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I watched it a second time today and focused on some of my gripes.  My feelings haven't changed but still had a freakin' blast watching it.

Nah.  I mean being a good pilot seems like being a good driver - most people can do it on some level.  The problem with Rey is how she's instantly amazing at things - she makes several comments about things being luck.  I think it's completely supposed to be Force-related, but the movie doesn't make any attempt to explain that.  She doesn't think she can fly the Millennium Falcon.  She crashes against a bunch of things to start - something that would be expected if she hadn't flown anything before (think a private pilot trying to fly a 747 with no assistance).  The problem is that instinct seems to take over and by the end of the flight, she's making really expert moves.  It's not that she's a pilot - she becomes an expert overly quickly (IMO).

(Note: I haven't seen the Original Trilogy recently so I'm gonna make some points that might be incorrect.  Please correct me).

Does he?  If I remember correctly, Luke doesn't do much in the first movie.  Nothing extraordinary, at least.  It isn't until the final trench run that he finally gives in and trusts the Force, right?  He does the Force grab of the lightsaber in Empire, but he'd at least had some teaching on how to use the Force at that point.  And it was a couple years later.

My main point on Rey is how everything is instinctual for her.  I'd be willing to bet that she has latent training somehow.  If she's Luke's daughter and he trained her and then wiped her memory somehow, then all of this would make sense.  She's acting on instinct using "muscle memory" - the problem is that the movie doesn't try and explain any of that. 

If they're holding onto some sort of "Rey is Luke's daughter" twist, that's fine.  But if they're hoping it'll be a big twist....well, most people have already guessed it.  And if they'd just said "hey, Rey is a Skywalker" then it'd pay off the mysteries in this movie.  Especially this day in age when people crowdsource theories.  It's what ruins twists on TV all the time - there was a twist on Dexter that people crowdsourced weeks before it was revealed.  Basically ruined the whole season.

Well I mean, honestly, did either of those guys have anywhere near the level of Force-based instinct that Rey has?  Like whether or not she's completely unrelated, she does things that we haven't seen anyone do.  I don't think Luke or Anakin use the Jedi mind trick at all in either trilogy, do they?  I saw a video the other day that showed that the trick only works twice in the first six movies - Obi-Wan does them both - to the stormtrooper in ANH and to the sleezeball in the cantina in AOTC.  So for Rey to successfully do a Jedi Mind Trick when she doesn't even know what that is is a little bizarre.  The only thing I can think is that maybe she leeched it out of Kylo's mind when they were connected, but even that's weird because Kylo doesn't use the Jedi Mind Trick - he does something completely different to suck information out of someone.

(EDIT - Okay, I did some research and Luke does do it in Return of the Jedi - but, again, he'd seen it done before and had training)

Fixing things is fine.  Being a pilot is fine.  These are things that would make sense in Rey's world.  But she thinks the Jedi are a myth halfway through the movie.  She didn't think Luke was real.  She'd never seen a Jedi or a Sith before (Kylo isn't a sith).  She'd never seen force powers before her encounter with Ren.  And yet she's able to use a jedi mind trick and force pull (not accomplished by Luke in his first movie and only accomplished by Anakin after training with actual Jedi) expertly.  And she defeats a disciple of Luke pretty handily minutes after turning on a lightsaber for the first time.

It didn't ruin the movie for me.  At all.  But the problem is that Rey is an incredibly more-boring character if she's already a master in just about everything.  Superman is boring because he's great at everything.  It's why Superman movies suck.  The movie is good on it's own, but it would be better if we saw her grow through the films.  Luke gets his ass kicked in his first fight with Vader.  And Vader is clearly not trying.  I focused on Kylo in her fight with Rey and he is *absolutely* trying to kill Rey.  He's absolutely trying to kill Finn.  And while he defeats Finn, it's a decent fight and Finn hurts him.  And Rey clearly wins the fight with Kylo.  Yes, Rey can fight - yes using a lightsaber probably isn't that different than a regular weapon - yes Kylo was wounded and isn't finished with his training.  But the whole movie was Rey doing incredible things and people complimenting her - whipping the new bad guy's ass just adds to the Superman factor.

Again, I liked the movie.  It was fun.  But there were some creative choices that made the movie flawed in my opinion.  I don't think its anywhere near as good as Empire or A New Hope, which work in so many different ways.  It's on par with Return of the Jedi and has a lot of the same problems that movie had.

I'm absolutely not trying to make the movie less enjoyable for anyone else.

He's getting torched for it, but I pretty much agree with Max Landis' perspective that Rey is a bit of a boring character because she's already good at everything.  I'm not going to use the phrase "Mary Sue" because I think there's an uneven description on what exactly that means. 

At the end of the day, she was cool, but she's only cool in a Superman way.  She's shown to be *great* at scavenging, fighting, piloting, using the force, and using a lightsaber.  All without any mention, on-screen, of any lineage or training she might've had before the movie.  And while, yeah, she's probably Luke's daughter and might've even had prior Jedi training that was mind-wiped, that doesn't really help her characterization in *this movie*

Han's death also bothered me.  The first act implies that he abandoned his family after Ben went to the dark side.  Fair enough and fitting with Han's character - he was always the rogue, and it's hard for those guys to be daddy.  But there doesn't seem to be any indication that he's really worried about it since then.  Then he sees Leia, sees Ben, and that's what opens him up to be killed?  I'm not saying that he didn't love his son or that he was a bad father - I just didn't think the movie set him up for that to be his weakness.  But it was still very tense - my heart was beating out of my chest when it was happening.

I don't know.  It's way better than the prequels, but it felt more like a prologue to another movie than an actual chapter in the series.

Well, identical doubles is something the show used.  It'd be *very* unlikely that you'd instantly recognize any of your doubles.  For there to be an identical double of you, the same sperm and the same egg that created you would've had to have created your double at the exact same time.  Anything else changes and you'd be a "fraternal double" like Mallory.  Or the opposite gender.  You'd be more like siblings than doubles 99.9999999% of the time.  And that's if exist at all.  Or if your parents exist, let alone if they found each other.  If your grandfather doesn't go into the right bar at the right time, maybe he never meets your grandmother.  So you don't exist and one of your parents doesn't exist.

Even if your double was identical, think of all the things that could've happened to make you look not identical.  Maybe you get really into bodybuilding and put on a hundred pounds of muscle.  Or you decide you don't care if you get fat and weigh 400 pounds.  Maybe you decide to grow your hair out.  Or shave it off entirely.  Maybe you decide you look better with a beard.  Or you live on a world with a smaller food supply and are skinny and weak.  Maybe you're born male but end up as a transgender woman.

Sliders seemed, most of the time, to work on the idea that certain things are similar to Earth Prime.  They stayed in the same block in the same city of the multiverse.  So even though the Russians took over America, Quinn's parents 1) still exist 2) still fell in love and got married 3) conceived Quinn the same exact time they did on Earth Prime and 4) Quinn's physical features stayed the same for him to be virtually identical.  Same with Wade and Arturo.  The odds of that are impossibly small, but they exist.  And that's just sorta the rules the show lived by.

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Well, you might've gotten your wish, Informant.  Not sure if it's a tease of a tease (and if all the "you know I'd do anything for my little girl" talk means Lance is the guy who dies), but it certainly looks like Felicity is in trouble.

Solid winter finales for both.  Definitely fear both Zoom and Dahrk.

Okay so I finally watched last week's "Heroes Join Forces" - I liked the threat they faced.  Vandal Savage was good, and it used both casts very well.  It's always cool to see Oliver hold his own alongside Barry, and I think the worlds mesh way better than I thought they were going to at first.

But something was off.  I wasn't a huge fan of using time travel again - especially since Barry still hasn't cleaned up the mess from the last time he did it.  I still think it's weird that Oliver discovers he has a child on the Flash (just like we discovered it last year on the Flash) - I know it was mostly done on Arrow, but actual reveal was done on Arrow.  The show seems to assume that people watch both shows (and I know at least two people who only watch one). 

And I felt like Barry was underused.  It's like when Batman and Superman are fighting - they tend to depower Superman so that it isn't ridiculous for Batman to be fighting the same villain(s).  Barry just kinda stood around for a lot of the same fight.  I still think he could've fought Vandal by himself.  He was an exceptional fighter but still just human.

I also feel like the show is doing a lot to set up Legends of Tomorrow instead of focusing on their own stuff.  I like the crossovers that are a little more organic (like when each Oliver/Barry called the other when they needed help with a specific overwhelming task).  Leaving Kendra with Team Arrow seemed a little forced, especially since Barry knows that Oliver has his own problems (although this was also written into the show).

All in all, I'm really enjoying both shows.  I think Arrow Season 4 has been a big improvement.  I just thought the crossover series was a bit underwhelming.

Yes.  I think Dick Grayson is a great character that needs a spotlight.  Like I said a while back on the older board, I was hoping we'd get the full gambit.  Original Robin leaves, Teen Titans, Jason Todd, Death in the Family, Barbara/Killing Joke/Oracle, Tim Drake, etc

My fear is that there's one Robin, Dick Grayson, and he's the one that's dead.  Robin hasn't been in any of the promotional material outside of the vandalized suit.  A Robin is dead.  Now maybe Bruce doesn't want to include Dick (if Jason is dead) in his war on Superman, but he brings Alfred.  And even if Bruce/Dick had a falling out and he's out there Nightwinging it - Bruce has been working on this plan for years in that case.  Dick's a smart guy.  He'd figure it out, right?  And just show up?  Which is maybe what happens but if Dick Grayson shows up in a weird blue/black costume randomly, I think that's gonna confuse the heck out of some people.

Yeah I think the world as a whole would be pretty split on someone like Batman.  In a lot of ways, J. Jonah Jameson should be in Batman comics instead of Spider-Man comics.  It's easy to see Batman as a criminal.  He's violent, and he's a textbook vigilante instead of a costumed superhero.  I think most adults would be torn on whether or not he's good for the city, not even including the thought that Batman is the *reason* many of his villains are created (which wouldn't necessarily be public knowledge).

But a 12-year-old?  He'd love it.  There'd be no politics.  There'd be no shades of gray.  There'd be a badass ninja who dresses like a bat and beats up criminals, and boys that age would love that.  Absolutely love it.  So if we're looking at Clark's childhood happening while Batman's career is at it's peak, I can virtually guarantee that Clark dressed up as Batman for Halloween.  Or he had close friends that did, and Clark didn't because he didn't want to look like a follower.

I know I harp on the age thing, but part of me is convinced that Superman should WORSHIP Batman because of that part of his childhood.  That he should trust that the Batman would never be bad.  Because it'd be his hero.  And that would be a cool thing to add to the movie - the reason Batman and Superman is such a "fair" fight is that it *kills* Clark to have to fight his idol growing up.

And I just don't think stuff like that has even been considered.  Batman would've been the only costumed hero in the world.  No powers.  Just a guy out there doing his best to clean up the streets.  Clark would respect that.  Especially a young Clark without a full grasp of the world.  And Clark's a nostalgic guy - I think he'd have a soft spot for Batman - not hate him.

The timeline is just weird to me.  I hope it makes more sense than I'm fearing it does.

Yeah and there's enough from the trailers to show that they're going to do some work with the timeline to explain what's going on.  Not only are there newpaper clippings of what Batman's been up to, there's a couple actual shots from Batman fighting crime in Gotham (or at least fighting street-level crime somewhere).  There's at least one scene in Gotham (riddler question marks would only be there, right), and we saw the DCCU's version of the Thomas/Martha Wayne deaths.  Not to mention seeing Man of Steel from Bruce's perspective.  So they'll explain who Bruce is and what he's been doing and how it relates to Superman.

And what's funny, it's the the way the question is phrased that bothered me - and that could be fixed in editing or taking a different take (which happens all the time).  "Mr. Wayne, what do you think of the reappearance of the Batman?" is a question that seems to cover all Clark's bases within the true context of the movie.  Batman disappeared.  Now he's back.  Let's ask the biggest man in Gotham about that.

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Lex's characterization.  I don't get it.  He's worn the wig in every appearance, and he just comes across as a goofy character.  I don''t see Lex that way.  Even when he's trying to be scary, it doesn't come off as intimidating, and I just never really bought Eisenberg's casting (I didn't buy Ledger's casting either so this one is just a thought now).  I've always thought Lex should be the same size or bigger than Superman.  Where Lex is an imposing man who still looks at Superman and thinks he can take him.  Someone who might shatter his hand trying to punch Superman.  I actually thought Kevin Spacey was cast correctly, and I thought he did a great job.

Now the Doomsday thing really didn't bother me.  It's just a tease.  I think the Zod twist is kinda cool.  Doomsday is a guy who can realistically fight the DC Trinity on his own.  And unlike the Avengers movies, we're going to see 3-on-1 as opposed to 7-on-150 or whatever.

But Affleck's Batman voice?  Isn't it just as bad as Bale's?  And just like the end of Dark Knight Rises, where Bruce is using the voice even though EVERYONE THERE knows who he is, Batman is using the voice when talking to Superman in a scene that's gotta be in Act 3 - when Superman has to know his identity by now.

I'm going to see it.  And it's going to get it's full chance.  But, man, that trailer brought up a ton of concerns.

That was pretty cool.

I've always thought about a Sliders video game.  It'd actually be relatively easy to do, I'd think (I'm not a programmer).  But you'd just need to create one area of town/city and then alter it for however many levels/worlds you want.  Maybe one is old west, one is Nazi, one is Confederate, etc.

I imagine the plot would be some sort of "Chasing a Rickman-like character" and/or Kromaggs.

Outside of the last ten minutes of this last episode, I don't think the Olicity stuff has been bad.  I thought Felicity has been a pretty fun character again, and I thought the chemistry has been pretty good.  I even struggled to remember whether or not Olicity was even together until all the lovey dovey stuff this week.

Someone needs to put "you bet on a game you don't understand?  you're an idiot!" on youtube.  I love that scene so much.

Did you watch the trailer?  Trailer seems pretty clear cut what the show is supposed to be - Netflix might just release trailers later than other networks, which is why they resorted to the other marketing campaign.  I don't remember how soon before the show the Daredevil trailer showed up.

http://www.superherohype.com/news/35654 … e#/slide/1

Info, we got our Jessica Jones trailer finally.

Nah, nothing in the movie indicated that it took place in any specific year.  It's just funny - phone technology has advanced so much in a few years that unless you have a Galaxy/iPhone, the movie just looks extremely dated.  I think the artist character had a nicer phone so maybe it was supposed to show how poor the gambler was supposed to be.  It just seemed really weird to see in a recent movie.

Yeah it just sorta feels false that there was another Joker-like villain before the Joker, who feels genuinely unique.  I think it was pretty cool for Jerome to be on the show, and I thought the actor was *spectacular*.  But wouldn't Gordon (and to a lesser extent, Bruce) get Jerome flashbacks when the Joker shows up?  Like "wow, another Jerome!" instead of "holy crap, what is that?"

I feel like this season is good but not really all that interesting, if that makes any sense.  I've been pleasantly surprised that Noah is the only real character who has shown back up (which makes sense from a plot standpoint).  Mohinder and Hiro have been referenced, but almost nothing else.  And I feel like the show feels a bit more fresh.  I'm gonna stick with it.

I think the problem is that most people associate cartoons with kids' movies.  And while, yeah, superhero movies are kid friendly, I think the format alone would scare away some adults.  Even if they simply animated the exact script from, say, Age of Ultron with the actor's voices, I think it'd make a percentage of the box office a live-action Age of Ultron made. 

Some of the DC Animated movies are good.  Some are pretty dark and are made for a more adult audience.  But if you made an "edgy" theatrical cartoon superhero movie, I think it'd end up in a weird no-man's land where no one wants to see it.  It'd be too cartoony for adults and too mature for kids.  And even if they didn't go mature with it, any humor will come off as, well, cartoonish.

And for the record, I agree with you.  I love the DCAU - I think it's the definitive version of most of the DC characters.  But I think people would prefer to see Ben Affleck walk around in a cape and cowl than hear Kevin Conroy.  Even though Kevin Conroy, as far as I'm concerned IS Batman.

ireactions, just for curiosity's sake, where do you get your TV/movie news.  You always have cool info

Well who watches those trailers?  Where do they "air"?  Aren't the only people who'd even see them the people who are actively looking for information on Jessica Jones?  How does the average Netflix subscriber decide if they're going to watch a show or not?  Is it 99% word of mouth?  Or do they read the tagline and then decide?  Watch an episode and decide?  Is the trailer even available on Netflix?

The only "trailers" I've ever seen for a TV show I actively seeked out.  And they're usually genre shows (Minority Report, Lucifer, and Supergirl were the trailers I saw for the upcoming series this fall).  For the 100 other TV shows, I've never seen a trailer.  So you ask how the trailers help, and I ask who the trailers are even designed for?  Because my guess it's for people who are going to watch it no matter what, not to try and attract a new audience.

It's Netflix and Marvel.  They could be assuming that, after the success of Daredevil, people will watch no matter what.  So they're going with a mystery angle with the trailers.  Seems like the campaign is sorta "you don't know her name, but you will"

It does sorta remind me of X-Men: Days of Future Past, which definitely seemed like it was releasing footage pretty late.  But you gotta think they have enough footage for a teaser.  So I'm guessing it's the intended message, and they're assuming people will watch whether they give us more than a teaser or not.

Yeah.  I think the show is basically supposed to be one big tease (as a prequel tends to be) and so it's hard not to look forward and think about how this show is supposed to be built. 

As it is, it's still a good show.  I agree with your comments - Barbara is much better as a villain than as a nagging fiance.  Jerome is fun but almost has to be Joker, right?  Might be too much for it to be a curve ball to pull that rug out.

I also thought it was good.  In fact, I watched the prequel web series "Dark Matters" before it - it's a prequel series focusing on Quentin (conspiracy guy) and his sister (an EVO).  Both were pretty well done. 

What I like is that this isn't a reimagining entirely - there's threads tied to the first run.  And if we get more Micah, more Molly, etc - with cameos/flybys from non-HRG characters, this could really become what season 2 of Heroes was supposed to be - a new story each season.  It's a shame that Heroes wasn't produced now - after American Horror Story and True Detective, I think Kring might've had the guts to go through with his plan.

80% of my problem with Heroes seasons 2-4 have to do with Sylar.  With him out of the picture (only referenced in a visual cameo, which might've even only been in Dark Matters now that I think about it), it has a chance to succeed.

Well, and I think I've said this before, with a retired Batman I wouldn't have *any* Batman solo films.  We just had a trilogy, and I think Affleck should be the Nick Fury of the DCCU.  Have him appear a ton, and make him the glue that holds the universe together.  He can suit up and fight, but I want him to be the grizzled veteran putting a team together and pointing these powerful gods in the right direction.

The problem with human villains and Superman is you get Superman Returns.  There's no place for a climactic action sequence, and you end up with your climax being Clark holding up a piece of rock.  Every action sequence in that movie was either an act of nature (plane crash), kryptonite-aided (with Luthor's thugs), or Superman dominating humans (the robbery sequence). 

With a Batman movie, main villain thug #4 can at least fight the main hero.  In a Superman movie, it's either someone crazy powerful or they're no match for him.

Well that's the thing.  They explained it.  And Barry worships Oliver and probably assumes that Ollie can handle anything.  And even then, they brought Barry in a couple times when they needed him (and Oliver showed up when Barry needed help).  But a TV show and a movie are different.  In the Arrowverse, both characters showed up on the other show for sweeps when something big happened.

In a movie, it's *always* sweeps.  Something big is *always* happening.  And when something big happens, it'd be illogical for Oliver not to call Barry and vice-versa. 

In the trailer for BvS, Bruce is in Metropolis during the fight with Zod.  He runs into the rubble as the building falls down.  That's what, in theory, any of the Justice League would do.  Heck, that's why the Justice League forms in the first place.  Something world shattering happens and the team has to unite.

What happens is that, in solo movies, the stakes are usually just as high.  In Thor: The Dark World, the earth is still being invaded by space creatures through a portal - just like Avengers.  In Iron Man 3, the President has been kidnapped.  In Captain America: Winter Soldier, the capital of the US is under direct attack from its own operatives.  There isn't the level of destruction from Avengers, but the Avengers only united because of one Loki attack.  The Battle of New York happened way after the Avengers had already assembled.

In Phase 2, the explanation seems to be that the events in each of those movies happened before the Avengers could assemble and were over before anyone could react.  But in the DCCU, there won't be any incident that could happen "before anyone could react."  Flash could be on the other side of the planet whenever you need him, and Superman could be on the moon in seconds.  And if the danger was serious enough, they would.

Now Batman can fight the Penguin with only a dozen lives at stake and that doesn't need to involve Green Lantern.  But the kind of people Superman fights?  Or Flash?  Or Green Lantern?  Backup would be needed. 

If a Zod/Superman fight took place after Justice League, the League would need to show up.  Or there would need to be an explanation.  And my idea provides the explanation.

FRIEND
Is it true that Sinestro has kidnapped GIRL and is holding her hostage on PLANET?

GREEN LANTERN
Afraid so.  Time to suit up.

FRIEND
Isn't this a job for Superman too?

GREEN LANTERN
Checked.  He's fighting some Parasite.  Sounds serious.  We're on our own.

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BARRY!  Zoom is downtown, he's terrorizing the Central City Bank!

FLASH
On my way!  Contact Diana!  We could use some backup!

SIDEKICK
No answer on the JL Radio.  I overheard something about an explosion on Themyscira.

FLASH
Damn.  Oh well, I guess we'll see who's faster.

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Call the League.  Something isn't right.

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Busy.

BATMAN
I'll call them myself.

ORACLE
I mean they're busy.

BATMAN
All of them?

ORACLE
Everyone is currently occupied.  Think it's connected.

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It's always connected.  Someone is keeping us apart.

Something like that.

Had an interesting thought that might work for the DCCU.  What if someone like Vandal Savage is a puppet-master in this universe, and in post-JLU movies, he makes sure the Justice League is too busy to combine to stop him.

Justice League happens.  Bruce finds that someone is responsible for the villain in that movie, but he doesn't know who. 

In the first solo post-JL movie, the hero from that movie (Wonder Woman?  Flash?  GL?) calls for the Justice League to help him.  But Batman says he's busy.  And so is Superman.  And so are....everyone else.   All the heroes are dealing with something at the same time.

All "phase 2" solo movies take place at the same time, with each solo film offering hints on what the other heroes are doing - teasing their movies but keeping them separate.  And once everyone is victorious, they combine to take down the puppet-master in Justice League 2.

Well, see, if we were being realistic with the concept of alternate worlds, wouldn't the *vast* majority of Earths traveled to be lifeless?  If we're starting with the first possible branching point, it'd be the big bang, and if that hadn't happened the exact way that it did, the Earth wouldn't be able to support life.  At least one planet would've, statistically speaking, but it wouldn't have been the Earth.  Whether or not life is common or extremely uncommon in the universe, the odds are very unlikely that the Sliders would come across intelligent life on most of the worlds they saw.

And if they did, it's very unlikely that they'd see humans that were recognizable.  I read an article recently that talked about how we might come across alien life but not even really understand that we'd done it.  We always assume that aliens are humanoid because, of course they are....evolution says that humanoid species will dominate a planet.  But alien life could look like anything.  Life on another planet could've evolved an infinite number of ways, and so if any number of things changed in Earth's past, life could've gone in any number of directions.  Untrained sliders could think an Earth was barren but could be teeming with life that they just don't understand.

But to me, all of that makes very boring storytelling.  "The Sliders land on another world where life never evolved and die immediately on an inhabitable Earth" is a pretty bad episode if you ask me.  Which is why I would write something into any Sliders reboot  that gives some technobabble explanation that the timer can somehow scan worlds while in the vortex to make sure the Earth a) is there and b) can sustain life before it opens up the exit portal.

To me (and to the writers of basically every episode), the best stories are the ones that have a sense of familiarity that is twisted in some way.  The Big Bang happened, the Earth was created, established life, humans evolved, North America was colonized by someone and then X happened.  And X is your story.  I don't know if I could, with a straight face, write a line that somehow explains how the timer could determine *that* but that's not a problem I really have to deal with.

Yeah, I mean I don't really remember any Harold/Kumar-type jokes.  That definitely couldn't contributed to the downfall if people were expecting that.

Well, I mean there have been examples of movies that are clearly not what the trailer said they were.  Click looked like a dumb Adam Sandler movie about a guy who gets a magic remote and does a bunch of sophomoric stuff.  What it actually ended up being was a Capra-esque film about a guy dealing with his own mortality.

American Ultra was painted as a stoner who is a CIA asset.  It's got action and comedy.  And that's basically what it was.  But it was also fun in a way that only Jurassic World was really able to capture.  It wasn't crazy original, but it was apparently based on a real-life CIA abandoned project so that was kinda cool.  Something like Bourne meets Half Baked.

Landis wrote a Frankenstein movie that's coming out soon.  He's doing a remake for television.  He's writing a Superman comic and pitched for a Fantastic Four movie.  I don't necessarily think his comments were hypocritical, but he's had criticisms about the way movies are sold in general.  And I think his concern is that it'll be harder for original ideas to get created if original ideas aren't profitable. I don't think he wants sequels/remakes to go away - just that he doesn't want original ideas to go away.

Congrats man!  Hope it works out for you!