"Don't touch Lola."

 I loved the film when my dad showed it to me as a kid.  I should read the book....

I understand the technological improvements that could really assist the special effects, but I hate the idea of a remake.  The original is a classic that should be left alone.

Dah-ling, you look MAH-velous!

The word you were looking for, Joel, was "brakes," not "breaks."  Sorry.  I try not to be so picky, but I have a spelling compulsion... comes from having two English teachers for parents.  And once was a typo.  Multiple times was just misuse.

 Yeah, slow down there, DC and WB.  Every time you start doing something right, you get excited and fuck it all up.

Let's get another MOS film out, as well as a new Batman and perhaps the Flash (?).  That should give you a reasonable stable of known characters to go into a JL movie by 2016 or 2017.  If you try to rush it for 2015, then Avengers 2 is going to come out and make you look stupid all over again.

This movie was crap, and, despite the follow on shit-fest that was Part IV a few years later, I think it was this one that killed superhero films until Burton's Batman appeared six years later in '89.  Superman IV was just a death throe of the genre.

But as the other Maniacs point out, even Part I isn't that great.  It gets by for its time, and had a lot of great moments... it just lost steam in the third act because they didn't know where to go with it, they didn't really understand the character of Superman or the evil of Lex Luthor (they made him into too much of a gag, and what a waste of Gene Hackman, too!).

Agree with tallman.  We need to move FORWARD now, and see something different.  Thanos, or the Masters of Evil (I'm gonna beat this drum to death, people.  You are forewarned).  Something new and different is good.  Let the character of Loki go.  The Marvel universe is far too diverse with characters.  Using Loki constantly would make him into the Lex Luthor of Marvel.

Well, considering a lot of the bad press that MOS is getting, the real test will be how fast and how far it drops off the Top 10 in the ensuing weeks.  There's not a lot of real competition for it in the vein of comic films until Kick Ass 2 or Wolverine come out, so I'll be interested to see if it stays on top or keeps putting up big dollars.

Wait... Len Wiseman is directing this?  And he hasn't cast his wife in skin-tight leather to help the ratings?!?!?!  What does he think he is, a talented director?!

Yeah, this won't last.

I CANNOT see John C. Reilly as an action hero.  At all.  Seriously.  Sarah Silverman should be Wonder Woman before this guy gets to be a superhero.  Maybe I've just been too tainted by seeing him in all those slap-dick comedy roles like Step-Brothers and Talladega Nights.  Who knows?  I'll give it a chance, I guess.  

Regardless of this casting news, I'm still not that interested in Guardians of the Galaxy.  I've never liked nor cared about the comic, and I'm a diehard Marvel fan from the 80s.  I really think Marvel is overreaching on this one.