I must disagree. I think if you play up the Vengeance angle, you can turn this into a gritty, dark, revenge flick ala the Crow.

And "The Final Cut" was the worst Floyd album ever, btw

There is no dark side to moon, really. Matter if fact, it's all dark.

Simple: If you don't eat your meat, you CAN'T have any pudding

"His mother was a teacher, is still in the educational field, which means he knows very well how hard teachers work, the long hours they put in."

But because she's in a union, she will get the same pay as another teacher who does the bare minimum to keep their job. I'm sorry, but the "teachers work so haaarrd!" knee-jerk excuse is stale and over-used. The U.S. ranks just about dead last in education among industrialized nations yet we spend the most per student. Budget shortfalls notwithstanding just the fact that our children are getting an inferior education for a lot of money is reason enough to make changes. If I do consistently sub-standard work at my job I will at minimum not get a raise, probably eventually fired. Not so with a crappy teacher. And you think that's fair? To the tax-payers, the children or the good teachers?

So yesterday I watched the documentary on the evolution of American horror films Nightmares In Red, White, and Blue. I was blown away by how uber left-wing the whole thing was, and how so many of these otherwise brilliant film-makers can be so... stupid? Not to mention the irony of saying Invasion of the Body Snatchers is "liberal" because its about loss of individuality to the collective. The section on the 80s was a huge Reagan hatefest. And the comments about 9/11...damn.

Here are my problems with Superman Returns:
Superman finds what he thinks are the remains to Krypton and abruptly leaves Earth without explaining himself to Lois, who is rightfully pissed off. Umm... why the hurry, Clark? I mean, seriously, you couldn't spare a phone call "Hey Lois, I'm'a be gone for five years, but I will be back." Hell, he left the whole damn planet hanging without so much as a by-your-leave.

When he shows back up crooks try to shoot him. Were they living under a rock for their whole lives that they didn't know Big Blue was freakin bulletproof? Really?

Lex Luthor waltzes into the Fortress of Solitude and steals Kryptonian Tech. Just like that. No advanced programs that can tell the difference between a Kryptonian and a scenery-chewing nutjob? Not even a padlock? Reeaallly?

Lex Luthor's big scheme involves #1 Kryptonite (soooo lazy) and #2....wait for it....a real estate scheme? AGAIN? SERIOUSLY?!

Superman is Lois Lane's baby-daddy. It boggles the mind. I can't even get around the mechanics of that, but on top of that she not only doesn't tell Superman he has a kid (her feewings were hurt boo hoo) but (if I remember correctly) she convinces a Cyclops that he's the daddy. How does that not reduce Lois Lane to a Jerry Springer guest?

And that, my friends, is the perfect example of a SMACKDOWN!! I love watching someone using objective, historical facts to perfectly make their argument.

I'd like to point out that the US was not militarily defeated by the NVA. Immediately after the Tet offensive, Giap was despondent over the near-destruction of the VC and the total failure of the North to gain any ground. however, after Walter Cronkite's famous "we cannot win" newscast, however, Giap knew that the US lost the political will to win. The US, under Nixon, forced the North to sign the Paris Peace Accords with heavy bombing campaigns, but Watergate led the Democratic Congress to refuse to authorize funding to resume bombing when the North violated the Accords and invaded the South.

Just watched "From Paris With Love" from the "Taken" writer/director team of Luc Besson/ Pierre Morrel, where the bad guys are ISLAMIC TERRORISTS!! No "twist" where the REAL bad guys are eeevvill Americans/conservatives/businessmen -- no moral equivalency, no hand wringing-- just ass kicking. I guess because they aren't "Hollywood" they can get away with it?