dumb concept that can only be saved by perfect execution and I'm not holding my breath.

You can't think it's that stupid; we're already bombarded with multiple versions of the characters. Not only in the comics, but in film and TV as well. Is Nolan's Batman anything like Batman from "The Brave and The Bold?" Was Smallville anything like Singer's Superman? Then why do we need a Justice League movie heroes to be the same as preexisting versions? It's not stupid; it's the nature of the beast.

We're already seeing it with Spider-Man. We've seen it with The Hulk, Punisher, Batman, and Superman for decades. Soon we'll see it with Ghost-Rider, Daredevil, and the Fantastic Four.

It doesn't even matter if we're dealing with the same actor. As soon as you bring on a different director and different writers you're dealing with an all new mess of characteristics and themese that the new team wants to bring on. You think it really matters that RDJ is going to keep playing Iron Man for a few movies, if he's working with a whole new team of film-makers each time? Is anyone really bitching that hard that Johnny Storm and Captain America are played by the same guy? Or that Deadpool and Green Lantern are?

Not only is it the nature of film-making that things change from film to film, it's the nature of the character as well. There will always be another version of the character right over the horizon -- always some new guy with a big bright S on his chest.

Adam West is waiting with baited breath beside his batphone...

i'd love a crisis movie. a lot of shit goes down and in the right hands (ay, there's the rub) could be fucking awesome.

highly unlike though

I like to think that comic fans are normally smarter than the general audience in America, seeing as the "general audience" are a bunch of fucking morons with a despicable amount of common sense and intelligence.